Lets talk today about Blogging. Blogging is becoming so popular nowdays and everyone shares their life, products, business information but some people just do not know how to blog right and make their blogs look like ads..that scream “Buy ME NOW”

The purpose of my marketing blog is to inform, to educate and connect people with you to help them to make a decision about the product, service, business or any other purchase.
Blogs are like websites. Some are personal and some are business only. I have both. You must have various blogs. Google loves different blogs. It must niche specific. You can link them with each other to create more exposure.

One of my blogs is about High Income Careers and the second one is personal/educational blog which you are reading now.

I want to discuss what you need to get it started. Blogs are easy to set up. You do not need to have design skills and HTML knowledge to get your blog.

Here are 13 steps you need to make to get started:

1. Your Niche/Name. Think about name of your blog and tagline. It will be indexed by search engines and this is the first thing you need to do.
2. Blogging Platform: Find easy blogging platform such wordpress or blogger. I recommend Blogger. Why? The best solution is to get blogs hosted with Hostmonster.com or HostGator.com
3. Your URL: You will need to choose url or you can map it to your company or organization. Like mine for example
https://tatyanagann.com
Or you can choose domain like I did for my blog: http://www.attractionmarketingqueen.net
4. Theme: You can choose your theme or design to make it attractive to viewers and easy to manage
I recommend UniqueBlogDesign.com, WordPressdirect.com and StudioPress.com
5. Comments: very important. In the backoffice of your platform make sure you allow people to leave comments. I would leave it based on your approval to prevent spam posts.

Comment Tip: sometimes allowing comments where people do not agree withyou is the best thing to show public that your blog is well read.

6. Trackback feature. I wondered before what it was and what I learned that they are similar to comments. They are messages that other bloggers leave and that are related to your posts and then references are made about your blogs and linked to your posts. You need to approve trackbacks as well.
7. Categories: Very important to choose right categories. You could choose niche categories or make it generic.
8. Good social bookmarking is a must! I use Bookmarking Pluggins for my blog that is already added to my wordpress platform.
9. RSS feature ( Really Simple Syndication) . Make sure ping your RSS feeds to http://www.pingomatic.com
or other pinging services to be crawled by search engines.
10. Your Pages. Make sure you got About Me page. It is your YOU INC presense. Include photo, videos and your bio.
11. Beautify your blog. Add links to your Twitter, Facebook profile pages, your personal pages, your YouTube Profile and more. I add to everything I have. Why? Well. People want to find you and they need as much as they can learn about you. You can get a lot of social media widgets added and it is easy to nagivate.
12. FeedBlitz: Use FeedBlits.com to get email subscriptions to your blog and use FeedBurner to get RSS subscription
13. Tags : We call them keywords or tags. I recommend to use WordTracker paid version and WebCEO.com paid version of keyword research software.

I think I got few basics covered. In the next post I will talk about How To Build Audience That Reads YOUR Blog.. Stay tuned.. Have a great week!

Tatyana Gann

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Tatyana Gann is an high income coach, an online marketing mentor, a social media expert, a professional connector, a mom of two great boys and an amazing hostess. To Learn More About Tatyana Gann, visit her site: http://www.ImmigrantSuccessDiva.com