Using Your Portable Laptop to Blog – Making Your Blog Stand Out

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Thursday, August 13th, 2009 @ 5:15 pm | Misc

Blogging, for fun or money, has become popular and widespread method of communicating or connecting with other; it is a great outlet for expression and can assist in leveraging an online business. How many times have you seen people in the park or café, sitting with their portable laptop, writing, thinking, smiling, and writing again? Portable laptop can help you write wherever you want, or even get inspiration from simple details of everyday life, allowing you to follow its traces in person. But what are the secrets of blogging that can make a difference for you as a professional or avid blogger?

Wordpress is the most important and popular blog platform today, embraced by numerous individuals, CEOs, marketing managers and anyone who has a message to communicate online. Wordpress is an amazing platform, very well appointed, offering a lot of amazing SEO power already built in. not everything comes by default, though, and you need to follow particular tips and hints in order to make a difference.

Most bloggers tend to forget that Wordpress and SEO go together, and do not implement some of them, condemning their blog posts to invisibility, no matter how good they might be. Optimization for search engines depends on many different factors and can be implemented in many different ways. Sometimes it’s hard to think about SEO when sitting with your portable laptop in a café, opposite from a lake, thinking what to write, but unfortunately it is necessary if you want to make your blog stand out.

Here is what you should keep in mind if you want to implement a good SEO strategy for your blog:

- Permalink Optimization: The most important thing you can do regarding Wordpress and SEO is to use the right keywords in the title. No matter how nicely written is your blog post, if no one can find it, it doesn’t really make any sense. The right keywords can make your URL visible and more attractive.

- Tags: Tags are very important for SEO, but only if they are useful and well picked. You do not need useless and unnecessary tags; there is no point in adding tags that have nothing to do with your permalink or description. On the contrary, they lessen the emphasis given on the title keywords.

- Design: keeping the wordpress design clean, clear and simple is crucial. The body text should be written using clear heading and lines. Most bookmarking sites are against blogs, because of possible spamming, therefore keeping your blog well appointed and clear, can help your blog look more like a site, liked and appreciated everywhere. Your portable laptop should have enough storage space for design tools, such as Photoshop and Illustrator.

Whether blogging for money or not, whether you are blogging because you want to communicate your message or connect with strangers, just take your portable laptop and go somewhere where you can focus and write something beautiful and gripping that will attract your readers’ attention and make known in the blogosphere.