My 5 top Ten Blogging Tips

By Jamie | November 22, 2006

Over the last two months I’ve come across a list of good posts on blogging advice. A lot do repeat themselves but I like to refresh my mind a little, and quite often pick up a new tip. I’ve highlighted my favourite’s…

Top Ten Things You Can Do To Get Blogged

Be descriptive. Tell me what your product does immediately in crisp and interesting prose that is FOA (Free Of Acronyms). FaceBook is a social networking site for college students. Pandora is a music recommendation engine. See? I need more details down the road, but give me something to hold on to before you jump into the cool way you’ve implemented ajax into the FAQs, or whatever.

http://www.techcrunch.com/2005/09/08/top-ten-things-you-can-do-to-get-blogged/

Ten Tips on Successful Blogging

This is my number favourite tip, Find a niche - and evolve it. I originally started this blog to provide advice on all thing to do with computers, from iPod’s to computer programming. This isn’t really Terinea’s niche market. So now we only provide advice on IT issues concerning people who run or work for small to medium businesses in the UK.

4. Find a niche - and evolve it
There’s no point writing on some esoteric subject from the off. What are the chances of anyone coming by you? Write about a few things that interest you to start with. Focus on the one you have your eye on, by all means, but include other stuff too.
Really importantly, be regular. Keep the posts coming. If you are going to be away, let your readers know. The last thing you want is people thinking the blog is dead and unsubcribing. It’s a commitment to be taken seriously.
Over time, your blog will evolve, and its niche will become clear, if you want one. It’s an organic process. But unless you are a total weirdo, if stuff interests you, the chances are that there are other people on the web who will be interested too. But you have to cast a wide net to begin with.

http://blogsmart.wordpress.com/2006/10/19/ten-tips-on-successful-blogging/

Top 10 Best Designed Blogs

Okay not really a tip, but this site shows you a gallery of pretty blog sites

http://elliottback.com/wp/archives/2006/04/16/top-ten-best-designed-blogs/

Ten blogging Hacks (Geek talk for tips, not hacking)

6) Tell the World Where They Can Find You
Where’s Waldo? Who cares. Where’s Stowe Boyd? Ah, I definitely care about that. Normally it would be hard to know when this blogging legend is actually in a town near you. But Stowe, being the enterprising guy that he is, he has a map on his blog that gives us his coordinates. You can add one to your blog using Plazes. Here’s a related bonus hack. You can find other bloggers who live near you using feedmap.