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How to Set Up a Blog
If this is your first blog, then I would recommend using a host that you have heard of before. Some blogging hosts are a lot easier to use than others. Let’s go through the essential first steps to setting up a blog. You will probably still have questions after we are done, but you should be on your way to getting things done.
First, you will need to come up with your blog name. When I was designing the name of my first blog, I felt a lot more pressure than I should have. I wanted it to be a lot cleverer than it needed to be. Your blog name just needs to get the point across. If it’s catchy too, then that’s great. Essentially, it just needs to be practical.
Next, you will need to choose a color scheme. Now, if you are using one of the better known blogging hosts, they will let you choose from a pallet of different schemes. It is essential that you choose a color that fits your blog. For instance, if you are starting a blog about baby names, then pink a light blue would probably be a good color choice. If you were starting a Halloween blog, then orange and black might be good colors. You should always choose colors that will assist your blog and not ones that will confuse the reader.
Most blogging Web sites will require you to enter an email address. Make sure you use a legitimate email address. You will want to keep up to date on what the hosting site will send you. They will send you comments that people make on your articles. They will send you updates about the site. You will need to be in the loop on these things.
After you’ve picked your blog name, the color scheme, and you are sure your email is linked to the blog, you will be ready to write your first entry. Your first entry is very important. You will want to establish your credibility right off the bat. Don’t bother writing anything about how this is your first time being a blogger. People don’t want to hear that. Show a little confidence.
What are your thoughts on the subject?Optimizing Your WordPress Blog
There are three key areas that you can enhance on your WordPress blog that will help you optimize it. The areas are adding additional ping service websites, using Feedburner, and using keyword-rich categories.
Ping Services
The first thing that you should do is add additional ping services to your WordPress blog. You must have administrative rights to your blog and be logged in to gain access the ping service option.
Once logged into your WordPress blog’s backend, click on the “Option” tab and then click on the “Writing” tab and scroll down to the bottom of the page. You will see “Update Services” and a box under this title. There are a couple of ping services listed but you can add the following list by copying and pasting in the ping service list box. To complete the process, click on “Update Options”.
http://api.feedster.com/ping
http://api.moreover.com/RPC2
http://api.my.yahoo.com/RPC2
http://xping.pubsub.com/ping/
http://ping.blo.gs/
http://ping.feedburner.com
http://ping.syndic8.com/xmlrpc.php
http://ping.weblogalot.com/rpc.php
http://rpc.blogrolling.com/pinger/
http://rpc.icerocket.com:10080/
http://rpc.newsgator.com/
http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping
http://rpc.weblogs.com/RPC2
http://topicexchange.com/RPC2
http://www.newsisfree.com/RPCCloud
http://ping.weblogs.se/
http://blogmatcher.com/u.php
http://coreblog.org/ping/
http://www.blogpeople.net/servlet/weblogUdates
http://bulkfeeds.net/rpc
http://trackback.bakeinu.jp/bakeping.php
http://ping.myblog.jp
http://ping.bitacoras.com
http://ping.bloggers.jp/rpc
http://xmlrpc.blogg.de
http://1470.net/api/ping
http://bblog.com/ping.php
http://blog.goo.ne.jp/XMLRPC
Feedburner
As a blog owner, being able to capture your blog traffic and generate reports is very important to knowing what you need to do to optimize your blog. One blog tool that works to help optimize your blog is Feedburner. Feedburner allows you to redirect your blog RSS feed through their service so that it can reach targeted blog visitors better.
This helps with optimization by allowing your RSS feed to have built-in options for bloggers to use as they read your blog’s RSS feed. This brings in a stickiness factor which is always good for optimizing your blog. Some of the blog tools that Feedburner allows you to use so that you can increase the effectiveness of your blog are:
Analyze: you will be able to see real-time and accumulated statistics about your blog’s visitor information. This will help you understand the traffic that is going in and out of your blog. This allows you to better target your optimization efforts to specific areas of your blog.
Optimize: allows you to make your blog “browser friendly” so that subscribing to your blog is easy. SmartFeed(R) is an option that you can use to make sure that your blog is compatible for most blog readers. You can even build interactivity into each individual post by using FeedFlare(R) which allows you to add links at the end of each post such as “Email Post” or “Subscribe to Feed.”
Publicize: is another way for you to make sure that your blog attracts web visitors. A couple of the tools that you may use is “Email Subscriptions” and “BuzzBoost”. Email Subscriptions will give your web visitors the opportunity to receive an email once a day alerting them that you have updated your blog. Then BuzzBoost(R) allows you to republish your feed as HTML so that you can add it as a Page on any of your other websites or WordPress blogs.
Using Categories as Keywords
The easiest way to optimize your blog with keywords is to use categories that not only define each post but also relate to other posts on your blog. WordPress blog software uses categories as a way to “tag” search engines so they can be alerted that a new post has been added to your blog for a specific topic area.
Categories are also another way to easily organize the content on your blog. When you list the categories on the sidebar of your blog, it gives your blog visitors the opportunity to see all the content of your blog for a particular topic.
Any ideas?Integrate Twitter With Your Word Press Blog
Twitter is a micro blogging platform that has caught the attention of the main stream media. You share your thoughts, insights, knowledge, tips, and interesting article sources using 140 characters or less with your followers in Twitter.
It is not a marketing platform but you can effectively use it to establish your brand and promote your products and services indirectly.
If you are planning to spam your Twitter followers with your blog post URLs and affiliate links, you will not go anywhere. Your followers will un-follow you quickly. You will not get new followers.
Twitter is like any other social media site. If you share information and insights about your niche by filtering them from hundreds of blog posts published every day, you will provide value to your followers.
If you find valuable information in your niche, share them with your followers and their number will increase.
You can also use Twitter to post latest news, hot trends in your niche, links to funny pictures, humorous video links, and other interesting things.
You have to post almost every day, preferably couple of times a day, to keep the number of followers growing rapidly.
If you are using WordPress blog platform for your blog, there are few tools you can use to automate your Twitter activities. These tools will help you use Twitter for promoting your brand.
First, you need to integrate the Twitter feed into your blog and encourage your blog readers to tweet your blog posts in their accounts.
Use TweetThis WordPress plug-in to encourage your visitors to tweet your blog post. TweetThis adds a Twitter link in every blog post you create. If needed, this plug-in will also shorten your blog post URL to fit the 140-character limit.
WPTwitp-ID plug-in adds a Twitter field to your WordPress blog comment form. When users posts comments, they can enter their Twitter user ids and the plug-in will create links to follow them in Twitter. You will be providing a service to increase the number of Twitter followers of people who leave comments in your blog.
Another WordPress plug-in called Twitter Tools integrates your blog with Twitter by pulling all your tweets into the side bar of your blog. You can also post new tweets from inside your WordPress blog.
TweetMeme Button helps retweet your post through out the Tweeter network. It also shows a count of how many times your blog post has been retweeted.
Tweeter Updater tool will send a Twitter status update to your account when you publish a post in WordPress.
You can find the web sites for these WordPress plug-ins by doing a search in Google. If you’re not using Twiteer as a brand building platform, you should sign up for a Twiteer account immediately.
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