1. Select A Blog Service
Find an easy to use blog provider such as Blogger, WordPress or Movable Type. These online services provide an easy to use interface for you to get started with. Within minutes of signing up you’ll be able to write blog “posts”, add pictures and choose a theme for your blog.
2. Keep It Simple
In the beginning, don’t worry if your blog isn’t exactly how you would like it to be. There’s plenty of time to customise colours, menu items and other details. Focus on keeping it simple and turning some ideas into blog posts. After all, if something is easy, you’re more likely to do it often.
3. Produce Valuable Content
At first, concentrate on producing some content – but make it valuable. If you have found a solution to a problem, post a description of how you found it. Make your posts count. Visitors will know to return if your blog content provides them with knowledge they cannot obtain anywhere else.
4. Blog Often
Rather than saving up ten ideas for a weekly blog post, try posting more often. Aside from encouraging your visitors to return more frequently, you may just find that putting your words down on paper (or in this case, in a blog post), produces subsequent ideas which may not have otherwise occured.
5. Promote Discussion
Encourage your visitors to leave feedback and discuss issues via the use of comments at the end of your blog posts. The comments, whether good, bad or inbetween, will provide you with some idea of what others in cyberspace are thinking of your writing. Who knows, perhaps your posts will spark a micro community related to your topic!
Finally, and most important of all, write about something you are passionate about. Best of luck!
