I am blogging

This is my very first post.  I have been thinking about blogging for ages but was not quite sure if I would find enough reasons to spend time writing about one of the things I am passionate about: SEO and web marketing. So I am giving it a go.

I am going to do my best to make my readers engaged and interested in my stories. Rather than reinventing the wheel once again with another SEO blog, I will try and keep it ‘to the point’ and cover only practical topics, such as:

• the common issues I come across when starting new projects
• the basics of SEO and search engine marketing, I will do my best to keep it jargon free
• recaps of recent trends, developments in the SEM, SEO world and even on social media
• practical tips, hints and ideas that can help you move ahead with your SEO strategies.

The first point ocurred to me as I keep finding myself sometimes in repetitive situations where I ended writing long emails to explain an angle. It would be good to have those points explained in the form of blog posts so that I can refer my contacts to them where necessary.

Another one reason I started thinking about blogging was that I realised that I was actually quite passionate about certain areas of SEO and I actually wanted to write about it

The third reason was that wordpress has been talk of the town for quite a few years now, and I want to learn to use it inside out from my own hands, as it had become the de-facto blogging tool aimed to individuals, small and medium enterprises. I had used wordpress before when blogging about my past trips to China and Mongolia but only for limited periods. I had also been using Movable Type corporately on a blog that I set up custom-built for the British Council, but I had no real hands-on experience on the most exciting areas of wordpress blogging: plug-ins, multilingual support add-ons, blogging for SEO benefit, and actually feel that I was a blogger, despite not being good at writing.

At this point I have to mention that English not being my first language made me consider to actually blog in Spanish, my mother tongue. This is likely to be,  in the long term, my best option, but for the time being, I will stick to English, just to get started. Also because most of the client work I am doing at the moment is in English, so it makes sense to write for those that are more likely to be interested in reading my lines.