Welcome to members of She-Writes participating in the Bloggers Ball. For those of you who don't know what this is, it's a blog hop for sites about books or writing. Full details here:

http://megwaiteclayton.com/1stbooks/

I am new to blogging, so my tips are a bit basic - but here they are. My top tip for bloggers is that most people are visual as well as verbal and a few pictures make all the difference.
So dancing at the Bloggers Ball is not all about the words.
Writers sometimes need reminding to break up the text with pictures.And don't forget to ask permission or credit the online site you took them from, or link to it.
If you are a published writer you can link your blog to your Amazon.com author page by following the simple links at Author Central, thus gaining more readers, and also feed it to Goodreads via their author widget.
I am part of a group of writers - Macmillan New Writers, who are all published by the same imprint. We have a joint blog, which can be a good idea, to give each other mutual support and encouragement and to celebrate publications and successes, so that might be worth considering too - teaming up with a small group.
Isn't this a great way of seeing other people's blogs and sharing ideas - happy writing everyone.