Jan 14 2009
Getting Started With Your Blogger Blog
Lesson 3: Getting Started With Your Blogger Blog
If you’ve followed through and created a free blog with Blogger, you’ll be busy learning the ropes.
Perhaps you want to jump right in and create your first blog post. If that is the case, by all means, do so!
One of the most important things a blog needs is content. It is critical and is the foundation of a good blog. And I’m talking about quality content–something readers can relate to and will return to. And that begs the question: how to get return visitors to your blog?
One of the best methods of determining what’s popular with readers is to visit popular blogs that touch on topics you will be covering in your blog. Try to determine why these blogs appeal to the masses.
Make a list of the ways you can vamp up your content. Ask yourself how you can make it content-rich. What can you offer readers that will make them feel it is valuable enough to return?
Remember blog readers fall into certain categories: those who want to be entertained, those who are seeking information, those who want to touch bases with like-minded bloggers, those who want a place they can find related resources about the subject they are interested in.
If you, as the blogger, offer what your readers want, your blog readership will grow, which means earnings for you, down the road.
How to Start Blogging With Blogger
My bugaboo is the technological end of blogging! I can write and format an article offline, but it just won’t keep the formatting when I copy and paste to my blog.
And yes, I’m using the command on today.com that says copy/paste from Word, sigh. I think my “older generationish” is showing.
Anne
www.permissionsplease.today.com
Hi Anne,
There are a couple of ways around this. While Word is great for picking up on spacing, spelling, and grammatical errors, you can post directly into Blogger because of the spell checker.
With the Today.com platform, you can save your work as you go and incorrect words underlin in red.
I know this isn’t as comprehensive as Word but I find myself doing this now, more often than not, because it simply saves time.
I always reread anything I write so most of the time catch any errors.