How to Blog

Blogging is the tech answer to a daily journal. Because blogs are designed to be personal publishing platforms, you can use your blog to publish your own work, keep friends updated on your life, share information about your organization or family or inform customers about updates to your products or services. There are many services on the Internet that make blogging easier. Start by following the helpful steps below.

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• A hosting account if you choose to use a stand-alone blog package
• A blog

Planning Your Blog

1. Decide on the purpose or subject for your blog.

2. Choose a name for your blog.

3. Sign up for an account with a blogging service or install blogging software on your own hosting account.

4. Fill out your profile with as much or as little information as you want to tell people about yourself.

5. Choose a theme or design scheme for your blog. Most of the popular blogging packages offer many different styles that you can apply to your blog with the click of a button, whether they’re stand-alone blogs that you host on your own account or blogging services like Blogger.

6. Set up categories for your posts if you’ll be writing about different topics. Categories make it easy to organize your posts and for your readers to find posts on the similar subjects.

Writing in Your Blog

7. Go to the administration screen for your blog.

8. Select Write a Post or its equivalent.

9. Write your post in the text box provided.

10. Add pictures to your post to attract more interest if desired.

11. Choose a category for your post.

12. Click on Publish to publish your new post to the front page of your blog.

Publicizing Your Blog

13. Add links to your blog's links section on your blog. It’s especially useful to link to other blogs because their owners will often link back to your blog in return. Just ask them.

14. Read other people’s blogs on the same subject as yours and leave comments with a link back to your blog.

15. Write posts on your blog commenting or adding to a discussion in other people’s blogs and link back to the post you refer to.

16. Sign up for a Technorati.com account and add Technorati tags in your posts so that people can find them by searching on Technorati.com (see Resources below).

Tips & Warnings

• Sign up for a Feedster account and use their Buzzboost feature to make it easy for people to follow your blog with an RSS feed.

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