Do’s
Review your posts before publishing them: Very often when I read my blog post again, I find mistakes and have to go back and correct them.
Encourage Participation: Always try and involve your blog reader by encouraging them to participate in your blog through comments or introducing some kind of polls.
Comment on other blogs: This will help you know other Bloggers and in addition to this will help you with some traffic for your blog.
Regularly posting: Its important that you maintain a posting frequency and try and stick to it.
Just be yourself: Remember its your blog and it should reflect you. Write your views, be boring, be unpredictable but just be yourself.
Don’ts
Don’t copy: As mentioned earlier try and mention your views on your blog but if there is something that you have copied from some other blog or site don’t forget to give them the credit.
Ignoring Users: Never ignore your user, try and respond to all of them.
Don’t Promote site/products you are not sure of: Trust is something that takes time to build and you surely do not want your readers to loose it by reviewing some site and product that you are not sure of.
Add lot of widgets: Don’t add lot of widgets on your blog. This will increase the loading time of your blog and may get frustrating for your readers.
Don’t Give up: Blogging is not as easy as it seems to be. Its something that will take some time. Just take care of it, nurture it, feed it regularly and it will bear fruits. And for all these all you need is staying motivated. Remember when going gets tough, tough gets going.
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Good points and all of them are very much valid.
They way you have written it, they surely are all tried n tested. Keep up the good work!!
@Piyush - Thanks for the comment.. How are you?
Good information. I shall be glad if you write posts step by step on a.. crash course on the “in and out of blogging” here on. May be a 10 day to 15 day course…Looking forward for more information….
Anirudh…it’s nice to see your Do’s and Dont’s post. Now people are using blogs for different purposes. You have stated in simple ways the basics of blogging. great going…:)
Good list!
I don’t agree with some points though…”Regular blogging”—what might be regular for some might not be regular for some. Bottomline: quality over quantity rules.