Wikimotive provides you 10 basic tips on blog creation to keep you on the right track.

1. 10 Things To Keep In Mind For
A Successful Blog
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2. Blogging is a crucial part of a well rounded online marketing
and automotive SEO strategy.
• Creating a successful blog is hard work but the benefits can be huge.
• So how do you make sure that your blog is successful?
Here are 10 basic tips to
keep you on the right track.

3. 1 Keep your headlines succinct
• The goal of a headline is to get readers interested in your post right
off the bat.
• Don’t be cute with convoluted, long or confusing headlines.
• You want your headlines to be Urgent, so that the reader is drawn to
your post. also keeping them short and specific will help you capture
the interest of a reader quickly as they scroll through either search
results or a feed reader.

4. Here is a good example:

5. 2 Create good recognizable URLs for SEO purposes
• If your URLs are a jumbled mess it can effect you in two ways.
• First if people can’t read them they look unprofessional and are less
likely to be clicked on in search results.

6. 2 Create good recognizable URLs for SEO purposes
• Many people use the URLs just below the title in Google search results
as a reference in deciding whether to follow one link or another.
• The second way bad URLs can effect you is by hurting your SEO.
• Including key words in your URL and removing things like
“602-9912342-3046240?_encoding=UTF8&” will help search engines
index you correctly.
• Fortunately most blogging platforms out there make this really easy
allowing you custom edit the URL for each individual blog.

7. 3 Remember to fill out your page title and description
• Page title, description, and keywords are paramount if you want to
rank highly in search.
• This is really a simple thing to do but it can have a huge impact on
how well your blog performs.
• WordPress has some great plugins that will help you be consistent
and relevant with all of your posts meta data, and remember good
titles and descriptions will help your blog be more social media
friendly.

8. 4 Link to your old posts when you can
• Links are everything within your blog, and linking to your older posts
can help you in a number of different ways.
• To start with referencing your other posts can help you make your
point better, but that’s only the beginning.
• Links to old posts will help drive traffic back to them giving them new
life. Also if you make sure your links contain key words that you want
to rank for you will hugely improve your SEO.

9. 5 Link to other bloggers
• Yes I’m going on about links again, because they are that important.
• Linking out to other blogs is a great way to get more people involved,
and will give you the opportunity to listen and trade ideas.
• Who knows maybe you’ll learn something. Also giving proper credit
is huge.

10. 5 Link to other bloggers
• Many bloggers put their heart and soul into their writing, so if you
make a post based on an idea you get from another blog or article it’s
just common courtesy to give them credit by linking back to them.
• Lastly, inbound links obviously help your rank but so do outbound
links. This is especially true if you’re linking to sites that are
particularly popular or an authority on the topic at hand.

11. 6 For the love of God don’t plagiarize
• This should be a no-brainer but it still happens everyday.
• Coming up with consistent, fresh and interesting content is hard to do
but copying content is not the way to go. There are lots of ways to
overcome writers block and get yourself back on track, and there is
nothing that will destroy your online reputation worse than
plagiarism.

12. 7 Write early and often
• The amount of traffic you get on your blog is usually going to be
directly proportional with how often you post.
• Obviously you’re busy so once a day is probably going to be out of the
question; once or twice a week is usually good practice.
• Things move quickly these days so staying relevant usually means
posting about a popular topic the day of, or at the latest, the next day.
• Try to set yourself a schedule, if you commit to posting on Tuesday
and Thursday every week you’ll find it easier to consistently blog
twice a week.

13. 8 Invite your readers to leave comments
• Having dialogue on your blog is very important, if you engage your
readers they will be more likely to come back and read more of your
stuff.
• The best way to encourage comments is to ask a question at the end
of your post. Also posting about relevant, interesting, or even
controversial topics will get readers to engage and express their own
opinion.

14. 9 Make sure your blog has a presence on social media
platforms
• One of the best ways to get more people to read your blog is to
promote your content through social media.
• If you’re not publishing each and every blog on Twitter, Facebook,
and Google Plus you’re missing loads of opportunities.
• Make sure you’re being strategic about how you’re using these social
media sites as well.

15. 10 Don’t give up!
• Building a successful blog takes a lot of work and a lot of time.
• You might not get a readership or any success in the first few months
of blogging.
• It is important to keep at it though, because as soon as you give up all
the work you’ve done until that point becomes useless.
• You probably won’t see immediate success but if you follow these ten
steps and stay committed you will definitely begin to see results
before long.

16. Starting with the basics will help you build a strong successful blog
in no time.
• Need some personalized advice on blogging?
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About Timothy
Under Timothy Martell's leadership Marlboro Nissan's website drives more than 30,000
visitors per month. Timothy Martell executes a cutting edge online marketing strategy
consisting of Social Media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, SEO, Microsites, Local
Search, Consumer Rating Websites, Online Tools etc which have made Marlboro
Nissan to become one of the volume leaders in the whole of New England. Marlboro
Nissan website has had huge steady increases for almost the entire year (2009). In
August 2009 of this year traffic was just shy of 40,000 visits, 1,500 phone calls (online
only) and almost 1,000 leads.