Blogs are a great way to share your news and thoughts in a personal way that engages your audience. They have become common place as the web has encouraged a more open approach to publishing information.

However, a poor blog is worse than no blog at all, so here are some tips to creating a successful blog.

7 tips for the beginner blogger

1. Define Your Goals - What are you trying to achieve with your blog e.g.promote your business, define yourself as an expert.

2. Know Your Audience - Define your target reader and post content that's targetted at  them.

3. Be Consistent - Create a consistent style and look.

4. Be Persistent - Update your blog frequently or no-one will read your blog regularly.

5. Be Inviting - Blogs are social and you should write in a welcoming style and encourage your readers to publish their comments.

6. Be Visible - Drive traffic to your blog by creating links from other sites e.g.Twitter, Facebook.

7. Be yourself - Inject your personality into your blog creating a consistent tone for your posts.

 

Add any tips you have below on writing a good blog, or lessons you've learnt. Also please post the url's of any good example blogs and why you think they work well.