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Let’s say that everything has a face, every place, city, chat room, person and of course every blog. Different people stylize this face in their heads in a different way. The face of your blog is actually your blog voice. It doesn’t matter which subject you will chose to write your blog about, it doesn’t matter what theme you use for your blog, but there is one little thing that truly makes your blog stand out - and that’s only you.

The way you write defines your online ‘voice’, and once you find it and fit it, your blog will begin to shape around it. Let’s pretend that you are new in blogging, like me and or any of the other few thousands new bloggers that open their sites every day. In the very begining you will not have blog voice at all. In the way a child grows and develops his personality, in the same way you slowly start to define your blogging voice.

Just like any writing, when you go live you will probably look like many others because their style will have some reflection over you and you will emulate them in some form. Meanwhile, you’ll find your voice starting to take over everything else.

I did emulate the big guys in the branch for a while. The problem was, I didn’t really like them, so for a months or two I found my own style, which has served me well until now no matter that my english ain’t perfect.

Many people will still ask, hey how did you found it?

As one guy from Metacafe answered me on my question about what’s most important for optimizing a site, he said: “Three things - Content, content, content”. In the same way I will answer you too, you just need three things to find your blogging voice: practice, practice, practice.

The more you write, the more comfortable you will be, and the more your true personality will shine through. No matter what is the subject of the blog, even if it’s something very serious that doesn’t allow free style of writing, the articles will be still driven by your personality.

Keep in mind, however, that when you write about industry news and anything else that people could read on any blog or site, it is very important to have your unique way of presenting them these news and only this will make them coming to your blog.

Okay, but how do I exactly present news and information in a way that will look unique?

Some of you have been writing for years in forums or online communities, even chats. This helps you building your language, I’m sure many of you remember their early years in online communication.

hai how ar u, im jenn, asl? nice 2 meet u

WHAT!?

I’m sure this writing style of yours changes and evolves over time. Don’t try to rush it, take your time finding your little voice. Set up a sechedule that you can keep, and stick to it, and in case that you are more experienced, try to take an objective look at what you’re writing and how you’re writing it. If you truly enjoy what you’ve written, your visitors will enjoy it also, or at least most of them. But if you don’t find it engaging, how can you expect the visitors to?

Of course, there are thousands if not millions or zillions of different voices out there in the blog world. Each one of them is interesting in a different way, many of them are quite similar, many are truly unique. Remember that it is the different voice that makes sites unique, not the subject or design. Find yours and your blogging will be not just easier, but a lot more fun too.

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