To help you out on your way to success to blogging, I’ve
gathered some checklist (as what I want to call it) or steps to ensure that
you’ve ready for the battle, ready to face your blogging career online!
Step #1: Set-Ups, Settings, Fill in
Way back years ago during my childhood, my classmate always
forgot to bring his own pencil. Sometimes we let him borrow and there are times
that our teacher let him borrow and what my teacher (or let me say most of my
teacher say in situations like this) to my classmate? She said “Don’t go into a
battle without your gun…”
This is the same in blogging. If you’re not all geared up,
if you don’t have the bullets, your clothes, grenade, bullet proof vest (I’m
not sure if soldiers must have this though), and of course your weapon, how can
you survive the battle without all these?
So make sure that your blog is ready, you’ve got your gears
(plug-ins, widgets, themes) and you’ve set everything up. There are also things
that you may need to fill in like your author profile.
Never forget or skip to check this step. There are widgets
or plugins (for Wordpress) that needs to be configured so that it will work
perfectly on your blog. There themes that you have to set up and install some
plug ins so that it will come out as it was displayed on the demo.
Lastly, there are also blog settings, codes, etc. that must
have like meta tags, keywords and stuff. Without this easy and simple things
that you must do, your blog is not 100% ready to go for a battle, and you don’t
want going into a battle without 100% courage and confidence that you’ll make
it through, right?
So make sure your blog is functioning well, test out some
features and even the comments section. Take a look at your sidebars because
it’s where you could make your readers go around your blog, links on the
navigation bar must be working also and of course your SEO for Blogspot or let’s generally say your blog is all working.
I know you’re pretty excited to launch your new blog, to
share what you’ve posted and talked about but then again don’t take this for
granted. Make a great first impression, having broken links or malfunctions on
your blog may not make your reader come back again.
About the Author
Gay Aida Dumaguing is a 27 years old Filipina from the Cebu, Philippines. A graduate of B.S. Information Technology from a well-known University, now a SEO (Search Engine Optimization) Expert who serves businesses, entrepreneurs and bloggers from around the globe. She's also the blogger of Exotic Philippines, a blog that promotes the Philippine tourism.
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