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Branding, Identity & Marketing
- Make your name short and memorable
- Make your domain name your blog name
- Create a logo
- Come up with a descriptive tag line
- Put a link to your blog on your email signature
- Add the blog to your business card
Connect
- Put up a profile picture
- Write a bio about yourself
- Connect with big industry bloggers
- Hold a blog roll
- Participate in a blog carnival
- Host a blog carnival
- Enable TrackBacks
Comment
- Leave comments on other blogs
- Leave the first comment
- Leave meaningful / insightful / funny comments
- Ask readers to participate (ask them questions, opinions)
- Respond to feedback
Content
- Blog often
- Write quality content
- Create descriptive and enticing headlines
- Write 'How to' Articles
- Write 'Top Ten' lists
- Write five 'Pillar' articles
- Break up long posts by writing a series of posts
- Share advice and tips
- Link to other great posts
- reviews
- Do an interview
- Develop a writing style
- Find a niche
- Use adspace wisely
Design
- Develop a clean design
- Avoid clutter
- Use strong colours and a white background
- Use readable fonts
- Illustrate your posts with pictures
- Use WordPress
- Make the Subscribe link easy to find
Technical
- Register on Technorati
- Use Google Analytics
- Use tags
- Let people subscribe via RSS
- Let people subscribe via email
- Proofread
- Backup
Plan Ahead
- Determine who is your target audience
- Decide what makes your blog unique
- Use feedback
- Write ahead
- Keep a few spare posts for emergencies
- Tell visitors about future posts by using teasers (wisely)
- Balance the real world with blogging
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