Sometimes I wonder where to put articles as they do not necessarily fit into the topics of the blogs I have so far. So, here are the blogging tips I have put together based on my blogging experiences. I will update this post from time to time with new and relevant information relating to blogs....
- Write or add information, articles or quality content to your blog at least once or twice a week in order to maintain interest with your readers, and to let them know you are still around, although this is not always easy to do.
- If you are serious about blogging, register and buy your blog domain as soon as you set up your blog to prevent domain name pirates, cybersquatters, copycats, talentless, greedy and lazy people from stealing your domain and profiting from all your hard work. Going out and registering someone else's domain in order to profit solely from Google advertisements, adding no value whatsoever, is greed to me. This is so annoying! I guess what I am trying to say here is that a site with content adds a lot more value for the visitor than an empty site bought or stolen with the sole intention to profit from the efforts of another hardworking person.
- Make your topics interesting and relevant to your blog.
- Put some advertisements or sell ad space on your blog or join some affiliate programs so that you can make some money with your blog, if you are interested in making some money that is.
- Exchange legitimate links with relevant and similar sites and blogs so that your website or blogs can be seen more often. You can also use the followers gadget so that interested parties can follow your blog. This in turn can help you to get more views for your blog.
- Add your blog to relevant directories so that people searching for specific information can find your blog.
- Mention your blog to people in conversations - Tell them what you write about especially if you think they can benefit from reading it. Many years ago, I used to work as a Beauty Consultant with a lot of the large companies and I learned a lot about skincare, I also used to have acne so I took a special interest in skin care, so I talk to a lot of people about how they can improve their skin, the types of products they can try etc, so find your niche.
- Add the link or URL of your blog to your outgoing emails in order to reach a wider audience and receive more hits and visitors to your blog. You never know who may benefit from reading about what you have to say.
- If you have a business, put a link to your blog on your business cards
- Add pictures to your blog - many search engines including Google and Yahoo as well as search portals on the Internet index pictures and images, this allows the images to be found easily, it also has the added bonus of allowing your blog to be found easily too! Watch the size of your pictures as they can affect the loading time of your blog, this can frustrate visitors to your blog as they will not want to wait too long for your site to load up.
- Post videos on your blog relating to the topic you are writing about as this helps to make it interactive providing visual, verbal as well as textual information for your readers. Also visitors may want to leave comments about what they have seen in the videos.
- If you are allowing comments on your blog, moderate your comments before they are posted online in order to keep spammers from adding malicious spam comments to your blog. (Please read the external links below this post for more information on the effects spam comments can have on your blog).
- Put a counter on your blog so that you know how many people have visited. A counter is useful as it can tell you if anyone is actually visiting your blog or reading it.
- Cross-link your related articles and blog posts - Once you have written a topic, add related links either from your blog or from other websites with relevant information as your readers may be interested in reading the related articles. Also, your blog posts are a lot easier to find if you add them to the foot of your previous posts and saves your readers having to trawl through your blog for relevant information and related articles.
- Crop your pictures - Cut out unnecessary scenery in your pictures and scale down the size in order to keep the focus on what you are trying to show your viewers/readers. This will also help to reduce the size of the picture.
- Compress your images - This will also lessen the size of your images, making them load more efficiently with your blog. If you are wondering how you can compress or make your images smaller, you can use Microsoft Office Picture Manager, this image management software is quite good because it allows you to rotate, flip, compress, remove red eye, adjust contrast and colour, resize your pictures as well as a host of other things, although it is not an advanced picture or image management software like photoshop or irfanview, neither is it as complicated to use.
- Add watermarks to your images as some people will visit your blog or website and take pictures without permission, or some will hotlink your pictures.
- Get more traffic - There are a number of things you can do to increase traffic to your blog, here are just a few more...
- Update your blog often, this will allow your content to change regularly and allow search engine spiders to visit your blog and review changes on the blog for indexing.
- Add a privacy policy. This now appears to be essential. I have added a link to a privacy policy generator at the foot of the post. To add the privacy policy to your blog, add a link and place it at the footer (bottom) or in the sidebar of your blog. The search engine crawlers can find it once you have done this.
- Give the link of your blog to people online and offline and tell them to show it to their friends too, word of mouth is an excellent way of reaching new people.
- Add a link of your blog to the signature of your outgoing emails in your personal email account with a brief introduction to what your blog is all about. If people are interested in taking a look at your blog, they will click on your link.
- If you have business cards, put a link to your blog on them.
- Add a Search function to your blog - Any good website, blog or web page should have a search function. Adding a search box to your page makes it easier for visitors to search for and find information on your blog or website without having to trawl through all the pages on your site. You can have the search box at the top, bottom or on the side bar of your blog. I think it is easier to have a search box at the top as this is more convenient for visitors. It is also easier to find a search box if it is at the top of the page. I visit a number of websites and one of the main things that will make me leave a site is the lack of a search function or search box as it makes it very difficult to find what you are looking for.
- Add a feed to your blog - Burning a feed will allow interested readers to follow your blog or subscribe to your blog or website's feed. This allows your readers to receive updates each time you add articles and posts to your blogs.
- If you are thinking of deleting a blog, do not just delete it and think that the blog has been deleted. To make sure that your blog has been completed deleted, submit the blog to Google for complete deletion and removal from the search engines. You can do this in your Google/Blogger account.
- Personalise it - From time to time, add your personal experiences of situations, events or products or opinions as people can relate to this, well I do anyway.
Related External LinksIs your blog getting hijacked through your computer? - The Real Blogger Status
Stolen Computers - The Real Blogger Status
Protecting Against Script Exploits in a Web Application
PChucks Network: Bots and you
Blog hijack - How to protect yourself - Blogger tips and tricks
Protecting your online images
Who is stealing your photos online?
Digital photography and posting photos online - Yahoo answers
My divided soul - Stealing my pictures
What to do when your online work is stolen - Forthelose.org
What I learned in my first year of blogging
What blogging platforms do we use?
Privacy Policy Generator - How to construct your privacy policy
Official Google Webmaster Central Blog: Quick Security checklist for webmasters
Official Google Webmaster Central Blog: My site's been hacked - now what?
Use Twitter and be a Better Writer
The Blogging Bonanza - Blogging for Profit!
How to use a free blog to help you sell your house
StopBadware.org
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