10 Quick Blogging Tips
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I hope to compile even more helpful lists for bloggers, so I am starting here. I put together 10 quick blogging tips, in no particular order.
Have Your Own Domain
Blogspot can only take you so far. There are successful blogs that stay on blogspot, however if you are looking at two identical sites. I would chose the one with the domain name.
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Update your Blog Daily
This may be important to you if you value stats. It’s not vital, but it’s good practice to update your blog regularly. By offering new content, your visitors will keep coming back.
Make your Feed Easy to Subscribe to
When I discover a new blog, the first thing I do is subscribe in the RSS feed. If the feed isn’t easily available, a less patient person just might skip over your blog completely. I read that many “webmasters” and bloggers do. Bloggers are busy, keep everything as easy as possible.
Make an About Section
The first place a new reader will look is to the about page of your blog. Unless they start reading your blog on your very first post, they need to get caught up. Make sure your about section is informative and descriptive. Tell them what your blog is about, without boring them to stop reading.
Comment on Other Blogs
The way I have started reading several blogs, and even found a few authors, was because they found me first. Then, they started commenting on our blog regularly. The more you see a person, the more inclined you are to visit their site. 90% of the people (ever) who has left a comment on comment friday, got a personal blog visit by me. This has turned into blogs I read and contribute to often. Get noticed!
Comment on Blogs with Do Follow and Top Comment Lists
but, DO NOT SPAM. That is key. By leaving genuine comments this not only gives you link love, but you are also contributing to their blog. I often contribute comments on blogs with do follow and top comment lists and it has definitely boosted our blog rankings.
Use Social Bookmarking Sites
You never know you may make the front page of digg, or get 1,000 stumbles from stumbleupon. Stumbleupon gives us a huge boost in traffic every month. If you like our posts, make sure to give them a stumble!
Join Blogging Networks
My favorite is still mybloglog. Our community generally sends us 100-200 visitors per month. We have built a great community with very little effort. However, I have noticed a small decline in mybloglog since it first was created. There is a lot of competition now, it can’t hurt to try them as well
Take Part in Blog Promotions
If someone is offering a free linkback for just mentioning their blog why not? Especially if they have a pagerank 5, and you are brand new and don’t have one yet.
Or perhaps a blog is trying out a blog carnival and are looking for posts that have to do with apples. You happen to write a post on apples. Go ahead and submit it. The more links to your article the better. Both ideas are a great way to build more links and traffic to your blog.
Be Friendly
Last, but not least. Be friendly. People will be more inclined to link to you if you are nice. If people feel like they know who you are, and would consider you their friend. Try posting a picture of yourself, and make sure to respond to the majority of comments. I am less likely to comment on a blog that never answers previous comments I’ve made.
There you have it, my 10 quick tips turned out to be lengthy, but I hope they help someone!
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derek said:
Great list of tips and thanks for the link! One of the tips that I need to follow more regularly than I do is to take advantage of scheduled posts. This allows you to plan out a batch of posts and can make you more productive.
August 7th, 2007 at 7:08 am -
Madhur Kapoor said:
Great Tips buddy . There is nothing more i can think of right now .
August 7th, 2007 at 9:23 am -
chrisblogging.com said:
I love quick tips, and these are some of the best! Thanks tons!
August 7th, 2007 at 10:52 am -
BeachBum said:
MyBlogLog sends me close to 10 visitors per day. MBL is the only one that I add contacts to daily.
I agree about adding comments and hate to see when someone leaves a 1 sentence comment with a link. Why bother, as if I will approve a 10 words and a link.
Great blog content, I have been following you for about 2 weeks now.
BeachBum
August 7th, 2007 at 2:51 pm -
Rhys said:
Regarding the blog daily. I disagree, at least have the capacity to POST daily. Write a few backup posts to get started, that can be post at any time.
August 7th, 2007 at 3:29 pm -
Tish said:
Great tips, Matt! I agree with them all, and I’d like to stress how important it is that the RSS feed button is easily accessible. There have been a few blogs that I wanted to keep visiting but couldn’t locate the feed. Google Reader is usually pretty good at locating the feed when you do a search, but sometimes that doesn’t work.
August 7th, 2007 at 5:05 pm -
Matt said:
thanks all
i dont think you HAVE to post daily, because I dont.. but its useful
August 7th, 2007 at 10:21 pm -
K-IntheHouse said:
Here is one more:
Use Google Alerts to monitor your blog name/domain name, so even if the other blog software have trackback/pingback enabled, you will know who is talking about you and thank them immediately. Monitoring your incoming links is equally important to build your network.
Nice tips, Matt!
August 8th, 2007 at 5:59 am -
Erin said:
I think your frequent posts suggestion is a good one. To add to that, I think the posts need to be quality content. If a blog is nothing but paid reviews I’m going to skip over it and not keep coming back to read.
Great tips.
August 8th, 2007 at 6:22 am -
Lynne said:
Thanks for these easy to follow tips. I am doing my best to follow all of these. Your blogging posts are really quite helpful to a newer blogger such as myself. I am currently subscribed to blogcatalog not bloglog. Is one better than the other and why?
August 8th, 2007 at 9:42 am -
chrisblogging.com said:
You are totally right about blogspot. It may be free, but if you are serious you need your own host…
August 8th, 2007 at 10:01 am -
Rose said:
Great list of tips. I had a contest going but no one participated.
August 8th, 2007 at 12:49 pm -
Matt said:
check out
http://blogaboutyourblog.com/2007/07/12/6-great-tips-for-hosting-a-blogging-contest/
this may help, i’ve hosted several successful contests on this blog and others as well as served as a contest “promoter” so any questions you have let me know
August 8th, 2007 at 1:13 pm -
Paul Hancox | InternetInfluenceMagic.com said:
Some useful quick tips. Although I don’t know whether posting daily is necessary – sometimes I can get a bit overwhelmed by blogs that are so regular I can’t keep up.
Having your own domain name is critical, though. Actually, I have two domain names for one blog. My “regular” one, and a “shorter” one which re-directs to my normal one, for verbal promotions etc – an “easier to remember” one.
Paul Hancox | InfluenceMagic.com
August 8th, 2007 at 3:23 pm -
Matt said:
I was trying to get BAYB.com for the longest time, but its become near impossible
August 8th, 2007 at 3:30 pm -
Brown Baron said:
Solid tips. I think I have to work on my About page, it’s too bland haha.
August 9th, 2007 at 12:05 am -
Charles Lau said:
great tips there! I will look into all of them! haha
August 12th, 2007 at 12:34 am -
TheMarinader said:
Great tips, I’m just getting started so I’ll be sure to commit these to memory.
August 13th, 2007 at 9:57 pm -
MyBlogContest said:
Great tips! espically, Take Part in Blog Promotions.
Check out MyBlogContest.com for more blog contest info.
September 4th, 2007 at 4:59 pm -
Steven Snell said:
All good points. My blog is a do follow blog and I definitely think the conversations have picked up since I removed the no follow tags.
September 16th, 2007 at 5:52 pm -
Marenda said:
Wow this is a great list of tips thanks for such an informative post keep it coming
I took your advice on making it easier to subscribe by adding a more prominent image September 21st, 2007 at 10:16 am -
Clarke said:
Hi
These are very useful tips for blogging specially No 2, 3 and 5 are great tips.October 3rd, 2007 at 2:15 am -
Brian said:
Thanks Matt. This was very helpful.
April 5th, 2008 at 8:25 am -
Chris said:
I love these tips! The only one that bothers me is the first one about Blogspot. I am new to blogging and I am on Blogger. What is it about being on Blogger that makes people say to get away from it? Maybe I’ll just have to hang in their and find out myself. Thanks.
May 26th, 2008 at 11:30 pm -
Btb Sales Training Ireland said:
I have just started blogging so a big thank you for the great tips and advice. In relation to updating your blog daily and I am specifically talking about business blogs here, I am finding that it can be difficult to get the quality versus quaintly balance right. I was wondering if you have any advice to offer in relation?
July 4th, 2008 at 5:00 am -
indianhomemaker said:
Wow this was good. Thanks
I do try to reply to most comments and enjoy doing that too. Don’t know how to Digg and stumble and all though. Should take a look!indianhomemakers last blog post..There’s still time. Consider yourself warned.
October 8th, 2008 at 7:57 pm -
Jhangora said:
Useful tips for a beginner like me. Thanx a lot.
April 29th, 2009 at 3:01 am -
Dorset web design said:
I can add youtube vids on my myspace without a problem, just copy and paste the embed code. But whenever I try to publish a post on my blog it doesnt work. Any ideas?
June 1st, 2009 at 1:34 pm -
neeZhom said:
Really great tips!! thanx so much, have nice days ahead
June 26th, 2009 at 2:07 pm -
Bisnis di internet said:
Be Friendly is a good tips, because with blogging we build community and friendship.
June 29th, 2009 at 9:44 pm -
used tires said:
Many new bloggers have made the mistake of using a free domain. If you are planning to make money, its best to have your own domain. You will not want to go through the hassle of switching mid-way either. About sections are really important. I definitely check out the about section when I look at a new blog.
till then,
JEan
July 6th, 2009 at 12:12 am -
Linda McFadden said:
You make a lot of good suggestions. The nice thing about most of your tips is that they are easy to implement. I am fairly new to blogging & I am just starting to realize the importance of interacting with your readers and with other bloggers. You give some good suggestions to help establish these relationships. Thanks for sharing.
July 10th, 2009 at 6:28 pm -
shams@Make Money Online said:
I am new to blogging and I am on Blogger. What is it about being on Blogger that makes people say to get away from it? Maybe I’ll just have to hang in their and find out myself
July 29th, 2009 at 11:07 am -
oes tsetnoc said:
this is cool tips to blogging. i will add them to my blogging strategy. as of now, i am keep practicing blogging, it will help to my blogging journey
September 23rd, 2009 at 1:28 am -
Oracle said:
Be friendly – it is good tip – beginners don’t remember about this!
November 5th, 2009 at 11:36 am -
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December 26th, 2009 at 10:12 pm
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