Blogging from the Beginning

July 15, 2008

Starting a blog can become easily overwhelming. You must understand your goals, set realistic dates and get into a routine. From the top, the journey of a thousand steps starts with your choice of blogname and password. By nature, one who blogs is one who writes content that the whole world can read. So getting a catchy blogname helps, something generic if you haven’t found out what your site evolves to (niche).

Naming a blog doesn’t spell instant popularity. Your must understand your audience and be sure to reflect their interest through your site. If you are in a niche that is geared towards kids you do not want an extremely technical navigation and page set up. The best way to find out what works is to do trial and error. Be sure to pay attention to the specifics, like how many columns does the theme have or is it simple enough for you to tinker around with. Keep in mind, there is such a thing as free themes which you can choose from if you’ve outgrown the one you have now.

Popularity of a blogs depend on design, content, links and a blog counter. The last item is what you put on your blog to know how you blog is doing traffic-wise. To get one, surf for “free blog counters” in the google search box and just see where free really means FREE

The instructions to add a counter to your blog are easy, sites offering the free-ware have help support that can walk you through the process. A blog counter is a program that keeps track of the activities of your blog, like how many visits you get a day to a year and more.

Blogging is an invitation to get people to share their time and self with you. A catchy blogname, a cool design, great content, working links and adding a blog counter basically get the invitation spread and sustained.  Learn more about The Basics of Blogging.

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