I found this post of 102 practical blog tips at Daily Blog Tips and it was good enough that I thought I should post a few of them. In fact, the first 22 to be exact. The 2nd one, about writing about what you love is probably the most important of the bunch along with using Wordpress as your blogging platform. Of my two requirements of my writers, one of them is that they “must be passionate about what it is they’re writing about”. The energy from that passion comes through in the writing and passed along to the reader. As for Wordpress, that’s a given. The whole reason for this blog is to teach you how to create a blog using wordpress. In my search for the best choices, the best options, the best marketing and ease of use, Wordpress wins, hands down.

1. if you are not, start blogging today
2. write about something that you love
3. if you are serious about blogging buy your own domain
4. make sure your domain name is equal to your blog name
5. use a short and easy to remember name
6. use Wordpress
7. use Wordpress plugins
8. blog with consistency
9. write at least 5 posts a week
10. proofread
11. proofread one more time
12. interact with other bloggers
13. leave meaningful comments
14. leave funny comments
15. leave the first comment
16. backup your blog
17. get rid of the sidebar calendar
18. choose your niche wisely, not too big and not too small
19. participate in online forums
20. put a link on your signature
21. use blog carnivals
22. content is king

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Never let your prime writing material for your blog post end up disappearing because of an online editor crash.

Before posting your precious work for your blog, write the post using an external editor like Word or Textpad or other tool. This way you can take advantage of the word processor power, spell checking and grammer checking take place before posting. As well, you will have a back up copy in the event that your blog platform crashes while you’re writing, or after you press the “Publish” button.

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When you first install your wordpress blog, there are a lot of features or options that you MUST do before you enter you first post. I’ll go through those one by one in another post, but one of the primary things is to setup your Feedburner account. Feedburner is “the” feed provision service that you must use to truly harness the power of your work. All Wordpress blogs have built in feed creation software for providing your content to the masses, but Feedburner takes it a step farther and allows for many features. I’ll cover that in another post. The thing about setting up feed burner, is that you must have at least one post before it recognizes the feed because without the post, there is no feed. Make sense?

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