It’s always a good moment to write a blogging tips list.
I’ve elaborated a new list that contains 50 old blogging tips plus 30 new ones.
Here’s the full list.
1. use wordpress
2. get a unique domain
3. if you have the time to learn Search Engine Optimization, don’t hire a SEO
4. get a unique design
5. have a friendly design
6. link your website on an internal way for easier navigation and increasing pageviews and time spent on your site
7. make a design to give away
8. add a link on the design’s footer to get backlinks
9. comment on other blogs
10. join problogger community
11. be funny
12. be kind
13. show proofs about your success when you can
14. add images to your posts
15. make brainstorms
16. read probloggers blogs
17. use social media, but use it on the right way or it can kill you
18. make a big list
19. make interviews with probloggers that are on your niche
20. share your experiences, bad ones too. People read your blog to learn.
21. go to famous events when you can (world blog expo)
22. always give first before you try to get something
23. don’t blog for money
24. blog about whatever you want, having the knowledge or without having it, but just blog about something you’re willing to learn about
25. write your own pdf
26. build an email newsletter
27. build relationships
28. don’t be affraid to give advice to a big blogger
29. read matt cutts blog
30. use google’s webmaster tools
31. stick to a post frequency
32. DON’ T! quit your job to start blogging for money
33. when starting, don’t compare your blog with problogger’s blogs
34. care about alexa ranking if you want to make money blogging
35. use automatic ping services
36. link to older posts
37. use recommended plugins
38. don’t think about doing it, do it
39. don’t blame yourself for your mistakes, learn from them
40. answer to comments
41. be patient
42. don’t use black hat seo
43. never underestimate blog directories
44. don’t get crazy about submiting your sites to search engines. do it if you have time and concentrate on google
45. seo on page optimization
46. seo off page optimization
47. offer a full feed
48. be original
49. bad comments? great, keep blogging you’re on the right way
50. don’t be affraid to link to other blogs
51. Test your blog on every browser
52. Focus on content
53.Organization – one hour for the content, half for social purpose, half for design
54. Put keywords on your domain name
55. Expand your blog
56. Take your blog as a business
57. Take x amount of time per week to build backlinks
58. Use Aweber
59. Use ninja affiliate plugin
60. Make deal with bigger bloggers, make them happy to benefit from their traffic
61. Don’t offer your own sponsors spot as a contest prize
62. Make lists
63. Use top commentators plugin
64. Use CommentLuv plugin
65. Linking won’t hurt, do it
66. Write your own ebook
67. Don’t write your own ebook
68. Participate on other bloggers contests giving cool prizes
69. Hire someone to design a wordpress theme and release it for free with a footer link to your site
70. If possible, post every day or at least as much as you can
71. Make brainstorm
7 2. If you find a big deal don’t keep it to yourself, share it
73. Don’t focus on making money
74. Be weird, weird people use to be original, original bloggers succeed
75. Make some video-tutorials
76. Set up your gps system: trace a plan and follow your way before starting to blog
77. Avoid to change your posts urls / permalinks
78. Take an amount of time per week on finding new traffic sources
79. Do some business that could increase your blog’s popularity
80. Keep blogging
Would you add something?
I’m working on a new list. Would you add something?
You can drop ideas here and I’ll link to your blog with your desired anchor text.
Hope you enjoy.
Thanks for reading.

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Quite a comprehensive list, will you be expanding on these individually in later posts?
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Sam Reply:
January 22nd, 2010 at 11:01 pm
Yes, absolutely.
I may expand individually the ‘harder’ ones.
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