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If you want to start blogging and you haven’t read the whole guide, browse the table of content below.
0. Welcome to the Guide
1. What is a blog
2. What pages should a blog have
3. Choose a Niche
4. Store your blog
5. Blogging software
6. Blogging Tips and Tricks
You need a place on the internet where everyone that is interested could reach your blog. Your blog should have a great up-time and be fast. If a visitor want to visit a blog that is constantly not available, he will leave and never come back. The same goes with the speed of your blog, the dial-up users out there would like to visit your blog as well. They will simply leave if the loading time is five minutes and never come back.
What do you mean two options?
Well, there are two options available to store your blog. If you have any money to spend you should be buying some quality webhosting. That is your best option because compared to a free service, you will have more freedom, usually a better speed and your own domain name. We will talk about that later.
The other option is a free one. If you just want to try blogging and you don’t want to invest in a proper home for your blog, you could use one of the hosted solutions. They provide you with webhosting that has usually great up-time (because they run a whole network of thousands of blogs, they can’t risk their client-base) and a subdomain.
0. Welcome to the Guide
1. What is a blog
2. What pages should a blog have
3. Choose a Niche
4. Store your blog
5. Blogging software
6. Blogging Tips and Tricks
It is important to know where you actually want to write about on your blog. You need to know what you want to tell your crowd and to choose that subject of your blog isn’t the most easy part. You have to choose a so-called niche.
With choosing your niche, you have to remember you need enough content to write about. If you choose a niche that doesn’t update as many as you would like, you don’t have stuff to write about and your choice has been wrong.
You should try to keep your niche in an area you know everything about. Do not choose it too large because if you don’t do this full-time but only as a hobby, you simply don’t have the time to write about everything you wish. Keep it simple, but not too simple. To make things a bit more understandable, read the example:
0. Welcome to the Guide
1. What is a blog
2. What pages should a blog have
3. Choose a Niche
4. Store your blog
5. Blogging software
6. Blogging Tips and Tricks
As you might have read before in lesson #1, a blog is a website with a couple extra features. Because a blog is a website as well, we need some default pages. Pages that should keep your visitors happy, because they create some recognition; people know what to do when they see the default pages on your blog. Here we go:
The homepage can be found on any blog you visit. It is the page you land on when you type in the address of the blog and it is where you can find the latest blog posts.
It is important to have a contact page. As you are running a blog you must be able to communicate with your readers. The contact page makes this possible and there you go; the communication with your readers is a fact.
0. Welcome to the Guide
1. What is a blog
2. What pages should a blog have
3. Choose a Niche
4. Store your blog
5. Blogging software
6. Blogging Tips and Tricks
What is a blog? That is an important question if you would like to start one. Most of you’ve heard something about the phenomenon of blogging. Some things like publishing thoughts or writing articles for a crowd. That is true, but there is a lot more.
A blog or weblog is a web-based journal where people like me and you can publish their thoughts. It is a dynamic website where the author and readers can communicate and discuss about the articles. A blog is a website, but it is a dynamic website that changes all the time.
Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start blogging!