This is a fairly new blog but I’d promise I’d give you guys blogging tips so here you go

Nowadays nearly everyone online has had, or has thought about creating a blog of their own at one point; a blog allows you to voice your opinions to an audience, one that can read your thoughts and interact with you on a personal level; think of your blog as your piece of real estate, or even your ‘house’ on the Internet. Now, if you live alone you might be a complete and utter slob, however generally when you live with others you will keep your real house nice and tidy - it’s time to look at that with your blog.

Any of you with parents that have parties at home will have come across this - your father generally not caring so much, but your mother turning into an anxious wreck, looking for every spec of dust and instructing you to keep everything clean - even if it’s just your cousins coming to visit. When your parents have parties, they want the house to be fit for the king or queen - now let’s take that and relate it to the world of blogging.

Sadly, the kings and queens of the world in general do not have a solid presence on the Internet; despite the Queen of England recently getting her own channel on Youtube, one doubts that she has much to do for it other than pose for photos and videos in real life. The ultimate bloggers in the blogosphere, those that dominate the ‘make money online’ niche are the ones you’ll look at - would John Chow or Jeremy Schoemaker (or ‘Shoemoney’ as you might better know him by) find themselves comfortable on your blog? There are plenty others you could target, depending on your niche - if it’s a blogging tips blog, you could wonder whether Darren Rowse of Problogger would feel at home, or if it was one on life in general and getting productive you might think of trying to impress Leo Babauta of Zen Habits.

Whichever blogger whose level you aspire to reach, you should try your hardest to imitate them - in terms of quality. If one of the big bloggers and you had to swap blogging jobs one day, you’d probably be pretty darned happy to write for one of their websites - would they be so happy to put together something for yours? Note, I’m not talking about traffic, but let’s compare your blog to a house again and hopefully you’ll understand what I’m getting at.

- Is your house dirty?

Clothes strewn all over the place, sandals draped across the back of a chair - is your blog the same? Do you have ad boxes that look out of place, or a sidebar with 15,000 widgets? Make sure that your blog is clean and easy to navigate - things like auto-opening peelaway ads that block the content or even worse annoying popups do nothing but irritate your readers. You wouldn’t want visitors to your house to complain about the noise either, so never think about getting something like Pay Per Play ads

- Is your house well designed?

A blog may be clean - a proper space for ad spots, decent amount of territory for content with an acceptable sized header… and then suffer from a colour mismatch of garish pink and shocking orange. This kind of ties in with the above point, but make sure your blog looks good - you don’t want to kill anyone’s eyes with a poor colour combination.

- Is your house easy to visit?

I’m talking about RSS subscribers here. When people come to your address, they want it to be easy to find - not have to search for it. You make it too difficult, and they simply won’t come back. Make sure you have an easily seen subscribe to RSS button in the sidebar, and installing the Subscribe Remind plugin for Wordpress would help too

Hope this post helped. Good luck to all

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