The new year is nearly here. You may be thinking of blogging this year. Or maybe you are trying to figure out what the big deal is with blogging. If you want to know more I’ve collected a few articles that may help you wrap your brain around blogging and get started in the new year.
HP has a couple of articles on blogging that are well done and helpful…
5 steps to blogging
101 series: Blogging
At A List Apart you’ll find How to Write a Better Weblog.
Also check out How to Write A Blog… And Survive.
Promoting Your Blog
Building blog traffic for newbies
How To Build Traffic To Your Blog
That should keep you busy for a bit and give you lots of ideas.
When you’re ready to start your blog check out Dreamhost where you can get inexpensive web hosting and a one-click WordPress install - WordPress is the best blogging tool out there and it’s free.
For a totally free blogging service you should check out Blogger.
Update (3/29/05)
Here’s a good piece on blogging - The Blogger’s Primer.
4 responses so far ↓
1 Sample the Web » Start blogging // Dec 30, 2004 at 11:45 pm
[...] Start blogging
Filed under: Blogging — c.k. @ 6:45 pm 12/30/2004
This post has a nice collection of links to ways to get started blogging: The new yea [...]
2 Paul // Jan 1, 2005 at 8:47 am
Nice list. And now to act upon some of those nice ideas for promoting
my blog. I also need to keep the focus of my site on track. I’ve been
aiming it to be a ‘anti-bordom’ site, but, well, it just turns into my
personal life. And that’s not exactly exciting.
3 kpont.com » Blog Archive » How to Write an Award-Winning Blog // Jan 5, 2005 at 5:00 pm
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I’ll probably stop pointing you to all these how-to-blog posts soon but bear with me for one more link: How to Write an Award-Winnin [...]
4 kpont.com » Blog Archive » Increase web site traffic // Mar 22, 2005 at 9:38 am
[...] ite traffic Close on the heels of my previous post about blogging and increasing web site traffic I’m sending you to this helpful piece th [...]