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Tips On How To Start Your Blog And Ignite Your Spark

Starting a blog requires twenty to fifty times more energy the first few months versus the energy it requires to maintain the blog. Its crucial to keep the search engine bots busy crawling your blog. They will spider your homepage 80-90% of the time checking for new content. MSN has one of the fastest bots. MSN also offers more shoppers. I usually focus on MSN rankings first. Rewrite your home page every day for the first month or so until you start achieving rankings. Keep the content focus of the home page the same. Just keep tweaking the content.

Chunk it. When you start your first web blog project, focus on discovering and applying one concept at a time. Don't sit there and read through page after page of blog tutorials. Learn one thing at a time and immediately apply it. I know we are trained to fill our heads with knowledge in school. However, that mentality is kryptonite to launching any successful web project.

Focus on starting one blog at a time. It takes a lot of concentrated effort to ignite the sparks of your first blog. If you try to start more than one at a time, you probably will burn out. Only move onto the next blog once you start applying your exit plan on the first blog. If you want to make a living out of blogging, an exit plan can help you keep focused on your goals. I will cover blog exit plans in another post.

Keep your blog posts short and compact. The perfect word count for a blog post is 300 words. Try following the format (beginning, middle, end). Each paragraph shouldn't be more than 100 words. Focus on creating high impact quality posts versus long drawn out wordy posts.

The biggest favor you can give yourself is to find a blogging buddy. Blogging as a lone wolf can really be draining to an extravert. I even find motivation by answering to subordinates. Its great to have people count on you. I had a writer working on an e-book and I needed to send over an outline. So I stayed up late just to finish it. I don't know if I would have pushed myself without another person. You need to stay fired up. Hot coals in a fire feed off each other. Don't isolate yourself or you will most likely fizzle out.

Written By Drew Sire

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