The best idea is usually to type out what you want to say in your post in Word or Notepad (just to name a couple of the multitude of software available to you). Doing it that way gives you a chance to read it, check it, and change it if you need to. You can, of course do most of that when you add the post to your blog – but doing it this way means you don’t have to keep altering things after you’ve published the post.
You will need to add a title, using any of the main keywords you have (it helps to get it ranked for the terms you want to rank well in, in the search engines) and have the title give a reasonable description of what the post is about – you can’t judge a book by its cover, and you can’t guess what it’s about from a bad title.
Next you add the post. When you add the post you will have two options on how you can enter it, either ‘visual’ or ‘html’. If you want to add photos or anything other than plain text then go for ‘html’. The ‘visual’ option is notorious for not formatting the post in the way you’d expect, so you could find yourself spending hours changing things to get your photos etc where you want them to be.
If you’ve downloaded, and remembered to activate, the all in one SEO pack, you’ll see some of the features at the bottom of the screen. You can enter the title again, a description, and your list of keywords separated by commas.
On the right hand side you will see a column that will let you add tags for your blog pages and just below it you can add the categories that you want it to show up in i.e. this post should be showing up in the categories ‘recent happenings’ and ‘my first blog’.
Before you ‘publish’ your post it’s always a good idea to ‘preview’ it and make sure that it reads right in your blog and, just as importantly, everything is where it should be and formatted as you were expecting. If you have installed and activated Zip.li Retweet your post will be added to Twitter and look something like ‘Post: The Power of Blogs Plugins – Part Two http://zip.li/pg6P’
That seems to be about that for setting up and starting to blog, well, it should be enough to get you out there and posting on your blog, anyway. You can read as much as you like about it, but if you never actually do it, it won’t help you all that much – doing is the best way of learning.
That’s all in this series on ‘how to start a blog’ – next we’ll look at how to get blog traffic and how to make money blogging.
Retweet this postRelated posts:
- The First Blog Post – Part One Posts are added in virtually the same way as the pages, in fact, they are...
- The Power of Blog Plugins – Part Two As you get to know how the blog, widgets, and plugins work you’ll probably want...
- How to Make Money Blogging – If you Stop Doing These Things It's a great feeling to see a flood of traffic coming to your blog, but,...
- 6 Search Engine Friendly Blog Tips Everyone wants to be an internet marketer these days, but few people know the right...
- The Speed and Easy of a WordPress Blog I deleted around 367 posts, and WordPress didn’t even blink. The deleted posts came from...
You must log in to post a comment.