| | 11 Tips for Rookie Bloggers - Passion: If you are going to be dedicating a good bit of your time to this venture make sure that you have an immense desire to write about your topic. Residual impact: your writing will be more compelling to read.
- KISS: You know the old adage and it definitely applies here. Keep your writing lists numbered and bulleted for easy reading. People want to come to your interesting blog, read it, and go about their day.
- Socialize: Stay involved in industry related blogs. Do you see common misconceptions or questions that need to be addressed?
- RSS: Syndicate your blog so that anyone who subscribes will know when it is updated and come on back to share in your knowledge.
- Monetize: Why not generate some revenue off of your baby? Add in Google's Adsense ads onto your blog to generate cash from traffic. Some bloggers ( select few ) have made a living through advertising. Extra note: do not inundate your blog with these ads as it can make your site look cheap.
- Wordpress: By far the easiest blog software to use it will have you up and running in no time. The available themes let you customize your site with ease. Wordpress also has tons of plug-ins that make your site more efficient such as contact forms and calendars.
- Ease of entry: If you are going to try and generate a significant amount of traffic to your site keep your blog topics pretty specific. As you will be starting with a non existent page rank, it will take time to compete against the big boys in your industry.
- Share the love: In connection with number 7, in order to advance your page rank it would be wise to link to other authoritative sites in your industry. Let those webmasters know and hopefully they will link back to you.
- Don't be lazy: Try to write posts frequently and predictably. Readers will be trained to when they need to revisit your site.
- Have fun: The internet has allowed all the common folk to have a voice, make sure yours is heard loud and clear and above all else enjoy what you are doing!
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