What I’m going to share with you today is the most basic but essential ways to start a blog.
Firstly, get yourself a free blog host to sign up. I would recommend Blogger and WordPress.
Read through all the instructions upon signing up. *Read through the terms & conditions thoroughly*
Once you’ve got a blog up and going, I recommend that you pick a topic and kind of stick to it. Decide what it is you’re going to say. Themes can be pretty broad (mine’s Enterprise Computing, for example which gives me broad leeway but doesn’t just include everything). I go outside those boundaries from time to time, but pretty much I stick to the topic. A good way to get started is by referencing and quoting material from other blogs and Web sites you read and then commenting on them as you see fit. Eventually you will start to mix in longer essays that express a thought that you want to develop.
Write about what interests you, not what you think your readers want. If you just try to guess what people want and write about that, you’ll get bored with writing and it will become drudgery. The way to get people to read your blog is to link to their blog and say interesting things. People notice when you link to their blogs (either through their referer logs or through Technorati) and will follow the link back and read what you have to say. If its interesting enough they might link to you, comment on what you say and, in so doing, drive traffic to you. Read your own blog and follow the links (at first) to prime the pump.
At a minimum, make sure that your email address or a comment form is available on your blog for people to send feedback. You may want to experiment with comments on blog entries and see whether you like them. Some people do and some people don’t.
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Hi, am glad that your online biz takes off. You have spent 56728 waking hours pounding on your keyboard since your secondary school days, so much so that being online and blogging is no longer your passion, it becomes your long-term commitment to drive your own biz online. I am inspired to do likewise, to make money online yet maintain a cool website. Believe your domain will reach out to the world. Biz globalization seems yr next step. Congrats and good luck !
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This is really helpful. I have been looking for ways to maintain my blog. Thanks
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Thanks for the good words guys.
Frankly, setting up a blog isn’t difficult. The perseverance, discipline and taking time out of our busy schedules is more difficult.
But like what people alway say. “Only The Fittest Survive”.
Erwin
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