Blogging/Atlanta: How To Start A Blog For Business or Pleasure or Both - Jimmy Hall

Blogging is in for Atlanta businesses and those elsewhere. If you are reading this piece, you must know it since you are reading one, and are interested in the subject. Obviously, blogs are informative, interesting (in many cases), creative, help drive potential clients to websites, make direct sales, convert readers, provide 2-way feedback, are wonderful methods of personal expression, and are great for search engine optimization (seo) purposes!

Start Blog

So, how to start a blog for business in Atlanta, Marietta, or elsewhere is a very relative subject, right? Of course. In fact, personal blogs are even cheap therapy. Where else can someone express themselves to most of the world, basically for FREE?

Blogging Platforms

Most blogging platforms allow you to setup a blog for FREE. I recommend Google's platform, Blogger.com (which the one you are reading is setup on), but some other bloggers prefer WordPress.com. These are the two biggies.

Setup Blog Profile/Info/Blog Name

Once you pick one, setup your profile.  Choose a great NAME with words describing your content. Then, every bit of information you ever wanted to share about yourself or your company or organization (or as little as you want) can be entered in various information fields, with or without photos and videos. 

Search Engine Optimization (SEO)/Keywords

This stuff is really great for search engine optimization, so use keywords and a logical format when entering! (Add your website url and logo and anything else useful.)

Pick Blog Layout

NEXT: Both blogging platforms provide various pre-generated layouts and color schemes and styles. You can virtually make your blog look like whatever you want, and you will change it often! Create the blog. Then, prooofread the basic info, and pre-set the various blog settings exactly how you want them. Make the blog available for search engines, and possibly reader comments - your choice.

Write Blog Piece: Blog!

Finally, it is time to actually write. The blog fields are nice, and easy to maneuver and use. Pick a great subject. Decide on a few keywords relative to it. Title it. Write some solid and relvant copy (words) about the subject in a rational and orderly fashion (usually 300-800 words), double-check the grammar and for typos, and click publish after adding a pic or two (optional). *Hint: Chop the blog up into paragraphs with spaces between them.

Submit Blog To Search Engines/Link To Website

Then, after writing a couple of more pieces, go ahead and manually submit the blog to the big search engines. Within a couple of weeks they should crawl it; maybe faster if you link your website to the blog. Then it will be indexed and added to search results for when people look your keywords up!

Blogging: Hiring Bloggers/Blog Writers

Often, part or all of this process is not for everyone. This is especially true for business blogging. You might have the ideas, but few writing skills and no seo knowledge. In this case, hire a blog content writer or web content writer.

At Jimmy Hall Writing Services/Atlanta - Marietta (404-580-1501), I write blog content, and I wrote this piece! For very reasionable rates, I can help you or your organization. Try me!