Blogging tips for newbies.

For a beginner, blogging should not be difficult, and that is why you are advised to blog about what you are passionate about. There are a lot of free online blog services like www.blogger.com , www.wordpress.com, www.blog.co.uk, www.blogcatalog.com and a host of others. Starting up a blog should be piece of cake.

However, it is strongly advised to at least, have a registered domain name because it makes you look more professional. You could decide to host your blog on blogger.com or any of the other free blog services, or if you prefer you could host it anywhere else. Registering a domain and hosting it shouldn’t cost you a fortune you know…. You could get original website templates for your blogs for FREE!

With your own domain name advertisers would likely take you more seriously. The advantage you have starting of with your own domain name and hosting is that, once your blog becomes popular and you have gotten a lot of good rankings from Technorati, Alexa, Google and the rest with lots of backlinks, its not so neat to change and this could affect your blog tremendously.

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Once your blog is setup, you are ready to roll! Here are just a few things to note;

- Try to know your readers and make sure to carry them along. Even though you might want a search engine-friendly page, your readers come first. You need to interact with them. Reply to their comments, respect their opinion even if it’s a negative comment.

- Make your contents unique and of good quality, that is what differentiates you from others (millions of bloggers out there). Write your own thoughts in your own words about things you are passionate about. That is what branding yourself is all about.

- Always be consistent about updating your blog, an un-updated blog is a dead blog. You could start with twice a week, and increase the frequency as you move on. You don’t need to write lengthy posts, about 200 to 1000 words should be O.K.

- Join your blogging community, exchange links with blogs related to your content. Reachout to other bloggers. You could visit other blogs, post your comment, and leave a link for them to checkout your blog.

- Always proof-read your content before hitting the “publish” button. You can do this with firefox browser, “save and continue editing” in Wordpress.com, or you could use your Microsoft Word. If after publishing, you have to make some adjustments, do so immediately.

- And lastly, Monetize your blog. Do not make the ads on your site look rowdy and irritating to your readers. There are different neat ways of making good bucks from your site or blog space.
See you soon!