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Here are some tips on becoming a blogger. Keep in mind that OpEdNews.com offers users their own member page that can easily be used to serve the functions. The advantage of blogging
- Think about what your goals for the blog are.
- write about something you can keep writing about and know a lot about.
- Pick a content management system-- wordpress, blogger, google the different options and pick one. Wordpress is the most popular.
- write postings at least a few times a week.
- share using twitter, facebook, linkedin, reddit, etc. Make sure you use hashtags to expand your reach How to Use Twitter Hashtags to Blast Your Reach and Build Your Follower Base
- have guest bloggers, and ask them to share with their followers
- Create titles that are Search Engine Optimized (SEO) Create Search Engine Optimized Great Article Titles
- remember that a blog is a central element of a PLATFORM. Learn about platforms.
- Consider blogging on a community blog. The advantage is the whole blog has a lot more readers and higher SEO cred. It also offers a lot of tech expertise. Opednews.com has close to 100,000 users, is one ofa small number of sites indexed by Google news, and it has many, many tools that are not standard with independent blogging platforms, like polls, search and insert for royalty-free images, what you see is what you get paste-in posting, great SEO tools built in, social sharing tools built in and scores more features. You can also blog at Huffingtonpost, Dailykos, Medium and a lot of other sites. If you choose to use a community blog, of course you'll want that's very compatible with you and the people who you want to reach and connect with.
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