Keeping Your Blog Fresh And Exciting

By Bill Fletcher

Creating a blog can seem overwhelming because there are so many option and choices to make. The potential and ideas for blogs are infinite. The tips in this article are designed to help you to create a blog that will accomplish your goals and will reach the audience that your blog was created for.

First you must identify your audience. Who are they? What are they looking for? Way are they Question 2 looking for you? What can you offer to your audience? Can you create value for them? Answer the questions and people will seek you out and maybe pay you for the information.

Hint Choose a niche that you are passionate about. By doing this you will have a true interest in the things you are blogging about and this will reflect in your writing.

Make sure that you consistently posting when running a blog. For the greatest impact, blog daily. If you don’t post content regularly, then your site traffic will diminish fairly quickly. Have a guestbook or contact information posted as well, so your audience can interact and provide feedback. If your readers are happy with your response, they are more likely to com

An excellent tip for blogging is to make use of WordPress. This particular platform is extremely flexible with the various plug-ins that are used when it comes to blogging. WordPress is being utilized by over 12% of the largest websites. It is currently the most popular CMS being used today.

Hint Once your blog is established, have some guest posters write posts for your blog. This gives readers a fresh new perspective on your niche and allows you to benefit from knowledge you might not have.

Make use of a mind map. Organizing your blog into a mind-map, using the categories, posts, promotion and all of your income sources can be a great method of organization. It creates a way for you to see where your blog is lacking and what you can do to make it more successful.

You can have an excellent blog that would target an audience and bring in many readers, but without a great domain name you have nothing. Keep the domain name for your blog simple yet direct and effective. Think about your target niche, and choose the appropriate domain name for your blog as if you were thinking hard about a great title. Here is an example: Let’s say Bob has a store that sells “Bricks”. How much traffic will Bob get by advertising, “Bob’s Store”? Not much. You see, it doesn’t tell what he does or what he offers. Not Bob changes the name to “Bob’s House of Bricks”. Little cheesy, but you get the idea. Be sure you tell your prospect or customer what you do or offer.

Hint It is vital to your blog that you make yourself known and be visible. You can do this by writing guest posts for other people’s blogs.

Be sure to link to yourself. Do not be so shy about what it is that you write, and don’t rely on others to find you. Try linking to yourself as often as possible. This is known as interlinking, and is great for SEO. Its biggest advantage is helping boost your content’s awareness.

If you are interested in creating a loyal following for your blog, choose a topic that you are interested in and know a lot about. Then stick to that topic for the most part. If you continuously offer content related to a specific topic or theme, readers will keep coming back to look for new information.

As you probably already know, creating a blog can be overwhelming at first, because the possibilities and potential for blogs are endless. The tips and techniques from this article were gathered to help you create a blog that will get your message across to the audience that you are seeking to reach.

Here’s to your success,

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About The Author

Bill

Bill Fletcher is a marketing professional and Business Coach. My goal is to help anyone who is interested in building a home base business through a systematic approach to success. Planning-4-Success will guide you with the help of some of the best coaching program available anywhere. We train you with the best professional in all categories of business building and success management.