What You Need to Run A Successful Blog

by Nick Thacker on November 17, 2009

Steve Pavlina writes that we must be “web savvy” in order to be able to maintain a successful blog for our small business. As an entrepreneur, you should consider investing some time and money in getting some of these skills under your belt. From StevePavlina.com:

“Web savvy

What do I mean by web savvy?  You don’t need to be a programmer, but you need a decent functional understanding of a variety of web technologies.  What technologies are “key” will depend on the nature of your blog and your means of monetization.  But generally speaking I’d list these elements as significant:

  • blog publishing software
  • HTML/CSS
  • blog comments (and comment spam)
  • RSS/syndication
  • feed aggregators
  • pings
  • trackbacks
  • full vs. partial feeds
  • blog carnivals (for kick-starting your blog’s traffic)
  • search engines
  • search engine optimization (SEO)
  • page rank
  • social bookmarking
  • tagging
  • contextual advertising
  • affiliate programs
  • email
  • traffic statistics”

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