Blogging Best Practices Wrap-up

We hope you've enjoyed our Blogging Best Practices series. We've gotten a lot of great feedback! In case you missed a tip, here's an overview:

Optimize Your Posts for Search Engines
How to use your posts' titles, permalinks, keywords and descriptions to draw in more traffic from search engines.

Improving Your Blog's Speed
If your blog is loading a bit slow, we have some tips for speeding things up.

Photo Use and Attribution
Images add a lot of personality to a post but how do you use them responsibly? Make sure to check out the comments for more great info from the community.

Publish New Posts Frequently
This is the #1 best way to get more traffic to your blog - post regularly and often. Your readers and search engines will keep coming back for more.

Build and Engage Community with Comments
The hows and whys of using comments to build a community around your blog.

Grow Your Audience
Five basic guidelines for bringing attention to your blog, making your content interesting, and drawing in return readers.

Structuring Your Posts Effectively
A general outline for structuring posts so that they're easy to understand and enjoyable to read.

Make it Easy to Subscribe to Your Blog
The title says it all - if you make it dead easy for people to get updates from your blog, they'll stay engaged with your content.

The Power of Personality
The most unique and valuable thing about your blog is you. Here's how to easily set yourself apart from all of the other bloggers in your niche.

Do you have any tips to share? Make sure to leave a comment on this post and tell the community about it! And if you have a request for future tips from the Typepad team, just let us know and we can write about it.

Comments

[Michael Bradley]

I am a new blogger, and working on building my audience. My Blog centers around paranormal investigations. Just for fun, I filmed a commercial for my blog. I am just going to keep plugging away. I need to find out how to do a podcast, so that is what I am researching now. If you have any tips on doing a podcast, that would be great. For everyone viewing the post, check out my commercial. It was done for fun and my phone was my camera!

[Jen]

Hi Michael! Welcome to Typepad. Have you checked out our article on podcasting yet? You can find it here:
http://help.typepad.com/podcasting.html

If you have any questions, let us know by posting to the forum - https://getsatisfaction.com/typepad/ - or opening a help ticket in your account at Help > New Ticket.

We're always happy to help!

[Kim]

New Blogger Here. Looks like a long way to go for me. :)

[Alexandria, Professional Bagpiper AFM Local 349]

It was a great series. Thanks for all you guys do.

[RonaldWhittaker]

I have found some errors while accessing my Typepad account. I don't see the same problem with other Typepad blogs. Is it the issue only with me? Can anyone please help resolving this issue.

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[Jen]

Hi Ronald! Can you please reach out to us at http://everything.typepad.com/blog/contact.html with more information on the problem you are encountering? Then, we can resolve any problems you are seeing asap. Thanks!