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Introducing Blogging and WordPress
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www.foodperson.com
Research the Competition
You can get clues as to what is being written about and what is popular
at these Web sites:
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http://wordpress.com: See the most popular recent tags, which are
like keywords, on WordPress.com blogs.
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www.alexa.com: Search for blogs on your topic, and Alexa lists them
and their traffic ratings.
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www.technorati.com/pop: This page lists the 100 most popular blogs
among Technorati users.
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www.stumbleupon.com: Sign up with this service, select your topic of
interest, and then stumble, which takes you to blog post after blog post on that subject.
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http://blogsearch.google.com: Search on a topic to find existing blogs and blog posts on the topic.
Competition
If you are unconcerned about developing an audience or if you
want your blog to focus on your personal life, you need not worry
about competition. For other subjects, however, check out the
competition before you settle on a blog topic.
Useful and Entertaining
Whatever topic you choose, you will get more readers if your blog is
useful or entertaining — or both. As you narrow your list of possible
topics, think about which ones give you the greatest opportunity to
be helpful or engaging. Those may be your best bets.
Focused
The more focused your topic, the easier it will be for search engines
to find it. A focused blog also has greater potential to generate
advertising revenues later, if that is one of your goals.
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