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Now it’s time to add some content to your blog
Stage 2 covers: Writing posts | Creating tags and categories | Putting in pictures | Placing images on the blogroll | Scheduling posts | Comment control | Creating pages | Adding contributors
Adding an entry
The whole idea of a blog is to start writing. Now you’ve got your blog up online and looking good, it’s time to start putting in some content. A blog isn’t really a blog until you’ve written something in it, and if you know how to write in Word, you can create a blog post! This e-course is designed to be a step by step guide to show you how.
Keywords and topics
Let’s spice up your blog posts! Now you’ve written your blog post, you’ll want to make it attractive to the search engines. What you need to do is to add in your tags and allocate your categories. This step-by-step e-course will explain how tags and categories are necessary for your posts and what you do with them.
Inserting imagery
Use images to provide another focal point. It’s always nice to see pictures in a blog, and sometimes they can be used to further explain your ideas or alleviate a lot of text. Adding colour to your posts adds interest and if your blog’s subject is visual, perhaps it’s a necessity? This step-by-step e-course will explain how to upload pictures from various sources and retain them for future use.
Picture links
Blogroll images will visually publicise your recommended websites. It’s a nice touch and will catch the reader’s eye to encourage them to visit. And maybe these other blogs will want to reciprocate your links, helping you with search engine optimisation and ultimately getting more readers and subscriptions.
At your convenience
“Can I publish when I want to?” WordPress allow you to sechedule your posts to whenever you wish to publish them. Useful for planning in advance when going on holiday, or you’ve written a series of posts and want them to go out on specific days, or slotting in between other authors of a blog so your publication days don’t clash.
Encouraging interaction
Encourage interaction with your readers. Comments are good for feedback, learning more about your readers, and understanding whether your posts are useful, readable and appropriate. Don’t forget to ask for comments and respond to create conversations, as this is considered new material sought after by the search engines.
Say more elsewhere
What about my About page? WordPress automatically gives you an About page, which you can edit to include your own material. And you can also create more pages just like an ordinary website, to grow your blog and make it more informative. This step-by-step e-course will explain how you can do that.
Adding other authors
How can I invite others to write in my blog? It’s easy to add in guest authors or other contributors to your blog so they can post within their own identities. They also have as much access as you (the Administrator) allows them to have, and having a different set of writers uploading posts will make it easier to maintain a consistent flow of new material.
Have you completed Stage 1 of my e-courses below?
For more e-courses to further complete your blog, visit the blogging visual e-course page to learn about our other stages.
