Top 10 Blogging Tips from a Top 10 list of Top 10 Blogging Tips

by: Sonny Vu | January 6th, 2012 | 600 Comments » |

Hello world!

This is my first blog posting. Ever. Some things I’m currently interested in and will post on are: the consumerization of healthcare, disrupting healthcare with mobile technology, wearable electronics, sensors, start-up gossip and war stories, and ideas for hacking life. Posts on funky linguistic phenomena, language learning, and accent reduction to be sprinkled in as well. For now, here are my notes from my first Bing (yes…) search for “Top 10 Blogging Tips” Here’s a conflation of what I found:

Top 10 Blogging Tips from a Top 10 list of Top 10 Blogging Tips:

  1. Be helpful
  2. Spend time making engaging, catchy headlines.
  3. Comment on other people’s posts; include a clickable signature; use http://www.mylivesignature.com
  4. Promote offline (business cards, etc.)
  5. Make it easy for people to find out about you; about pages are among the most consistently viewed pages.
  6. Write at least five major “foundational” postings (~500 words) and submit to GoArticles.com and EzineArticles.com, blogcarnival.com (and keep writing them every other week or so)
  7. Register on blog directories such as technorati.com, blogtopsites.com, and others at “blog directories” (on Google)
  8. Be yourself and be consistent
  9. Make it easy to read: use an eye-friendly background, break up large chunks of text, insert bolded bullet points to break up text, don’t make users scroll down
  10. Make it easy to share: include permalinks, RSS, social networks, bookmarking sites (Digg, StumbleUpon, etc.)

Bonus: Include images in posts

The others that didn’t make the list (not that they’re not useful):

  • Email subscribers once in a while with an offer just for them
  • Create incentives to get people to subscribe to your blog
  • Ask to guest blog on other blogs to attract new audiences
  • Develop products, look for affiliation opportunities, offer to public speak on your topic
  • Use Google Adwords to find the best keywords, then use these for SEO
  • Check the box that says ‘show my email address’ on comments, then save
  • Thank people in advance for their comments (remind people to show their email address)
  • Get the comments to pop up in a separate window
  • Copyright your work – use this
  • Protect your photos – use this
  • Disclaimer – use this
  • Optimise – meta descriptions, meta titles, headings, sub-headings
  • Create an app for your blog – check out Mippin
  • Define Your Goals
  • Know Your Audience
  • Be Persistent
  • Be Inviting
  • Take Risks
  • Ask for Help
  • Don’t clutter your page
  • Get a good domain name
  • Evolve your blog; change your layout every once in a while
  • Sketch out ideas on paper
  • Break from your usual style
  • Write a follow-up post
  • Reply to a commenter in a new post
  • Read other sites for inspiration
  • Promote an old post
  • Clean up your categories
  • Start another blog
  • Don’t start another blog
  • Make sure your name is on the blog title
  • Go through your posts and look for personal pronoun infestations
  • Make sure you have questions at the end of each post to spark discussion & encourage sharing
  • Be brief
  • Tell a story
  • Don’t overthink it
  • But be thoughtful
  • Don’t be mean
  • Use WordPress
  • Learn from successful bloggers

Thanks to the top 10 Top 10 Blogging Tips sites that came back on Bing:

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