10 Tips for Writing a Successful Blog

There are many key elements that go into creating a successful blog! Some of the most important key elements of a successful blog surround your content and its relative components. The actual content that you write in your blog posts will be one of your greatest tools for blog success. No matter what your blog is about you’ll want to start by making sure that it is user friendly and can be easily navigated. A reader usually decides within a short amount of time whether they will be sticking around or not! After you’ve got that down, you’ll need to focus on your purpose and your content.

10 of the best tips for writing a successful blog

Create a Niche- When creating a successful blog it is so important to narrow down what the general theme of your blog will be about. If you have yet to start a blog think about where you want to go with it, what do you know a lot about, what information could you share with others? The options are really endless! You just need to think about a topic or idea that can be turned into a daily or weekly post that people would want to check out.

Know Your Audience- Who are you writing for? One of the hardest things for bloggers to realize is that they are not just writing in a journal that no one will read. As a blogger you are potentially opening the door to hundreds, if not thousands, of readers. When it comes to writing a successful blog it is not only what you write but the way you write it that is going to make a huge difference in your level of success. Try to think about your audience when creating your posts and write just as if you were talking to them in person.

Content is Key-What you write about in your posts is what is going to keep your readers coming back. Your posts should be engaging, informative, and to the point.

Stay on Topic- This is one of the most well known tricks of the trade! When it comes to writing a successful blog it is important to write posts relevant to your blogs niche. Now if you write a blog for the fun of it, you can throw this tip out the window. However, if you’re writing to gain an audience you’ll need to stick to the theme of your blog so your readers don’t get confused.

SEO- SEO is a huge topic that is very important in writing a successful blog, I highly suggest doing a little research on it if you’re new to the game. To get you started, one of the best tips for utilizing SEO is in your blog posts is to have a keyword density of about 2.1% so if your post is 300 words long then you should use your keywords 6-7 times. Also try to keep your keywords in order. For example if your keyword phrase is “free Blogger templates”, type it just like that throughout the post and don’t break it up to unless you have to.

Research Before You Write- Another key component in writing a successful blog is to offer your readers something about a topic that they may not have known. I like to throw in facts because I think they’re fun, find what works for you! Some topics don’t require any research but if it is a complex topic make sure that you are well versed before you dive in to writing a post all about it! Show your readers that your information is creditable! Step by step instructions are also helpful in writing a successful blog, a clear description can really separate the successful blogs from the not so successful blogs!

Add a Little Character- One of the great things about blogs is that they allow you to be you! You’re working for yourself so inevitably you have the ability to set the tone for your blog. Try not to be an encyclopedia, don’t just type out a bunch of information and be done with it. In order to write a successful blog you should personalize your posts, share your experience or opinion, throw in some humor, and just let your readers know that you are a real person.

Break It Up- Blogs are supposed to be easy reads. If your posts will be on the longer side break them up by using images, lists, bullets, and splitting paragraphs into shorter sections.

Edit- Even if your blog post is short don’t forget to edit it! Re-read it and spell check it before posting. Mistakes will happen but another great thing about blogs is they aren’t expected to be perfect; still you should always double check your work.

Get Your Readers Involved- Most people LOVE to give their opinion so why not ask. Every now and then ask your readers to share their tips, tricks, success stories, or

views on a certain topic. This is not only a great way to get readers involved but it also allows you to create a community within your blog which is another key element in running a successful blog.

Reply to Comments- Your readers are part of the foundation that forms your success, without them there is not much rhyme or reason to even having a blog in most cases. So take a few minutes every day or every other day to respond to comments left on your blog.

These tips combined with a user friendly blog with a great layout, theme, and style will have you well on your way to writing a successful blog in no time at all.

 

 

What Is Rss / Subscribe / feeds?

 

What is RSS? 

This is a regularly asked this question and it might be worth putting together a page to define RSS and hopefully help you on the topic.Do you want to keep up to date with the latest posts on your favorite blogs/websites?We have a number of ways that you can subscribe to this site and receive updates. The main one that our readers use is our RSS feed.

What is RSS?
RSS is a technology that is being used by millions of web users around the world to keep track of their favorite websites.
In the ‘old days’ of the web to keep track of updates on a website you had to ‘bookmark’ websites in your browser and manually return to them on a regular basis to see what had been added.

The problems with bookmarking

• You as the web surfer had to do all the work
• It can get complicated when you are trying to track many websites at once
• You miss information when you forget to check your bookmarks
• You end up seeing the same information over and over again on sites that don’t update very often

RSS Changes Everything

What if you could tell a website to let you know every time that they update? In a sense, this is what RSS does for you.

RSS flips things around a little and is a technology that provides you with a method of getting relevant and up to date information sent to you for you to read in your own time. It saves you time and helps you to get the information you want quickly after it was published.

RSS stands for ‘Really Simple Syndication’. Many people describe it as a ‘news feed’ that you subscribe to.
 
I find the ’subscription’ description helpful. It’s like subscribing to a magazine that is delivered to you periodically but instead of it coming in your physical mail box each month when the magazine is published it is delivered to your ‘RSS Reader’ every time your favorite website updates.

How RSS actually technically works is probably a lesson for another day but the key today is for you to understand why it’s good and how to use it.


Let me say right up front that I’m not the most technically savvy guy going around - but even I can use RSS. At first I found it a little strange to make the change from bookmarking to RSS but I found that when I started that I just couldn’t stop.

How to Use RSS

Get an RSS Reader - The first thing you’ll want to do if you’re getting into reading sites via RSS is to hook yourself up with an RSS Feed Reader.

There are many feed readers going around with a variety of approaches and features - however a good place to start is with a couple of free and easy to use web based ones like Google Reader and Bloglines. Either one will do if you’re starting out,as I say there are many to choose from but to get started either of these are fairly easy to use and will help you work out the basics of RSS.

Both of these feed readers work a little like email. As you subscribe to feeds you’ll see that unread entries from the sites you’re tracking will be marked as bold. As you click on them you’ll see the latest update and can read it right there in the feed reader. You are given the option to click through to the actual site or move onto the next unread item - marking the last one as ‘read’.

The best way to learn how to use either Google Reader or Bloglines is to simply subscribe to some feeds and give it a go. Both have helpful help sections to get you up and running.


Note: other options to tracking websites that you might already be familiar with include using pages like MyYahoo, MyGoogle and MyMSN.


Find Some Feeds to Subscribe to - there are two places to look for a site’s feed:

1. On the Site
2. In Your Browser

On Site Subscription

Over the last few years you may have noticed a lot of little buttons and widgets appearing on your favorite sites and blogs. Little orange buttons, ‘counters’ with how many ‘readers a blog has, links called RSS, XML, ATOM and many more.

They come in all shapes and sizes. Here are a few you might have seen:

There are plenty more - but any time you see any of these buttons or anything like them it means that the site you are viewing almost certainly has a feed that you can subscribe to. In most cases it’s as simple as either copying and pasting the link associated with the button into your RSS Reader or clicking the button and following the instructions to subscribe using the feed reader of your choice.


Once you’ve done this and have subscribed to a few feeds you’ll begin to see unread items in your Feed Reader and you can start reading.

We Are Nearly Finished - First A Quick Remunder: If you need more help or have an opinion or suggestion, Please leave a comment Below,I reply to all comments. It also really helps me to edit posts and with future posts if you let me know if a tip has worked on your blog. This is a Do-Follow Blog so leaving a comment will also help Your blogs Google rank. Ok Back to buissness....

Don’t want to Use an RSS Reader? Email is an Option

If the above explanation all just seems a little too complicated for you then please don’t worry. Many sites also enable you to subscribe to RSS feeds via a more familiar medium - Email.
I know that not everyone is into the RSS thing so at the top of our left hand sidebar there is a field where you can enter your email address and get a daily email with a summary of our latest posts. You can unsubscribe at any time and your email will be kept private and not used for any other purposes than to send these daily updates.


Click here to see the rss page for this website

Still Want to know more? Heres a quick video to help you.

 

How To Add A Gadget To Your Blogger Blog

This is part of my 'Basics' Tutorials.This tutorial shows you how to add a gadget to your blog its another essential tool in building your blog and using the other tips and tricks i provide in this blog.
Adding a gadget is quick and easy and there are lots of cool gadgets and widgets you can add to your blog.
The short video below will bring you through the steps and you will be spicing up your blog in no time !

How To Copy And Paste Code And Text

This is part of my 'Basics' Tutorials.Here we cover How To Copy And Paste this is absolutely vital not just for Blogging but for all activity's online you will need it in a lot all tutorials on this blog.By using the copy and paste technique you can copy large amounts of text or code quickly from one place to another.It only takes a few clicks and is really easy to learn.So lets look at a video showing you how to copy and paste !

 

 

Your Blog template and Internet Browsers Compatibility

We are in the first phase of the work of the blog design, we design the blog and make the codes work on a basis of our view of it that will be shown in a browser and a single browser, which we are use in our computer, and we design and put the code of the blog On this basis.

For the success of your blog, in order to succeed in the work or the selection of its design contributes to the success and must be true, that you check your blog on all browsers recognized and the blog should looks good in all of them.

Here are some tips that may be useful in making your blog compatible with all browsers; Kingdom-G is compatible with all browsers including mobile browsers:

1- Make your blog a simple code : If the HTML and CSS code in your design are complex, this increases the complexity of the many mistakes and increase the chance of errors with too many browsers. So try as much as possible to make your blog design simple and easy and make simplified codes.

2- Don't forget using Code validation : Before you save the code of your blog do not forget to scan these codes, either HTML or CSS using Code validation. There are HTML Validators and CSS Validators and also some browser plug-ins like HTML Validator Firefox add-on to check your blog.

3- Test your blog in different browsers : it is necessary to test your site in different browsers like Internet Explorer 6,7,8 and Firefox and Opera etc. Then you can see the problems in all browser and fix it.


 

How to choose a blog theme?

Choosing A Blog Theme – Things To Consider

Not all blog themes are created equal. No matter what type of blogging platform you use, you will find hundreds of options for preformed blog templates that include necessary coding and scripts. Some are more customisable than others, some include only the basic features, others have plugins to make adding valuable widgets a snap.

So how do go about Choosing A Blog Theme that is best for your online business? Take into account several key factors before making a decision; it is easier to start with a good template than make a bad decision and have to change it later.

Choosing A Blog Theme – SEO Considerations

Most blog templates come with the very basics of search engine optimisation such as the ability to add tags, accept trackbacks, and include various incoming and outgoing links.

But if you really want to beef up the optimisation of your site, consider going with a template that has much more than that already included. A good, SEO ready template will include an RSS feed button, give you various ways to link pages and posts, and allow for a number of plugins including things like Google Adsense, for instance.

The platform makes a difference, too. Blogger is always automatically set to “nofollow” for comment links and must be changed in the HTML code if you wish. WordPress blogs are usually “dofollow” and it is easy to install plugins such as CommentLuv. There are more options for permalink structure as well, making it easier for search engines to find the content based on the URL.

Aesthetics – Customisation

Unless you want your blog to look like a cookie-cutter replica of other sites, you should be able to customise the visual aspects of the template. When Choosing A Blog Theme, look for one that gives you colour scheme options and allows you to place a logo in the header.

There are options for templates that contain one, two, or three columns. Choose carefully as it is difficult to change this later. One column gives you the widest area to include text and graphics, but limits the amount of blog badges and widgets etc. appearing on the page’s area initially accessed. Three columns gives the visitor lots of different things to see without scrolling down, but it can make posts with both text and graphics look squished into the narrow space.

In basic terms, Blogger blogs are easier to customise, but there are less options to do so. WordPress blogs contain far greater options but unless you understand CSS code, you may have difficulty taking advantage of some features.

Monetising Your Blog

If you are planning on monetising your blog with affiliate marketing links or a shopping cart, ensure those features are easy to add, or already included, in the template you select. Once again, Blogger makes it easy to add affiliate links, but you are somewhat limited as to partners. You can add anything you want to WordPress but may find it more difficult to figure out how to do so.

When Choosing A Blog Theme, there are so many options available for free on the internet; you may have to spend some time browsing through them before you find one that is perfect for your needs. Be sure it performs well for SEO, looks professional and unique, and is easy to add monetising features.

Here are some websites which provides you free Blogger themes:

1. www.bloggerthemes.net
2. www.btemplates.com
3. www.bloggerblogtemplates.com

How to choose a blog name?

HOW TO CHOOSE A BLOG NAME??

There are three simple rules to follow when choosing a blog name:

1) It must describe your blog: it is probable that lots of people will see a link to your blog before having the chance to actually read it (in search engines, for instance). Guess what, if just by looking at the name they can figure what the blog is about they will be more likely to visit it.

2) It must be easy to remember: suppose your blog talks about cycling, fitness and health advice in general. Naming it “The Cycling, Fitness and General Health Advice Blog” would offer quite an exhaustive description of the blog, but would it also be easy to remember? Stick with simple names.

3) It must be equal to the domain name: this rule is often ignored by people, probably because finding a suitable domain that has not been registered yet is a difficult task. Still if your domain name does not match the blog name you will probably lose some readers along the way. When people visit your blog through a link they will just read the name of the blog. Should they decide to revisit the site a couple of days later they will just type that name followed by a dot com. If they do not find your blog once they hit enter they will just go somewhere else.

‘As I mentioned the perfect name is easy to remember, sounds and looks good. But more importantly than these three is a name that is suiting. There is no such thing as the perfect name in the initial stages. It takes time and growth before a name can become perfect. So it is our job to look at all the aspects so we can ensure we have a strong, and at least “near perfect” name in the future…’

What is a Blog and How to Create your own Blog?

There are many people who still do not understand what a blog is or why is blogging so much expanding in the cyberspace. I feel all these people deserve the right to know what a Blog is and how can a Blog be created along with some other similar questions. So for those who just heard of a Blog from their friends, media or any other source, here is a short and precise illustrative tutorial to help you find answers to four important questions in most people’s mind. Which are,
1. What is a Blog?
A blog is nothing but an Online Notebook Diary. What do we write in a notebook diary? Of course stuff that we like and things that we feel important to be recorded and shared with our friends and family. A notebook diary can be based on any topic that you like for example you can write on your hobbies, activities, poems, songs, tutorials, pets, home and family, your personal thoughts etc. People will read your Online Notebook Diary on daily basis and will leave you a comment, suggestion or feedback.

If you write about your personal experiences in a notebook made up of papers, then your writings will reach only limited people around you but with an online diary like a Blog you speak to the world!

So in short a blog is your Personal website where you write and share things you like with millions of people out there who are eager to read what is cooking in your mind!

2. How do I create a Blog?
Creating a blog is absolutely free. There are many quality Blogging hosting services that you can choose to create a blog but the best among them is Blogger. I have created this blog with Blogger without even paying a penny!

3. What is the advantage of blogging?
You pay nothing Instead you Earn in $$ !! You earn by displaying advertisements on your Blog. People are earning from $100 to $100,000 monthly! I am not kidding an example is shoemoney.com and problogger.net

Plus you will make new friends in the Blogosphere and you earn respect in the eyes of thousands of people. You can become a celebrity! But all this with a little hard work and great patience.

And the best advantage which I have experienced is that you learn every second online! Your internet and computer skills will improve to an extreme edge and this is what the coming era demands from you. Every second on blogging is undoubtedly a new experience! I have learnt HMTL, CSS and a bit of JavaScript without taking any classes.

4. What is Blogger or Wordpress?
These are the major blogging platforms which help you create a free Blog. But if you are confused which one to start with then go for Blogger. It has many features which wordpress doesn’t have and the best part is that Blogger allows you to customize your template in any way you like by editing the CSS style sheet! So what are you looking? 
Start blogging now and build up a new cyber life. 

Best of luck!