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Starting Blogging
By admin | November 5, 2008
I have had this blog for a few months now and I am learning all the time. Yesterday, I was sorting out some HTML in the “backoffice” something I wouldnt have been able to do, or even know about 3 months ago. I just found what Iwas looking for by doing a google search, copied and pasted and bingo. I think it worked but time will tell!
Anyway why did I start blogging? I’m not entirely sure why I did now. Its been hard work but I do enjoy it. If you are thinking of starting a blog, what will you do? Have you got any ideas on where you might go with it? I think the best piece of advice I could give is to just do it. There is a load of information out there about, finding a niche, domain names etc and they are very important but if you are just feeling your way,just testing the water, why don’t you blog about something you enjoy? Even if there might not be a market for it, even if you dont make any money in the first weeks, if you are taking action, then you will be learning on the job.
I think some of my problems and frustrations in starting up were caused by trying to get perfection. I thought, I needed to find a market, get all those keywords, think of domain names, learn about adwords and list building. I ws worrying about how I would get traffic to my site and I hadn’t even got one!
There is so much information out there, so much to buy ( and a lot of it is c**p) you can quite easily get sucked in, I know I was. I have spent thousands of pounds and I am only just scratching the surface now. The main reason I find myself in that position is simply because I didnt take action.
So, If I were you, thinking of starting out now and wondering about the best way to do it, dont think too much, there will be plenty of time to fine tune things but do it as you go along. Just look at the basics, find out how to set up a blog and do it. Then teach yourself how to set up pages and posts. then you might want to look at changing the look of your blog, etc. The point I am trying to make is you spend all your time researching and reading and no time taking action on what you have read, then you will not get going.You will be wrrying about how to get traffic and how to monetize but you wont have a blog, so its academic reading.
Obviously there is an amount you need to know to even get going, but my advice is, read it, then take action on it . Step by step.
Til next time
jane
Update. Theres me boasting about html. You may see that I have lost my sidebar from the left. Iknow why it happened but can I sort it?? Nope! I havent got time to do it at the moment. Hopefully it will be sorted by me in the net few days. It happened because I put too large a document in that kind of “broke” the sideS . I have taken it out and seleted that post but cant get it back at the moment,more on this later!! Still my opt in form is on a different page so i havent lost that- phew!!
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