Blog = Content + Communication + Crowd. Easy Ways to Write Content for Your Blog. Create a topic or tip series, interview other experts in your industry to gather some great content. Create and send out an industry survey as to what topics your audience would like to hear more about. Repurpose old newsletter or ezine articles. Round up your best tweets from Twitter and formulate those into blog articles. Create a blog posting editorial calendar in a spreadsheet format or post them directly to your Outlook or Google calendar. Be sure to set reminders so you will know when your next article is due. Managing Your Blog Comments. Monitoring incoming comments. Avoiding spam comments. What are Trackbacks and Pingbacks? Tips on How to Drive Traffic to Your Blog. Provide a free offer sign up on your blog and market the free offer online and offline. Add your blog to Facebook and Twitter (NetworkedBlogs and Twitter Tools). Submit your blog to blog directories. Use a share plugin on your blog so that your articles can be shared on social media and social bookmarking sites (Digg, Delicious, etc.) Article marketing efforts – when submitting an article to an article distribution site, provide a link to your blog in the article author box. Post an article to your newsletter or ezine and have the reader read the rest of the article on your blog. AlethaMcManama is THE BLOG STRATEGIST: WordPress Pro, Designer & Trainer that assists biz owners market their online presence. Loves to teach & mentor. Christian mom of two.