A quick tutorial on Basics of Blogging. Useful information for newbies on how to create a blog and popularize it.

1. - Arun Basil Lal

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3. B For Blog
• Online Dairy
• ‘Kind-a’ Website
• Store of Ideas
• Blah Blah Blah….

4. Blog? Not a
website?
• Interaction
• Frequent Updates
• Community

5. get
But What do U
• Freedom
• Fame
• Fans and Followers
• Friends
• Money, that too in hard cash!!!

6. Where to Start ?
Please Read:
‘Before You Start’ First…

7. Start
Before U
• Find Passion
• A Mountain of Dedication
• A clock with 30 hours
• An Internet Connection that loads
Google.com in under two seconds!

8. Lets Start
Okay
• Free lunch?
– @ Blogger.com / Wordpress.com /
[Out of Memory]
– Good to try
– Hard to find success
• Paid Lunch: Self Hosted Wordpress
– @ wordpress.org
– Total Control

9. Wordpress ?
Why
• Open Source!!!
• Awesome Plugins
• Made 4 Blogging & SEO
• Fully customizable & Simple
• Gr8 Community to Support
– http://wordpress.org/support/
• Globally Recognized
• All A-Listers Blog @ Wordpress

10. Then What?
• Register a Domain
– Domain = Brand
– dot.com Preffered
– http://tr.im/whydomain
• Find a Host
– Start with a Shared Host
– Or Host it @ a Friend’s Home

11. $$$
• Register a Domain
– $10 p.a @ godaddy.com
• Find a Host
– $5.95 p.m @ HostMonster.com
– $2.95 p.m @ a-just-friend
– $0.oo p.m @ dear-friend

12. Where will Readers Come
From?
• Google
• Yahoo + Ask + …
• Social Media
– Stumbleupon
– Digg
– Twitter
• Word of Mouth
• They will find you!

13. Press-ing ur Blog
• No Emails Please
– But Email Footers Do work
• Social Media
• Forum – Footers
• Comments
• Guest Posts
• Shh.. Word of Mouth

14. Jargons
Jaa..?

15. Now?
• Blog
• Blog
• Blog…

16. I get?
What did
• Productivity – Saved lots of TV
• Friends – Even in NYC
• Brand – Try Googling Me!
• Clients - Custom Blogs
• I am not afraid of Recession
• I am here 

17. I
Who am
• Daytime Student – MACE
• Blogger by Night
– www.millionclues.com
– Wordpress – Pro Blogging Tips
• Wordpress Evangelist
• Totally Googlable

19. But...…
You Said we could make money..
Where is the money… ???