Advice for New Bloggers

I am often asked for blogging advice by new bloggers. I thought it would be more efficient for me to post suggestions and refer people to this blog post rather than email each person. I welcome comments and feedback from you, my readers. Take what I have started with and add please.

Advice for new bloggers:

· Don’t start blogging unless you like to write. It is a bit of an obligation.

· I like keep blog postings short (400 – 500 words) and this seems to suit the attention span of most readers.

· Just to it. It is easy to start and in the worst case, you can stop.

· You are not really considered to be a blogger until you have blogged from 4 – 6 weeks. I think it is a great idea to have a strong first post because some people read first posts but the next 4 – 6 weeks, you don’t really need to have tremendous depth or substance. I would suggest copying things that you find interesting but not pouring too much of your heart in to it for the first while.

· I suggest installing a www.statcounter.com. This tells you what your traffic is and where they come from. It is free.

· Some people think blogging is technical; it’s not. Anyone can learn how to BLOG in about 5 minutes.

· I suggest finding a blog mentor – someone who can help you with the simple set-up and give you a little bit of support through the early days.

· I would not try to do anything to generate traffic in the first 30 days as you are really not a blogger until you have reached that point.


I am off on more travel today. Conference in California and while I am there, I will stop by Fremont head office.