Using MS Office in Writing Blog Posts

Especially for those who are do not do well in English grammar or comprehension, using Microsoft Office in writing your blog posts would significantly improve the quality and accuracy of your articles, as Ms Office has spelling and grammar checker.

And for those who want to make their articles a little bit more professional, you can use the synonym function of MS Office to look for other more profound words instead of those which you thought of yourself.

Using MS Office would also improve your speed of making your articles, as you do not need to worry much with the mistakes, as errors will be automatically detected and underlined so you can just look for those errors and modify them easily. I myself use MS Office in writing my posts, especially those lengthy ones. And it makes me feel more satisfied with my English composition.

Why Choose Blogger


There are a few blogging platforms out there you can use to make your own blog, but blogger is still most recommended and most used by many bloggers. And in this article I will tell you why.

It’s FREE and the best there is

There may a lot of free blogging platforms but some of them have limitations, these limitations include storage or bandwidth limits, and you cannot put ads or custom scripts, you cannot edit your template code or the design of your blog. Blogger has unlimited storage for photos and no limit of number of posts.

More gadgets/widgets available

Blogger is the most used blogging platform so there also are many gadgets you can shoes from, and you can search on google for any customization you want for your blog and you can definitely find it, and also for blog templates, there are numerous websites offering wide variety of designs to choose from.

No worries of your blog being hacked

If you host your own blog, wordpress for example on web hosting sites you may have risks about website hacking. And if you do not know how to secure a website hosted online, you may end up losing all your works. But for blogger your blog is hosted by google/blogger so you can rely that your blog is in good hands. And there haven’t issues of blogger blogs that have been hacked yet.

Common Blog Design Mistakes

Common Blog Design Mistakes
The things you should not put in your new blog

The design of your blog plays a great part in the terms of bounce rate for your blog. Bounce rate is the extent of how long visitors stay. Almost new blogs should have a simple and easy to navigate blog design. And because it has still few gadgets and contents it aside from easier navigation, it will also load faster. You can also download and install templates you want but make sure you can manipulate the codes and do not leave broken links, or links that points to the template source but not the attribution link of the creator. They can report copyright infringement to your blog if out remove their copyright urls.

And here are other things you should not put in your blog:

Too many flash animations

Don’t fill your blog with too many moving objects, flashing or moving letters etc. Only use them for header for example and just minimize using animations. We know animations distract readers eyes and may not concentrate to your content anymore. Other ways to put animations is in post title, buttons, but still it should be the ones you want to emphasize to your readers. Unless for ads you may not remove or disable animated ads because they are the ones generating income for your blog so I suggest you to minimize ads instead.

Too many external links

Refrain from placing many links to other sites in your blog. Aside from negative effect to the SEO of your blog, this also can make your bounce rate higher, visitors will be easily driven to other sites of you put many links anywhere in your page. Just like animated images, only add links if it is entirely necessary for an article or for any affiliate sites you might associated with. But for links to your own site or also called internal links, you can put many of them in your posts, internal links make search engine crawlers to travel to all pages of your site.

Too many ads

This is actually related to the first one, flash animations. Too many ads can irritate visitors, they will just think that your blog is only for making money and they can’t really get some valuable information there. There should be at least 1-3 ads in a single page, minimizing your ads also can greatly increase your ad CTR meaning more income for your blog. If a visitor see many of these images that obviously look like advertisement they will more likely not to click them so if you are thinking that adding many ads will generate more income for you, think again this time.

Remember your blog is still new so you must not add anything to drive away readers, make it as simple and attractive as possible. If the time comes that you already get a lot of regular visitors from search engines, you can now improve your design and add more gadgets, feature, and other stuffs your visitors can enjoy.

Basic Layout for a Blog Post

Basic Layout for a Blog Post
Even your blog posts should look nice and organized to make it easier in the eyes of the readers. A good post layout will decrease the bounce rate of your blog, bounce rate is how long a visitor stays in your blog. And well arranged words can keep them interested with your content. Good content alone certainly rank high in search engines but if they arrive from google for example to your blog, they found out that the title  of the article is exactly what they are looking for but when they look at the layout and found it messy they will eventually click back and look for another source that has a clean design and more organized post layout.

So I will show the basic layout of a good blog post. First thing is your post should at least have one image attached. Images will make your article more realistic and not too boring to read. But don't also limit the number of images to just one. You can add 3 or more images but don't fill it with pure images also. Words still have the most important part in SEO of a blog. For photo blogs surely you can add many photos as you want but make sure you also add caption for them.

Don't forget also to add some highlights to your headings or paragraph titles. Readers also will get bored to read an article that is one straight paragraph. You should divide it to 3 or more paragraphs this can help them sort it out and pick a certain point of your article to read. Before every paragraph is the best place to put your images so think of images to add that is related to that paragraph.

And lastly don't forget about simple paragraph layouts you must have learned in primary school. The introduction, main body, and conclusion, that's at least three paragraphs in all. You may not label them as such but do this make it more organized

Google: Bloggers’ Best Friend

Google: Bloggers’ Best Friend
To be more specific with our title, Google is the best friend of all bloggers and we should keep that in mind. In this article I will let you know the benefits us bloggers can get from Google itself. Google firstly is the main source of visitors of our blogs, and if you still don’t know google or google search specifically is the most trafficked or most used website today and the second is facebook, so you must more concentrate on SEO or getting your blog ranked higher in search engines specially google than any sites. I’m not saying facebook is not a good place to market your blog because as I have said facebook is the second in the line to google when it comes to worldwide ranking.

Every experienced blogger should by now have an idea how important it is to do all steps to rank high in google. Especially for those blogs that are used to generate more traffic and income of course. If there is no traffic no income also, we bloggers know that. From the title this article will show you the importance if google for our blogs, and further more I will explain in later articles the steps to make your blog rank high in google.

And for bloggers that use blogger we should always attribute our blog to blogger.com of course, because bloggers is free to use and we can earn with it without investing a single penny in web hosting even in domain name bills, blogger deserve to be attributed to all blogs using it. Simply not removing the powered by google link in the footer of our blog template can show our gratitude to blogger.

Do not forget also google adsense. It is by far the most used, trusted, and highest paying advertising company. And also owned by google so all bloggers that are using adsense should also thank google for the online earning opportunity that google gave them. There may be a lot of alternatives to adsense but come on, we all know and all those who tried to use these felt the superiority of adsense in many terms like for instance: ad relevance to the content, higher earning potential, and reliability.

I personally have no affiliation to google but all bloggers must consider the fact that google has the most important role in the success of blogging.

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