If you are new into blogging then this article is going to help you a lot.
If you are saying in your mind, “I am not new in blogging” you need not to worry because this article still has something for you. Because you might be thinking to start a new blog soon or lacking some of the things on your blog which I am going to mention here.
You know very first step in starting a blog is selecting a great looking domain and then selecting a perfect theme for your blog. I am assuming here that you have done both the steps very carefully.
Let’s dive into this article and read what are the things you should do in first week of blogging.
Write “about us” Page
This is the most accessed page on your blog. If you don’t have this page on your blog yet then you are losing big portion of returning traffic. Blogging have one truth that people love to read the blogs which give personal touch to them and where they can read about the author of the blog. Here are some things which you can write in about us page.
- History of your blog.
- Main purpose of your blog.
- Introduction about yourself.
- Achievements of your blog.
- Social Media statistics about your blog.
As I told you this is the most accessed page on your blog, so you must insert your optin form in this page. There are more tendencies to get visitors subscribed after reading about you.
Add “Contact us” Page
This page is going to help you to interact with readers and they can be in touch with you with this form. Further advertisers can contact you via this page if they are having interest to advertise on your blog.
This page will give freedom to your readers to contact with you. They can give suggestions, ask questions, ask for any specific article and too many other things.
Add “Privacy Policy” and “Disclaimer Page”
These pages are must for every great blog. So add these pages to give clear intention to your visitors. In disclaimer you can tell your readers that I am promoting affiliate products on my blog so I will be earning commission if you will buy any product with my affiliate link.
Burn your blog for FeedBurner
Having your blog feed is one of the most important step. Because there will be many users who would like to have your blog news in their inbox. So burn your blog for FeedBurner and then use that widget on your blog to allow users to subscribe you.
In FeedBurner you can do setting that when you want to deliver the content in subscribers inbox when you hit publish at your blog.
PS: If you are going to use any E-Mail marketing services like aweber/mailchimp etc then do all the required setting there.
Decide the main categories
Write down all the main categories in your notebook which you are going to cover in your blog. This practice will not only help you to reduce distraction but you will be having clear idea in your mind that what you are going to write.
After getting proper idea and writing them down it’s time to add them on your blog. Make categories and subcategories with proper care and keep adding more valuable categories in your blogging journey.
Make your Social Media Accounts
Social media is sending big amount of traffic these days. So having account on Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus have become mandatory for every blogger.
Always try to make these accounts with your blog name only. Like I have my accounts on these social media with url bloggingcage.
Here are the examples
http://www.facebook.com/bloggingcage
http://www.twitter.com/bloggingcage
Final Words!!
These simple steps will help your blog to have basic pillars and every new visitor who will land on your blog will be having good feeling.
Now it’s time to write great content and promote them more and more so that you can have great audience in future.
Spend your time doing these steps in first week of blogging. And these steps are going be always with you. On whatever stage your blog will reach in future but these 6 things will be always with your blog.
All the best.
About Kulwant
Twitter: ispblogger
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Hello Kulwant,
Really Great Tips!
Indeed Every Blogger Should Make Those Pages, Accounts in First Week.
Thanks For Sharing :)
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All the points mentioned here are really worth noting. I always look forward for these kind of posts in a valuable blog like this. Thanks for this article.
Great tips, this is something I can pass along to anyone I know who might be getting into the world of blogging.
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This is really awesome and i love that.. This is very unique thing you put on that post.. Thanks for sharing
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I impressed very much, Every aspect in this post is quite relevant and it is very important for new bloggers.
keep sharing.
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Thank you Kulwant for this useful advice about starting a blog. I’ve had my blog since about November of last year and I really need to get moving on it :) Thank you for pointing out the service that FeedBurner provides. I really appreciated that.
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Great post and Great information for me your all tips and all information is very helpful for new bloggers like me… Thanks for sharing… thanks again Kulwant bro.
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Great Post. I learn a lot reading it. Thanks to your tips I will soon be ready to launch my own project.
Thanks a lot!
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I got it now bro! :)
I like the Ratio, And I will stick to it.
Thanks a lot. :)
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Hey Kulwant, this post will really help new bloggers is setting a good foundation. I mean there is no dearth of articles giving you advice about blogging, but when you talk about articles which explain it well, we really still need them. Thanks for sharing the post.
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mind blowing information … very helpful for me… I use it in my new blog : http://careplex.blogspot.com thank you very much ..
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Glad to hear that you implemented my tips on your blog.
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Well said Kulwant!
Writing about and contact pages on the site makes the visitor to believe in us. And it requires adding our image in the about us page to provide the visitor belief in us. Thus the product we exhibited may be sold out easily.
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Adding image in about me page have become one of the must have thing. This make personal bonding with readers.
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I got here what I really wanted! Great tips for beginners Kulwant Sir, thanks for sharing.
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Thanks for such nice words Fitri.
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hello Kulwant…………
Thanks for sharing great article.Things you mention above are really very important for new comers. I think these pages are also very important for a new blogger when he want approving his Google adsence account .One must have these pages.
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Well said Mahendra.
For people who want to get AdSense account as soon as possible, this is must to do thing.
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I did not realize that feedburner was still useful. I will need to get feedburner setup! In fact, my blog is missing most of these great steps so I have a lot to do. Thanks for the useful post!
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hello kulwant
nice post specially for newbies. having certain pages like contact us and about us is the most important thing. when we start a blog we should take care of this. this helps our readers to understand who we are? and yes deciding categories and crating social media account is essential because social sharing is becoming a part of SEO
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This is a great article. It is actually exactly what I am looking for. I am new to blogging, no doubt about it, so I will be putting these steps to the test. Also thanks for clueing me into the social media pointers. I feel like now I atleast have myself going in the right direction. Thanks again.
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Dentist, it would be great if you are going to implement the things as per my suggestion in the article. Make all the necessary pages and grab the vanity urls.
You readers would love your efforts.
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Great post and Great information for me your all tips and all information is very helpful for new bloggers like me…………..Thanks for sharing……Thanks again Kulwant bro.
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Thanks for the appreciation Akeel.
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Simple Yet Must follow tips Kulwant Bro. Having Contact Us, About Us,privacy policies doesn’t only make sense but also keeps you adsense account safe from getting banned. Having Social Contacts related to your blog brand is also vital.
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Hey kulwant,
nice post with great information. I wold like to add one more type of page in the fist week of blogging And that is a Sitemap page or a Archives page. It will both help Your readers and also for SEO. For example i have added a Archives page and added it to menu. I have also explain in the page about need for Sitemap so the page contains additional value for users.
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thank kulwant,
Grabbing vanity URLs is a great tip! Definitely want to snatch them up before your blog gets too popular and other look alike blogs start popping up.
Railways, power
Twitter: kulwantnagi
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Social media is playing huge role in business as well as making connection with the people from same niche. Make your strong profiles and start getting benefits from them.
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Hey Kulwant, nice tips . It will surely help me in getting my new blog to top and build up the social reputation. I would like to hear what you think about backlinks. Thank.
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Pawan, thanks for asking question.
Backlinks are most important for getting more exposure on your blog and making Google to love your blog. After doing all these things; from the next week you can make backlinks.
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Hey kulwant,
nice post with great information. I really enjoyed this post while reading and I think this post will surely gonna help all the newbies. I think selecting a good domain name and niche is the most tough part and after this design will also play an important role. Thanks for sharing this post.
there are lot of things which need to be done along with these six. like selecting your blog platform, designing your website, selecting comment platform, making 404 page template, and selecting permalink configuration. so these things are not going to be end up in 1 week, i think they might take 2-3 weeks.
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Adding about us page and contact us page is necessary for increasing reliability. Thanks for these tips about what to do in first week of blogging.
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Privacy policy and terms page is extremely important for a website, i did not add these pages at the starting of my blogging career… but now i know the importance of these pages…
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hey nice tips kulwant
privacy policy and contact pages are the most important pages. and all points are good.
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I haven’t written a “About Me” page. I wrote about me and my service in the Home page. And use it as my main sales page. The only thing I wanted to add when I started my blog, don’t get over excited and write loads of posts all at once! This is on the lines of my main mistake! Work out how often you are going to write a Post and stick with it. Have fun!
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Personnaly, if you see my blog the first day, and at the end of the fisrt week, it has totally changed because I had a lot of feedback making me change a lot of thing.
Changing your blog content and design is the way to succes !
Twitter: CoolWPTips
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Hey Kulwant Nagi, listed some awesome things to be done by a newbie bloggers. I still don’t have Privacy Policy and Disclaimer Page in my blog and soon i am going to add them. Thanks for sharing this Great Post bro :)
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very impressive tips buddy, i want to add more thing like book your social profile,
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Twitter: AmrikTweets
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Great article Kulwant,
I really enjoyed reading your article. I really liked the last tip which you have shared and explained nicely about creating accounts on social media sites. It’s very essential to be an active user on social media sites. It’s will really help you to gain a good amount of visitors and now Google also give value to your social activity. From my point of view having a good social account with regular activity can give you a good SEO strength. Make sure you focus on your goal try to expand your network with your social network. This will help you in the long run.
Also I would like to share few tips on creating About Me page. Do you know Kulwant, My About Me page is the second most visited page in my blog. Make sure you must create a Kick-Butt one. It’s very crucial to keep it focused and never lie about yourself. The next important thing is to remember is never leave your About us page without having a strong call to action. This is another great opportunity to grab some interested readers to your subscriber list. ;)
I am waiting for your next guest post on We-Blog-Better.
Best Regards,
Amrik Virdi.
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Thanks for being here Amrik. Happy to see you. :)
Social media have become such an integral part of our life in every aspect that we cannot deny it. Grabbing all vanity url is really a good move because you don’t know when your blog will be turned into a big business. So at that point you might have little problem.
I can understand that ABOUT ME page would be one of the top page on your blog, because the fact is, when people enjoy the articles they check writer behind that blog.
Congrats to you for attracting great readers which are keen to know more about you.
Keep putting your best and loving blogosphere.
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This article has given me a good kick that I need! I’ve built up blogs before but I’ve got a new project I’m working on and I really need to flesh out the basics. All my time has been spent on behind the scenes stuff and I still haven’t got the content I should have on the main page. This weekend the About, Contact, and Disclaimer pages go up. No excuses!
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Hi Cody,
Yeah, every blog needs at least those basic pages. I think the Disclaimer and Privacy policy are a must if you are doing any affiliate marketing or selling any products on your site. Some affiliate programs will suspend your account if you don’t have them.
All the best!
Twitter: jijinmohan
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I felt very hard when writing my about me page and deciding the categories. I got here what I really wanted! Great tips for beginners Kulwant Sir, thanks for sharing.
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Thanks dear friend.
It’s great feeling that I was able to deliver accurate message for you.
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Best tips to follow by any newbie if he really want to build his brand.
The first thing that I do before making my site go live is grab all available vanity URLs for my site :)
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Hi Sumit,
Grabbing vanity URLs is a great tip! Definitely want to snatch them up before your blog gets too popular and other look alike blogs start popping up.
First of all.
I’m so happy to see you Kulwant around here. You are really widening your Online Presence. Congrats. :)
I’m myself an owner of 5 days old blog and I think I’m under this category.
Well put Kulwant. Thanks for reminding me to add the Privacy Policy and Disclaimer Page. I’ve really forgotten about them.
What would you suggest me? – Going to back linking and getting some popularity after writing some quality content or before writing some articles?
I’m really confused in that case.
Thanks in advance.
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Thanks for following me here too. ;)
See Zion, you cannot influence people until you have something great to show them. This world have become more of showy, so you will have to put these things together.
There is no need to write great articles if you don’t have audience to read. So in first few month keep ratio of 70:30. Means 70% on other blogs and 30% for your own.
So I will suggest that keep writing great content and connecting with fellow bloggers. Soon people will start noticing you and there will be BOOM in your blogging career.
Keep running both the things. Write well and make your identity.
All the very best for future.
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This is good stuff for starters. In my early days, I didn’t read this. Some lucky ones are getting it now ;)
Thanks for sharing
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Enstine, even I myself did these things after 6-7 months of starting my blog.
Hope people will take my tips seriously and implement all these things on their blogs.
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I agree with most of the points except feed-burner one. I may be wrong but i think RSS and more importantly feed-burner is kinda outdated technology. Most of us spend time living a social life. So rather then focusing on increasing feed readers, i think its better to invest in increasing social presence. And you missed one very important point i.e. going mobile. With the advent of smartphone, mobile optimized sites are very much important.
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First of all thanks a lot for adding great value in article. I agree that feedburner is outdated, but many big blogs are still using it.
E-Mail marketing tools have changed it completely.
Being active on social media is really a good move.
Thanks again Prasant.
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Yes, These are all thing is most important to the blog, You have given nice info it can be great useful for every new bloggers.
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Thanks a lot for loving my article. I will be putting more great stuff here soon.
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Good tips, Kulwant. I like last point. Creating social media account is important for your blog and brand.
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Hello Kulwant Sir,
Simple yet So useful points which will really going to help every blogger!
Social Media: Works really well for my Blogging career and I guess this is the only medium that we Bloggers are connect to each other and with our readers too! :)
Well, Nice article and yes I will soon follow all points in my blog! :)
Thanks!
Happy Blogging!
~Sugandha!
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Well put Kulwant. Having presence in social media is very essential when it comes to new blog outreach. It also helps to promote latest posts which might be buried under the fence otherwise. I strongly recommend everyone to setup an email newsletter or subscription box at least. It was my biggest mistake as I had lost a heap of returning users. Keep this up and all the best.
Hello Dear
i am very impress really this is great points to discuse with me and social media one of the great way in fact everyone are using this way, really thanks for the sharing me
Twitter: kulwantnagi
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Thanks for your kind words Mansi.
Start implementing these tips on your new blog and you will be able to make more attached readers.
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Social networking sites now have great importance, so it’s really essential to create social networking account for your blog before starting blogging. It’s one place from where you can derive consistent traffic but initially you have to build your audience.
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Yes Shailender,
Social media have been proved as best medium for getting traffic. This is the place where you can make relation with people and you can get loyal visitors for your blog.
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