I recently found some notes I took from an interview Darren Rowse (Problogger) did this summer with The Blog Squad and thought I’d share them with you. He has some basic, but unbelievably useful tips. The following are my notes and thoughts from his interview in August. His key points are the bold bullet points. [...]
Blog World Expo: Chris Brogan’s Advice for Beginning Bloggers (#bwe08)
October 1, 2008 By 2 Comments
Chris Brogan is one of those bloggers who just really wants everyone to succeed. He’s not only a successful blogger, he’s uncommonly approachable. Before I went to Blog World, I read several of Chris’ posts about attending conferences. In those posts he seemed to genuinely want people to come and meet him. I thought, "Yeah. [...]
Blog World Expo: ProBlogger’s Advice for Beginning Bloggers (#bwe08)
September 30, 2008 By 5 Comments
Before I attended Blog World and New Media Expo, I sat down and declared some goals for myself: Learn as much as I can in as many panels as I can. Meet as many bloggers as possible and try to really connect with them. I didn’t just want to exchange cards, I wanted to find [...]
I need to purchase a new computer to start my blog and want to know what types of features the hardware should have to support blogging. Do you have any advice?
June 5, 2008 By 3 Comments
I will be brutally honest with you: I have never understood RAM or memory or gigabytes or whatever else I’m supposed to know about how to choose a computer. It’s true. I can write HTML, I understand CSS, and I’ve even written javascript back in the olden days of Netscape, but I cannot help you [...]
How do I start a blog?
April 14, 2008 By 12 Comments
It’s pretty easy to start your own blog — even if you think you’re not tech-savvy and don’t know the first thing about what you’re getting yourself into. First you need to choose which blog host you’re going to use. We’ve written an article giving some basic information on the most popular blog hosts. If [...]
Housekeeping: Comments close after one month
January 12, 2008 By Leave a Comment
Due to an amazing amount of spam on older posts, I have had to close comments on all posts older than one month. If you have questions regarding an older post you can still send e-mail to bloggingbasics101(AT)gmail(DOT)com.
How important is it for my blog name and its URL to match?
December 5, 2007 By 7 Comments
If you can swing it, it’s really best if your blog URL and your blog title match. It will be much easier for your readers to find you. It’s quite possible, though, with the boom of new blogs out there, that the blog URL you want is taken. If that’s the case, choose a blog [...]
How do I add a link to my archives on Blogger?
November 30, 2007 By 2 Comments
This is a great question for a Friday. It’s easy to answer and easy to implement. Log in to Blogger. Go to Layout > Template > Page Elements. Click Add a Page Element. Scroll down until you see Blog Archives and click the Add to Blog button under it. Click Save. That’s it. No kidding. [...]
I bought a domain name for my blog. Now what?
August 9, 2007 By 2 Comments
Many bloggers are unhappy with the myblog.typepad.com or myblog.blogger.com addresses they are assigned. It’s just more professional to have the myblog.com, myblog.net, or myblog.org URL instead. These URLs are called domain names. Once you’ve purchased your domain name, though, you need to map it to your existing site so when a reader types in your [...]
