{"product_id":"2940014874090","title":"Building The Perfect Wordpress Blog","description":"lPulling It All Together\u003cbr\u003eNow that the basics are covered and you can see how powerful and flexible\u003cbr\u003eWordPress can be, lets start pulling some of this info together. I'll start by answering\u003cbr\u003ea few of the most common questions I've been asked privately, or seen asked on\u003cbr\u003eforums.\u003cbr\u003e1. What's the difference between a blog and a regular web site?\u003cbr\u003eEssentially, a blog IS a web site. But the similarities stop there. In it's simplest form,\u003cbr\u003ea blog is a web site that uses a simple content management system that allows you to\u003cbr\u003eeasily organize and publish material online. Blogs usually have extra functionality\u003cbr\u003ethan regular web sites. Here are a few of the most obvious ones:\u003cbr\u003e- Blog software has the ability to organize and categorize your content by date or\u003cbr\u003ekeywords, already built in. You don't have to worry much about internal linking,\u003cbr\u003earchives or categories because with a few minutes of configuration in the admin\u003cbr\u003epanel, it happens automatically for you.\u003cbr\u003e- Blog software outputs an RSS feed. RSS gives your readers a chance to subscribe\u003cbr\u003eto your blog with a special reading software so that whenever you add new content\u003cbr\u003eor a blog post to your site, they're notified automatically. They don't have to come\u003cbr\u003eback to your site to discover your new content.\u003cbr\u003e- Commenting forms – On every post you write, WordPress attaches a comment\u003cbr\u003eform where your readers can leave their comments and you can discuss the content\u003cbr\u003ewith them.\u003cbr\u003e- Trackbacks \u0026amp; Pingbacks – When writing a post on your blog, if you link to\u003cbr\u003eanother blog within that post, WordPress automatially tries to notify that blog and\u003cbr\u003eadd a link back to your post in their comment section. Essentially, WordPress says\u003cbr\u003e16\u003cbr\u003e“Hey You, I just wrote something about you! Now come and look at it.”\u003cbr\u003e- Because they're so easy to use, blogs are usually updated more frequently than\u003cbr\u003eregular web sites where it's a pain to manually design, link and update the site.\u003cbr\u003eBlogs are so easy to use that you can concentrate on content only after the initial\u003cbr\u003esetup.\u003cbr\u003eThere's more, but that's usually subjective and depends on the blogger's personal\u003cbr\u003ereasons or definitions of what a blog is.\u003cbr\u003e2. How often should I post to my blog?\u003cbr\u003eAnother highly subjective question. The obvious (and cheeky) answer would be “as\u003cbr\u003eoften or infrequent as you feel like.” But I'll try and do better than that.\u003cbr\u003eYou see a lot of people on forums say that the ideal amount of posting for a business\u003cbr\u003eblog is 2-4 times a week. However, if you look at the biggest and most popular blogs\u003cbr\u003eon the internet, like http:\/\/www.boingboing.net , http:\/\/www.gizmodo.com or http:\/\/\u003cbr\u003eslashdot.org , you'll see that they have multiple authors posting anywhere from 10 to\u003cbr\u003e30 times a day or more!\u003cbr\u003eWhen I was heavily into blogging, my posting frequency wa 3-6 times a day but\u003cbr\u003eevery time I bumped that frequency up to 8-10 times a day, my traffic almost\u003cbr\u003edoubled for that day.\u003cbr\u003eMy best advice is to post to your blog as often as you can sustain. Meaning – if you\u003cbr\u003ehave the time and energy to post 3 times a day on a regular basis, do it. If you can\u003cbr\u003eonly post 4 times a week, do it. But, above all, be consistent. If you post regularly\u003cbr\u003efor a while and then suddenly stop for a couple of weeks, you'll most likely lose the\u003cbr\u003ereadership you built up the first go around.\u003cbr\u003e3. Where do I get content for my blog?\u003cbr\u003eYour own brain would be a good place to start. If you'd rather not go that route, you\u003cbr\u003ecan get ideas for content any number of places.\u003cbr\u003e- Read other blogs in your niche and write about what they are, but add your own\u003cbr\u003econcerns, twists, personality, experiences and opinions to it.\u003cbr\u003e17\u003cbr\u003e- Supplement the above with facts, quotes and citations from major media,\u003cbr\u003eWikipedia, articles, magazines, your local newspaper, etc.\u003cbr\u003e- Find content in any number of article directories.\u003cbr\u003e- Press releases from services like PRWeb.com. It's also a great way to find up to\u003cbr\u003ethe minute news to post.\u003cbr\u003e- Get other people to contribute material to your blog. Some people love writing and\u003cbr\u003ewill even write for you in exchange for links back to their sites. Some will write for\u003cbr\u003epay or a percentage of ad revenue, or some will write just to see their name in lights.\u003cbr\u003e- Hire people from services like http:\/\/www.elance.com ,\u003cbr\u003ehttp:\/\/www.scriptlance.com or http:\/\/www.workaholicsforhire.com Oftentimes you\u003cbr\u003ecan have short, nicely keyworded articles written for $5 or less by people at those\u003cbr\u003eservices.\u003cbr\u003e- PLR content (Private Label Rights). If you look closely in the right places, you can\u003cbr\u003efind an almost endless amount of fresh content and article packs that people sell the\u003cbr\u003erights to. 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