13 Steps To Set Up Your Blog
- 2. What are we learning today?
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• Why Blog?
• Why Blogs Fail to Produce Results?
• Blog Topics
• 13 Step System for blogging
• Tips and Tricks
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• You want to help people find the
best information on farming
possible.
• You have something to say about
how farming happens on your
farm.
• You want to understand and gain
knowledge from others not
connected to your farm life.
• You want to connect people to
other people.
• You want two-way communication
and feedback.
• You believe you are an expert at…
Why blog?
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• Google and the other search
engines start indexing your
photos, videos and content.
• People start responding to
what you writing.
• People start trusting what you
are writing.
• People call you an expert.
• Search engines start putting
your farming information at the
top of their search pages for
keywords.
• Suddenly you are internet
famous.
What else happens when you blog?
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• You are not consistent.
• You are off your brand – you are NOT
courteous, polite, hardworking.
• You are talking to you only about you.
• You are not saying anything
interesting, important and have no
personality.
• You aren’t writing using stories.
• You aren’t responding to comments or
feedback.
Why blogs fail?
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• Listen to social media.
• Check out Google
keywords and trends.
• What are people
emailing you about?
• What do you want to be
known for?
What do you write about?
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2. Write, write, write
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• Write out your first three or four blog posts in
whatever system you prefer.
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- 11. Are you worried about Word Count?
• Personally, I think getting content up is more
important than make sure it hits a count. You want
a number? Go for 500 or 300 or 700 or just make
sure you get the point across as quickly as
possible and tell a good story.
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4. Select Your Domain
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• Think long and hard about your
domain name (keywords in the
URL are important).
• Having “dairy” or “farm” in the
URL can help get you found.
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5. Select Your Technology
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• Select a system that is something you desire for
your future.
• Not tech savvy at all - try tumblr.
• Tech savvy and want more control - blogger or
wix.com or squarespace.com – wordpress.com.
• A lot of control – wordpress.org
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6. CALL TO ACTION
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• What do you want the audience to do? Yes, read
your post is why they are here – what’s their next
step? Get their email address? Connect to you via
social media? Sign a petition? Spread the word?
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7. Design
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• If you are designer, then
you can do this yourself.
• If not, then you need to
get someone that is (a
web designer).
• Or just a use a template
(think responsive design
for mobile)
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8. Move your content into the blog
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• Take your time, work out the bugs, you can have a
deadline but don’t force it out.
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9. Add your other content
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• You need an About page and your CALL TO ACTION
page. Set those up. Add your social media profile links.
Add your fun widgets. Don’t distract people too much.
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11. Link your social media / email
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• Linking your social media profiles, Google profile
and your email to your blog helps drive traffic.
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12. Set up your Analytics
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• Get Google Analytics (free) set up on your website
to insure you understand what your traffic is doing.
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13. Use your network to drive traffic
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• After posting, make sure you are posting your links
to all your social media content.
Blog /
Website
Facebook
Twitter
Linkedin
Email
Search
Google
Adwords
Pinterest
Youtube
Photo
Sites
- 23. • Help others
• Talk about others
• Link to others
• Mention others and link
to them
• Read other blogs and
comment on them.
• Use Google’s
Autocomplete to work
headlines
Tips and Tricks
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Search + Social = TOP RESULTS
Remember: Great Content
drives both Social and Search.
If you want people to see your
stuff, you have to use both and
a blog can do that for you.