posted Apr 3, 2011, 12:22 AM by Stephany F.
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updated Apr 3, 2011, 12:25 AM
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Blogging is a great way to get your name out there and display your
talents to the world. It's not only a way to share your personality,
but it's also a great way to meet new people, share ideas, and allow
people a glimpse into your mind.
Before you start creating your own blog, you should first ask yourself a few questions:
- Why do I want to create a blog? What is your true
motivation? Is it to help launch your career, or is because you want a
place to fill with your thoughts, likes and interests.
- What kind of blog do you want to create? Are you interested
in posting cool pictures, writing product reviews or showcasing your
personal style? There are so many types of blogs out there and it is
important to know what type of content you want to publish.
- Why would anybody be interested in reading your blog? What can you write about? What will set your blog apart from the hundreds of thousands of other blogs?
- How much time can I set aside each day to blog? Blogs need
to be consistently updated at least once a week, if not more. Blogging
can become very time consuming. Think about whether you actually have
enough time to contribute wholeheartedly to a blog site and make
frequent posts.

When creating a blog, it's important that you choose the right blogging
platform for you. Over the years I have bounced around from different
platforms and have summarized some of the most popular blog hosts
below. Trust me, choosing the right platform right off the bat will
save you a lot of time.
- Blogger - Blogger, also known as Blogspot, is a
Google-operated site that allows you to heavily customize your blog. I
would recommend this for people with moderate web design skills. They
also offer a lot of templates that you can search for and download
online. I would contend that it is one of the top blogging platforms
for fashion bloggers; everyone from The Satorialist to Mane and Chic
uses it.
- Wordpress - Wordpress is another very popular blogging
platform. I would recommend this for people with a high level web
design knowledge. They do offer templates for those without, but they
are not nearly as cool as the ones you can create if you know CSS. If
you don’t know what CSS stands for, try the blogging platform below
instead. Wordpress offers more customizing if you are willing to pay
more for it. Both Blogspot and Wordpress are free, but if you are
interested in creating your own domain, that will cost you extra.
- Tumblr - Tumblr is gaining popularity every day. It is a
great platform for anyone who is not too technologically savvy because
it offers really neat templates and essentially blogs for you. Trust me
when I say it is the easiest out of the three. For my personal blog, I
finally chose to use a Tumblr because it is more about me posting
pictures or videos of things I like, and Tumblr allows me to do it
quickly. It's also really easy to share images with other bloggers.
After creating and designing your blog, you'll need to promote it.
Promoting your blog is vital to your site’s success. What is the point
of spending time blogging if no one else reads it? Below are a few ways
to promote your blog.
- Use social media - Share links with your friends on Facebook and Twitter every time you update your blog.
- Comment on other blogs - Read other blogs and comment on
them. People will see the link for your site and will hopefully click
on it. Plus, it's a good idea to create relationships with other
bloggers.
- Include tags for all of your posts - A tag is a keyword or
term that helps describe an item. For instance, if you posted something
about New York Fashion Week then these words could be your tags: New
York Fashion Week, Fashion, New York, Clothes, Lincoln Center,
Mercedes-Benz, luxury, etc. Tags can be found again whenever people
browse or search the web. The tags can lead people to your site.
By: Anuli Akanegbu
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