Blogging for Beginners
Welcome to my Blogging for Beginners Series.
Over the next weeks I will be presenting an introduction to blogging that will help PreBloggers and NewBloggers unpack some of the basics of blogging.
The series is based largely upon the questions I regularly receive from newer bloggers.
By no means do I want to come across as the all knowing expert in this series - I’m very aware of my own limitations as a blogger and strongly believe that it is only collectively as a group that we really know anything. As a result I’d encourage everyone (beginners or old hands) to see each post in this series as an invitation to share what you know on the topics we cover. As we all contribute what we know I’m confident that we’ll all learn and create a useful resource for bloggers starting out.
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Blogging for Beginners - The Posts So Far
Introductory Posts
- What is a Blog?
- 23 Questions for Prospective Bloggers - Is a Blog Right for You?
- How to Choose a Niche Topic for Your Blog
- Choosing a Blog Platform
- Choosing a Domain Name for your Blog
- Blog Tools
Blog Design
Writing Content
- Useful and Unique Content
- Post Length
- Granular (One Topic) Posts
- Using Titles Effectively on Blogs
- Scannable Content
- Basic HTML Tags
- More on Writing Content for your Blog
Making Money from Blogs
- Introduction to Making Money from Blogs
- Should I blog for Money?
- Making Money From Your Blog - Direct Methods
- Making Money Because of your Blog - Indirect Methods
- How Much Money Can a Blog Earn?
- Introduction to Advertising Optimization - Traffic
- Introduction to Advertising Optimization - Ad Position
- Introduction to Advertising Optimization - Ad Design
- Introduction to Advertising - Ad Relevancy
- Introduction to Advertising - High Paying Ads
Blog Networks
- Introduction to Blog Networks
- Why Should you join a blog network?
- Why you shouldn’t join a blog network
Other Beginner Topics
- An Introduction to Using Images on Blogs
- How to Start a Blog Partnership
- Kick Your RSS - Jumping on the Syndication Bandwagon
- Introduction to Trackbacks
- Tag You’re It - Leveraging Tagging for your Blog
- 10 Techniques for Finding Blog Readers
- 19 More Strategies for Finding Readers
A few readers have approached me to ask if they can submit posts to this series. At this point I’m going to say no - but towards the end of the series I’ll reconsider this when we see what topics we’ve not yet covered.
The series will probably go for 2 weeks with at least one post per day with each listed below on this post (so bookmark this page). Between ‘beginner’ posts will be the normal array of ProBlogging posts. If you’re not a beginner and don’t want to contribute to the back to basics conversations I hope you’ll find that there is plenty of other things to keep you interested.
The series that follows is a combination of types of posts that includes:
- New Posts on topics I’ve not written about before
- New Posts on topics I have written about before
- Re-Posts - older posts that I still feel are relevant for new bloggers
- Guest Posts from other bloggers who know more about a particular topic than I do.
- Open Mike Discussions (I’m not sure which topics to do these on yet, but am pretty sure there will be a number of them)
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