Blogging Tips: What Bloggers Won’t Tell You About Blogging (by Lorelle VanFossen)
Blogging Tips
What Bloggers Won’t Tell You About Blogging
by Lorelle VanFossen
Returning to the basics, Lorelle VanFossen has put together hundreds of the tips you need to know before you start blogging, and after.
- Learn how to define your blog’s purpose.
- Learn how to build your blog’s plan.
- Explore the pros and cons of blog design.
- Learn more about writing interesting and attention-getting content.
- Develop your blog writing voice and style.
- Tips on writing with keywords and search terms.
- Learn how to encourage your readers to respond.
- Deal with comment spam and other nasty comments.
- Explore the new PageRank, TrustRank, and SEO techniques.
- Learn how to improve SEO with podcasts, video, and other multimedia.
- Tips to prevent blog burnout.
- Tips on developing a blog plan of action in response to disasters, emergencies or accusations.
- Tips on administrating and maintaining your blog.
- Tips on online social networking and interaction.
- Learn how to respond to copyright violations.
- Learn about your rights as a blogger.
Lorelle VanFossen is a professional writer and the author of Lorelle on WordPress, a popular technical blog on WordPress and blogging. She is also the author of Taking Your Camera on the Road, one of the first personal websites on the Internet, featuring over a thousand articles on travel, nature photography, and life on the road, and Lorelle’s Family History, a genealogy blog.
Lorelle is a columnist for the Blog Herald and guest blogs and writes for many blogs, ezines, websites, and print publications. She travels extensively, as a web consultant and public speaker, and can often be found in airports, truck stops, outside shops, and prowling your neighborhood looking for an open WIFI connection to send off her next blog post.
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