To day i share with beginners for powerful base for blog , a way of beginner's guide to starting your own blog .It is estimated that there are as numerous as one hundred million Blogs presently online in the Internet, each one an one-by-one sign of a individual, assembly or company. Adding yourself to this number, going online and expressing yourself through your own Blog, is a somewhat very simple undertaking, made all the more easy by a number of commercial and non-commercial Blogging services. For the beginner, this riches of Blogs and the number of distinct businesses proposing Blog answers may seem swamping at first, but a fast introduction to what is accessible and how to best utilize what is accessible clears the ground considerably.
The first consideration a budding Blog owner should make is their
aim. Do you, as a potential writer, wish to merely record your thoughts
and impressions for family and friends, or for yourself alone in the
form of a diary? Do you wish to capture a niche market with specialized
knowledge and experiences, with opinions and information? Are your
interests aimed more towards earning money through your Blog either
through membership fees or advertising? For many the pull of the
Internet is a perceived opportunity to make money, something which the
weblog monitoring and news site Technorati, in their State of the
Blogosphere 2010, clearly show to be a pipe dream. Once you have settled
your aim, what you wish to achieve with your Blog, you should consider
where in the marketplace your Blog is likely to find its home.
There
are as many different categories of Blog as there are Blogs themselves:
each is an individual work with its own characteristics, expressions
and interests. Generally, though, Blogs tend to fit into several general
categories: general interest; hobbies; lifestyle; fashion, computing;
trade or work related; social. A beginner, non-specialized Blogger may
then seek out a sub-category according to their more specific interests:
women; games; specific hobbies; motherhood; travel; chat. Within these
sub-categories are also further categories breaking the whole down into
even smaller niches and interest groups which, for many Bloggers, are
initially of little real interest.
Having decided upon which area
you wish to write it is now important to ensure that you have enough
time available for your Blog. The initial set-up time may take several
hours - or even days if you decide to go for your own domain - and the
writing itself, the all-important contents of your Blog require
dedicated time at least three to four times a week. Most Blogs tend to
fail within the first three months due to a lack of time or, in some
cases, a lack of further interest. It is important to set your goals on a
far lower level than the amount of time that you can expend on writing,
especially if these goals include reaching a large audience as quickly
as possible. Every single Blog begins small and grows, rather like a
child, and needs to be nurtured before the world begins to take note of
its presence.
The ideal of writing three or four times a week is
of paramount importance. Firstly it brings you a certain level of
discipline which you will need to overcome any initial disappointments,
such as a lack of readership and comments. For those who visit your Blog
it is also important to see that your site is active and that there is
always fresh information, new entries which make their visit worthwhile
and which will, assuming that the content is of interest, convince them
to visit again. Secondly it sets you an attainable target. Having set
times when you can sit down in peace and quiet to write a post can be
much the same as writing to a deadline, but without the stress often
associated with writing for someone else. It is worthwhile setting time
aside and writing, to test the waters, prior to opening a new Blog in
order both to ascertain how much time you will be able to dedicate to
your Blog and to have an initial source of posts which you can load up
to the site within the first few days of its existence. During this
initial offline testing period you should also view other Blogs within
your area of interest to gain tips and tricks for your own later use.
Writing for yourself, prior to publication, also gives you a chance to
hone your writing skills and learn the best way to express yourself,
your interests, your opinions.
The next consideration is how you
wish to enter the world of Blogging. Several non-commercial services are
available for those who do not wish to purchase their own domain, the
most popular of which is WordPress, closely followed by Blogger and
Tumblr. These three services allow a great deal of leeway in design and
have easy to understand interfaces for uploading text and images. Each
also offers a wide range of different templates, many of which are free,
as well as different plug-ins and add-ons which can enhance the
Blogging experience for both writers and readers, allow linking to other
sites of interest or links from other services - such as Facebook or
Twitter. Setting up a Blog on your own domain is slightly more
complicated, involving the installation of the necessary software
through an FTP connection but, for the dedicated Blogger, with many
advantages. Here the Blogging software from WordPress is highly
recommended.
Once you have settled upon your platform, installed
or set up your Blogging software, chosen and installed your theme, it is
time to begin the actual work of expressing yourself. Here, in this new
environment, you will see the advantages of having built up a small
arsenal of written work to upload to your new Blog. The hardest part of
writing is not, as some people imagine, finding a theme or subject to
write about, it is the act of writing itself. Writer's Block, which can
infect even the most professional writers at some stage or another, is
the inability to set those first few words down on paper and then follow
through with the rest of the text. Having tested your abilities away
from your new Blog, as much as your limitations, this should be less of a
problem. Now you can begin expressing yourself in the public domain.
Ideally
you are writing for others to read. One of the reasons why many Blogs
do not succeed beyond the three month point, aside from a loss of
interest by the writer themselves, is an inability to gain an audience.
Setting your sights too high can result in great disappointment: a Blog
needs a great deal of work, a great deal of original content to become
as success along with good links, backlinks and entries in directories.
Most directories will not accept a new Blog which is less than ninety
days old, that is, a Blog which has next to nothing of note in it and
which could simply disappear. Other Bloggers are less inclined to link
to sparsely written Blogs.
As a beginner you should concentrate on
writing good content and ensuring that this good content is accurate,
well written, free of errors and easy to read and comprehend. This is
not as daunting as it may appear, the better software programs have
spellcheckers built in and the ability to preview your work prior to
publishing it. Initially you should expect little or no reaction from
the rest of the Blogosphere but, at the same time, you should make
yourself known within your own interest groups. Read and comment on
other Blog posts of interest - the comment form allows a link back to
your own Blog URL - build up connections and friendships. Write entries
connecting to other Blogs of similar interests - with links - using your
own knowledge and opinions. Express yourself in both your own posts and
in comments on other Blogs clearly, succinctly and with care.
Finally,
for all new Bloggers a personal recommendation. The best ideas for a
new post come at the most inconvenient moments, the middle of the night,
during a conference, while you're out and about with no access to a
computer. Carry a small notebook around with you, make notes, jot down
sentences and ideas which you can later expand into full posts for your
own Blog. Above all, though, be true to yourself: express yourself
clearly as if you are talking only to yourself, even if the opinions you
wish to express are different to every other opinion you have come
across. A fresh view, a new opinion is always welcome.
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