by Jerod Morris on November 21, 2009
This is the first post in our beginners’ series on blogging.
Since content is the pillar I’m in charge of writing about, it’s only natural that we begin by looking at the first question every potential blogger must be able to answer:
What should I blog about?
I think that the answer to the question of what to blog about lies in the answer to another question:
What do you love?
In my estimation, choosing what to blog about is as simple as identifying what you love to learn about and write about.
Do that and you set yourself up for long-term blogging success.
Learn more about why you should choose a topic that you love
by Jerod Morris on January 8, 2010
What’s in a name?
When it comes to starting a blog, a lot is in the name.
Choosing your blog’s name is a decision that can happen in a Eureka! flash of inspiration, or one that can come as the result of strategic deliberation. Today, I’m going to analyze this subject and provide you with some general guidelines to follow when you are choosing your domain and blog name.
I am splicing how to choose a domain name and choosing a blog name together into one post because the best case scenario is for your domain and blog name to have continuity, consistency, and synergy.
This will be invaluable for your long-term branding and for setting your website up to maximize its ability draw visitors from search engines.
So let’s examine the factors that you should keep in mind from the very beginning, even before that first default “Hello, World” post (for WP users, anyway) hits your site.
Find out what Jerod thinks are the most important factors in choosing a domain and blog name.
by Jerod Morris on January 21, 2010
So far in our beginner’s series on content we have tackled two immediate issues you face when starting a blog: what you should blog about and choosing a domain and blog name.
These are relatively obvious issues that even the greenest of greenhorn bloggers will understand that they need to tackle right off the bat.
The third and final topic in the beginner’s series on blogging is one that might not be quite so obvious, and it is one that I see handled erroneously – or not even handled at all – over and over and over again, even by really good bloggers.
The issue I am speaking about is permalinks, and the goal of this post is to give you a few basic tips for how to optimize your blog with the best permalink structure possible.
And the best part of all? It’s not that hard.
Find out just how easy it is to optimize your blog with the best permalink structure
