What is the objective of your blog?
You need to know
why you are making a blog. For example,
Animix Blog Craze which is also
one of my blog, an anime blog in which its purpose is to post images of any anime’s
wherein just only to entertain others. Well that blog is only for
entertainment. Also I added anime playlist there, to let the viewer’s listen to
random anime songs while browsing pics.
Who are your target viewers?
Now think about
your content, who should view this posts? For a blogger, you should REALLY consider
these things. As of the example blog above, my target there is, obviously, anime
fan’s otakus, and every person who is enjoying anime images and songs. So after
coming up with your objective, think of viewers who you will think that will
browse your contents.
What you should post or talk about with
your blog?
It’s really
simple, example is if your blog’s objective is about cooking Filipino food and
your target are those Filipino’s who don’t know how to cook the kind of food
that you’ve post or even foreigners who want to know how to cook those kind of
meal, you should post something that is about cooking Filipino food and don’t
forget that this content that you will post is informative as much as possible.
Oh! Let me rephrase that, content should be “Simple but informative”. J
What days you should post?
For me this is the
most important factor because yeah blogging is enjoying, but other people are
not consistent in posting content in their blog. So a good advice, try to set
your days when you will post. Maybe 3 times or 4 times a week, or you can also
try every 2 days or three days. It will base on your availability time to post,
if you work for 8 hours in office, Monday-Friday, you can try to post in
weekends.
Do you need to be a talented writer or
blogger?
No. You don’t need
to be a talented writer or have an experience on writing articles to be a blogger.
What matters is that you will give informative content that can entertain or
help your viewers. Also, if your viewers like your content and ask some
questions, don’t forget to reply them. We may not know what will happen, maybe
this people who will ask you will build a circle of who will contribute to you
and that is a good thing. J
Do you need to create your own article/content
or get?
As for me it’s
better to create your own article for it is your own idea and of course the
uniqueness is there. It’s also good to
get an idea to others, but there’s something you should do when you are copying
an article in the world wide web/internet. When you copy an article or even
just a phrase, you should also get its source URL and paste it to your post; in
this way you will not be accused to plagiarize any individual’s content. You
can also italicize or quote the article or phrase that you copy
Here’s
an example:
According to Ryan Pinkham “You can even
look outside your organization to other businesses or people whose opinions you
think would fit well on your blog. There are a lot of people who would be happy
to contribute to your blog just for the opportunity of getting more exposure
for their content. All you need to do is ask.”.
After learning these things, you are almost ready to start
blogging. You can try to make a blog with
blogger.com or
wordpress. Don’t hesitate or be
discourage just only because you’ve only just started, motivate yourself and
the most important here is you share your knowledge to others, share what you
know and you are enjoying blogging.
Remember this:
“Blogger’s/Admin work is
hard, you need to post one or two content in you blog and view how many
visitors visits the site, but when you know that you’ve help and entertain your
followers, it will make you happy, makes your day and helps you to be motivated
to post another content.”
