Blogging is a fun pastime, and it can also help you build a following for your writing, your business, your website, your cause, what have you.
There are lots of options available for your material now.
Here are 6 steps to getting started, and how you can stick with it.
Step 1: Think About Why Why are you blogging? Are you using your blog as an online journal? Are you blogging to promote a product or servce? A cause? This is important to know because it could determine where you write your blog.
Step 2: Choose a Host There are lots of blog sites out there these days, from Google to your local online newspaper.
Many organizations have their own blog sites as well.
Often your answer to why you want to blog will determine which host you choose and how productive your blogging will be.
Step 3: Go for Quality It doesn't matter if you write once a day or once a week--if your blog is hard to read or just dashed out quickly, no one will notice it, or will click off as soon as they read the first paragraph.
High quality is the best productive blogging.
Step 4: Write Consistently If you have subscribers, don't disappoint them Write consistently.
If you have a business you're promoting, an idea you support, same thing--be consistent.
Step 5: Invite Comments Get dialog going.
This will help keep people on your blog longer, and they will come back to check later to see who has responded to their comments.
Step 6: Write Like You Enjoy It Keep a conversational tone, and don't overwhelm your reader.
A productive blog is one that is interesting but easy to read.