A blog is a handy way for one person to communicate to many: a sports lover can cheer on his favorite team, a hobbyist can describe his/her favorite techniques, or a business can keep in touch with its customers. The availability of both free and paid tools makes a blog as easy to set up and maintain. However, if you want your effort to last for many years and be something that an audience will keep reading, then check out these 3 secrets every blogger should know.
Permalinks are an important concept to understand as you begin to build your blog and establish internal links to your many entries. Along with helping you understand what a permalink is, this article will help you understand how you can use them to make your blog easier to navigate for your readers.
The reasons for which you might decide to start a blog may be diverse, but it’s safe to say that we are well past the era of blogs primarily serving as online diaries. These days blogging has become a hugely popular method of promotion, whether the subject of promotion be a product, brand, topic, group, business, or a human being. For individual bloggers, the marvelous thing about publishing a blog is that by doing so, you create one more landing site for people to discover or follow you and your work. You already know all this, but the point is that blogging has become a meta-activity, one that is performed not only for its own sake, but also strategically to support and perpetuate your reason for writing it.
Over much of the history of the Internet, typography has lacked a place of real importance in the layout of page, but the advent of web fonts, a critical addition to the CSS spec, allows web designers the chance to finally give on-page typography the treatment that it deserves. Not only does the web font format allow designers a way to up the visual appeal of sites, it also improves the quality of search engine optimization on each page. By disposing of old graphics that were created in Photoshop as a typographic workaround in the early days of the Internet, designers now have the ability to build web pages that are not only more functional, but more aesthetically pleasing. With this in mind, let’s review 5 rules that are helpful for employing web fonts on your blog.
Guest blogging can seem a little daunting if you haven’t properly prepared for it. Since you can write a blog about literally any topic, the way you approach writing a guest blog might be very different from the way you approach writing one for a different subject. There are some things you can do that will help you no matter what though. However, tips like these will help you write a great guest blog post no matter what.