Mar 09
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Your Blog is Your Garden
Every blogger online today needs to look at their blog like a garden. In order for a garden to bear fruit and vegetables a lot of time and effort has to go in first. A good gardener will plow up the ground really good and add just a touch of fertilizer to get everything right for sowing seeds. Once the seeds are planted, you still need to weed and water it, so the seeds will have the best chance for growing strong and big. This is the approach every blogger should have with their blogs and they could learn a few things from a gardener.
Creating your blog is much like plowing up the ground. You want to design your blog as nice as possible and create a main theme or a niche for your blog. Once you know the main subject of the topic you will be blogging about, be sure to add about 4 to 8 categories that closely relate to the main theme of the blog. It would be wise to add a little fertilizer to your blog and I would suggest installing a RSS feed in the HTML section of your blog. The RSS Feed will help deliver new posts and comments to the search engines and anyone who might be subscribed to your RSS feed. After you have came up with a good niche for your blog, added in your categories, and installed the RSS feed, you will be ready for planting seeds.
Planting the seeds for your blog is all the posts you will be writing to it. You want to make good quality posts and the majority of them should relate to your main theme or categories you have selected for your blog. Try to write up posts that are between 300 to 800 words. This is the idea amount for any blog posts and it’s ok if you write less or more every now and then. Just try to target that many words in the majority of your blog posts. Also, try to avoid putting links in your blog posts. I know sometimes it’s helpful to add links for reference or you want to show your readers something, but avoid adding links when possible. All new blogs should really stay away from links, until you have at least a dozen or more good quality posts that don’t contain any links. Anytime you do write up a post and include a link in it, be sure to make your next blog post without any links. The search engines will get confused if they see too many links coming from your blog and think your blog is just a stopping point to where the real information is located. If you write up a lot of posts with no links in them; then the search engines start recognizing your blog as a source of information and this is good!
When you first start out blogging your not going to see your blog in the search engines or see any of your posts getting indexed by search engine bots. It’s just like a gardener planting his seeds and he’s not going to come back 2 or 3 days later and see food growing on the vines and stalks from the seeds he just planted. It takes time for seeds to grow and it will take time for your blog to grow. You can do things to help it grow faster, but the main thing is quality posts and fresh content. If you take your time and make every post a quality one and will blog at least 3 days a week; then your blog will start producing food or links in the major search engines. No need to worry about driving tons of traffic to your new blog now or trying to acquire links pointing toward your blog. These are things you can work on later, after you have 20 to 30 real good posts published on your blog.
Now is the spring time of the year for bloggers or anyone creating a new blog. If you don’t put the time and effort in now; you won’t have anything to harvest this fall. So start your plowing, keep the weeds pulled at all times, and continue planting those seeds until you see something start to grow. When the growing process starts, just continue to water your blog and it will continue to grow and grow.
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