Checklist:20 Simple tips for new Bloggers
October 9th, 2008 by Lax
Before going into deep on blogging and before to forget all my experiences I want to share all my learning’s and experiences with new Bloggers into field. I already wrote an article on Things to know before starting a blog. So after you started your blog, you need to know & follow some basic tips and tricks. Here I will walk you through all those today.
- The first thing is decide what all the categories (Blogging, Tech and etc…) are you wanted to cover through your blog.
- Choose the correct domain to address your niche
- Make good design for your blog (Recommend to take 2 Column theme to utilize the space correctly)
- Add proper plugin or widgets on sidebars to showcase all your talent.
- Place recent posts, Categories, Most viewed and etc… for getting better page views.
- Place subscription form available on home page to get good feed count.
- Remind visitors to subscribe by placing subscribe form after each post
- Attract visitor by placing Related articles under every post
- Close to your visitors by providing a contact form
- Comment on fellow Blogs
- Participate in link sharing & Banner exchange
- Observe other blogs closely to get ideas for innovative articles.
- Subscribe to all good blogs under your niche.
- Submit blog to your local or country or city communities
- Update blog at least 5 days in a week with fresh content addressing current problems, news, tips and etc…
- Answer readers questions by responding to comments or contact form requests
- Appreciate your commenters to encourage them
- Signup to Google Analytics to monitor your visitors landing and from which country visitors are, which language and etc…
- Now follow these 9 simple ways to promote your blog for free
- Be away from placing ads until your site gets good shape & place on web
These are the tips I learned from my blogging experience. You can contribute more tips to increase this number (Proper credits will be given to contributors blog).
Hurry Up! 21st will be yours. Happy Blogging!
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Hello Lax,
What an article yar. You simply just covered all the useful points useful for new bloggers.
Awesom article.
Thanks Karteek.
Can i use this article to my blog.
please reply yar.
@Kareek,
Don’t have any issue. I always welcome to take my content. But i request you to give link back or proper credits
Huge list man.
Must check this being a fresh blogger.
Thanks Shyam,
Yes every new blogger should check this list.really useful
Am thinking about that 21st tip yar…def i will provide you that 2maro
Most welcome shyam,
Will be given credits also.
Good collection dude. i like simply the 12th one really cool it is. And don;t know y i like your writing skills dude.
And i would like to ad 21st one
21) Join social networking sites like orkut and ad more friends online to promote your blog.
A must check list yar…ohh that y u named checklist dude
I will ad the 22nd one
Work with free services like Entrecard to get more traffic.
@funandtech,
thanks for submitting 21st one, but i already covered all the social Bookmarking sites in 19th point.
19)Now follow these 9 simple ways to promote your blog for free
@testingjobsguide,
Thanks for submitting it. It’s a valid point, but i neverd tried it. First i will research on that EC and will add as 21st.
Credits will be given to you
Don’t mind: I want to deliver only valid content to my readers. so because of that each and every point i will experiment first before to suggest my readers.
Thanks again for your intrest.
Never mind.
Like your intension…thanks for considering it.
Bye Lax.
Lax,
Without ads how will we get revenue yar.. just asking because of that 20th point.
@Softhydit,
Good Question
Am not saying in that way. I am suggesting to put ads after getting some good position on web.
More over ads will pull down your blog loading speed also.
Ofcourse correct.
Agree with you
@Softhydit,
Again it’s all your personal intrest
Thanks dude.
Yes..This tips are helpful, I am using some of it in my piyadas-world.com
Thanks
You can also Do optimizing your article content for the Search Engine Optimization process…
Do you include having Top Commentators widget?
Use social media to build networking and bring traffic from social media sites to you blog