Tip: Improve yourself as a blogger



OK, so you started a blog and you are very excited about it. You have a lot of ideas but some­thing just keeps going wrong. Well, here are a few tips to help you improve your blog and your sta­tus as a blogger.

Your blog

• Your Feed doesn’t work! Sub­scribe to it and make sure it works as you intended. Cus­tomize your feed (if you can). If it doesn’t work, how am I sup­pose to read what you post?
• Chose a proper theme for your blog! So you write about World of War­craft but have a theme with fluffy kit­tens? That’s not going to work. Con­tent is king but if you have an ugly theme with lots of things flash­ing at the same time, I’m not going to come back.
• Always state the source! There is noth­ing nas­tier, even on the Inter­webz, than to steal from oth­ers. Always link back to your source.
• No con­tact method! I want to praise you and I have no means to con­tact you. Put an e-mail address vis­i­ble on your blog or even a con­tact form. Peo­ple will even­tu­ally want to ask you things and if they don’t know how to con­tact you, chances may fly by.
• No author page! Who are you? What do you want from me? Write a bit about your­self, peo­ple want to know who is the guy they are reading.
• No links to other blogs! Best way to get your­self known with­out beg­ging. Link to blogs you enjoy and admire. They will notice and if they like what they see, will link back.
• Let every­one com­ment on your blog! Enabling user reg­is­tra­tion = instant death. Peo­ple will not reg­is­ter on your blog just to com­ment. Let every­one do it. That’s why there are mod­er­a­tion options.
• Sub­scribe to com­ments option! I com­ment on sev­eral blogs. I don’t have time to come back to each of them to check if some­one replied. Get it now?
• Use Word­press! True story.
• Backup your blog and do it often! You never know what may happen.

Your­self

• Read other blogs! And learn from them. Don’t steal.
• Get involved! Com­ment on other blogs, par­tic­i­pate in com­mu­ni­ties with good insights, get your­self noticed with­out spamming.
• Write! Do it often, do it good. If you like to write insight­ful posts, take your time. Even if you write a post once every week or month but it takes me 5 hours to fully under­stand it, you have me as a faith­ful reader.

Advertising/monetizing your blog

• Learn how to use Adsense! Don’t just put it there. Read ahead.
• Keep it sim­ple! Don’t crowd your blog with lots of wid­gets or adverts. Usu­ally, if I see more than 3–5 adver­tise­ments on a blog I don’t get past the first page. Blog­ging should not be about mak­ing money. That’s a con­se­quence of being good at it.

Write good con­tent, be active and cre­ative. If you do these, peo­ple will come back to read you.

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