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Where do You Start, if You Want to Blog?
By admin | November 6, 2008
Yesterday I wrote about how you should take action and stop reading all the time! I spent 6 months worrying about blogging before I even made a start then I had to read all over again because I had forgotten most of it! if you have a photographic memory, then I am sure you will be fine, but if like us lesser mortals, you forget what you have read within minutes of reading it, you are probably better acting on what youhave read before you move onto the next step.
In the first stages then, consider what you know and like. If you are thinking you might want to make money from your blog then thats fine, but my advice would be get up an running with something you want to write about. It might not be the greatest money spinner in the world but you can treat it as your learning school. You may think about monetising it but in reality treat it as a method of learning the ropes. If its somehting you enjoy writing about and have some knowledge, then at least in the short term, you can apply your writings in an enjoyable way and teach yourself the finer points as you go along.
My advice would be to learn how to get a blog up, you can do this through wordpress or one of the other blogging platforms and read as you go along, teaching yourself the ins and outs. Concentrate on one aspect at a time. Learn how to post, then do it. Learn how to schedule a post, then do it.
As you get more familiar with the workings of a blog, you will then have to think about things like traffic, search engine optimisation and the like and apply them. The worst thing you can do though is to read ahead without actually doing anything. If you do that, you will simply waste time. If you don’t have a blog, there is no point learning about keywords, learn about that once you have the blog up. Then apply it. If you do it this way, you will find you save much time and probably expense.
Taking action and get a blog up today.Then learn how to fine tune. It may not be a blog that you continue with but you can learn much by having it as a testing site.
Til next time
jane
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