How to blog is something that a lot of us old hands take for granted, but for the beginner it can seem like a daunting tangle of questions and issues to be resolved. In this guide, I have gathered all of the essential resources you'll need to get started. Here's how:
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Gathering a number of resources from both MasterNewMedia and other useful websites, I have tried to answer here the common questions that new bloggers have.
While it would be impossible to cover everything, you should find here all of the basics, and more, on how to get your first blog set up, niche-targeted, and read by someone other than your best friend. In short, a simple primer on "how to blog", that will take you from choosing your subject and blog platform, through to making your blog text stand out and grab your readers' attention.
I answer the following questions:
- What is a blog?
- Why should I blog?
- Which blogging platform should I use?
- Can I publish from a desktop application?
- What should I write about?
- How can I make my blog content stand out?
- Where can I find free or cheap images to use in my blog?
- Where can I find more blogging resources
So dip in, take what you need, and get yourself on the road to being an independent online publisher. There's never been a better time to get started.
You've almost certainly heard the word "blog" before and you might have a rough idea of what a blog is, but as you will see opinions may differ a lot, and some time to better understand and clarify what you are about to embark on, is always a time well spent.
The word blog is a contraction of "web log", a phrase not so commonly used these days. In the simplest definition of the term, then, a blog is a log of your thoughts, ideas, useful links, photos, videos, or the latest news.
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