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Blogging Checklist – What You Need To Start Blogging

Like everything else, the first step to successful blogging is knowing what blogging really is, and how to achieve success and satisfaction towards your blogging experience. Here, I want to start by trying to explain what blogging entails – probably the definition of BOGGING! You need to prepare your blogging checklist ahead of time.

According to Wikipedia.Org. Blog is a contraction of the term “web log” which is a type of website usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events known as “Post“, or other material such as graphics or videos. Blog can also be used as a verb, meaning “to add content to a blog”.

Many blogs provide commentary or news on a particular subject; A typical blog combines text, images, and links to other blogs, web pages and other media, related to it’s topic. The ability of readers to leave comments in an interactive format is an important part of many blogs. Most blogs are primarily textual, although some focus on art, photographs, videos, musics (like mp3 blog) and audio known as podcast.

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Simpler than that, it is easier to blog than to decide what to eat for dinner tonight. Therefore, put away all your fears about blogging and lets see how I can be of help towards the kick starting of your blog. Before you decide on what to blog on, we have to get down and put first thing first.

The Blogging Checklist

Idea

You need to have an idea on what to blog on. Making a decision has never been easy and you are not alone when it comes to that, but there are various means you can use to research your ideas to enable you arrive to decision as to what to blog about. Download VRE Toolbar from VREToolbar.Com (Not sure about the stability of this toolbar) and install it on your PC, it is very helpful in many ways as you will find-out. Use if for your keywords and niche research and come up with idea and choose a niche for your blogging. Make sure your niche is within the boundary of what you are passionate about.

Register a Domain

Choose a domain that is most appropriate to your chosen niche or you can make do with a “sub domain” like yourname.blogspot.com if you are using Blogger as your blogging platform or yourname.wordpress.com if you decide to go with WordPress. I personally blog with both custom domain name and free sub domain name, so the choice is yours to make.

Get a Reliable Host

When I say host I mean a webhost, you need this except you are using free host provided by Blogger and WordPress.com which is ideal for beginners. Of course, even professionals and long time blogger use them too. You can start with the free hosted platform or you Get yourself a paid host. Please, do further research before you decide on which hosting company to go with.

Choose your Blogging Platform

Choosing a suitable blogging platform. This very blog is on Blogger.Com Owned by Google. That means, I use blogger as one of my favorite blogging platform, you needs a Google account and you can start blogging within a minute. Its free to use and comes with exciting features. You can make do with one of the existing templates which is fully widgetized or download and install custom template. Details about “custom template” in my subsequent posts. There are other great blogging platforms and open source blogging softwares like: WordPress.org, Typad, Profy, MovableType, Textpattern, Space by MSN etc.

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One outstanding blogging platform is Profy, a new player in the blogging arena according to Squiddo, is a one-stop web platform for all things blogging. Described by some reviewers as a social blogging platform, the Profy solution provides a single point of comprehensive access to the full range of activities involved in blogging, from reading and sharing news to publishing posts and networking with other bloggers and readers. Profy’s vision is to provide bloggers with all the creative tools they could possibly want – in one place namely, Profy blogging platform.

Keyword Research

Essential if you are blogging for profit and for search engine ranking.If you are blogging for income, you need to know how profitable is the niche you have choosen, that is where Keyword research comes into play. Besides, search engine indexes each blog and website according to its keyword orientation, therefore, you’ll need to choose which keyword you would like your blog to be indexed on.

Google Keyword Tools is very essential as I earlier mentioned, if you haven’t downloaded it, quickly go over to VREToolbar.Com and get a free toolbar. Its free and take less that a minute to install. When you install it, scroll over to keyword section, pick your search option begins your research.

Social Media Accounts and Bookmarking

Subscribe to social bookmarking tools like Del.ico.us and others. Open an account with social networking sites like Facebook, Myspace, Twitter and many others but these three are the most popular among others. This will make it easier for your blog readers to follow you on any or all of these social networking places.

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It easy to get an account with any of these bookmarking and social networking sites, just go over there and follow there the steps to get a free account. There will essential for you to build and keep a community of your blog readers.

Put Your Resources Together

When I said resources I mean the contents of your checklist. Its time to bring together all the thing you’ve been gathering, put them together now for your first blogging experience. Start setting up your first blog with all you’ve got. Remember, with the course of time, I will discuss with you all what we’ve talked about.

Dedicate Time to Your Blogging

Time is everything when it comes to blogging, you need to give your blogging a lot of time to experiment with the feel and look of your blog. Remember, your blog wouldn’t be at its best from the start, give enough time to experiment with it. You will also need a lot of time in writing your blog post, try to be your best and write what you thing will be beneficial to your readers. With time you will be your best in blogging. Don’t see blogging as mountain, it’s easy and simple to blog as you can see. It’s not as difficult as people are making it to be. I will make effort to always update you on this blog.

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