Why start blogging? Consider your own reasons for thinking of starting a blog. There are different reasons why someone may start a blog. These can be as diverse as trying to make money,giving useful information to those with the same interests, publicizing a cause or a new idea or simply to stay in touch with family and friends.
Although all of these reasons may be quite different, all would be bloggers should spend some time learning about blogging before starting out. This will help to ensure that the blogger avoids mistakes which might not assist their blogging experience and help them achieve the sort of blog they intended.
So start by studying successful blogs. You can learn a great deal just by looking at those blogs that are successful, not necessarily in your own field of interest. Start by looking at what drew your attention, was it the writing style, the layout,the design, colours? If you think about what you found pleasing about a particular blog, its possible that others will find the same things interesting and that is why they visit. There is no point in reinventing the wheel; try and model your own blog along similar lines, taking the best of those blogs and using them in your own.
Start some simple research on the Internet. You will find articles related to blogging, starting and maintaining a blog,getting traffic, keeping visitors interested,and developing the blog as you go along for example.
Check your sources if you can. There is a lot of misinformation on the Internet. It isn't always easy to check but you should try and cross refer the tips you get from an article to other source. Always try and check the source if you can or at least see if you can corroborate a "tip" somewhere else.Try and ensure as much as you can that the sources are reliable.
As you start investigating blogging and doing your research, keep in mind that it is important to promote your blog, unless it is purely a family and friends blog. If you wish to use your blog to make money or publicize a cause or whatever purpose you wish to use it, you need to think about how to attract traffic. This is the lifeblood of blogs and is extremely important in your potential success.
How did you find the blogs you read often? Think about how you found them and its likely that other people found them in the same or a similar way.What did you type in when you first starting searching, what "keywords" did you use? Did you find a forum that pointed you to a blog, did you discover it via a social networking site like Facebook, or Twitter? Whatever routes you found to a particular blog should be put in place so others can find yours through a similar process.
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