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I decided to start my first blog back in February 2011, I was all excited and ready to be able to share my knowledge and experience with the world. Even if, initially, traffic is very low, after having had a specific plan in place and know the subject, I was blogging on very well, managed to reach 4000 unique visitors last month. In short, the key to a successful blog ingredient is to create great content that teaches people something, to optimize content for search engines and distribute via social media.
I have a list of 12 steps that you must follow to create a blog with success. They come from all of his personal experience, from one idea to the creation of a blog to help people to learn social media, SEO and blogs.
1 Decide what you are going to blog, it is by far the most important decision to create a successful property. It is acceptable that if the subject is wide at the beginning, as gain you more experience and learn what your readers want, you can become more focused. For example, in the beginning, you can blog about marketing online in general but on the road are realizing that you want to focus on fair practices seo or social media marketing.
2 Determine the name of your blog. The name must be memorable, easy to spell and it would be desirable to include a keyword of topics you will be blogging, i.e. If you blog on online marketing and social media, try adding words such as social, media, marketing, your domain name.
3 Get a professional blog theme, I would advise the thesis theme and Woothemes, they are very easy to customize with tons of features. Do not try to save a few dollars by getting a free theme, because most of them have limits and do not come with support. You do not need to have a custom design for your blog, at least initially, that you gain more experience and drives, you should consider that for a great day.
4 Get a logo designed by professionals, it you will cost a few dollars for a designer to do but put you before of competition, in addition, readers will take you more seriously and they will see invest you time and money in the creation of a serious blog.
5. Select a good and reliable web host, store of for a web reliable hosting provider that can help you to put in place so your blog, do not go for the cheaper, but for those who specialize in wordpress. Start with a share of hosting account and if you grow big, move to a dedicated server.
6 Install little but powerful wordpress plugins. I have personally used and highly recommend them. Avoid stuffing your blog with plugins as much as possible because they will be finally difficult your blog navigation and make readers to lose focus.
7. Install google web analytics. If you can't measure it you cannot improve it, so make sure that google analytics are in place. Check your statistics often but do not get obsessed with traffic, especially at the beginning because there is not much.
8 Write down all the ideas for topics, that you may need to, sit down 1 hour per week and brainstorming on this blog next week, don't worry if you possibly modify subjects, but having a list of topics idea will help you stay focus. How and subjects of the list of work the best e.g how to run a shop online or 10 ways to run a store online.
9 Install social media sharing buttons and widgets, this will help your readers share your content with their friends and fans, bringing traffic and loyal readers, the people love sharing content only they love.
10 Optimize all your messages for search engines, make sure that the keywords are on the title of the topic and repeated at least once every 150 words in the content of the main text. Use of images to increase the curiosity of readers, internet is all about photos.
11 Blog as often as possible but try to get a post at least 3 times a week, do not expect to build a successful blog if you have just 1 post per week, blogs have content and many.
12 Developing a system to get new ideas for content. You do not need to create content for all your messages as you be eventually get drained. Other resources that will help your readers find interesting content learn something new and make a post on your blog, not just tell them to visit the site but rather an analysis. For example, if you have found a great post on another blog Search Engine Optimization, make an analysis of 150 word on the post, what is your opinion and experiences on the subject. Don't forget to add the link and the blog, you have found the subject.
Words of the author: Ilias Chelidonis hooves in TheWebCitizen.com on line, SEO, social media marketing and blogging.
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