10 Blogging Commandments

New Bloggers Guide: Blogging 101 By Luvvie of AwesomelyLuvvie.com

What do People Blog About? Beauty Politics Technology EVERYTHING! Entertainment Personal life Health/Fitness Science

The 10 Blogging Commandments

I. Thou Shalt Decide On a Platform That Is Right For You

Blogger Easy and fast to setup FREE! Yourdomain.blogspot.com

Wordpress (.org) Free but hosting costs Super customizable Full website capability Like buying a house as opposed to renting (Blogger)

II. Thou Shalt Not Have Awful Design

What’s Awful? Crazy colors Lots of clutter Glitter and sparkle Most MySpace pages

III. Thou Shalt Make Site Easy To Remember supercalifragilisticexpealidocious.wordpress.com = FAIL

Buy A Custom URL Instead of yoururl.blogspot.com, just yoururl.com Great branding Shows commitment to site Less characters people have to type

IV. Thou Shalt Measure and Track Traffic

Google Analytics www.google.com/analytics

Clicky www.getclicky.com

Google Analytics vs. Clicky Google Analytics Clicky • Free for basic account but one can • FREE! upgrade • Shows traffic, pageviews, and • Shows traffic, pageviews, and referring sites referring sites • Updates every 24 hours • Updates in real-time. Shows amount of people CURRENTLY on site • Doesn’t count traffic from people who don’t allow cookies on their browsers • Counts everyone Use both! G-analytics is great for overall look. Clicky is great for those who need constant updates.

V. Thou Shalt Make Content Easy To Receive

RSS Feeds Allow people to subscribe to your blog to receive via their Reader of choice or email.

VI. Thou Shalt Promote Thine Blog

Make Your Site Visible Twitter, Facebook etc. Comment on other blogs Guest post

VII. Thou Shalt Have Good Content

Be... ONE of these. Or more: INTERESTING! Useful Informative Funny Current

VIII. Thou Shalt Engage Thine Readers

Create Conversation When readers comment, REPLY. Leave blogs open- ended (ask questions)

IX. Thou Shalt Show Love to Other Bloggers

Share Your Space Link to others bloggers in posts Create a blogroll Accept guest posters sometimes

X. Thou Shalt Write In Your OWN Voice

Have Muses But Don’t Duplicate Imitation can flatter, but it can also be plagiarism Be Authentic Blog what you know Give credit when it’s due “To thine own blog be true!”

Questions? Email me: Luvvie@aweluv.com. @iLuvvit

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10 Blogging Commandments

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