Learn to Blog
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Below you will find a massive listing of all types of articles relating to a variety of subjects. This guide is always being updated as more articles are published onto the blog, so always be sure to check back and see what’s been added!
Navigation: Introduction to Blogging, Setup Your Blog, Designing Your Blog, Search Engine Optimization, Writing Great Content, Marketing & Promoting, Building Your Blog, Earning Revenue
Introduction to Blogging
What Is Blogging?
- Top 10 reasons why you should start blogging
- Choosing the right blogging platform
- Blogging with a passion will make you successful
Choosing the Right Setup
Getting the Best of the Best
Designing For Your Blog
Creating A Beautiful Design
- Choosing a great theme and the right plugins for your blog
- Questions to ask yourself before choosing a design
- Elements of Design: Proportion
- Elements of Design: Orientation
- Eight free WordPress themes to choose from
- Styling your content box smartly
- Making the best of your footer space
- Creating an effective 404 error page
Doing Your SEO Homework
Dominating the Search Engines
- Do you know your basic SEO fundamentals?
- Meeting the W3C Web Standards
- Holy Trinity of SEO
- The key to choosing the right keywords
- Guaranteed Bad Search Engine Rankings in Seven Simple Steps
- How to get your site indexed fast
- Three factors to know before submitting your blog to a link directory
- Blog Optimization: Search Engine Optimization
- Blog Optimization: Search Engine Marketing
- Blog Optimization: Social Media Optimization
- Is your site a victim of URL canonicalization?
- Have you switched to dofollow comments?
- Tracking SEO Performance
Writing Blog Content
Helping you make your posts shine
- Effective time management tips
- Why having a good writing personality is the key to a great blog post
- Long or Short Posts?
- How to Brainstorm for Coherent Ideas?
- 18 Resources to Help you Write Better Blog Titles
- 5 Experimental Writing Habits you should try
- Why “redrafting and rediting” are the most important steps
- Finding post inspiration without even leaving your blog
- 7 steps to perfect content writing
- Mind mapping to discover new article ideas
- 4 Simple Steps to more appealing posts
- Seven ways for finding post inspiration
- Conquering days where you don’t want to write by facing five realizations
- Five tips for outsourcing articles
Blog Marketing & Advertising
Spreading the Word
- 6 Simple ways to build traffic
- Signature Advertising 101
- The #1 traffic tip you may not be ready for
- Unusual ways to marketing your blog on forums
- 6 SMO Tips For Social Media Marketers
- How to promote your blog through instant messaging
- Creating interest in your community with an Ebook
- Tips for reaching the top of the top commentators list every time
- 5 quick and clever ways to publicize a blog post through blog commenting
- Blogging Resources Improve Search Engine Traffic
Expanding Your Blog
Creating More Than Just A Blog
- Dangerous Myths About Making it Big
- The Power & Importance of “Free”
- Methods for effectively announcing changes to your blog
- The risks of blog expansions
- Why blog expansions backfire
