Do some Blog Posting

Blogging requirements Develop some concrete goals that have a deadline and a specific outcome (like reaching 10,000 email subscribers within 12 months). Research the other blogs in our niche and see what they are doing and how you might be able to improve on their failings. Develop Strategy for our blog with end-goals and potential products in mind. It doesn’t have to be finialized but it’s good to have some ideas about where you want us to end up Typography must be spot on Back up all blogs Must include site map Create social media pluggins Register for an Akismet key Add plugin like Subscribe to Comments Add Yoast SEO plugin Subscribe AWeber / Create some opt-in forms for our sidebar, bottom of posts, header, etc. Create a lead-magnet or free eBook that we give away to readers in exchange for them signing up for updates. This should be a very high quality/high value offering that is tight on the topic we want to share over the coming months. Create an automatic Follow Up email that welcomes subscribers to our blog and lets them know what to expect next as well as delivers the free eBook. Build a landing page specifically for promoting this free giveaway and link to it in strategic places like the sidebar and at the end of posts. Change our permalink structure to use “post name” as the default so we don’t have dates and categories in your URL. Edit our title in our theme code so our post name appears first instead of some ugly alternative. Create about us page ...... Create a contact page that has an email address where people can reach us, and maybe links to social networking on and offline Create a privacy policy and term and conditions page Incorporate our logo Create a Start Here page or a subscription page that introduces our blog and let’s people know what we are about and how they can get updates. Write our first pillar blog post of at least 2,500 words that really sets the tone for our topic and our blog’s style. we want to provide as much value as possible as soon as people land on our site so they know we are the real deal. Add quality pics only Add lots of other media to these long-form posts like videos, audio, graphics, resource lists, etc. as this increases the value of the post and is a quality ranking factor for Google. Think about categories and tags that you will use and try to put each post into only one category and 3-5 tags based around keywords. set up analytics package like Google Analytics or Clicky Get our logo/ photos to appear in comments by associating our email address with a Gravatar account. Search for ways to always promote post Thanks