New Bloggers: Just Dive Right Into Blogging
If you decide to start blogging you won’t find an introduction agency to help show you the ropes, you have a learning curve and the only way to get start learning is to dive right in and start doing.
The first thing you need is to decide right off the bat what type of blogger you want to be by answering the following questions?
What do I want to blog about?
Do I want to eventually try to make money from my blog, or just do it for fun?
What should I name my blog?
How much time do I have to devote to blogging per week?
Depending on how you answer these questions will determine which path to take, if you just want to blog for fun and have no interest in monetizing your blog, then you can experiment and start with blogspot or wordpress.com and set yourself up with a free blog. You can even start a blog on Today, or one of the other blogging sites that let you earn some money each month for blogging.
If you have 10 – 20 hours per week to devote to blogging and you decide you want to be a serious “true” blogger, then you will need to invest some money into a self hosted wordpress domain. You can find some hosting providers with plans as little as $3.99 per month, and you can always upgrade later after you make some money and can afford a better hosting service if you need to.
When blogging the first thing you want to do is launch your blog with 10-20 really strong articles, write and write about what you love to write about. People will feed off your passion and enjoy your writing more, you can always tell when somebody writes passionately and it draws in the reader more. Write blog posts that engages your readers by asking them questions periodically and invite comments.
Don’t do heavy promotion of your blog until you have at least 10 posts on your site, and only post at a rate of about 3-5 per day for the first week if you can. Don’t slow down to 1 post per day until you have at least thirty posts on your site. Many bloggers won’t agree with me here, but if you don’t have enough content on your site and you do too much promotion, a reader will hit your site and have nothing else to visit and then leave. You want to make sure you have content on your site they can go to besides your first few posts, you want to give the appearance of a flourishing site.
One other thing, never post your blog stats in badges when you are just starting out. You should after you have an established blog, but you only make your blog look like it is struggling if you have a chicklet or counter for 0-5 feed subscribers, and Alexa over 900,000 or a PageRank of 0. These are valuable counters and badges, but wait until you at least have some ranking and something to show before you display them. This is especially true if you monetize your site, if you reveal your sites vulnerable area’s you may not be able to entice advertisers to purchase an ad space or a link on your blog.
Remember your blog vitals are a valuable selling point, and you should use them carefully. In the meantime network with other bloggers, and build yourself a social network empire. Make sure you create an account on every social network you can find and make sure you use the same account name so people can find and cross reference you everywhere.
Dive right in and start blogging but remember, there aren’t any introduction agencies to help you start out, so you have to do plenty of reading and make friends in both the blogging community and on Social Media sites and these are among my favorites for meeting bloggers and networking with people: Twitter, BlogEngage, BlogCatalog, SocialSpark, Facebook and StumbleUpon.
Fellow bloggers, share your views do you agree or disagree with my advice?
-Dragon Blogger
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