Started a blog. Tips/advice?

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[Melrose]

1) Create your own domain through godaddy.com or bluehost.com

2) SEO

3) Make sure your content is unique ,but will grab visitors.

4) Submit your blog to search engines.

5) Make a facebook page for it like this: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Walos...-to-my-mind-come-check-it-out/145564302143621

6) Use wordpress.

7) Don't be afraid on what you blog about.

You have, amazingly, captured the bare essence of how to start a blog. Except, I'd put more importance on using Twitter than Facebook - at least to start. The reason is Twitter has immediate effects. A Facebook page has to be built a bit to be useful. Also, Submitting your site to search engines is good, but not really necessary. If you make a short video, post it on YouTube, and put a link in the Video Description back to your site, Google will have it crawled within a couple hours (remarkably, remarkably fast for a search engine). If you just write good content, keep keywords and other basic stuff in mind, you can forego submitting to search engines using formal methods.

 

[waloshin]

You have, amazingly, captured the bare essence of how to start a blog. Except, I'd put more importance on using Twitter than Facebook - at least to start. The reason is Twitter has immediate effects. A Facebook page has to be built a bit to be useful. Also, Submitting your site to search engines is good, but not really necessary. If you make a short video, post it on YouTube, and put a link in the Video Description back to your site, Google will have it crawled within a couple hours (remarkably, remarkably fast for a search engine). If you just write good content, keep keywords and other basic stuff in mind, you can forego submitting to search engines using formal methods.

Yeah I forgot to add Twitter, as I have my Facebook page posting to twitter.

I would also like to add, "Don't have any ads!". Ads make people run away from your blog and you would be lucky to make .10 a month.