Basics

Remember the good old yahoo geocitites days? well when you would search in those days on yahoo, you would had delivered a lot of pages from geocities. same is true with google blogspot. they are working on it and I was surpriesed how much has done but we bloggers dont know much.
when you want to write stuff and wish it to be as fruitful for you as it can be with zero investment. well you need free hosts. a lot of ppls like wordpress.com but I dont as you dont have full backend control and it makes it lack a few things you might wana do with your blog/stuff
so for this purpose I suggest you write your stuff on blogger.com. they have a pretty good template generator now. also you can use any custome made template of your choice. and your data is always be there for the world to see.
now second thing is write. if you are just a normal blogger your definately dont care but if you wana be a professional blogger you need to write and write often if not daily. remember it takes a lot of time for your work to reach audience. its never write today and get something out of it tomorrow. its a "be patience" job.
never copy paste. if you copy paste stuff you may see a sudden increase of traffic but that wont last long afterwards once your site is flagged for spoof you lost all your work.
dont put stuff to make your blog interactive. this distracts the person visiting you. i know the feeling that  you want your blog/site to be full of stuff but make things your self and dont put out links unless you really have to or you could very well loose the click you had been waiting for.
thats pretty much the basics. now if you are blogging somewhere after reading this how about leaving a link for me to see it?