100 Tips for Building and Maintaining a Successful Blog

Building a website means buying a .com domain, a good webhost like Rackspace and WordPress with Genesis Framework. I am a consumer of all but not an affiliate of any.

1. Use WordPress as CMS be it a personal, Money making through Google AdSense or an Enterprise Blog. From Yahoo to Rackspace all uses WordPress for blogging purpose.

2. Buy a .com domain with intended keywords in the URL and Install WordPress on a good webhost which provides white lebelled IP.

3. Sign up for Google Services including Google Analytics, Google Plus, Webmaster Tools, Adwords and Feedburner. Other includes Technorati, Pinterest, Twitter, Facebook (Page and App), Stumble Upon, Digg, Delicious. These are minimum.

4. To be technically right, always make an arrangement for automated and manual Full Backup including MySQL and FTP contents.

6. Always check whether your Blog is displayed properly in all major browsers: Firefox, Internet Explorer, Opera and Safari. This is very important if you are using a Cache Plugin.

7. Optimize the page loading Speed by revision of your Theme, using a CDN and cache plugins with manual tweaks.

8. The logo is very important part. May be spending money by hiring a pro will help you to get a good logo.

9. Always be enthusiastic, informative, honest and positive. I specified few brands, none of them pays me or will pay. But they seems to me the best.

10. Sometimes success is incredibly fast, sometimes it takes more time. The key is to stay active and never to feel discouraged.

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