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So, you have a place to put your content (words and/or pics) and a place to let others comment. Next you want to be sure there's a way to easily add links to past posts in the blog. This feature is usually in a column to the right or the left of the blog's posts and often has a heading that says something like: Recent Posts. The reason this is important to have is that, as you post, daily or weekly, to your blog, the individual posts move down the web page and, depending on how you set the preferences, they eventually fall off the first page. There will be a link at the bottom that lets people read these old posts but having a way to let them look to the side and click on a link that has the title of the older posts is oh-so much better. If you have a choice, pick a place that gives you control over which posts end up in this column. You may not want every single thing you've said so easy to get to. You can delete any post, of course, but you never know when some old forgotten thought or feeling could become important to remember. So, keep all the old posts but be able to show on the front page the ones that seem meaningful to most people or for most of the reasons the blog is in existence.
Next comes the Titles of individual posts and a place to put Links to Other Blogs. Both of these aspects of blogging are important if you want a lot of other people to come to your blog and read it. The titles of individual blogs are important because they have the job of making people want to read what you've written. They also have the job of letting the search engines find key words that will make your blog show up on the Web's radar. It often happens that a certain combination of words in the title of a blog post has made a rather unknown blog soar to the top of the search results page.
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