Blogging? I love to blog but it’s taken me a while to learn the ropes. It’s not a diary, it’s not a Facebook update, it’s not an article, it’s something in between.
It’s actually become one of my favourite things to do in the day. Once, I wrote 15 blogs in one day. Actually that was in half a day, that was before breakfast. This is because blogs aren’t masterpieces of art, they’re short, pithy, provocative and informative messages to the world. I write two blogs for myself every day, this blog, which is my blog for WritingEngine and the Acting Blog, which is the other side of my business.
Then there’s the blogs that I write for my clients, which are often centred around a myriad of different topics and I’m slowly becoming an expert on just about everything 
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Anyway, I don’t want to get into a debate about whether it’s right or wrong for me to write other people’s blogs. Blogging is an important tool for your business and if you don’t know why that is, I advise you READ THIS BLOG. If you’re blogging for yourself, here are some ‘rules’ or guidelines to consider:
- Keep It Brief and Stick to the Point
- Try to Keep Your Paragraphs Short at 2-4 lines
- Start at the Point and then explain yourself
- Tell stories about yourself to explain things
- Don’t worry about the rules of grammar
- Cut the chaff
- Talk about what makes you excited and what makes you angry
- Set comments ‘on’, always reply to comments but delete the idiots, they just drain you.
- Link to interesting resources that you find
- Say what you want to say, don’t write a sanitized version, it’s dishonest.
- Tag, Tag and Tag, Tags are SEO-rich
- Break the rules
So, those are just for a starter, look out for other blogs about blogging soon!
Mark Westbrook is owner and content/copywriter for WritingEngine, a company providing cost-effective SEO article marketing, SEO copy, Blogs, Press Releases and other written solutions.