Create a Blog - 7 Powerful Tips

30 Mar, 2007 | Written by John | under Free Blog Tips

Here’s 7 powerful tips that will help you to create a blog. If blogging interests you, then these 7 tips will help you to get started..

Create a Blog Power Tip 1 >>> Why Blog ?

There are many different reasons why you might start a blog. Blogs are now great resources for things such as technology news, gaming and include all sorts of informative articles on a wide range of topics through to the more personal online diary type blog…

Create a Blog Power Tip 2 >>> Getting a Blog

Don’t waste your money paying for a blog, as there are plenty of free blogging services you can use such as blogger.com. Another option would to use a program called Wordpress, which can be found at wordpress.org

In my opinion wordpress is the recommended method for starting a blog because you have full control over your blog because it’s hosted on your own domain…

There’s no need to be put off using wordpress as there are plenty of tutorial sites that will walk you through the process of setting up a blog using wordpress. It’s not that hard once you get started..

Create a Blog Power Tip 3 >>> What Topic ?

One of the first things you need to decide is which topic your blogs going to be about. Most successful blogs concentrate on providing relevant content on one specific topic. To help you to choose your topic, ask yourself the following questions..

1. What do I enjoy doing ?
2. What do I know a lot about ?
3. What are my hobbies?
4. What are my interests

Create a Blog Power Tip 4 >>> To Ping or not to Ping ?

It’s very very important that every time you make a new post to your blog that you ping that post to all the major pinging sites. This helps your new blog posts to get indexed by the major search engines. Here’s a few I recommend to get you started:

1. http://www.pingomatic.com
2. http://www.pingoat.com
3. http://blogsearch.google.com/ping

Create a Blog Power Tip 5 >>> Update Often

This is a very important tip!

Always make sure you update your blog as often as possible, preferably at least 5 times a week. If your running short of content just go to one of the article directories and use one of the many excellent articles there.

Create a Blog Power Tip 6 >>> Provide Quality Content

Yes i know this is pretty obvious, but I’ve seen so many blogs that just have absolute crap content on them that’s of no use to anybody…

Create a Blog Power Tip 7 >>> Personality

Try and add as much of your own personality as possible into your blog. Don’t be frightened to give your own opinion and say what you feel. Some of the things that you say might offend or upset some people, but so what!

You can’t please everybody can you !

In conclusion…

I hope the above tips have given you some good starting points to starting your very own blog and I wish you all the best in whatever you decide to do…