Blogging
4 Things You Must Do With Your New Blog
With it now very easy to start a WordPress blog and many people looking for ways to make money online there is a lot more people deciding to take up blogging. This is because it is easy top get started in with a low startup cost and results that you can actually see. Blogging is great for any one wanting to share their knowledge and make money online.
The only problem is that most people know how to write great content, however are unsure about designing their blog and what else they have to do to be successful online. Picture this: you have just got your new blog set-up, wrote your first few articles and are wondering what to do next. Well in this post I am going to explain what you should be doing with your new blog to reach optimum success from blog.
Invest in a premium design and domain
When many people first start their blog they do not invest in a premium theme or domain name straight away just in case they do not get anywhere with their blog. However this is a must if you want to be successful. Especially a top-level domain as you want Google to crawl your blog as soon as possible and changing your domain name is just going to get you back to square one with search engines. Furthermore it may also make it difficult for return visitors to get back onto your blog.
A premium design is also important, however not something that you must have straight away. A great designed blog shows your visitors that you pay attention to your website and they know that you have spent time working on the website and the design.
Social networking
Social networking is a must have for any blog and without social networks you could potentially be missing out on a great source of traffic.You should sign up to Twitter and Facebook straight away and start promoting your content as soon as you publish it. By doing this you will be able to find new visitors and keep returning visitors up to date with your content.
Furthermore you should also integrate social networking into your blog. There are two ways to do this. First you want to put some social networking widgets into the sidebar of your blog so that people can follow you straight from your blog. The second thing you want to do it add social sharing buttons at the end of every post. This will allow readers to easily share your content.
Publish loads of content
When you first start your blog you are probably not going to have a lot of content. Well content is the most important part of your blog and at first you want to publish as much content as you can to start bring traffic in from different posts. Publishing these initial posts gives you a good opportunity to analyse your posts and see which ones are getting you the best results.
Another good reason to publish a lot of content i because search engines love keyword rich pages and will help you with your search engine optimisation.
SEO
Search engine optimisation is another must do for a blog. There is a load of potential traffic that you can get from search engines with a blog and therefore you do not want to miss out on this source of traffic. You can search engine optimise your blog your self and if you are using WordPress then there is a variety of free plugins available that will do the job just fine.
Good search engine optimisation is great for your overall Page Rank and therefore your blog is going to be seen as more important by Google.
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