11 Things You Must Follow When Starting A New Blog

Starting a new blog is always challenging. If you are new to blogging, it is quite possible that you are not so much familiar of this profession. The success of your blog obviously depends on the niche, you have chosen. But only the niche can not promote you on the internet. Thousands of people are entering in the blogging world everyday. So you can not leave other people behind without organizing yourself .

Having said that, a good start always helps you to become first in the crowd. Here are some few advice to start your blog.

1. The first thing about your blog is your blog name. It is very worth to get a descriptive blog name. Choose it wisely so that people can understand about the niche of your blog.

2. If you can afford, then choose a top level domain(.com, .org, .net, .info). The Domain name should be the same as your blog name.

3. Host your domain in a good/well known hosting company. Though a bad neighbour does not affect your blog but having good environment is always better.

4. Select the theme for your blog so that it matches with the contents. As example, if you are starting a technology tips and tricks blog and choose a magazine theme, the readers may lose attention. Hence blog theme must be appropriate enough.

5. Design your theme uniquely. Be influenced by other blogs but do not be dominated by them. Make your theme easy to navigate, so that readers can easily reach to the article, they need. Remove the unnecessary links if you are using free WordPress theme. e.g the Blogroll links, Meta links etc. Restrict theme templates, admin pages from crawling by the search bots by robots.txt.

6. Keep your best articles in home of your blog. This will ensure that the search engine will crawl them regularly.

7. Submit your blog URLto giant search engines:

• Submit blog URL to Google
• Submit blog URL to Yahoo
• Submit blog URL to Bing
• Submit blog URL to Baidu

8. Sign up for Webmaster account and submit your blog to get verified. Here is the list:

• Google Webmaster
• Yahoo Webmaster
• Bing Webmaster

9. Reduce blog page load time so that search engines can easily crawl your site. Some plugin can really help you. Here is the list:

i) WP Super Cache

ii) PHP Speedy

Also adding an Expires header to the static resources like JavaScript, images, CSS files significantly improve the page load time. You can do it by adding the following lines in the .htaccess file from your server.

ExpiresActive On 

ExpiresByType image/gif A2592000 

ExpiresByType image/png AA2592000 

ExpiresByType image/jpg AA2592000 

ExpiresByType image/jpeg AA2592000

10. Try to get back links from some older sites with higher page rank. There are some ways to win back links.

i) Write a guest post for a well known site. It will help you to increase your page rank and also a fair amount of visitors.

ii) Another tricks can help you to increase your page rank – Some websites use do follow meta tag in their comment section. Find out such sites relevant to your niche and leave a comment.

11. Use SEO for better search engine ranking. This may take some time as your blog is so new in the web. To get some instant traffic you can follow a simple trick. Some sites publish the trackbacks. So find out that type of site ranking top in the search engine that matches with your article and give a credit to that site from your post.

Facebook Makes It Harder to Post From Google Blogger

Want to share a post from your blog on Facebook? If it’s aBlogger site, that just got harder.Facebook just added a Captcha check — a dialog box that asks you to type in hard-to-read text presented as a graphic — for any post shared from Blogger. Captcha tests are designed to filter out spam, since the bots that try to post spam links generally can’t read the words (and sometimeshumans have trouble, too).

The change does not appear to affect all Blogger sites. If you try posting from, say, the Official Google Mobile Blog, for example, there is no Captcha. However, if you want to post something from a lesser-known site, likethis blog about a cat named Abbie, then there is one. It appears that if your blog is popular enough, the Captcha is lifted.

Of course, this isn’t the first service for which Facebook has used a Captcha to prevent spam, If you try posting from a Tumblr site, chances are you’ll get the same treatment. However, Facebook lets you post from most other major blogging services — LiveJournal, WordPress, TypePad and Squarespace — Captcha-free.

SEE ALSO: Facebook Captcha: What You DON’T Need to Type

Blogger, of course, is owned by Google and uses the blogspot.com domain. Facebook and Google have been fighting something of a digital cold war the last few years — both services making it difficult to share contact lists with the other, to name just one example. The war arguably turned hot last year when Google directly invaded Facebook’s market by launching its own social network, Google+.

More recently, when Google changed its search engine to include social-media links, it gave Google+ preferential treatment over Facebook, even though the latter is much more popular. Engineers from Facebook and other social sites responded with a tool (pointedly named Don’t Be Evil, a Google tagline) that supposedly “corrects” the search results with social links from other services.

Reps for Facebook and Google didn’t immediately respond to requests for comment.

What do you think of Facebook’s change to how it treats Blogger links? Just housekeeping to address spam, or another skirmish in its platform war with Google? Share your opinion in the comments.