Advanced Blogging Tips For Beginners

You may already have a blog or want to start a new blog, so blogging tips start with choosing the blog name (domain name). Please read the following 25 blogging tips to build a better blog.

The following are useful blogging tips before starting a new blog or writing a new post. These are important for search engine optimization.

1) First, do keyword research for the blog topic/subject. Finding popular keywords related to your blog or post topic is essential. To start with, you will need at least 2-3 keywords in the blog title and around 10 keywords for post titles.

2) naturally, try to use the keywords in the domain name, blog title, post title, post content, hyperlink, ALT tag, TITLE tag, etc. This will help you to get a higher search engine ranking.

3) Limit the number of your labels/categories to around 20. Use the tag cloud or label cloud if you want to save space. If you have many topics on one blog, try to regroup and relabel. If different topics are mixed on one blog and have sufficient posts for each case, start a new blog for that topic.

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You can be penalized for duplicate content. 4) Do not copy old blog posts on the new blog. You must remove the old copy from the search engine and add the same post to the new blog.

WordPress bloggers can use all-in-One SEO plugins for meta tag and title optimization. 5) Use the post title optimization widget on this blog for Blogger / Blogspot blog to get a better search engine ranking. Following are blogging tips related to the look and content of the blog.

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6) The look and layout of the blog should be nice, neat, and beautiful to create a good impression on the visitor, who should feel compelled to stay more and visit again. Content quality should also be good for this.

7) Navigation and layout should be such that visitors can easily find the recent posts and labels. So if Recent posts and Labels are near the top of the sidebar, they will be visible on the first screen of the blog, and the visitor will have a quick idea of what the blog is about and can jump to his topic of interest quickly.

Do picture/image optimization as described in my earlier post. 8) Use pictures and images wherever possible to make your post colorful and attractive. You don’t need to use large images; you can use medium- to small images.

9) The blog’s Loading time should not be very long, or visitors will run away before the page opens. So, keep a check on what widgets/code you are installing and whether they slow down the loading. If you are loading pictures, ensure the file size is not big.

Do not use BMP files; you can use JPG or PNG files. Also, check the image size. You can do all this using Photoshop. As sometimes images load slower from external sources, check that also.

Blogging tips related to writing and visitors

Do not write too long. 10) Write your post after properly researching and gathering all the information. Use grouping, paragraph, and subtitling toaarrangee post body information.

11) Writing language should be easy to understand, and wherever possible, write humorously. If a visitor enjoys your post, he will come back.

12) Provide links to useful resources related to your topic. Also, provide links to your earlier posts with proper anchor text wherever possible. This improves your blog’s internal linking.

13) Encourage the reader to participate/comment. You can also run some contests or surveys on your blog and keep some prizes for that.

14) Use a beautiful and professional-looking theme/template and header image for your blog. Many free templates are available, so you can easily get one suitable for your blog. Choose three 3-column templates that use full 1024 X 768 resolution. This gives you more space.

15) The font color and size should be such that the blog should be readable in different screen resolutions—other blogging tips to increase readers and revenue.

16) Burn your feed at Feedburner and provide a subscription via email facility to your RSS feed.

17) Check your blog visibility and feed in a different browser, especially in Internet Explorer and Firefox.

18) Try to increase your RSS feed subscriber and use AdSense to display Google AdSense on the feed.

Use the AdSense link unit with labels or links or below the header. 19) Use Google AdSense or other advertisements in the post body, right-hand sidebar, and below the header. Match the background color of AdSense with the blog or post background color.

20) Read my post on blog traffic tips to build traffic from sources other than a search engine.

Following are precautionary blogging tips.

Remove unnecessary outgoing links. 21) There should not be many outgoing links (pointing to other websites/blogs) in the post or sidebar. Place all outgoing links near the bottom of the right-hand sidebar or footer.

22 ) Do not buy or sell links for link building.

23) If paid posts are a must for you, keep them to the minimum or have a separate website/blog for paid posts or articles.

24) As said above, do not write the same post again ( duplicate content ), and do not edit old post titles and content for search engine optimization.

25) Do not have METATAGS only for the main home URL of the blogger blog, as it will be used for all the posts, and you will get duplicate metatag errors in Google webmaster tools. You are also misguiding and confusing search engines by having the same meta tag for all posts. So, you can use a script/widget to give different METATAGS to individual posts. WordPress bloggers can have METATAG for a particular post using an in-one SEO plugin.

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