Starting a Great Blog Part 1 - Intro
Monday, June 4th, 2007 by MattHave you ever thought about starting a blog? Even if you haven’t, there are plenty of reasons to. It’s a lot of fun. Take a look at some good blogs, and get the feel for blogging:
You see? The term “blog” doesn’t mean what a lot of people think. It doesn’t refer to an online journal (there are waaaay too many of those annoying things). Sure, webjournals (as I call them), use blogging services, but they’re not the “Best of the Blogosphere”. They are the rubbish that sinks to the bottom (you can probably tell I don’t think much of webjournals). A blog is merely a website that features articles posted in a chronological format. You probably read blogs without even knowing it. If you think about it, you’ll realize that news sites, like LeakyNews.com or NYTimes.com, are basically blogs. What are they but news stories posted in a chronological format?
Now the question is, what do you want to blog about? Here at Webmaster-Source, we blog about things that interest webmasters. At ProBlogger, they blog about blogging. What would you like to blog about? Bicycling? Bowling? Writing? You can blog about anything…as long as you are addicted to it. You can’t write about something you don’t like doing. To blog, you must find a niche topic that interests you. I can’t help you there.
So, have you got a topic? Good.
Stay tuned. Tomorrow we will teach you about naming your blog, getting a domain, and finding hosting. We’ll also show you how to get hosting for nothing, or next to nothing.
Below are the other parts of the tutorial:
- Part 2 - Domains and Hosting
- Part 3 - Installing Wordpress
- Part 4 - Configuring Wordpress
- Part 5 - Themes
- Part 6 - Posting
- Part 7 - Spreading the Word
- Part 8 - Monetization
- Part 9 - Stat Tracking
- Part 10 - Wordpress Plugins
- Part 11 - Social Bookmarking
- Part 12 - Conclusion
10:21 am on June 10th, 2007
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9:04 pm on June 26th, 2007
Hi Matt,
Thanks for the post to Maine-ly Blogging. Your blog is really helpful. I followed the link to your other blog and agree with you about Vista. I’m sticking with XP as long as I can.
Shine On,
Lill
8:27 am on June 29th, 2007
Glad you agree. I’m “sticking with XP as long as I can” too. THen I intend to get a Mac.
12:11 pm on January 28th, 2008
[...] The lines are blurring between blogs and non-blogs. Head over to a site like EnGadget. It looks like any other news site, doesn’t it? Well, the definition of ‘blog’ has always been “a site with articles listed chonologically”. Never has ‘blog’ meant “online journal” (I can’t stand those). As a matter of fact, the term ‘blog’ could apply to nearly any news site on the web. Though Biz Stone seems to be a fan of online journals, the book in nonetheless an invaluable resource for beginning bloggers. If you’re interested in starting a blog, I recommend you read this book (and I also recommend you spend time reading some of the Technorati Top 100 blogs, and that you read my tutorial on starting a blog). [...]
11:31 am on February 5th, 2008
Choosing a blog niche is surely the first step towards starting a professional blog. Breaking this series into multiple post keeps visitors coming back. Clever trick
12:43 pm on February 5th, 2008
That is part of the idea behind a post series. That’s part of why I wrote this series as my first real posts on the blog (besides having 12 days of post ideas).
Unfortunately, I haven’t thought of any other series idea lately.
3:41 pm on February 18th, 2008
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