While browsing for some good tips to teach new Bloggers, I came across a wonderful article at Wired by Jorn Barger. Barger, a most experienced Blogger explained his learning’s gained in his 10Yrs Blogging experience. Here is a list of top 10 tips for new Bloggers:
- A true weblog is a log of all the URLs you want to save or share. (So del.icio.us is actually better for blogging than blogger.com.)
- You can certainly include links to your original thoughts, posted elsewhere … but if you have more original posts than links, you probably need to learn some humility.
- If you spend a little time searching before you post, you can probably find your idea well articulated elsewhere already.
- Being truly yourself is always hipper than suppressing a link just because it’s not trendy enough. Your readers need to get to know you.
- You can always improve on the author’s own page title, when describing a link. (At least make sure your description is full enough that readers will recognize any pages they’ve already visited, without having to visit them again.)
- Always include some adjective describing your own reaction to the linked page (great, useful, imaginative, clever, etc.)
- Credit the source that led you to it, so your readers have the option of “moving upstream.”
Warn about “gotchas” — weird formatting, multipage stories, extra-long files, etc. Don’t camouflage the main link among unneeded (or poorly labeled) auxiliary links. - Pick some favorite authors or celebrities and create a Google News feed that tracks new mentions of them, so other fans can follow them via your weblog.
- Re-post your favorite links from time to time, for people who missed them the first time.
- So make use of these tips to get success.
Thanks to Wired and Jorn Barger. Happy Blogging!
Source:TechZoomIn
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