This document provides instructions for setting up a blog in 5 steps:
1. Choose a blogging platform like WordPress.
2. Decide between free hosting or self-hosting your blog for a fee, which allows custom domains and unlimited features.
3. Set up the blog on your own domain if self-hosting. This involves getting a domain name and hosting provider.
4. Design your blog by choosing a theme to customize its look.
5. Access useful resources for beginner bloggers, including communities to engage with and tips for growing your blog.
Step by-step how to set up a WordPress.com siteLisa Comstock
Knowing the difference between WordPress.com and WordPress.org is confusing! Knowing the difference between a 'Post' and a 'Page' is confusing. What is a category and what's a tag? Why are they important anyway? Find out here.
Step by-step how to set up a WordPress.com siteLisa Comstock
Knowing the difference between WordPress.com and WordPress.org is confusing! Knowing the difference between a 'Post' and a 'Page' is confusing. What is a category and what's a tag? Why are they important anyway? Find out here.
We hear it all the time. We should have a blog. Writing a blog article is the easy part, most of the time. It’s the blog part that baffles many of us. Susan K. Stewart, the blog coordinator for Mount Hermon Writer’s Conference, gives non-technical advice to start a blog using WordPress. From purchasing a URL to setting up a simple-to-use blog platform to writing the first blog post, Susan will give step-by-step instructions to get started. The new Gutenberg content managements is also discussed
This is the slides used for JALC PS 842 02 WordPress for Beginners. We go over installation, dashboard, posts, pages, cPanel, MySQL, and the file manager
Are you concerned about what the future of Facebook looks like for bloggers? Here are my thoughts on the future of Facebook and how we, as bloggers can take advantage of where Facebook is going.
This talk that I delivered at WordCamp Chicago introduces WordPress to people that have never touched the platform. People want to know what their getting into! What kind of commitment does this mean? What things can it do for me on social media? A quick look at the dashboard and take questions that people have. Why would people use WordPress?
This will teach you on how to boost your YouTube Views. Do not worry this is very simple and easy to follow. Please visit the link below:
http://miniontips.blogspot.com/2013/12/how-to-boost-your-youtube-views.html
How to Optimize Your Blog for the Mobile ShiftLeslie Samuel
Is your blog prepared for the mobile shift? In this post, we look at Google AMP, Facebook Instant Articles and Apple News and what they mean for bloggers.
Thinking about starting a blog? Whether you want to blog for fun or blog for your business (because blogging is content marketing 101, yo!), everyone starts out with the exact same basics you’re going to ready about in this post....
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What Is Blogging?
Definition and Examples of Blogging
By Randy Duermyer Updated on November 29, 2022
Reviewed by Khadija Khartit
Fact checked by Vikki Velasquez
In This Article
What Is Blogging?
How Blogging Works
Blogging vs. Traditional Websites
Pros and Cons of Blogging
Requirements for a Blog
Man edits photos on his laptop for his blog
PHOTO: BURAK KARADEMIR / GETTY IMAGES
Blogging refers to writing, photography, and other media that's self-published online. Blogging started as an opportunity for individuals to write diary-style entries, but it has since been incorporated into websites for many businesses. The hallmarks of blogging include frequent updates, informal language, and opportunities for readers to engage and start a conversation.
Here's an overview of what a blog is, why it's popular, and tips for starting your own blog.
What Is Blogging?
The word blog is actually a shortened form of its original name, "weblog." These weblogs allowed early internet users to "log" the details of their day in diary-style entries. Blogs often allow readers to comment, so as they became more common, communities sprung up around popular blogs.
Note
The content of blogs varies significantly. For example, travel blogs may feature many pictures with few written passages, while political blogs may weigh in with wordy takes on the news of the day. The popularity of YouTube and similar sites also gave rise to video blogging, or "vlogging."
Like most internet-based innovations, many entrepreneurs saw marketing potential in having a blog, and the adoption of blogging among the business community helped further increase the popularity of the medium. Not only can a blog be used for marketing a business, but it can also become a home business in and of itself.
We hear it all the time. We should have a blog. Writing a blog article is the easy part, most of the time. It’s the blog part that baffles many of us. Susan K. Stewart, the blog coordinator for Mount Hermon Writer’s Conference, gives non-technical advice to start a blog using WordPress. From purchasing a URL to setting up a simple-to-use blog platform to writing the first blog post, Susan will give step-by-step instructions to get started. The new Gutenberg content managements is also discussed
This is the slides used for JALC PS 842 02 WordPress for Beginners. We go over installation, dashboard, posts, pages, cPanel, MySQL, and the file manager
Are you concerned about what the future of Facebook looks like for bloggers? Here are my thoughts on the future of Facebook and how we, as bloggers can take advantage of where Facebook is going.
This talk that I delivered at WordCamp Chicago introduces WordPress to people that have never touched the platform. People want to know what their getting into! What kind of commitment does this mean? What things can it do for me on social media? A quick look at the dashboard and take questions that people have. Why would people use WordPress?
This will teach you on how to boost your YouTube Views. Do not worry this is very simple and easy to follow. Please visit the link below:
http://miniontips.blogspot.com/2013/12/how-to-boost-your-youtube-views.html
How to Optimize Your Blog for the Mobile ShiftLeslie Samuel
Is your blog prepared for the mobile shift? In this post, we look at Google AMP, Facebook Instant Articles and Apple News and what they mean for bloggers.
Thinking about starting a blog? Whether you want to blog for fun or blog for your business (because blogging is content marketing 101, yo!), everyone starts out with the exact same basics you’re going to ready about in this post....
The Balance
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BUILDING YOUR BUSINESS
BECOMING AN OWNER
What Is Blogging?
Definition and Examples of Blogging
By Randy Duermyer Updated on November 29, 2022
Reviewed by Khadija Khartit
Fact checked by Vikki Velasquez
In This Article
What Is Blogging?
How Blogging Works
Blogging vs. Traditional Websites
Pros and Cons of Blogging
Requirements for a Blog
Man edits photos on his laptop for his blog
PHOTO: BURAK KARADEMIR / GETTY IMAGES
Blogging refers to writing, photography, and other media that's self-published online. Blogging started as an opportunity for individuals to write diary-style entries, but it has since been incorporated into websites for many businesses. The hallmarks of blogging include frequent updates, informal language, and opportunities for readers to engage and start a conversation.
Here's an overview of what a blog is, why it's popular, and tips for starting your own blog.
What Is Blogging?
The word blog is actually a shortened form of its original name, "weblog." These weblogs allowed early internet users to "log" the details of their day in diary-style entries. Blogs often allow readers to comment, so as they became more common, communities sprung up around popular blogs.
Note
The content of blogs varies significantly. For example, travel blogs may feature many pictures with few written passages, while political blogs may weigh in with wordy takes on the news of the day. The popularity of YouTube and similar sites also gave rise to video blogging, or "vlogging."
Like most internet-based innovations, many entrepreneurs saw marketing potential in having a blog, and the adoption of blogging among the business community helped further increase the popularity of the medium. Not only can a blog be used for marketing a business, but it can also become a home business in and of itself.
This blog has defined all the steps on how to start a blog so that you can write an engaging and interesting blog. It will help you to show your ideas effectively.
Quem gosta de ebooks sobre mídias sociais levanta a mão! Hehe. Confira agora o "Blogging on my Mind", escrito por Nabil Khan. O livro fala sobre como criar, administrar, divulgar e monetizar um blog.
How to Start a WordPress Blog easily (from A to Z)Peter Nguyen
In this article, I will guide you about how to start a WordPress blog with in 6 steps easily. This article is very basic but I think that many guys will be interested in it. I know that many people here want to create a website for their own online business such as an online shop, a personal site or a news blog.
Table of Contents
1. Why you should make a website by yourself?
2. Some basic concepts about a WordPress blog
2.1. What is WordPress?
2.2. Domain name
2.3. Web Hosting
3. Steps to start a WordPress blog
Step 1: Choosing a domain
Step 2: Choosing a web hosting
Step 3: Installing WordPress on your site
Step 4: Pointing your domain name to hosting
Step 5: Choosing a theme for your WordPress blog
Step 6: Choosing plugins for your WordPress blog
4. Conclusion
Source: https://ecoupon.io/how-to-start-a-wordpress-blog-easily/
How to start a WordPress site that generates $1000 monthlyFEARGODOKEKE1
Starting up a blog can be daunting at times. Some find it very difficult to easily create a website. Thankfully a CMS like WordPress has made it very simple for you to easily create your site in few minutes. It doesn’t matter whether you’re a complete novice about blogging, the big question is “Are you ready to create your own website?”
Blogging 201: From Blank Slate to Blog in Under an HourAdam Gartenberg
So you\'ve decided to start a blog, but aren\'t sure where to begin (or even what platform to use)? This session will start with a comparison of some of the most popular blogging platforms and then walk through step-by-step instructions to get you set up in no time!
(I am also holding Blogging 101 and Blogging 301 sessions if you\'re not sure if blogging is right for you, or if you already have a blog and are looking for more advanced advice.)
This will be presented live on 12/12 - http://anyvite.com/events/home/6omohiadjn
1. BLOGGING
Tell a Story of your Passion
MichaelTsakporhore
Business Counselor and Website Design
2. What is Blog
• It a online dairy where you share your thoughts and passion
3. How to Set up a Blog
• There’s five main steps you need to go through in order to set up a blog. If
you follow this guide and the five steps, you’ll have your own blog set up in
30 minutes or less.
4. The 5 Simple Steps to Starting a Blog
• Choose your preferred blog platform
• Choose web hosting for your blog
• Setting up a blog on your own domain
• Designing your blog (the fun bit!)
• Useful resources for blogging
5. Step 1 – Choose your preferred blogging
platform
Choosing where you want to build blog
is pretty much the first thing you have
to do. I’m going to take a leap and
assume you’ve heard ofWordPress, and
this is the platform I advocate.
It’s massive. It’s by far one of the biggest
blogging platforms in the world, with
countless plugins and add-ons and
almost infinite ways to design and
layout your blog
6. Step 2 – Self-hosting or a free alternative?
Whoa, slow down there!This is the biggest decision you’ll have to make before we go any
further.You need to decide whether to pay for your blog or grab a free one.WordPress,Tumblr
and Blogger all offer free blogs for anyone.Awesome, right? It’s perfect for those of us who
aren’t super serious about blogging. But it does have downsides:
1) You won’t be able to get your OWN domain name
On a free blog, your blog’s web address (your URL) will be butt-ugly. Like, really ugly. In short,
create a free blog with any other the above free blog services and it’ll look like this:
yourblog.wordpress.com yourblog.blogspot.com yourblog.tumblr.com
I know, ugly right?
7. a free alternative?
2) Limits and more limits
There are some limits to free blogs.You can’t fully monetize it, and you don’t
have the possibility to upload all those videos and images you want to show
everyone – it’s all limited. Worse still, you won’t even have access to the free
themes offered byWordPress.
8. a free alternative?
3)You DON’T OWN your blog
It might sound silly at first, but you don’t actually own your blog. It’s hosted on
someone else’s web property and they can delete it if they want so.They have
done so in the past, and keep doing it in the future.Which means all your hard
work on your blog, all those countless hours of writing blog posts might be
vanished within seconds. Sad…
9. Self-hosting
On the other hand, with a self-hosted blog on your own domain name – you
are the REAL owner of your blog.You’ll be able to name your blog whatever
you want, for example “YourName.com” or “YourAwesomeBlog.com.You can
end it with .com, .co.uk, .net, .org, or virtually any other web suffix. Add to
that unlimited bandwidth for videos, images and content plus the free themes
and you have a winning combo.
So how much is hosting and a domain name? Not as much as you’re thinking,
fortunately. It usually works out to about $5 to $10 per month, depending on
your hosting provider which is less than a couple of coffees.
10. Step 3 – Start a blog on your own domain (if you
chose self-hosting and a custom domain)
I’m going to push ahead based on the premise you’ve chosen WordPress, and if you
haven’t, you should. Seriously, it’s the best.
If you’re still a little confused by what a self-hosted blog is, allow me to explain and
how you can go about setting one up for yourself.
You’ll need to come up with a domain name you like and also choose a hosting
company that can host your blog.
Domain: The domain is basically the URL of your website. Examples: google.com
(Google.com is the domain), Facebook.com (Facebook.com is the domain). See?
Simple!
Hosting: Hosting is basically the company that puts your website up on the internet
so everyone else can see it. Everything will be saved on there.Think of it as a
computer hard-drive on the internet where your blog will be saved.
11. Step 4 – Designing your WordPress blog
Now, the fun bit. Let’s make your blog look exactly how you want it to.To
choose a new theme, you can either head to Appearance >Themes and install
a freeWordPress theme or you can head to a premium theme website
likeThemeForest.net and buy a theme for around $40.
I usually choose something that looks professional and pretty easy to
customise.WordPress also has this awesome feature that allows you to
change themes with just a few clicks. So if you start getting tired of your
current blog template, you can just switch to another one without losing any
precious content or images.
12. Step 5 – Useful Resources For Beginner
Bloggers
Bloggers come to blogging arena with varying degrees of online and social
media experience, but we’ve all made more than a few newbie mistakes –
there’s always room for more learning and improvement, whether you’re a
beginner or you’ve been blogging for years.
13. Ways to GrowYour Blo
#1: Be Active in Other Communities First
This are some blogging community you can get involved with. Start with one per time
• https://medium.com/
• http://www.stackstreet.com/
• http://triberr.com/landing/bloggers
• https://stackstreet.com/
• https://www.linkedin.com/grp/
• https://plus.google.com/communities
14. Ways to grow your blog
• #2: Write About WhatYou Love
• #3: Write Insanely Great Content
• #4: Answer Questions forYourAudience
• #5: Say Something New