Beginning Steps to Blogging
If you are blogging just to blog and have an online web log, there is nothing really you need to do for beginning steps to blogging except to build your blog and start blogging. Of course you need to pick your blogging format, title and a theme etc, but those are the easy steps.
Now, if you are trying to blog to make money, the beginning steps to blogging are a little more complicated. I feel like I can never get past the beginning steps because I keep starting over and keep reading at my favorite forum instead of being focused and just doing the work.
So I will start listing what I am doing for work and have a way to check if I am slacking off by reading my logs. This way I will also see … what, if anything, is holding me up from moving forward, since I seem to get stuck here and there while building my blogs.
This weekend I have began to build 5 blogs. Right now as I write this, I am trying to find blogger templates for the last two of the 5 blogs. 4 of the new blogger blogs will be for "products" while the 5th blogger blog is going to be for blogging about those products. So those need different beginning steps to blogging setups to plan out for the blog.
To set up a "product" blogger blog, I need to make a web page look vs a blog looking site that is as professional looking as possible. The 5th blog to just blog on I do not have to be so picky with the details as I create that blog,
The very first thing I do to all my blogs is to think of a title, preferable with my "keywords" in it. (sometimes this is tough when building blogger blogs) and then picking a theme for them.
Of course, I can't pick a theme for them if I don't pick a blog format. I usually build a main Wordpress blog and have it spawn off from there with blogger blogs. So, I need themes for both forms of blogs. Earlier I stated this was one of the easy steps and it should be … but for me, this one step takes the longest. So many themes to choose, so little time. Although at the time of reaching this paragraph, I now have all the themes I need for my 5 blogs I built. WOOO HOOO
There you have it. Once I know what I want to blog about, I pick my blog format, think of a title for the blog and then find an appropriate theme for the blog. Those are my beginning steps to blogging, what are yours?
