Blogging 202Get Connected!

Get Connected

• One of the best ways to attract new visitors and increase interactivity on your blog is to write high-quality content frequently. If you’re experiencing writer’s block or feeling overwhelmed, keep in mind that you’re not in this alone.

Get Connected

• We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.” ~Herman Melville

Find your community

• Tags are words that you add to a blog post that describe what the post is about and is linked to our global network of tag pages.

Tagging your Content

• You can make your content easier for others to find by including a few tags that describe the gist of your post.

Tagging your Content

• You can add tags before or after you publish a post using the Post Tags box next to your post editor.

Getting Famous!

• Success is dependent on effort.”~Sophocles

Utilizing comments

• When someone leaves a thoughtful, insightful or interesting comment, it’s common for the blog author to respond in some way.

• Generally speaking, it’s considered bad form to delete comments just because they’re critical of your point of view, so long as that criticism is constructive.

• If you’re uncomfortable with comments on your blog, you can turn off the feature in your WordPress.com discussion settings. You can also turn comments off for specific posts.

Share link love

• Sending your audience away can be a great way to bring them back. It sounds counterintuitive at first, but providing links to other interesting sites and blogs can help to cement your relationship with your site visitors.

Share link love

• Sharing links to other sites in a “blogroll” provides your readers with some recommendations for other content that they might enjoy.

Get social!

• “Publicize” your posts!

• Add the Twitter widget to your blog’s sidebar!

Make Subscribing Easy!

• The Blog Subscriptions Widget is a sidebar tool that lets your readers sign up to receive an email each time you write a new blog post.

Customizing the Blog Subscription Widget• You can add a customized title – Example - “Want New Posts by Email?”

• You can add optional text beyond the default text• You can add whatever brief bit of text you like for the

subscription button, – Example - “Subscribe Me!” or “Sign Me Up!”

Blog Surfing

• The Blog Surfer is a tool that can make it easier for you to keep up with your friends, family, and contacts who have blogs here on WordPress.com, particularly those with private blogs who you can’t subscribe via RSS.

What is a Readomattic?

• Readomattic lets you read through your favorite blogs, tags, top post categories and even friends on Twitter all in one place, straight from your dashboard. It’s like an RSS reader without all the hassle.

Become a Pollster!

• To create a poll or edit poll settings, locate the Polls menu in your dashboard.

Monitor your growth

• To get the lowdown on your stats, visit the Blog Stats page in your dashboard.

Monitor your growth

• The graph at the top displays your blog’s total views for day, week, or month, depending on which tab is selected.

Congratulations!

• You have taken the next steps to becoming a WordPress Master!!

Resources

• http://learn.wordpress.com/• http://wordpress.org/support/• http://codex.wordpress.org/New_To_WordPre

ss_-_Where_to_Start• http://theory.isthereason.com/?p=499• http://wordpresshelp.org/

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