Top 5 Free Blogging Tips
- Use WordPress – Be sure to use WordPress.org to be the platform to build your blog on. This is the most powerful, flexible and easy to use package on the market.
- Post Often – You must post new blog articles AT LEAST once a week. The purpose is to get readers coming back to your for information and “news”, you don’t want them to think you aren’t posting on a regular basis.
- Link Gallore – You want to link to as many RELATED sites as possible to improve your search ability and to gain as much exposure and page hits as possible. An easy way to do this is to contact another blogger and ask them to exchange links, this is not intrusive at all and normally a welcomed request.
- Be Candid – Blogging is meant for you to act as the news reporter or editorial page writer. People come to your blog for candid talk with opinions and usually an agenda. After all, you are trying to build an audience, so they want to hear your UNIQUE voice.
- Utilize SEO – After you have started to create posts and get people interested in your topic (from whatever geography you choose, mind you) you MUST utilize Search Engine Optimization (SEO) on your pages to ensure they are searchable and easily readable in search engines. This basically means if you are blogging about technology, you want to be sure that if someone types in “Technology Blog”, your blog will come up in the search engines and look clean with a nice title and description that looks inviting to potential readers.