How to Blog: Blogging Tips for Beginners Update: See our more recently published posts on the topic of starting a blog at How to Start a Blog in 5 Easy Steps and how to make money blogging. Welcome to my How to Blog – Blogging Tips for Beginners Guide. On the page below you’ll find links to a series of how to blog tips that I’ve written with blogging for beginners (and ‘Pre’ Bloggers) in mind. How to Blog – My Ultimate Guide to Blogging for Beginners Since developing this series I’ve produced a book specifically for beginner bloggers. Lastly- if you enjoy these posts and want to keep in touch with ProBlogger – subscribe via our RSS feed. Blogging Tips for Beginners Introductory Posts Blog Design Tips Tips for Writing Content for Blogs Tips on Making Money from Blogs Blog Networks Other Beginner Blogging Tips Want more Blogging Tips for Beginners? If you want more blogging tips I can recommend two things. 1.
5 Best Blog Sites Other Than Wordpress and Blogger The blog of today is quite different from the blog of just a few years ago. Many are into ‘casual blogging’ where a blog post is not just (long) text written out but perhaps just an image or sound clip. Interested in which of the best blog sites offer alternatives to the big players? Let’s go over some WordPress and Blogger alternatives that you might want to check out. Tumblr Tumblr (also known as a Tumble log) is a widely known blogging service which we have covered here on MakeUseOf before. Tumblr’s community is centered around the follow, like and the reblog. You can import the best blog site posts from a number of other services including Twitter, RSS feeds, or even AOL Instant Messenger. Posterous Posterous is another “microblogging” service like Tumblr. Posts can be imported from any number of sources and will also be “sent out” to Facebook and Twitter. Twitter Not usually considered a “blogging” service, Twitter is actually a microblog by definition. Xanga Weebly
One Big Mistake a Whole Lot of People Make This mistake is one I have made many times (and sometimes still do). It’s also a mistake I’ve seen a whole lot of others do a lot. What’s the mistake? Basically, misjudging how long time it will take to get the desired results. This problem is actually two problems. Either you underestimate the time it will take to lose that weight, earn that money or find that audience for your blog. Or you may overestimate how much time it will take to get the results you desire. It’s obvious that people would have more success if they just got started. Society, TV and advertising tells us that there is an almost instant solution to any of our problems. But I think there is also an idea that if you haven’t succeeded pretty quickly then you might as well give up and do something else. If they are rejected for date, do they give up? They know that there are a lot of good people out there. A solution to early quitting time It´s hard to know how much time something will take before you have accomplished it.
How to Write Effective Blog Posts The best compliment I ever receive about my blog is that my posts are short, simple, and actionable. Any time I get that response, I feel that I’ve hit the mark. When I get a lot of comments about uncertainty or when people seek clarity, or when I find myself defending parts of the post that didn’t mean anything, or when I get comments about the analogy and not the meat of the post, that’s when I know that I rushed it, or that I blew it. I’ve shared before about the writing practice, about how I get ideas for posts. This time, I’ll share about what I do to make my posts effective (or what I hope will be effective). Start With a Useful Title One thing we’ve seen in Third Tribe Marketing is that when people write a vague topic title for a forum post, it gets very little response. Lead In With a Story and an Image I use images to start your thought processes flowing, and I make the first paragraph a very small bit of personable information that will be relevant to the piece. It Takes Practice
How to Write a Blog Post in 70 Minutes or Less Blogging is an important part of my life. It the primary way I have built and communicate with my tribe. However, it is not the only thing I do. I’ll bet it’s not for you, either. Photo courtesy of ©iStockphoto.com/slobo If you are like most bloggers, you are trying to squeeze it in between your job, your family, and a thousand other activities. After writing more than 1,000 posts, I have gotten better and faster with practice. Start the night before. Sometimes it takes a little longer than 70 minutes. Questions: How long does it take you to write your typical blog post?
Best Blog Layout Tips & Design {5 blog tips Good blog layout and design is very important. It's easier than you think to have a beautiful blog with a great blog layout. So here are 5 blog tips so you can have the best blog layout in the blogosphere! It should be unique and give people an idea of what your blog is about. The "rules" say that a header should be no more than 250 pixels tall, but you do have wiggle room on that. 3. 4. 5. Great blog design isn't rocket science-- you know what you love to see in a blog, just give people that on yours!
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