Blog Writing Tips

Blog or weblog is an acronym for a simple website that can be filled by the diaries of the owner. Slightly different from the web in general, the sequence of writing articles on the blog sorted by date of publication. Have a blog today is not a difficult thing again. Dozens of free blog providers to give freedom to everyone who wants to have the free website. Of course, the facilities provided on a free blog are not as complete as if you have a blog self-hosting.

Why blog?

Blog is a lightweight media to share ideas with others. While social media like facebook, twitter or plurk now has worldwide, blogs remain a choice for some people. Blogs have advantages in terms of the number of characters and comments are much easier to reply. If facebook is only about 400 characters on each status is updated, the twitter only 160 characters, it gives the character unlimited blogs. This greatly helped the blog author to explain the ideas and writings as much detail and as accurately as possible. Writing on facebook or twitter status may lead to some interpretations of ambiguous to the reader, while the blog is not so. The opportunity to write with character without limit will give you the opportunity to share more.

How do I start blogging?

To write on the blog, you can begin to register at blogger.com or wordpress.com. I myself started writing a blog on blogger. Blogger gives domain ending in blogspot.com in your blog that you created, while giving wordpress wordpress.com suffix. Later on your blog can be accessed by typing the address or http://bloganda.wordpress.com http://bloganda.blogspot.com. It is important to note, bloggers give freedom to the writer to change, create and edit the theme as you wish. Bloggers are also free installation of javascript (which later is required if the author wants to put some ads). WordPress is not so. The theme can be selected on wordpress is a theme that has been determined by the provider, there are about 100 choices. But if you want to replace it as you wish, you are required to pay a few dollars to buy a theme or switch to their own domain. Free WordPress also does not give permission to install the javascript code on the blog. This is because Wordpress is a web with Content Management System (CMS) that are free source. WordPress blog owners prohibit advertisements, if caught you will likely be banned or shut down your blog.

Is it important to choose a unique blog name?

If your goal for blogging is just for pleasure, choosing a name is not so important. Usually people choose their names to a blog address. This will be the identity for you, so people can recognize your blog easily. Choosing a unique name of the blog can also be an option later. At wordpress.com there is no facility to change the blog's address, while the bloggers there.
Am I free to write anything on the blog that I created?
Blogger and wordpress blog owner free to share anything but a few things, including writing about porn or sex, terror, violence in children, and so forth. In addition to the above point, you are free to share everything. Including if it is a personal diary, travel notes, recipes and how to cook, how to do something and so forth.

How to Bring Visitors to my blog?

Blog visitors come from three sources ie search engines, blogs of others or through social media. To bring visitors through search engines, you should have unique content that is indexed. The search engine has a unique algorithm that will filter out only the unique content for display on their front pages. Try to create articles with unique and interesting title that will be indexed so that if people would be interested to see it. Bring visitors through other blogs are usually preceded by blogwalking and leave a comment. Usually they will come from seeing a link that we put on another blog. Meanwhile, to bring visitors through social media, you can promote your blog link to a friend. This certainly would be very helpful if the title of your article interesting.
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