Blogging has become a popular way to make a bit of money and make yourself known as an authority in your particular niche. But too many bloggers think they can just put up any old site, write a couple of posts, and watch the money come rolling in. This is hardly the case for most people.

If you want to really make money with your blog, it needs to be organized and well-written. Do you need a few tips on how to make your blog better? Read on to find out how you can have a better blog in just 7 days.

Day 1: Get Organized. Buy a notebook that you can keep handy to jot down possible topic ideas as they come to you. Start a folder on your computer that’s dedicated to your blog writing. You may even want to create special bookmark folders in your internet browser for various websites that can help you (e.g. one for sites about blogging, one for other blogs in your topic, one for research related to your topic, etc.)

Day 2: Think about your readers. Who is reading your blog? Men or women? What age? Where are they from? These factors should all affect the style of your blog and your writing. For example, certain people may be put off by an informal writing style, while others may be put off by a professional style. If you know your audience you can cater to them. Also, think about what types of things these people need and what type of information they don’t have. Knowing this can help you come up with topics to write about or affiliate programs that you should think about promoting. Make sure you’re writing all of this down either in a notebook or in a file on your computer. You don’t want to lose your notes.

Day 3: Find similar bloggers. Spend about an hour looking for other blogs that are in the same niche as yours. Pay attention to what sort of style they use. What are you going to do to make your blog stand out? Can you create a niche-within-a-niche? Bookmark all of these blogs in a special folder so that you can visit them frequently. It’s good to keep tabs on what other same-topic bloggers are writing about. You wouldn’t want to miss a time-sensitive piece such as a news story. You also can use these blogs to study what affiliate programs others in your niche are promoting.

Day 4: Keyword research. Today you should research keywords. Do this using a keyword research tool. Your job is to find keywords within your niche that are broad enough that people are searching for them, but small enough that there isn’t too much competition already. Make sure that you write down all of these keywords, even if you may not use them for awhile. You never know when inspiration might strike.

Day 5: Brainstorming. Get out that notebook (or open that Word file) and start dumping your ideas out onto the paper. Don’t censor yourself. Everything is OK here. Nobody but you is going to see this. Once you’ve got your main ideas down, see if you can break them down any further. For example, with this article, I thought “How can I make my blog better?” then I jotted down each of the ideas. This made it much easier to actually sit down and write the article.

Day 6: Do your research. Do your blog posts need additional research? Today’s the day to focus on that. Take a look at your brainstorming lists from yesterday. See where there are holes and fill them in with a bit of research. It’s going to make tomorrow much easier.

Day 7: Get writing! Today, write several blog posts and store them on your computer. These should be very easy to write because you have followed the steps in the previous days. If you write a couple of articles in one day, you can post them throughout the week without spending much time each day. This streamlines the process and makes it much easier.

Some of these steps may seem unnecessary to some people, but I assure you that doing each of them will only make things easier for you. In just 7 days you can get organized and start writing the blog masterpiece that I know is inside you.

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Part I: Advertise your blog for FREE on Bloggers Forums!

No, don’t spam! We all hate spamming! BUT! You can include your blogs in your forum signature as well there are always areas to introduce yourself and list your blogs

Be creative, create nice signature! It can be colorful or with small smilies/images, or just some eye-catching text.

And when you join those forums, you’re not only advertising your blog(s), you also can learn a lot of great stuff there and make your own blogs even better and better!

Here are some nice Blogs and Blogging related forums:

Bloggst.com -  a community for bloggers. Apart from providing you with daily updated articles on blogging, the main feature of Bloggst is thriving discussion forum. I use this forum myself and there is a lot of useful info, starting with which blog script to choose up till codes and design tips. Already more than 5000 posts served for you. And (as for me, this is very important) this is very well designed (looking) forum!

Blogger Forum – it’s not so great categorized as Bloggst (I like categorized things LOL), but it is still very useful forum for bloggers and yes – there is section where you can list your blog and get it reviewed! Also a lot of tips about codes, designs and monetizing (and this is what we are interested in, right ?)

Forum4Bloggers -  I am not a member there yet, but will join shortly. This one looks useful too – there are design, codes, how to get more readers related sections.

Bloggertalk -  almost 10.000 members!!! More than 4000 posts – just imagine how many visitors you can get to your blog from this forum! Just create nice signature and post some posts (but once again, don’t spam!)

Well, that was our Part I about how to advertise your blog for free on Forums. Part II is coming soon…

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