Best Blogging Practices for 2012
by Asif
First off, Happy New Year to all the readers of Asiogroups.com. The new year has just started and I hope you are back to work after a long holiday. I don’t know about you guys but I enjoyed it to the core.
It’s now time to concentrate on work, as this blog is about blogging and being your own boss, I’ll be talking about few things I have planned for this year. I am listing the best practices which you can follow this year.
Blog Consistently
I have been saying this from the start of this blog, now I am going to climb on a mountain and shout it from there. Please take time to write on your blog on a regular basis. Because of this new Google Panda thing, which affected the search results of man big blogs, blogging consistently is one of the most important thing to do. Please don’t make your blog look dead in the eyes of Google.
Write Properly Formatted Articles
You will have to take extra time to check your grammar and spelling before publishing a post. Presentation is another important thing I keep repeating in every other post on the blog.
Optimize Your Blog for Different Internet Devices
Optimizing your blog only for mobile viewing is not enough these days, there are many types of Internet devices available in the market, Different mobile phones and tablet PCs with different screen resolution, Optimizing your blog for different internet devices will give your readers an ease to read your content on their favorite devices.
Improve page load speed of your blog
Internet is getting faster and faster, therefore, you need to keep up with it, make your blog pages load faster. Your blog visitors would love to browse few more pages if they load fast.
Be Social
This year, try to be more social, try interacting with like minded people on Twitter and Facebook. Search similar blogs and find a way to connect with them. And please, don’t use email use social networks.
Guest Posts on other blogs
Write the best content possible and guest post it on other similar blogs. It has worked for almost everyone, I should work well this year as well.
Allow Guest posts on your blog
Guest post is a great way to get Free quality content to your blog. This way, you few extra hours to do other task such as, working on increasing the traffic, monetizing the blog etc.
Experiment and the share it with your Audience
Your readers would love to know how it was when you experimented it, they would love to see the results. They can learn from your mistakes.
Keep yourself updated with the current trends
I read an article somewhere on the internet where a Guy had several monitors in his office to monitor all the content on the internet, well, you don’t have to go that far, just try to keep yourself update in you’re a industry.
Observe What big companies are doing to promote their brands
All the big companies these days have got online presence, they have got a team of talented and hard working people who promote their stuff online, try to observe how they use Social Media to promote their brands and you can use some of the techniques for your blog.
There are many more things to do, just take sometime to brainstorm new Ideas for your blog. You not only need to write content but also promote that content. I’ll keep you updated via this blog, Keep reading.
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