Nancy’s post for today is found at Blog-World Watch. Read her top ten tips for effective blogging.
Link: http://blog.mccordweb.com/2008/02/become-effective-blogger-with-our-top.html
Become An Effective Blogger With Our Top Blogging Tips
We blog professionally for many clients and today I’d like to pass on the tips for effective blogging that I teach to my blog copywriters.
1. To build traffic on your site in 30 days blog religiously five days a week to see a marked increase.
2. To keep your readers subscribed and attract search engines blog a minimum of three days a week.
3. Keep your posts around 200 to 250 words and on one topic. Keep your posts keyword dense but written in proper English.
4. Craft your post title to contain your top keywords and in a phrase that may match a search engine query.
5. Look for interesting content to build readership. Never copy articles on the Web and post them on your blog create your own unique content and write with a distinctive point of view.
6. Stick with blogging and post even when you do not want to. To make it easy, I make a list of post titles and when I need help with an idea I pull a topic from my pre-prepared list.
7. If you are using WordPress blog ahead and set your blog to publish in the future. Many of my busy bloggers do their posts on the weekend and allow WordPress to auto-publish their posts.
8. Do not copy posts from Word directly into any blog control panel. Have you ever seen these characters in a blog post C$A or other characters that look like Russian text? These are apostrophes or dashes from a post that has been copied from Word directly in the blog post screen. We tell our bloggers to post in the control panel. If you feel that you MUST work in Word, copy your post into Notepad remove the curly apostrophes with find and replace and then recopy and paste your post from Notepad into the blog control panel.
9. If you want best search engine benefits consider WordPress and install the Meta Tag Plug-in and use it for every post!
10. Don’t stress out over the fact that people typically will not post comments on your blog. This is not an indication that people are reading your blog. Also don’t start blogging thinking that a blog is a forum. It really takes a hot topic for readers to leave a comment. Don’t freak out if you don’t get comments, people are reading your blog!
Hope my tips help you to be a more effective blogger! Hey, leave me a comment with your tips and break my #10 tip that people don’t comment on blogs typically. :0)
Use Feedburner For Blog Feed Tracking
Feedburner has been around for a while and just last year Google bought this interesting free tool. That should tell you something right there, when Google buys something, it has increased perceived value.
Feedburner allows you to make your RSS or Atom feed generated by your blog or e-newsletter user-friendly. Providing it in a format that matches the feed reader of your subscribers. It can turn an Atom feed into an RSS 2.0 feed or other version of RSS feed. It will track your activity and subscriptions with the new PRO tools that are now free to all, and will even allow you to send your blog posts as emails to subscribers.
Previously I have been leery of losing my domain tag on my feed address, but I have decided that the information and ability to track performance is more important than keeping my domain name tag on my feed.
Feedburner is easy to implement with WordPress and New Blogger auto-install widgets. So if you haven’t checked out Feedburner, now’s the time to take the leap and to know more about your news feed, reach, and subscribers.
Welcome to Design-World Watch
Welcome to Design-World Watch a new blog from Nancy McCord owner of McCord Web Design. We post to this blog every Thursday.
You’ll want to check out our other great blogs for more informational content, tips, tools, and best practices at the addresses below:
This is our main blog and updated on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. It is our oldest and most developed blog. Topics discussed are pay per click marketing, search engine optimization, best practices, Internet marketing, podcasting, using video, and other Web worthy information.
This blog is fairly new for us and we update it on Tuesday. Topics are focused on the blogosphere and include blog widgets, blogging tactics, blogging for search engines, blog practices, writing for your blog, and how to use a blog to garner website traffic.
We hope that you’ll choose to subscribe and check back each week for new information and interesting tips.