Wednesday, September 3, 2008

How To Create A Blog

By Rex Stevenson


Creating a blog can be the best thing you do for your website or business. First it can create traffic for you very quickly, and in many cases can create a nice income for you too. Its just a matter of learning how to become a successful blogger.

Blogs are very popular, and if you haven't started one then you are probably missing a lot of readers who have like interests with you. Internet users love to read blogs and love to come back to blogs to see what's need. Search engines also love blogs. Google and Yahoo realized that blogs have the most current content on the web and that content is continually changing. These tips will help you learn how to create a blog and avoid technical problems when blogging.

Choose a Blogger - Choose between one of the two programs for blogging, either blogger or Wordpress. You may have seen where these two companies like to compete against each other, and each has their advantages and disadvantages. The best way to choose between the two is to look at both sites and use the one that is easiest for you. If you ever want to change from one the the other, the process is fairly simple

Find your passion and you will find your Blog - Choosing your platform is half the job, but you also need to decide on what you will blog about, so you need to choose a subject that you truly like, because this is what you will be writing about, and answering questions to. A blog is like a daily newspaper so it needs to be about something you want to learn about and write about.

Bloggers that are passionate and love their hobbie and their field love to exchange information with their readers, and want to continually interact with their readers for years to come. When you choose to blog about subjects that you have no real interest in, then you lose interest and your blog loses readers.

Be a Good Blogger - There are many bloggers out there that make between four and five figures a month by blogging and it is possible for you to make the same. You just need to become well known and you have to have information that people are interested in too.

Starting the blog is just the beginning - the real work starts when you have to start adding stuff to your site. The value of your blog to readers is what makes your blog interesting and effective. It is so important that you continually add content and information that can be valued by your readers. This is like your own online newsletter or newspaper, and that means you either need to post daily or every other day.

Once you have started the blog you need to learn to get traffic to it. Getting it up is easy, and its even easy to add some content, but getting traffic to keep coming back can be a little tricky and you need to keep on top of things. Read as much as you can about driving traffic to your site and getting your readers to stay there.

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