Top 10 tips for beginner bloggers

Starting a blog can seem overwhelming, but in truth, it's one of the simplest ways to join the online community. Follow these tips to ensure your blog is positioned for success! 
http://weblogs.about.com/od/bloggingtips/tp/TipsBeginnerBloggers.htm

25 blogging tips from newbies and veterans

Found a great article full of blogging tips! You gotta check it out!

http://goinswriter.com/blogging-tips/ 

12 Tactics To Take Your Blog To The Next Level

Here is another good article from The Huffington Post on taking your blog to the next level! http://www.huffingtonpost.com/danny-wong/12-tactics-to-take-your-b_b_5433708.html

How to Keep Your Blog Fresh

I found this great article on the Huffington Post on how to keep your blog fresh. Important stuff http://www.huffingtonpost.com/carol-hoenig/how-to-keep-your-blog-fresh_b_3936173.html

6 Blog Post SEO Tips to Get Your Content Ranking

While good content is key, SEO is an important factor to always consider when writing your blog. This link gives us some basic SEO tips to get started http://www.business2community.com/blogging/6-blog-post-seo-tips-get-content-ranking-0963109#!bvBddx

Blogging Tips List

Here is a site with a good rundown of some of the important tips and tricks you need to know to start blogging http://www.smartpassiveincome.com/blogging-tips/

WRITE WHAT YOU LOVE

This piece, found Here is a great short explanation of why you should write what you love.

"What is your blog about? Cooking? Parenting? Crafting? Government? Boogers? Whatever it is, make sure it's "you." Maintaining a blog is a lot of work, and if you don't love boogers enough to write about them several days a week -- until the end of time (or you quit) -- don't start. If you don't have the passion for your topic, you don't have much to offer your readers... and, they will soon be gone.

I personally LOVE coming up with ideas and giving advice. I always have. It may sound weird to some, but that is "me." When I get a phone call from a friend in need of ideas or advice, I get a rush. Really. That's how much I like it. People ask me all the time if I ever worry that I'll run out of things to write about, or ideas to share on the blog, and I can easily say "no." I feel confident that I can spew out ideas for the rest of forever, assuming I'm never bound by duck tape and gagged with a smelly sock. That may be a big assumption. Clearly, a blog about ideas would suit me well. And it has.

So, think about where your passion lies, and blog about it. One word of caution I have is to not get caught up in the linky party or giveaway trap in an effort to gain readers. I've seen several great blogs quickly go downhill because they became obsessed with hosting giveaways and linky parties. Their content suffers and I don't know about everyone else, but I take off in a flash. See ya. It's fun to host giveaways every once in a while. It's fun to host linky parties every once in a while. But unless you are a blog dedicated to those things, that is NOT why the majority of your readers are coming to you. They are coming for your content; to revel in your passion. Don't leave them hanging. What you want is readers who LOVE reading what you write about, not readers who sign up because they have to in order to enter the giveaways. That's not how you build an audience. I do giveaways now and then, as a treat to my readers, to build some excitement, and hey... to get some free stuff for myself. I may do a linky party someday; haven't yet. But, I want to keep it minimal. I know that's not why y'all are here."