Blogspot and WordPress.org are two blogging platforms that dominates the blogosphere today. If you’re one of the people who wants to venture in the blogging industry, chances are you’ll be using any of these two. If you’re really into serious blogging, a good understanding of the two platforms is important to help you decide what platform fits you the most.
Continue reading →

1.  Choose a nice template that is SEO friendly and appropriate for your niche. Most bloggers took a long time deciding what template to use. If you are going to ask me I’ll pick for the minimalist design since it’s very SEO  friendly with less clutter to their codes. Greatly designed themes are not that SEO optimized with full of images that makes the page load time very slow.What we want to achieve is a blog with great performance and good looking. Minimalist design is by far the best template that you can use in your blog. Although minimalist design is stuck with the basic colors you can do some serious customizations that would make your blog look good.

2. Display a visible link with your RSS feed in your home page. You can also apply for a feedburner account in which you can use the link for your RSS feed. Readers of your blog which is interested in your content looks for RSS feed in which they can subscribe. If they’re the lazy readers they would rarely visit your site and would read your content to their favorite RSS aggregators.
Continue reading →