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So here we go, you’ve the name, the domain, the layout all set, it looks ab-fab and…and…what the hell am i supposed to do now?! I know (very well!) that it can be exciting and overwhelming at the same time, but with a little bit of planning and my tips…things will go just fine!

There are so many infos online on this topic and in the end you might get confused or believe that it is something you can’t do. Sure you do!

These are my best tips – things I strongly advise you to do over the first few weeks.

Let’s start!

  • Create a calendar. Jot down what you’d like to write about and when. And stick to it. Do not postpone it, try to write consistenly and without accumulating all posts in one single week just because you’ve been postponing them for the past 2-3 week. Nope, don’t do that.
  • Have a dedicated notepad, some kind of planner, when you can jot down ideas, useful infos, links, etc. Get a smaller version as well, one that you can bring along with you  all day, so you can take notes and won’t forget that amazing idea that has just crossed your mind. You can of course use an app on your mobile phone, I personally prefert an old fashioned paper notepad!
  • Go Social! Create an account for Facebook, Pinterest, Instagram and Twitter. I don’t use Twitter, I’ve tried so many times but it’s not my cup of tea really. Anyhow, get accounts for your blog, try to give them a “professional look”, use the logo of your blog as profile picture and write a cool description. Don’t even think about having a blog without a linked social media account, you need these to promote your blog!
  • Join Facebook groups! Join some Blogggers FB groups. You can get very useful tips and advices, and also by reading their posts you’ll be able to learn more infos and important staff about blogging.
  • Become their friend! Kind of. What I mean is… try to get to know your followers, interact with them. Keep them entertained, socialize. Reply to comments and ask them what they’d like you to write about.

I will later on will explain a strange “phenomenon” about Post Comments! Keep reading!

  • Be amazing not average! Try and spend time researching the topic you want to write about in your posts. Try and give useful infos, don’t just t write for the sake of it, write because you want people to love what you write about and come back for more!
  • Good pictures will help! I’m not a photographer myself and at present time I dont even own a good quality camera, but I try to insert nice looking picture in my posts. They are not professional looking and nothing special, but they are OK. Try and do the same if you yourself don’t own a proper camera. And remember not to take pictures off the net without being sure that they can be used freely.
  • Go techinical! Well, not that much, but still try and learn as much as you can about SEO. There are tonz of pages online on this subject, Google it and you’ll be transported in the magic world of Keywords! Sounds like a kids board game I know, but nope, it is actually a very important factor in the growth of your blog! SEO is a must also when you name the pictures to be inserted within your posts. Name them properly, don’t just leave them with their defauld name such as IM6789435678.jpg – looks awful and it will be of no help at all for SEO purposes.
  • Get a proper link! What I mean by this is that if you have a self-hosted blog ( It means if you pay in order to have your blog running on your own paid for-web-space, such as WordPress) you can change the way each link to your post looks like, you can shorten the URL and give it a strategically name. Tip: use keywords. For instance if you are trying to customize the link to a post titled “How I started my blog”, you need to use pretty much the same words in the “permalink”, this is how it is called the specific link to each post. DO IT NOW! Because if you decide to do it in the future, the links that are active and fine right now…simply will not work again when you will change their structure, and this is going to be a huge problem, especially if you link a post within the text of another post, if you change the structure of the permalink of the linked blog…it will not redirect people to that post any longer.

  • Go analyze your audience! Install Google Analytics, it will you to understand your views. Which posts didn’t work very well and which one has gone kind of viral instead. You can also get more detailed infos on your readers, where they are reading your blog from etc.

I’ve promised you to tell you about that  strange “phenomenon” about Post Comments, so the thing is: I’ve noticed that people tend NOT to leave a comment. In the past, I’m talking about 15 years ago (yes I used to have a blog 15 years ago too…) there was no Facebook, no Instagram or other social media, so the blog was, along with forums, maybe the only way to exchange infos, comments and questions. Nowdays we can read a post, love it so flipping much…but statistically speaking just a very small percentage will leave a comment. Because they (we…) prefer to use Facebook comments, or maybe Instagram comments. To be very honest to you I just don’t get the reason why this happens, but at the beginning I was kinda upset because I was getting zero comments. I then learned that it was a very common thing, even on american blogs.

So yeah, don’t give up if you don’t get many comments, especially at the beginning, just keep people interested and bring them to share your awsome content!

Yes, you can leave the link to your blog in the comment section below!