Top 5 tips for bloggers.

Seen lots of these around on twitter the last couple of days, and now worked out why – it’s a listography prompt 🙂

I can do that.

1) Blog for yourself. If you don’t, you won’t enjoy it. If you don’t enjoy it, you won’t do it. Have seen so many abandoned blogs over the years, it’s sad.

2) Choose a platform you like. There’s no point in using wordpress just because it’s flexible if you hate it. But don’t stress over the techy bits, there’s always someone about willing and able to help with hints and tips, and huge numbers of tutorials out there.

3) Don’t worry if no one is reading or commenting. You are blogging for yourself remember? And ppl will come, *if* you are going out there to them. So go out and comment other places, it’s the best way to get ppl to pop over to yours.

4) Stay away from the stats. Seriously. You’ll thank me.

5) If you want to ignore all of the above, go stats mad, join in every meme, publicise frantically, join every network going, get ranking points and so on, that’s fine too. It’s your blog.

You know, it was actually incredibly difficult coming up with 5 points. Could have done you five technical points, or five promotional points or five funny points easily, but ones that are actually meaningful? Really, it’s just number 1 that counts.