What Drives People Away From Your Website

When you are starting a blog or website, you want people to WANT to go on it, you want features that draw people in, not things that drive them away.

1. PopUp Ads

When I go to website and I have a popup advertisment flash on my screen, I automatically get the vibe that the website I am on is a disease (virus) filled website, I go into "danger" mode and leave right away, 

Even if your site has great content, a popup advertisment can take the most wonderful site and make it look like "Trash" 

2. Advertisments For Gaming Sites

Yes, Advertisments, Now, I know some of you are trying to make money, but could you please refrain from advertisments for games like "Clash of the Scary People" or whatever its called! When I go to nice little site and see a beautiful IMVU advertisment with a girl and guy in a certain "Pose"..... It doesn't make me think highly of the site....

Also most of these are flashy, this can distract your readers and they will be to facisionated by the "Shiny" button than on what you have to say! Also when they see an ad with "Adult" content, they get the impession that the site is full of "Adult" content.

3. Misspelled Words

This is a total "No No" When you go to a blog or website you want your reader to understand the Content.

What I really hate is when I go across a blog like this:

2day I ttally wnt 2 c my BF of TTR we lke ced a flck (Even I can't understand that and I typed it!) 

Even Puntiaction is good, and spacing is also good. 

I really hate it when I come across:

Me and Mei went for a walk she said lets go he said i ran into naruto and he said to come join me i called out but Mei said naruto (Actual Story!)

Paragraphs too: Don't forget we would rather read:

I think cats are cool.

Dogs make me think of Cats, like those little puppies dogs!

Than:

I think cats are cool dogs make me think of cats like those little puppie dogs. 

Paragraphs make it look Cleaner and more proffesional!

4. Pictures of your Cat

There is nothing wrong with posting a picture of  cat once and a while, but I went to this one blog, where someone posted 20 pictures a day of their cat doing their "ninja" face. It was annoying. Sorry, but no one really cares about your cat's ninja face-If they do they don't want to see 10 pictures of it.

Example:

(Now imagine 50 posts like that?)

So now you know the things you should Avoid! 

Especially the Cat one.

B is For Blogging

So, You want to create a blog? Well you've come to the right place! Today we will show you how to make a blog and what you can do with it!

But first, What is a uh Blog?

What is a Blog?

A blog is a website, to narrow it down a website where you share your thoughts, There is no rule about what you have to make your blog about. Just because its a blog: You don't have to pour out your feelings and write about your life. No. Your blog will be whatever you want it to be. Blogs can usually be made free.

Making a Blog?

Before you make your blog, you'll need to come up with three things:
1. What your Blog will be about
2. Your title and URL
3. What blogging platform you will use.

There are many "Professional services," out there, but you will have to pay for them. In this case we will look at the popular "Free" services out there, these platforms are easy to use and you don't need to know HTML code to write a post. Its as simple as "Type, Click, View."


The top 3 platforms are: (easy to use.)
1. Blogger.com
2. Wordpress.com
3. Windows Live Spaces (MSN)

I would recommend either Word press or Blogger, they are flexible, easy to use, and fun!
IF you want other options: go to http://mashable.com/2007/08/06/free-blog-hosts/
For a list of 40 blog hosts!

How do I get Visitors? How Can I keep Track?

OK now you have your blog, How do you get visitors? Even more important How can you tell how much visitors you have had?

Be sure to make your blog colorful and welcoming! This can help to grab visitors attention, You can find "Hit Counters." or Visitor trackers in lots of places.

Here are some links to some hit counters

http://www.website-hit-counters.com/
http://www.widgetbox.com/widget/neocounter2
http://www.easycounter.com/FreeCounter3.html

Here we use "Neo Counter." Which shows UNIQUE visitors meaning all different, so it doesn't just show how many hits but how many computers have visited and what country they are from. This can help you gather information to find out what country has the majority of visitors and you can modify your posts to connect to them.

Getting Visitors, Here are three simple tips;
1. Write often
2. Have a lot of content
3. Tag your posts and add features to your blog to make it interesting

Making Your Blog Pretty?

Each web service will have templates you could use, you can also (I know you can do this with Blogger) design you can actually use a template designer: (Learn more about it at
http://draft.blogger.com)

You can also get free templates from other sites such as:

http://www.thecutestblogontheblock.com/
http://www.bloggertemplatesfree.com/
http://freetemplates.blogspot.com/
You can also find other Templates by typing in "Free Blog Templates on google"

Do you have a blog? Leave a comment and we'll visit it! Any questions? Leave a comment and we will answer them!

Other sites that can help you:
http://www.problogger.net/
http://www.bloggingtips.com/


Blogging is a fun easy way to share your thoughts with the world. Even I can say: