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Learn the secrets of successful bloggers and take your blog to the next level with this week’s ebook collection. From balancing your blog and family and setting boundaries for your online presence to monetizing your blog, writing an ebook of your own and using Pinterest to grow your brand, this bundle is packed full of resources for bloggers. And it’s available for 70% off this week only!
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by Mandi on November 15, 2012

Blogging Basics for Beginners: A 12-Week Series to Walk You Through Setting Up a WordPress.org Blog will run every Thursday from August 30th through November 15th. Click here for all of the posts in the series.
If you’ve followed this series from the beginning, you should have a basic blog set up and ready to go. Hopefully you’ve created an About page, added a few things to your sidebar and have a basic idea of how to create posts and pages.
So what’s next?
Get Ready for a Soft Launch
If you haven’t already, I recommend that you start posting on your blog and do a sort of soft launch, where you quietly begin posting without really promoting your posts or the blog as a whole. Even though these posts won’t be seen by many people right away, you should still do your best on them because many first-time visitors will spend time looking through your archives, and you want to give them a good idea of what they can expect from your blog.
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