You can then customize your theme and other settings like fonts and things like that very easily also. You will then decide how many posts you want to display on each page of your blog and whether or not you want to allow comments from others about your blog.

My very first blog was with Blogger and I found it very easy to setup. If you have any questions at all, there is a full forum where you can get help. The forum is full of people who are willing to help you at no cost. There is also a lot of information on the internet for people who are not sure what they are doing or a place where you can find some very useful tips on how to develop and customize your blog to your liking.

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Smashing Magazine

dzineblog

TopWPThemes

Wordpress Themes

These are my top 4 sources where you can find some very nice and attractive Wordpress themes for free. If you want you can do a google or yahoo search and you will find plenty of information about free wordpress templates you can use for your blog.

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The first thing you should do is to promote your blog as much as possible so that you can let people know that your blog exists. Using social media sites like Myspace and Facebook will help bring in some readers but you probably will not get a lot of readers using this method. Whichever way you decide to promote your blog, keep doing those same things again and again so that you can get a lot of readers for your blog.

Another way of promoting your blog is to keep writing fresh and interesting content on your blog. The major search engines will index the new posts and pages very quickly so this should bring in some readers fast. Of course, the major search engines are Google and Yahoo. You can also submit your blog to these search engines manually which will be a little faster than the search engines indexing your blog posts and pages on their own.

You should also make as many knowledgeable blog posts as you can. This will show people that you are credible when writing about your specific topic. I would start off with at least 5 knowledgeable and well written posts so that you can attract people to your blog. When someone does a search on a topic, they could find your post in the search results which would lead them to click on your post. The more people clicking on your posts, the more readers you could receive.

Another way you can get some readers to your blog is to write articles and submit them to article directories. Every time someone readers one of your articles, they will most likely visit your blog and become a reader because they are interested in the topic that you are writing about.

The last way I will discuss that can help you bring in readers to your blog is to make sure that each blog post has a proper title and some good keywords. By including some good keywords, people who search for articles on your topic will be able to find your articles a lot easier. This will lead to good page ranks and a lot more readers for your blog.

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1. Join MyBlogLog: add friends and join communities
2. Sign up for Technorati: ping it when your blog changes
3. Use a ping service like pingomatic
4. Submit your blog to all of the blog directories
5. Use trackbacks
6. Leave comments on blogs in related niches
7. Tell your friends about your blog
8. Put your blog URL in your forum signatures
9. Tell Your newsletter subscribers about your blog
10. Write press releases for your blog
11. Link to other peoples blogs in your posts
12. Tag your posts using Technorati tags or a tag plug-in
13. Use Stumbleupon
14. Answer questions on Yahoo
15. Answer questions on forums
16. Use pictures in your blog posts
17. Use video on your blog
18. Find out what people want to learn about in your blog’s niche and write about it
19. Be the first to break a news story
20. Use keyword research to find good keywords to use in your posts
21. Write controversial posts
22. Strongly Agree or strongly disagree with other bloggers and write about it with a link to their post
23. Make it easy for your readers to sign up for your RSS feed
24. Make it easy for your readers to Digg your posts
25. Ask your readers to submit your posts to social bookmarking sites (Digg, Reddit, etc.)
26. Interview well known people in your industry
27. Give credit to the blogs that inspire your posts
28. Don’t be boring
29. Write for beginners
30. Participate in blog carnivals
31. Post at different times of the day
32. Submit your best posts to article directories
33. Have guest posters
34. Submit your blog to regular web directories
35. Trade blog roll links with related blogs
36. Add a plug-in to notify users of new comments
37. Make it easy for your visitors to submit your post to ALL social bookmarking sites (not just Digg)
38. Make it easy for your visitors to bookmark your blog
39. Make it easy for people to link to your blog
40. Use easy to read fonts
41. Use a professional looking blog design
42. Make your blog easy to navigate
43. Highlight your most popular posts
44. Use questions for the title of your blog posts
45. Use good keywords in your post titles
46. Reply to every question you get through email
47. Reply to every question you get on your blog
48. E-mail other bloggers about your really good posts
49. Offer free stuff like ebooks
50. Publish videos on YouTube
51. Install a translation plug-in for other languages
52. Put Your blog URL on everything like business cards and stationary
53. Add a forum
54. Join Hubpages and post links to your blog
55. Make a Squidoo lens with a link to your blog
56. Tell people you will link back to them if they review your blog
57. Join Blog Catalog
58. Create a MySpace and Facebook page
59. Use SEO (Search Engine Optimization)
60. Use good grammar
61. Write a post about the top bloggers in your niche
62. Promote your posts on newsgroups
63. Post frequently
64. Make a list of ways to increase your blog traffic

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Lists are easy to scan through: As we all know, many online users are very lazy. Using a list can make it easier for your readers to navigate through some main points on a topic.

Lists look very neat: Lists are nicely formatted and easy to read. They don’t look messy.

Lists are easy to link to: Since a list is a summary of a topic’s main points, they are very easy to link to.

Lists can be comprehensive: They can give you all of the most important facts about a topic.

Lists can be persuasive: Since lists can highlight the major points of a topic, they can sway someone’s opinion on a certain subject or topic.

Lists can add to the ease of writing: Lists are easy to write so they are easy to follow. I always like to read lists because of their simplicity.

So as you can see, using lists on your blog can be very useful. The reasons I have stated above are the reasons why lists are useful. But you have to make sure you use lists in an effective way in your blog so that you can get as much traffic to your blog as possible.

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Here are some factors to consider:

Premade Blog Templates

Pros
They are free!! Everyone doesn’t mind getting something for free.

There is a wide selection to choose from. If you have a popular blogging platform like Blogger or Wordpress, you will be able to find a suitable template without a problem.

There are always new templates out there. Web designers are always creating new templates so there are always fresh templates to choose from or to switch to.

Cons
They are not unique. Other bloggers may be using the same template that you are. Who wants to see the same template on every blog?

The best templates are used by everyone. There are only a select amount of templates out there that everyone wants. If this is the case, again, you will see so many blogs using the same template. This gets boring after awhile.

Custom Blog Templates

Pros
They are very unique. People will not have the same template as you do because you can have your template customized any way you want.

Helps you stand out from the rest. Having a customized blog template will help people remember your blog. They will keep returning to your blog which is a very good thing.

Customized templates are usually much attractive. Designers put more effort into their custom templates rather than the free ones. They make them look more appealing to bloggers.

Cons
Custom templates can be expensive. I have seen custom templates range anywhere from $200 to about $4000. I don’t know who would pay $4000 for a custom template but there are bloggers out there who would. I am sure most bloggers stick to the lower amount. This is really the only con when deciding to choose a custom template though.

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Wordpress

Template Lite

Smashing apps

Web Designer Wall

Wordpress Hacks

Thanks for taking a look at my blog and this post and remember, if you find any sources for wordpress plugins, please don’t hesitate to include those sources in your comments.

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Know what you want to write about
Whatever subject you are writing about, make sure you are knowledgable about that subject. The worst thing to do on your blog would be to write about something you know nothing about. This will hurt your credbility and no one will want to visit your blog!

Reel your readers in
You should try to hook you readers as soon as possible with your blog posts. If you can create quality content that readers are interested in, those same readers will visit your blog several times for new information.

Details, Details, Details
The more details you can include on a particular subject, the better. Your readers will understand the subject more and they will look to you as an authority figure on that subject. Write everything you know about the subject. Don’t leave anything out.

Finish the Post
Make sure you include an excellent conclusion. The conclusion should give the reader a very good feeling about what they just read. Make sure to keep the conclusion simple and to the point. Also, make sure you leave room for discussion from your readers. This will help them to come back to your blog and comment on the post.

Add your final thoughts
After you have finished writing your post, make sure to check for spelling and grammar errors. It would be a shame for you to pour your heart out and then to have some simple errors in your blog post like spelling and grammar errors. All of your effort wasted because of something like this. It wouldn’t make sense to put all of your time and effort into a quality blog post only to have errors like that!

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Having a good domain name will help you build credibility with your readers. They will trust you as a business person. This will help your reputation in the future which will lead to more sales. People will be comfortable doing business with you.

When you choose a domain name, make sure you use a .com domain name. These types of domains prove to be more popular with website visitors. You should make your domain name short and simple. Don’t make it too long because people will not be able to remember it. You can even register more than one domain name. Having more than one domain name can double your chances of making sure that the major search engines will index your site. This will lead to more traffic for your site which is always a good thing.

Finally, before you make your final decision on your domain name, you should ask people what they think of your domain name. A good place to start for registering your domain name is Godaddy.com. They are the leading register of domain names. They are cheap and easy to create. Godaddy also has very good web hosting for your site. I would recommend that you sign up with Godaddy because they have excellent customer support and their prices are very reasonable. If you do not want to use Godaddy, then make sure you take some time to shop around for the best available deal for your domain name.

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Adsense: Contextual ad program from google
Adbrite: Sell text ads on your blog
Amazon Associates: Popular affiliate program
Alertpay: Popular online payment tool
Blogger: Popular blog platform
Clickbank: Many affiliate products you can promote on your blog
Digg: Social bookmarking
Digital Point: Forum for webmasters
Feedburner: RSS feed management tool
Flickr: Photo sharing & hosting site
Google Analytics: Website statistics tool
Google Sitemaps: Get indexed in google
GoDaddy: Popular web host
Kontera: In text advertising
LiveJournal: Blog platform
MovableType: Blog platform
Pingomatic: Ping your blog
Paypal: Popular online payment tool
Photobucket: Image and video hosting
Text Link Ads: Text link advertising system
Technorati: Blog Search engine
TypePad: Blog platform
WordPress: Very popular blog platform
YouTube: Video hosting & sharing site

Disclosure: I am affiliated with some of the above companies and i do earn a commission for referring others to these sites.

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