What I Leared From Writing My First Blog

Posted in Site News. Written by admin on July 13th, 2009

Welcome to my second blog. In this blog I will share what I learned about doing my first blog.

These tips come courtesy of my friend and blog coach Lacey French:
•  Format the blog so it breaks more so it’s easier to read. Use bullet points.
•   Always end on a call to action. Ask your readers to respond, tell you what they think, ask them if they’ve been in a      similar situation and can relate.
•   Make sure the post is always focused around information that is useful to your audience.
• Links are REALLY helpful. It’s great to link to outside resources – that also helps from a search engine perspective.

Here is a link to a site that I thought was helpful to writing your first blog:
http://www.problogger.net/archives/2005/12/30/tens-tips-for-writing-a-blog-post/

I have also found, by reading more blogs I can see what I like and don’t like. For example, I have become a huge fan of the blogs on the Harvard Business Review site. They have great content and are short. Here is an example:

http://blogs.harvardbusiness.org/cs/2009/07/hire_smarter_with_social_media.html

This past month I also took a few courses on blogging through http://www.agencyside.net/. In class I learned from Jeff Moriarty that bloggers who have success, blog frequently. This I haven’t been so good at, so I promise to be more consistent.

So what do you think? Has this information been helpful? When you first started blogging, what information was helpful to you?

Thanks for reading!