Steps to Start a Successful Political Blog
Introduction
A blog is a discussion or informational website published on the World Wide Web consisting of discrete, often informal diary-style text entries. Most local political blogs, though, are only read by a small audience–and don’t have very long lifespan.
Steps to Start a Political Blog
Choose Your Blog Platform Secure a Domain Name and Set Up Your Blog Hosting Optimize Your Blog for Local Political Keywords to Generate Relevant Organic Traffic Build Back links Keep Things Partisan for More Reader Interaction, Controversy & Attention Gossip & Scoops are Good, but Libel & Slander are Downright Dangerous
Choose Your Blog Platform
To start a political blog you’ll need to select a blogging platform – or the software that helps you to get your content on a website. There are many blogging platforms available, but Word Press is by far the most popular blogging platform.
Secure a Domain Name and Set Up Your Blog Hosting ď ˝
I strongly recommend using Blue Host for getting both your domain name and setting up your hosting. They’re inexpensive and make it very easy to get started.
Generate Relevant Organic Traffic ď ˝
If you want more free traffic for your politics blog, then you need to make sure it’s optimized to rank highly in search engines like Google for phrases that locals are actually searching for.
Build Back links ď ˝
Building good links back to your political blog is vital to driving new traffic and subscribers, and not just because people will click on the links and find your site. The search engine algorithms put a lot of weight on the number of incoming links that a website has when calculating its authority.
Keep Things Partisan for More Reader Interaction, Controversy & Attention ď ˝
We keep things strictly non-partisan here, because our target audience consists of political candidates who run as Democrats, Republicans and everything in-between.
Gossip & Scoops are Good, but Libel & Slander are Downright Dangerous ď ˝
In order to generate attention, there’s nothing better than being the first to break some local political news or get the dish on link-worthy gossip. In fact, one of the reasons that many main-stream journalists dislike politics blogs is that the smaller local sites often get the scoop on big media organizations.
Who I Am.. ď ˝
Rafael Moreno Valle is a Mexico politician and also was the Governor of Puebla form 2011 to 2017.