Blog creation Process Overview

December 22, 2006

This is a posts that summarizes the entire process to create a professional blog, many successful bloggers use this same technique. This is going to give you a clear idea about how your blog should be developed. My advice about this post is: “Always stick to your schedule.”

Step 1

The brainstorm. Sit down in a comfortable place of your house and start thinking ideas for your new blog, writte them down, all of them. No matter how crazy it might sound. I recommend you to research a little to know which topics are the best and which ones are the most profitable ones.

Step 2

Decide which tools you are going to use to edit and manage your blog. If you haven´t alredy. There are many good options out there choose the one that best fits your needs, here in Blogger Lounge you can find information about software and tools for blogs.

Step 3

Now decide what blogging platform your blog will use, you can choose between Blogger, WordPress and Movable Type, each one of them offers different features but all of them are very useful. After you decide which service you are going to use sign up for an account and select a good title for your blog.

Step 4

The following step is design, choose the design the best fits your needs, some platforms like Blogger and WordPress have very good looking templates you can also search for more using Google, just search for something like: “ Free Blogger Templates” or “WordPress Themes” there are hundreds of free designs, remember that a good blog design has to fill some requirements. This step also includes the design of logo and some graphic elements.

Step 5

At this point you already have your account, all the tools you are going to use and your template, now what? Well now it´s a good time to start writing content for your blog, but, why do you have to write content before you set up your blog? Because in order to start getting visitors and readers you need something to catch their attention, no one is going to visit your blog if you don´t have something to show. So write between 4 or 5 high quality posts about the hottest thing of the moment and you´ll be getting more and more visits each time you posts something new.

Step 6

Ok, now it seems that you have everything ready. At this point you can start building your blog, add all elements together, upload your images and your first entries. It is time to promote your blog, start submitting your blog´s URL to each directory you find and to the major search engines, posts comments on other blogs and invite readers to visit your own site.

Step 7

Now your everything should be working just fine. Your blog is ready and running, maintain it and make it grow, post frequently and take care of your readers, enjoy your new baby and watch him grow!

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