Top 5 Essential Tips on "How To Blog"

What is Blogging?

Blogging is a forum, discussion, or informative article about any subject published online usually featuring the most recent posts of a user.  A blog can contain any amount of words from a single sentence, such as seen in Twitter 'micro-blogging' to a whole article.

Topics for Blog

Choose a topic that you know that you can discuss.  Many bloggers write about what they already know and develop their topics from their with supporting facts or examples.  If you are getting 'writers block' or don't know what to blog about? Check out some blogging examples such as here on Blogger or on sites such as Wordpress.

Target Your Audience

When blogging, consider your targeted audience.  Are you creating a report to a massive audience interested in practical and informative articles?  Or are you reaching an audience as if you were casually conversing with them about ideas.

Optimize SEO Tools

Monetizing your blog requires you to implement key words using SEO Tools.  Google Ad Tools are one of the known tools used to find keywords and the competitiveness that will draw traffic to your site.  SEO Tools can be tricky considering the dozens of keywords that will attract site visitors that can also include Backlinking, which can be discussed on another blog.

Add Social Media Networking Icons

Utilizing Social Media is a way to increase traffic, add subscribers, enlarge your network, and You want a way for your viewers or subscribers to contact you.  One of the many ways aside from the dinosaur traditional email and phone calls is through social media.  The popular social networking sites include Facebook, Twitter, Wordpress, Pinterest, Blogger, Youtube, and many other SNS outlets.  LinkedIn is a professional networking sites for networking your managers, colleagues, professors, and more in that stratosphere.  As any social network that you use, consider discretion when adding viewers to your network. 

Encourage Users to 'Share' Your Blog

After you have generated significant traffic or have shared your blog through SNS sites, encourage your users to share your blog by adding share buttons to your site.  This is one of the best ways to maximize your audience.  As in a saying, there is always someone, who knows someone, who knows someone.  Having users to 'Share' your blog is a great way to develop a true subscribers.

Ad Space

Using Ad Space is a great way to develop your audience. To require huge traffic, many bloggers invest in ad space on other blogs, community, and SNS sites to generate traffic to their blogs.  Google Ad Sense is one way to generate traffic to your blog and earn revenue from your blog with an investment.