HOW TO FOCUS YOUR BLOG
I've tried having one blog but I have too many interests. So now I have separate blogs. Try to have a focus for your blog - I have one on writing and spelling, one on speaking, one on travel, one on dating.
Other people focus on their dead dog or dying child, the English language, people who speak a foreign language, or co-religious, or atheist.
2 CONSISTENT STYLE
Stick to a style - mine are factual, humorous, or anecdotal for the family and for dating sites. Too many! But each blog sticks to one style or the post is labelled as Humorous,
Information/FAQ.
Then people who enjoy the funny ones can look for more funny ones.
3 CONVERT BLOGS INTO NEWSLETTERS
If you have a great focused blog and a business you are ready to go into a blog which can be a newsletter which at the end of the year becomes a book. If you write a newsletter one how to make money or get a boyfriend, don't fill up the second half with distracting stories about your dog. Direct the dog-lovers to a second site blogging about dogs.
4 HIDE EMAIL ADDRESS FROM SPAMMERS
Convert your published email using decoy words so that humans can read it but automated spammers can't pick it up. You can do this within websites and blogs. But sometimes you are asked for our email and it is displayed without a disguise. If the site says E-mail address (will be displayed) the spammers could pick it up so you need two email addresses, one for public sites, another protected for family and friends, or one for business, one private.
5 SPELL CHECK
Use a spell checker every time.
Then re-read your blog for sense.
I am constantly putting 'you' for 'your' which the spell checker misses but when I re-read I catch my errors in time.
Re-reading this post, I saw I'd got on for one, and the number 4 was used twice in the listing.
I'll come back and re-read an hour later, before too many people have read it, to correct any more errors which you miss at first glance.
6 COUNT YOUR READERS
Get a counter. It's such fun and so encouraging to see your readers and know which posts attract the most interest.
Great post, Matt - thanks for inspiring me!
Angela Lansbury
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About the Author
Angela Lansbury teacher of English (advanced and English as a Second Language or English as a Foreign Language, French and other languages, aspiring polyglot.
Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, author and speaker. Member of many toastmasters speaker training clubs and speaking contest judge.
Angela Lansbury, the author of 20 books including Wedding Speeches & Toasts, and Quick Quotations, has lived in the USA, Spain and Singapore.
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