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Eleven and a half years ago when I hit publish on my first ever blogpost, I had little idea what I was doing and what was going to unfold for me over the coming decade. Do create something to sell from your blog. Do think beyond what you’ll write today – develop an editorial calendar.
I have posts scheduled for the same time each day and link back to my previous two posts at the end to make it easier for readers that don’t visit daily to access them, which was one of my main concerns around daily blogging. I find Twitter too fast paced and comments on blogs restrictive. Planning is key!
This is what I’ve done in most occasions when I’ve launched a blog too. I think back to my first blog, back in November 2002, it all happened very, very quickly. It does take time and energy to write a blogpost and to launch with three. My first personal blog had about 30 categories.
In this post I want to walk you through the basics of how to start a blog, and while I do, I want to answer some of the basic technical questions that many pre-bloggers need to answer to get their first blog up and running. How to Start a Blog. Posts will appear on the front page of your blog once they’re published.
Today, I want to take you on a tour of my iPhone and iPad, and talk about the apps I use most in my blogging and online business activities. One of the biggest changes that has happened in my blogging since I began back in 2002 is the technology I use. I use the Post one a lot. Things were so simple.
Today I want to talk about style guides – how to create them for your blog, and why you should create them for you blog as well. Style guides in my opinion are one way that you can really lift a good blog to a great blog by building more consistency across your content, across from one blogpost to another.
Having said those things, I want to talk about these nine things that have helped me to accelerate the growth of my blogs over the years, things I wish I knew back in 2002 when I started out and I hope that that will help you in your journey as well. I started blogging in 2002. This is a picture of my first blog.
Someone asked me that same question but they asked me to go back to the very start of my blog and said, “What has changed in your blogging since you started?” ” Now, I started blogging in 2002. There’s lots of things have changed since 2002. The way we’ve been in 2002 is changing.
Each are important types of content to be able to create for your blog – but one that is increasingly important today is visual content. When I was looking back at some screenshots of my very first blog from 2002, recently, I was amazed by how boring it looked. I was also like, “Who reads a whole blogpost on their phone?”
Each are important types of content to be able to create for your blog – but one that is increasingly important today is visual content. When I was looking back at some screenshots of my very first blog from 2002, recently, I was amazed by how boring it looked. I was also like, “Who reads a whole blogpost on their phone?”
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