Blogging

Blogging eBook BundleLearn 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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Blogging Basics for Beginners

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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Setting Up Google Analytics {Blogging Basics for Beginners}

November 8, 2012
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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. Today we’re talking about setting up a Google Analytics account to track your traffic, audience demographics and more, but [...]

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Creating an About Page and Other Important Pages {Blogging Basics for Beginners}

November 1, 2012
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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. As I mentioned last week, pages are a great way to provide content on your blog that you don’t [...]

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Creating Posts & Pages {Blogging Basics for Beginners}

October 25, 2012
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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. Creating posts is really the most basic part of blogging. Posts allow you to share your tips, ideas, inspiration [...]

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How to Monetize a New Blog in Three Steps

October 22, 2012
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The following guest post is from Lisa Morosky, author of The Bootstrap VA: So you’ve set up a new blog. You’ve just started cranking out content, but already you’re wondering how you can make some money (because everyone else seems to be!). Some people will say you shouldn’t even try to monetize a new blog [...]

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Understanding Basic HTML {Blogging Basics for Beginners}

October 11, 2012
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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. While WordPress offers many automated ways to change and enhance content on your blog in addition to providing a [...]

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Adding Widgets to Your Blog {Blogging Basics for Beginners}

October 4, 2012
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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. WordPress makes it easy to enhance your blog with the use of plugins. In addition, adding useful information to [...]

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