Top 100 Tricks, Tools and Tips for Beginners on How to create a blog in 2015

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I have compiled 100 tricks, tools and tips for you to see how a blog is created.  

Creating a blog is very easy. But surely, you will notice if you arrive at the end of this article (which I wish with all my heart) that there is much to do.

Here you will find almost everything you need to learn how to start a blog, at least most of the issues that are important. I hope you will comment if I missed something.

1. How to start your blog

Get your own domain name

The first step is to register a good domain name that includes the name of your blog. Do it if you want to reinforce your brand (personal or corporate) from the outset. You can register domain names in Piensa Solutions or GoDaddy .

Be the domain and host different suppliers

Host your blog on a different provider than the one in the domain you registered. That will favor when possible changes in accommodation, providing greater flexibility. I recommend Host Fusion as hosting provider because they have an excellent value, especially care both safety and performance.

Hire private Whois

The private Whois involves an additional cost, by registering the domain, but makes it 

impossible to see the full name and address when someone accesses data domain.

Run your blog on WordPress

After registering the domain and hiring a hosting service, the following is installed WordPress.org, the most popular free software which offers the greatest potential. With this platform you can create a blog in 5 minutes .

Start creating a community of people around your blog from day one

Your blog is part of a network will make the difference between success and failure. Do "networking" linkages and relationships with other bloggers and readers is an obligation 

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The interesting thing is that a blog get traffic, that is "relatively simple". Just getting links, update much, look what topics will be positioned better, etc. This technique can give profitability, you can put banners. What differentiates a blog from another is not your traffic but the quality. That people do not enter read you because you have appeared in Google but because it has been used to. It has been used to your content, to comment, to hear from you, to share opinions with you. In short, because you've earned a member within the community.

I will not go to analyze the profitability of the latter because certainly it is important that if a blog has a good community get support in the time you have the blog, recurrent traffic, people that share your content (and people occasionally demand specific content). You will get your blog to succeed and, above all, is a real place with real people.

Learn the basic vocabulary

Before you start, learn the basic vocabulary of blogging . Here is another list that you should also know .

Organize your list of blogs

It is important to compile a list of blogs you serve source and learn to read effectively . I recommend you to use an RSS aggregator as Feedly because it is a very simple tool that can combine with others to carry out other important tasks such as content sharing.

No prescindas RSS

The RSS is as old as blogs without this tool can not be read information effectively.

Create your brand

What is your brand? What is its purpose? What is your target audience ?. It is best to think of all this before you start.

Discover the strength of your blog

The main strength of your blog is the content around which everything revolves. You must build your blog based on that Strenth..Good Quality Contents always will give best Results

Create a slogan

You must be able to write a few lines what the purpose of your blog and a slogan that summarizes what, for whom and why of it.

Find your reason for blogging

There are many reasons to have a blog. What's yours?

Start building a list of e-mail

Having a list of subscribers by e-mail is one of the best ways to grow your blog and retain readers, why not get an economic return later. Note that if you are sending a newsletter to your subscribers must comply with LSSI and LOPD . I recommend MailChimp as management service.

Create a logo

You must get a good logo that identifies your brand and design a header for your blog to include it. This is not easy, so, maybe, you need to hire a good designer.

Uses a pop-up opt-in form

Some hate popups but they are a great way to get new subscribers to your newsletter. Hellobar test, a less intrusive to include a bar at the top of the screen that you can include any warning service.

Develop your voice

You'll be a director, editor and writer of your own media. But you must be consistent, friendly and engaging.

Keep backups and learn about safety

Who has a backup has a treasure! And how true! Make a backup from time to time (eg, once a week) of your blog. Something could go wrong and then you'll never get your job. If you use WordPress.org, this is your guide header .

Establishes a periodic maintenance plan

Do not fool yourself! Having a blog will bring you a lot of work. But if you organize yourself properly you will not lose time.

Give a gift

The best way to promote your blog is to create a list of susriptores by e-mail. In order to 

retain your subscribers and get new ones, write an ebook and offer it as a gift.

Publishes more extensive content

It is shown that long posts are better, when it comes to achieving a good position in Google. It is better to publish little, well that much and bad.

Know your audience

You know who you going? This step is often overlooked but is vital to grow your blog.

Produces a page "About" solid

The "About" is probably the second most visited page of your blog. Make sure it personal, detailed and have a clear call to action.

Write what you know

Mastering the subject on which you publish on your blog is one of the premises to make your blog work. Having a blog is easy, the hard part is doing well .

Write well

Do not think that grammar is not important. Follow the grammatical rules is mandatory. Nothing "ola k ase" 

Do not think there is anyone who is interested in what you have to say

A blog is the intersection between what you have to say and what people want to hear . But it is a mistake to think that you have nothing to say and no one willing to listen.

2. What type of content and strategy are necessary to make your blog successful

Outsourced ASAP

If your blog is not going to be personal, outsourcing is the most effective way to be more prolific and avoid tasks that you do not like (installation, maintenance, etc.) solution.

Search the Best Keywords

Find and use the best keywords is an art. 

Ten effective blogging strategy

I recommend that you design a strategy for your blog or optimize it's you already have. 

Why? You simply see better results, whether in the form of visits, interaction from your users, commitment, or whatever you've proposed.

Plan your content strategy

Do not just randomly post messages. Make sure you have specific goals in the short, medium and long term for each of them. No content strategy will not achieve no gain or growth.

Let me Explain You some Important key points for a successful blog...

Start a blog, maintain and eventually succeed, it requires finding a topic you're passionate about, find your reasons to publish and create your style. For a blog center it must work well in a thematic context, and social networks are for autobiography. It is preferable to write about something you know, a topic that have good sources and that you really like.

Besides the passion for a topic it is necessary that you clarify you about the reasons why you're going to write regularly (providing a service, share your knowledge, gain visibility, make money, be influential, etc.). If the reasons are not strong, the blog will not last.

The deed required and helps to find your own style. The printing style is your personal mark on what you do. A good blog is someone's voice and that voice should be unique, recognizable and memorable.

Be responsible and enjoy.

Experience

This is one of the tips that I like to give beginners. Never be afraid to try new features and implement them in your blog. 

Optimize your list of feeds

If you do not use a feed reader, you lose the serendipity of social networks. The best way to read your feeds is to use an RSS aggregator as Feedly, and if you want to be effective you organize your list of feeds and optimize your reading.

Write more for others than for yourself

Around 2001, bloggers wrote for our own blog, just so that people read us. Of course, that was wiser than post a few posts and try to get items as guests in other blgos to attract readers.

Learn to write headlines

The copywriting is also effective in blogs. Write attractive and persuasive headlines. 

Write evergreen content

Write content that does not expire is the ideal way to attract more people for longer.

Write for beginners

Another way to reach your target audience is more content to beginners. The experts are less likely to seek help .

Specialize as possible

In your blog, speak only of the subject that you know and do it well. This is essential to convince your audience and drive traffic.

Share in social networks

This strategy is crucial to extend the echo of your blog. 

Get the maximum possible number of followers on Twitter

This is a priority if you want to increase traffic to your blog. But first you'll need to perform in Twitter is the improvement of your profile .

Do not try to retain readers through social networks

Do not make this mistake. There is one way to destroy your blog is to give priority to social networks from email.

Learn marketing strategies

Many of the strategies of traditional marketing apply to blogging.

Welcome send a newsletter to your subscribers email

The "responders" are automatic messages that have all the services of e-mail marketing 

(some are extra) and sent once the subscription has taken place. It is a good place to give the subscriber a free eBook. I recommend MailChimp service as e-mail marketing.

Try to pay for advertising

It is possible to build a successful blog without spending money on advertising. But if you want to grow faster, invest in marketing is a good idea. Facebook Ads test and check the results.

Do not just write

Use other formats on your blog, not just text, it's good to get more traffic and an excellent trick to republish old content. Use photos, videos, podcasts, presentations, infographics, 

etc.

Old Republic content

Brings back old posts to edit (with relevant updates) changing the date of publication. The problem is to maintain the existing references to the post in order not to lose search engine indexing, but that is easily solved. 

Structure your blog as a book

The blog format is fine but people asking me fundamental things as simple style and "how to create a blog" or "where do I start if I want to create a blog" I did not know that answer them.

Know your competition

Look what your competition issues and how. What you must do is to perfect this content, giving them a new approach, something different, new and better. 

Looking for new ideas

In fact, the ideas are all around us. You just have to realize it .

Put social buttons

A social buttons, the foot or at the beginning of each of your posts, provide your visitors to share content in their social networks. This is a fantastic way to grow your blog. 

3. SEO and Google

Learn the basics

Learn the Basics related to Seo and Google..Understand how SEO and Google Works

I am very creative

It is increasingly difficult to obtain without paying scope (see Facebook). Faced with that reality, you must be very creative to extend your fingerprint without spending money.

Do not buy never links

Even today you can try to fool Google with buying links and other bad techniques. However, it is very risky and you can be penalized and therefore counterproductive. It is best to get organic growth of your blog based on naturally get links.

Check the status of your SEO blog

There are valuable tools to review the factors and SEO site speed of your blog, with a view to a possible optimization. One is Woorank .

It uses a SEO plugin to re-write titles and descriptions

If your blogging platform is WordPress.org, and to check the title and description will be well in Google search results, use a plugin like SEO by Yoast.

Some Important Tips I wanna Share with you 

If you do not know what that is SEO and what it does , you have to keep in mind that after starting to write in your blog you will notice with the passage of time, if you're constantly writing, that most visitors to your blog come well positioned in the search items for which you have to consider some SEO interesting tricks like these:

• Install a SEO plugin to help you write the title, description and contents of each item. The two most used are WordPress All In One SEO and Seo by Yoast . In them you will see that every time you write an article gives you the ability to write the titles, URLs, descriptions and some tips to improve the natural positioning. 
• Write quality articles over 500 words for the user to stay longer on your site and the user share in their social networks if you like and google interpret it as quality content. Please provide the ability to share each item.
• Optimizes the load time of your blog. A Google likes fast loading websites and increasingly mobile suit that since 2015 more than the PC used to surf the Internet in Spain. 
• Spread your content on social networks used to get visits and links. According to recent studies are increasingly important links to your blog from social networks like Google Plus, Facebook, Twitter and the number of times Shared especially since the social network of Google.
• Expert SEO trick: Create and embed own YouTube videos in your blog posts to increase the interest of your readers on your page and get links from authority also help your blog readers and convey confidence.

Do not believe everything Google says

Google is not perfect. In ViperChill there is an article showing that the results of the first page of Google are not as good as they seem. Please note this not to obsess too much with SEO.

Use Google+

Google+ is, for me and after Twitter, the second social network where you focus your efforts.

SEO for WordPress

It is very easy to configure the system for publishing WordPress.org SEO. If you are not a subscriber to my newsletter , I invite you to do so you can download my ebook "SEO for WordPress".

Use social networks to disseminate your posts

If you can not get quality backlinks, I counter it with a good dissemination of your content on social networks .

Use long tail keywords

The key words "long tail" are a priori easier to achieve better positions in Google results, since they often have fewer searches and less competition.

Uses Google Webmaster Tools

This set of tools is essential to monitor and control some of the parameters of your SEO blog.

Automatically generates the sitemap of your blog

Search engines should index all the pages of our site contenidoútil. The sitemap file is used to save the search engine robots to build the "picture" of the blog by following the links. Some pages that are not linked could be left out of this "picture".

Create a robots.txt file

The robots.txt file tells the search engine robots what track is permitted within the site. If there robots.txt search engines try to index everything they find, mainly based on internal links. Therefore, this file gives us the opportunity to control what you want to be indexed and what searchers.

4. Design and Technology Advice

Limit the use of your plugins

If you use WordPress.org not be tempted to set too many plugins. If you do you will make slower your blog will probably get more security problems.

Check the loading time of your blog

The loading time of the pages of your blog is a factor that must not be 

neglected. Pingdom is the best tool to know the loading time and the elements that are slowing down. 

Employs a good theme for WordPress

A WordPress theme evil can affect usability, SEO and speed of your blog. Make sure you're using one that works well. StudioPress ThemeForest and have an excellent catalog of themes.

Monitor your blog

Check quickly with this tool if your site is down. For more advanced and to automatically 

monitor the status of your blog reports, you can use Pingdom .

Let me Give you Some Advice which You need to Know related to Design and Technology..

5 essential WordPress plugins for your Blog
Akismet : first you have to know if you have a blog yet, you're going to get a lot of spam. Therefore, one way to avoid all these unwanted comments is to use a plugin to do all the dirty work for you.

SEO by Yoast : Set your blog to improve positions in Google search results.

WP3 Total Cache : forget about having a slow blog. Use this plugin to speed up the loading of your blog and your readers do not lose your patience.

Digdig : if you want your readers to share the content of your blog, Make this easy. With this plugin you can add buttons to "share" in social networks.

SumoMe : many bloggers recognize that his biggest mistake was not to create a list of subscribers on the first day. You do not make the same mistake, SumoMe used to capture the email of your readers and keep them abreast of new publications.

Improves performance of your blog with CloudFlare

CloudFlare is an external service, used for any installable blogging platform (self-hosted), whose purpose is optmiizar both performance and safety of your blog. The payment system uses Ghost Pro Series for all the blogs that you think.

Improving the security of your blog with iThemes Security

If your blog is made WordPress.org, you need to install the plugin iThemes Security to ensure security.

Install visitor statistics from the beginning

You know the functioning of your blog since I put up, will help you optimize it. 

Are they working well your opt-in forms?

Tests A / B are the best way to know what types of pages work best. If you have a business, that is fundamental. Test Visual Website Optimizer .

Simplify your sidebar

Do not fill your sidebar unnecessary items that only distract your users. Remember that with a minimalist theme're more likely to engage your visitors.

Keep the emphasis on content

Indeed, content is king and if your blog has a design that focuses on the theme itself, then come to have problems. Keep the focus what you publish, not how it is.

Do not try to be a designer (if you're not)

Mastering the art of design is a skill that takes many years. Do not try to be one of them. Focus on content and pay someone to keep your blog looking nice. It will save you time and money.

Use tools for making your images

There are tools that allow you Canva as a designer look. Use it to create artwork for your blog (featured images and pictures to disclose your posts on social networks).  . Canva is one of the utilities that will serve to make content curation .

Use Google Alerts to get ideas

The Google Alerts are a great way to get new ideas for articles, especially if you are in a time-sensitive niche.

Use surveys to get information

Surveys are a great way to get valuable information. Try the Google forms . It's a good idea to do this at least once a year.

Changes the functions of your blog without touching the CSS

WordPress.org plugin Shortcodes Ultimate allows you to add a number of new features, without touching any code.

Photos matter

Images are one of the most important elements in a blog. Both to illustrate to disclose. Get great pictures and illustrations and acredítalas Fotolia.com always, even when they are free of rights.

Always moderates comments

Spam is a scourge for your comments system. Try to avoid the WordPress.org plugin Akismet.

Uses a free sound editor for podcasts

If you're going to include podcasts in your blog, then you need a sound editor luxury. The best option is Audacity that does its job very well.

Ghost Test

Ghost is a new platform focused on the content , the editor (based on language Markdown) avoids distractions and facilitates writing. If you want to save any work of setting up your blog, I recommend you try it.

Test Postach.io

To create a blog is no need for complicated systems. For example, with EvePostach.io you can have a simple blog , unused databases simply creating notes in Evernote.

Test Medium

Adopt simple, powerful and easy to use tools should be your priority. Sometimes, you do not need any installable platform (self-hosted), or the same as WordPress.org Ghost. Test new systems as Medium, with which you will love to write and publish .

Test WordPress.com

Especially if the blog will be part of a business or the media of a project, but can neither recruit nor devote to the technical aspects (installation, maintenance, etc.).

Search blogs that inspire you

For example, in this article I invite you to meet three unconventional but very good blogs to learn that not always follow the rules: Blogs that inspire .

5. Advice life style blogger

You're not sitting for a long time

Keep moving is healthy. Take exercise. Walking is a great way to reflect and get ideas.

Care chair-computer positions

You avoid back pain and limb if you keep an ergonomic posture.

Leave the house

A change of scenery can make you a better writer.

You are prepared for the long haul

Blogging is a distance race. Patience is the best weapon the blogger .

Let me Give you some Important keys to follow for working with a blog.

Starting a blog is like when you have children. All you excited. Everyone tells you how cool it will be, but nobody tells you work so hard that you coming. At some point you imagine, but never enough imagination to reality.

Nobody explains, for example, to publish a post in conditions not going to lose four hours; or you'll have to read blogs continually to be informed; and there will be days you do not feel anything until you write you hours to be with your people.

And then there are the visits, that when you start, you think the meter is broken. You have to be very patient at first, because, let's face it, you'll just read your mother. As to the rest.

Make the blog part of your lifestyle. As teeth cleaning. As everyday carry the child to the park. Although cold. When that time comes, the effort is no longer true effort and begin to enjoy. And I can tell you that day, but you know it ends up coming.

Do not run from problems

I love trouble! Sometimes, problems with your blog activate your brain, you will generate ideas and get optimize it.

Learn from others

Imitate but not copy content. See how others share their content and other on social networks, if you send an e-mail newsletter and what gifts offers. Study the way they use images in both posts and social networks.

Talking on Skype with people

It's amazing today, the little face to face contact (including through Internet) to people. With Skype, you'll find new alliances and friendships emerging all over the world.

Find a good forum in your topic

There are plenty of forums out there. I recommend you find a good forum and participate in it. Some are excellent sources of information and shortcuts, as well as a good place to find a mentor. But beware! They are also places especially designed to waste time if you are not well organized.

Use the Pomodoro technique

It is a method developed to be more productive, dividing the day into more manageable parts , specifically in intervals of 25 minutes. Including a short break of 2 or 3 minutes ago; and every 4 other longer than 30 minutes.

Try to Get in Contact with Experts

With the Internet you can avoid physical contact. But most of the time, you need to meet up and attend conferences in order to organize new projects and establish partnerships. Try at least once.

Consider a coworking space

This is not for everyone, but many love to get into common areas and sit with other people to work together. Usually not free, but it is cheaper than conventional offices.

He thinks like a gardener and worked as a carpenter

This philosophy, applicable to any kind of learning, particularly applies to blogging as it is necessary to think slowly and listen but with a constant and well planned .

Give each goal post you post

Blogging requires training. Success is not a matter of a few days ... or a couple of years! There are exceptions but what you'll need is dedication. Set a goal for your blog, but also for every post you post .

See many other blogs

It is my advice. But it must be done without distractions and without wasting time. Before you publish your first post you must devote some time to read other blogs to immerse yourself in the philosophy and culture of blogs; and to learn how to do your competition.

Enjoy!

Have fun with your blog. That is the most important goal. If you're not having fun you should ask yourself do something else.

Conclusion (and a request!)

This list of tips and tricks you can serve as a starting point. Save it and consult it whenever 

you need. There are many valuable resources indexed if your idea of ​​a blog thrives.

If you want that, in the future, add something that you think you have forgotten me, please tell me in the comments.

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