Written by JMarsden92 on 12 March 2010
I am taking some time away from my continual search for jobs. I have tried many variations of admin job searching in the classifieds of my local newspapers website. I must take a breather, and try to help everyone that wants to know more about blogging, and how to get started.
My blogs may not be as good as others, but I have noticed that you can never be as good as someone else on the internet. Everyone does things their own way, and that puts everyone on a level playing field. I have compiled some usefull information that may help others that are looking for help in getting their blog running.
Get a Self-Hosted blog. (WordPress seems to be the easiest to operate, and move in the future.)
WordPress actually is easy enough to install, and use that the standard person with a very good speed ISP can actually run WordPress from their own computer. I don’t recommend this because of the bandwidth that will be used in serving the site. In my case I have a Comcast Business Class Service, and my bandwidth is huge. Some of my blogs are hosted through Surpass Hosting. Check them out. They have very good prices.
Purchase a Domain Name.
Domain names are what bring you traffic. Find a domain name that will work into your “Niche”, and search engines. Example… My DisneyContestBlog site brings in traffic just from searches like “Disney Contest”, “Disney Blog”, and “Contest Blog”. My wife has MomsBlogs4U which gets searches from “Moms Blog”, and “Mom Blog”. I put another domain up strictly for reviews. Can you guess the name? ReviewsBlog4U. The domain name means a lot so think about your name before you start.
Join Social Networking sites.
I recommend joining sites that will create friends, and help you with publishing your information to the outside world. Sites that are almost “Musts” are: Twitter, BlogCatalog, and FaceBook, and EntreCard. If you are a mom, then search the web for “Mom Blog Groups”, and do searches for groups that will help you.
Blog as much as possible.
When you first start you want to publish as much as possible. It takes time for your site to be searchable. This also establishes yourself with your future audience. People will get to read, and if they are interested, then they will return.
Submit to search engines.
When you first setup your site I recommend getting into the Google Webmaster Tools, Yahoo Developer, and a few other sites. These sites will help you get necessary keys that go into your WordPress installation so that search engines can grab your xml files. If everything is working right, and you have been doing good work then a search of the internet will hopefully find your site in the best positioning of sites.
Setup Feedburner.
Feedburner is a way to monitor who is a subscriber to your RSS feed. RSS feeds are just like people viewing your site. People can download RSS feeds for while they are “Offline”, but they are still viewing your site.
I will put up another helpful setup of information in the next week. In that informational I will go further into monetizing, and how to establish contact with PR reps, and companies. I will continue on helping. If you want to get a little further quicker, then you can join our newly running forums at MyBlogsHome Forums. Join, and post your questions, or whatever you want. We will be doing some advertising, and some other things that will help the members in gaining some traffic, and readers.
Tags: blog, Blogging, domain, monetize, money, niche, self hosted, Wordpress
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Written by JMarsden92 on 27 June 2009
How many of you either have a blog that is a sub-domain of another blog, or are thinking of starting a blog?
This contest is for someone that wants to get a blog running, but doesn’t want to spend any money initially. If you aren’t going to use it after the 3 months, then you are just taking the opportunity from someone that will.
If you are the winner I will personally help you get moving forward with making money, meeting people, and having fun. I am not a PRO, but then again… NOONE is.
Right now I am running a contest the will give the winner a sub-domained blog on a Money Making eligible domain FREE for 3 months. All you need is some office furniture to sit at when you blog. Nothing else is necessary to start making some money.
(Some sub-domain blogs are not eligible to participate in some of the blogging for money systems.)
What you will get…
- A blog that will have a sub-domain url. (example: ABC.SomeDomain.Com)
- Full access from a large selection of plug-ins, & themes.
- 3 months FREE… After the 3 months a discounted cost of $5 per month. (If you want to put your own domain name on it, then all you need to add is $1 per month.)
- 1 FREE email account that is accessible by web, or pop3.
- FREE ad on my sites for 3 months.
- FREE e-mail support.
- Backlinks to & from your sites.
Restrictions:
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No pornography sites will be allowed. (Mild subjects must be approved.)
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No terroristic types of sites will be allowed.
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No hacking/illegal sites will be allowed.
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Any violation of the above terms will result in IMMEDIATE shutdown.
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A full disclosure MUST be filled out upon winning.
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You may cancel after 3 months.
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20mb storage capacity. Additional available.
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All videos must be run from an outside source (ex: YouTube, etc…)
We offer WordPress blogs, and no others.
All you need to do to be eligible is…
Each entry must be accompanied by an individual comment here telling me what you did.
- Comment here about your blogging experience, or what you hope to gain from this if you win.
- For 1 extra entry Comment at least 1 time on www.MomsBlogs4U.Com, or www.DisneyContestBlog.Com, or www.GameBlogs4U.Com. (3 if you comment to all 3)
- For 1 extra entry put my button on your site.
- For 4 extra entries put all buttons on your site.
- For 1 extra entry post a article about any of the sites site on your site.
- For 1 extra entry blog about this contest.
- Technorati Fav me. (CLICK HERE)
- Subscribe to my Feed. (CLICK HERE)
- For 1 extra entry Follow me on Twitter. (CLICK HERE)
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For 1 extra entry Tweet this Contest (Max 1 Tweet per 2 hours) Use: –> RT @JMarsden92 FREE Blog for 3 Months Contest http://www.momsblogs4u.com <–
Entries into other contests do not count in any entries.
Buttons, and other entries must stay active for entire contest to be counted.
This contest will run from 6/28/09 – 7/26/09.
Tags: blog, Contest, Wordpress
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Written by JMarsden92 on 16 June 2009
While I have only had WordPress 2.8 for a few days I have a brief review that I can give you.
I have all of my sites self-hosted on my own servers. I have WordPress 2.8 installed on each. The initial upgrade was not hard at all. I simply clicked the upgrade notice, and it started. The upgrade was done in minutes. I would guess that it has to do with database sizes, and such things that you have installed. I had no Plugin issues, so I lost none of the Plugins that I was using.
The update seemed to make everything in the Dashboard run a bit faster. One of the biggest improvements that I find is the NEW drag and drop interface for widgets. Now I can move widgets from sidebar to sidebar without having to retype the data that goes into them. There were other improvements made to WordPress. You can now search, download, and install Themes, and Plugins from your control panel. Another improvement is the screen options tab. Based on what part of the Dashboard you are in there are many options that you can control.
You can read more at WordPress.Org.
I am very impressed with this release. I am very happy that I did the upgrade.
Tags: review, update, upgrade, Wordpress
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