Guide To Blogging

Mom bloggers are heaven sent. They are the most honest and helpful people in the internet. There’s a saying that with knowledge comes power and being a mother is one of the best life experience a woman has a privilege of doing. It is hard work and it’s wonderful how mothers who blog help other mothers gain some sort of footing in the parenting world.

If you yourself are a mother, then here are some great mommy blogs that you might want to visit:

1. http://not-your-average-mom.com/ - this blog is maintained by a mother of 7, she was a previous teacher and now a full time mom. The site is funny but also extremely helpful.

2. http://www.diyinspired.com/ - This blog is filled with Do it Yourself projects that will be great for mothers and children.

3. http://www.ohmystars.me/ - This is the blog of beautiful mother and business owner. It’s a nice blog to follow because of the beautiful words and pretty photos.

Blogging can be such a fun hobby. It’s easy to blog specially if you love writing and sharing thoughts but there are still some limitations to bloggers. An unspoken rule that needs to be followed. You know how to blog but do you know what NOT to blog? Here are some of the things you should not blog about before you type away!

Do not do a lot of complaining. People visit a blog to read mostly because they want to entertain themselves. No one will be entertained if it’s all about whining. Unless you add some comedic charm to it, like complaining about a dumb TV show like Housewives of New Jersey.

Do not get too personal. Sure, blogging is expressing your thoughts but it’s public and it’s not your silly little diary. People will get uncomfortable if you start talking about your latest sex-capade.

Religion and Politics. There’s no need to further explain this since it really is just too obvious. Not all your readers will be open minded and it might not sit well with them if you start bashing political stand or religious beliefs.

With many different websites that offer templates for easy making of blog, just about anybody can have one if they wanted to. But what is it that you want to talk about in your blog that would keep it interesting? The main thing is to make sure you are writing about  something that genuinely interests you. Don’t bother thinking if the topic will attract a lot of readers, eventually if you write it well and from the heart it will gain a following. Pick a niche. If you have kids and would not mind talking about them, then try and make a parenting blog. If you like cooking and you’re confident enough that you make great recipes you want to share, then lean towards making a food blog. What you need to remember is that you give yourself rules and limitations. Be respectful to people you want to write about. If you are going to write about your personal life, make sure that you keep something of yourself to yourself. You’ll realize that you will thank yourself in the future.

Blogging is so popular these days and to create one for yourself is very easy. If you are planning to jump in the band wagon or you already have, here are some simple rules you must live by when maintaining your site.

Be Authentic – if you want people to continuously read what you have to write, make sure that you stay honest to what you believe in. Your posts must reflect your identity. There are already too many poseurs on the internet, do not be one of them.

Do not steal content- it’s somehow connected to the first rule mentioned. Stealing other people’s thoughts is NEVER good.

Pay attention to spelling and grammar- write as if you’re about to submit the post to your English teacher. Readers can be very critical with your writing so make sure they have very little to none to criticize about.

Enjoy the process- do not focus on the number of hits you get (unless you are blogging to earn money) but make sure blogging is a fun experience, otherwise your posts will reflect the negativity.

If you’re using the Blogger platform, then you’re sure to have other blogger blogs out there that you want to reign in and organize. If that’s the case, then you’re in for a treat :

The import/export feature opens up a whole new range of portability for your blogs, as well as allows for a few new options in the blog creation process. To get you started, we’ve rounded up a handful of ideas that can be done with importing and exporting:

* Merge two or more blogs into one. Have a few scattered blogs and want to get a fresh start? Now you can combine comments and posts from multiple blogs into a brand new blog.
* Move individual posts from blog to blog. Cross-publish your posts on multiple blogs, or transfer large batches of posts from one blog to another with a single click.
* Back up your blog to your own storage. It’s never a bad idea to create backup copies of your own content, and now you can easily export an archival copy of your blog to your hard drive with a simple tool.
* Move your blog somewhere else. Our standard Atom XML export format will open up new blogging channels between providers, and let you take your content with you should you decide to move somewhere else. And of course, if you decide to come back to Blogger, importing your export file will get you back up and running in seconds.

As of the moment, it’s only available for Blogger blogs.

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Blogging for personal satisfaction or blogging for monetary gain.

There are two sides to blogging, and that is blogging for personal gain – as a hobby, or just having fun – and the other is blogging for money.

We all know the joys of blogging and as well getting paid for it, but sometimes blogging or writing articles sometimes maybe a bit hard when you’re not into that subject, or the topic is not in your personal interest. I know, I experience these quite often especially when I’m being asked to blog about a topic I absolutely have no interest in.

Blogging for money can sometimes take its toll, being asked to blog about a subject or topic you aren’t familiar with. As with that experience you get stressed as your deadline grows near, you start to lose focus, and just stare idly at the monitor at worst case it leads to having a “writer’s block”, I usually experience the emotions and when I experience a writer’s block I feel it’s the “Great Wall of China” of writer’s block.

In blogging for money, you create posts that are “okay”, but when you blog passionately about a subject you produce a great post. Not to mention the satisfaction you get from writing something you are absolutely passionate about.

It’s good that you choose to blog about what you like. That means you are in control in choosing topics you want to talk about. And you’ll have no problems if you find the topic you chose is difficult: you can always change it. However, when blogging for money, you are assigned to write about certain topics, and you cannot choose. Mostly you can easily do the tasks and get on with it, but there will be times you have to wrack your brains for something to write about.

“it takes anyone to write a blog… but it takes a lot of skill and “weirdness” to write the good ones…”- the QuickStop Project

Blogging doesn’t have to be just a hobby. If you are actually someone who has some talent writing and entertaining people online and having good amount of traffic, then you should know that you can earn a lot of money by blogging. Just how much can you earn? A blogger has the potential to earn up to $50.000 per year! Seems to good to be true, sure. An example of a star blogger who probably earns much is Rich Bianco, who writes under the pen name DisplacedGuy. He shares on his own blog the secrets of making money online with the use of Google AdSense. AdSense is an application introduced by Google Inc. that helps bloggers make money online depending on how much traffic they can attract. This means not everyone who has a blog will earn money, but the blogs with a lot of visits per day are the ones that will be chosen.

There are many reasons why people blog, and in an old post here, fellow blogger Criselda dwells on her reasons and gives advice on how to be successful as a blogger. However, if expressing yourself and sharing your thoughts is not the aim of your blog, and what you want to do more is inform, then you have to make sure that your blog delivers on that aspect.

The usual advice on how blogging are stuff you should still apply to your informative blog, but more than anything else you need to be particular about each post publish, taking into consideration the amount of useful information your readers can get from each post. And while your opinion is valued, you should provide facts and focus more on that instead of giving your take on things.

Linking to sites and blogs containing more details about the topic is also a must, whether that be wikis, job sites, or online journals. And don’t forget to provide links to your older related posts so that they can get more information within your blog.

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Some of the leading bloggers on the Blogosphere certainly thinks that blogging will stay here for a very, very long time. But some process of content creation for a single blog or a series of blogs will continue to change in the near fututre. radical changes will be made. Just last year, we have been introduced to numerous ‘micro blogging’ platforms. These, by themselves have become the commodity. That simply means that it will further push individual voices to the Blogosphere’s melting pot. Brand decentralization is quickly changing the way we live and blog. And additional micro communities will flourish in any one of the smaller structure services like FriendFeed, which literally continues the conversation. Video will definitely grow in popularity within the blogging community. It will be important because it is able to express more than ordinary text does. And we will be needing to archive and index video clips and wrap them with text so that Google can search and detect it.

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WordPress is one of popular blogging tools around the web today. Almost all result of a search engine today has blog on it’s made from word press.

How to install word press

First you must have a web host then download and install word press on it but some other web host already has a installer on their hosting service all you have to do is just install it.

Making Blog

Log in your account in your website click the write tabs there are two format that you can see one is visual for does who don’t know html I recommend you to use this it’s user friendly and easy to understand then HTML, I recommend this format for does who have knowledge about HTML a great features of this is you can customize your web blog more that VISUAL