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I have been to so many blogs in the last 3 months and have gotten a lot along the way.

I decided to outline all I learnt to remind me of what to do and also to remind others. These points are like my to do list.

They lessons here maybe already known by you, in that case, let it serve as reminder.

They were not written in order of importance but were written as they came to my brain.

HERE THEY ARE

1. Link properly. Use the related phrases or keywords to link to other pages. If you are writing about reciprocity link that and not like this.
2. Add personality or your personality to your blog and blog post
3. Don’t wait for people to come to your blog or website, push it out there for them to see. Distribute it using every channel available.
4. Blog post ideas can come from anywhere ,be on the look out
5. Take commenting on other blogs seriously
6. Add value when you drop a comment
7. Write as you talk
8. Don’t educate, entertain and  educate
9. Your about page should be done properly
10. Never forget reciprocity
11. Don’t monkey around with guest posting, do it
12. Build a relationship with other bloggers
13. Google Adsense sucks
14. Google Adsense only works with lots of targeted traffic
15. Banner ads is not the best way to make money online
16. Affiliate marketing and selling your own products and services are the best ways of making money online
17. Just write, make corrections later
18. Ask for help, people will give it
19. Help others so that others can help but don’t help to be helped
20. Plan your blogging time
21. Time your blogging plan
22. Your blog should solve a problem, help people
23. Stand out, differentiate or die trying
24. Don’t sell, teach-it builds authority
25. Your blog is a marketing tool for building trust –use it well
26. Research your niche before you start a blog
27. Don’t copy other people; it will only make you floppy
28. Read other blogs, you will learn a lot
29. Read other blogs-they are also sources of blog post ideas
30. Work hard-there is no other short cut
31. Blogging is not a get rich scheme-know this
32. Blogging may not make you rich-sad but true
33. Treat your blog as a business and you will start making money
34. Get a real face-no one really builds a relationship with a logo in a gravatar
35. Learn how to tell stories, it connects you with others
36. Don’t say what you can’t do-it kills trust and credibility
37. Learn the art of marketing-you will need it
38. Learn the art of persuasion –you will need it
39. Build a list-I bet you have heard that before
40. Don’t pay for traffic always-build it; it pays in the long run
41. Take action, nothing beats it
42. Practice, practice, practice
43. Make mistakes and learn from them
44. Get a unique design, it stands you out
45. Get a unique voice or writing style and other idiosyncrasies-it stands you out
46. Have an opinion and stand by it
47. Curse if you like, but only when you have to
48. Get accounts from the social web and link your blog to it
49. Practice deep linking
50. Never give up
51. Blog about trending topics but add your opinion and then tweet it with a hash tag-it builds traffic
52. Watch for trends and talk about it before others
53. Use attractive headline or titles but edit the post slug for Google and SEO reasons
54. Make your post scan able and easy to read
55. List posts are great
56. Reward your commentators (link love, comment luv, top commentators)
57. Never deceive with a post title, strive to deliver the promise in the title
58. Experiment , test – it determines the best option
59. Product development is not as hard as we think
60. Give a free gift -it builds reciprocity and exposure
61. Give credit to sources of inspiration for your blog post
62. Love your readers and help them with their problems
63. When you read a great post, tweet it
64. When you read a great post, read it again
65. When you read a great post, bookmark it, fave it

I have written blog posts about some of these points but i must confess that I haven’t quite practiced all these points, I am not even close.

Have you performed them all?  Do you have more you would add? Are there any you would kick out of the list?

Please comment.