Top 10 Tips for New Bloggers
While browsing for some good tips to teach new Bloggers, I came across a wonderful article at Wired by Jorn Barger. Barger, a most experienced Blogger explained his learning’s gained in his 10Yrs Blogging experience. Here is a list of top 10 tips for new Bloggers:
- A true weblog is a log of all the URLs you want to save or share. (So del.icio.us is actually better for blogging than blogger.com.)
- You can certainly include links to your original thoughts, posted elsewhere … but if you have more original posts than links, you probably need to learn some humility.
- If you spend a little time searching before you post, you can probably find your idea well articulated elsewhere already.
- Being truly yourself is always hipper than suppressing a link just because it’s not trendy enough. Your readers need to get to know you.
- You can always improve on the author’s own page title, when describing a link. (At least make sure your description is full enough that readers will recognize any pages they’ve already visited, without having to visit them again.)
- Always include some adjective describing your own reaction to the linked page (great, useful, imaginative, clever, etc.)
- Credit the source that led you to it, so your readers have the option of “moving upstream.”
- Warn about “gotchas” — weird formatting, multipage stories, extra-long files, etc. Don’t camouflage the main link among unneeded (or poorly labeled) auxiliary links.
- Pick some favorite authors or celebrities and create a Google News feed that tracks new mentions of them, so other fans can follow them via your weblog.
- Re-post your favorite links from time to time, for people who missed them the first time.
So make use of these tips to get success. Thanks to Wired and Jorn Barger. Happy Blogging!
I like 7,9 and 10th tips more. Yours?
I like 1 and 7 most.
Credit to source is very important as you did..Most people think not to Do that. but you can’t blame you readers.they are very smarter than you.
I like all those except 6th one. because i don’t know that much..Good list Lax…
@Liew,
Thanks for commenting here.
Yes you are 100% correct.. you should credit the source..this is must and should follow guideline.
Thanks funandtech.
@funandtech,
6th one deals with, when you credit some one it’s always to good to comments a single line about that author or site or article saying good,awesome or some thing. This is just to impress them or make happy them..
Good trick right?
Ha right dude.
Good site found at google.
I like 4th and 7th points!
like 7th one.
Its very important in blogging field.
Good site! Good luck!
Hi Martink,
Thanks for commenting.
Hi liza,
Thanks for commenting.
Nice list…. I’m trying to Do the 10th one…..but haven’t did until now..
Hi Samrat,
Thanks for commenting,
10th one is very good one.even am trying to make it out. We can Do it weekly once, by posting a article with something title like this “this weeks top articles”.
This will help people coming from search engines.
I feel it’s hardly relevant to blogging at all. These are obviously (and as said in article) rules for ancient form of weblogs – merely link lists.
Modern blogging is nothing like that.
Hi Rarst,
Thanks for your Comment,
Most of the points are relevant to blogging.but as you said things got changed now.
But those all are solid basic points. Now tactics got changed in blogging.
Nice information. Even though I started blogging almost a year from now, I still Do the basics and fundamentals of blogging procedures.
This tips makes me recall some of my routines last time. Thanks for the reminders.
I like 10th tips..Lax, no wonder you always give proper credit because you like 7th tips