8 Tips for Choosing the Right Blog Software for Your New Blog Profitable Blogging by Gene Coleman
April 23, 2009
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Choosing the right blog software for your new blog requires that you
ask yourself some questions and make a list of all of the features and
tools you need as well as your budget. Once you have this information
written down you will be prepared to start shopping for blog software.
However, keep in mind the following seven tips for choosing the best
software for you.
Tip #1 Ping Updates
These allow you to
update your blog and are very important in blog software. Make sure the
blog software you are interested in provides automatic ping updates.
Tip #2 Comments
Whatever
blog software you choose, you'll want to make sure that it has an area
for comments from visitors. This will help you understand what is
successful in your blog and what is not, as well as guide you in future
blogs. This is a really great tool and should be part of your blog
software.
Tip #3 Trackback
If you are discussing your blog
on another blog, or simply adding information to another blog,
trackback will allow you to update this information. This is a little
confusing, but trackback allows you to talk on your blog about
information on another blog and ping the writer of the other blog to
let them know what is going on. Trackback is certainly a feature you
want in your blog software.
Tip #4 Pingback
Pingback is
similar to trackback, but it just sends a URL to the other blog to let
them know you are talking about their blog on your blog. This is are
now being used as much as trackback, and you will want a blog software
that has at both of these functions.
Tip #5 Web-based
The
point of a blog is you can post information instantly online, so you
want your blog software to be similar to a word processor and web based
without a shadow of a doubt.
Tip #6 Archiving
You want a
blog software that supports archiving, and most of them do. The reason
for this is you will want to save all of your past blogs by the date
they were published and archiving allows you to do that.
Tip #7 Categorize
Another
great tool you will want in your blog software is the ability to
categorize. You want to keep your blogs organized and in categories, if
you have them, so this option is really a great one for most bloggers.
Tip #8 Social Networking
You
need to utilize these tools with twitter, MySpace and Facebook being
the most popular. You Tube is becoming something to reckon with and
many others such Stumbleupon and newer ones to investigate such as
Sqip.
There are lots of types of blog software available. You
just need to do the research and compare what you find with what you
need and then... start blogging!
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