How To Blog For Newbies Day 20

During 3 months of learning how to blog, it’s inevitable that I have to resort to various blog tools to make the process easier. I will try to make a comprehensive list of these blog tools in accordance to their function so that you can incorporate all or part of them in your blog management.

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How To Blog For Newbies Day 19

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Do you know what I’m thinking? As a whole, we bloggers are a smart lot. After learning how to blog, for let’s say, 2 months, you know that you have enough contents. You check your analytics every evening but the traffic is still unsatisfactory. Recall back all the blogging tips that you have read. The SEO tricks. Now it’s the right time to concentrate on your blog traffic. Think of the conventional entrepreneur. What would he do?

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How To Blog For Newbies Day 18

I know, I know, many of you despite reading my blog for so long, is still not convince that registering your own domain name is the way to go. So let me guess, you search “free blog” in Google, and alternatives like Blogspot.com, Blogger.com, WordPress.com appear in front of you. Wow, free, no charge. Think again my friends. It is really worth learning how to blog with these free stuffs ??

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How To Blog For Newbies Day 17

I still haven’t make it yet to the major leagues like Problogger or John Chow. In fact, I have always wonder, would I ever be a professional blogger one day, no problem if it’s a year, I just want to succeed. I will just have to do this part time. I still need my day’s job to pay my bills, send my kid to the best education program, maintain my standard of living and much more. Anyway, to those of you who are still in the same league as I am, I urge you to strive on! I am going to give you some survival tips on how to blog part time and the way we should change our mind set.

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How To Blog For Newbies Day 16

You have been learning how to blog for quite some time now and your blogsite is up and running. You are the CEO of ****.com. What next?

Ok, you have probably posted some contents into your website. In addition, you have also read How To Blog and Blogging Tips for Newbies on SEO, creating contents and understand the initial journey into entrepreneurship.

Let me give you a simple advise. Move away from your blog, and step out into the real world. Go near any retail business in your friendly neighborhood and start observing.

As all of you very well know, blogs were started as an extension of personal’s journal. For those of us who wish to monetize our blog soon, the blog business is a mirror image  of brick and mortar retail business. Simply put, you supply contents (merchandise) and hopefully, readers (consumers) took notice and  visit your blogsite. (more…)

How To Blog For Newbies Day 15

I think many of you can relate to this. You are sitting on your favourite arm chair, your finger frolicking on the keypads of your laptop. You surf to JohnChow.com, Problogger.net, then to DoshDosh.com, fidgeting away not knowing what to churn out for your next content.

Then, an evil thought cross your mind. You search JohnChow.com, you come across a topic. In your haste to meet the ‘deadline’ of your posting schedule, you left-click, pull and highlight the whole article, copy….the rest is history. You feel exhilarated. Hopefully, nobody know about this….HUH!

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How To Blog For Newbies Day 14

After reading this post, many of your should be able to call yourself a SEO Apprentice. Now, not only have you learned how to blog, you would also learn how to do search engine optimization on your site.

Although this post would not be able to guarantee  your blog to be listed at the top of Google, it will definitely increase the frequency of your blog being indexed in the search engine. Actually I’m a tad worried that my advice here would be (more…)

How To Blog For Newbies Day 13

Now that you have bring your blog up, you need to do some management on your site. One of them is SEO.

SEO or Search Engine Optimization enables crawlers from search engines like Google, Yahoo, Technorati and many others to crawl on your site, even when you are just learning how to blog in your own sweet time. In other words, SEO is done to enable your blog to be discovered and indexed in search engines.

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How To Blog For Newbies Day 13

I assume that when you read this post, you already have your very own blog. I would love to congratulate you because as you are progressing on how to blog, you have also established yourself as an entrepreneur. By being an entrepreneur, you would encounter problems that any like minded entrepreneur would likely to encounter. And with problems, fear arise.

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How To Blog For Newbies Day 12

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Learning how to blog is akin to learning how to build a business. Compared to the brick and mortars, a blog is considered a low barrier to entry venture; all that is needed is a computer, broad band, annual renewal fees for your domain, and web hosting fees.

These low entry barrier means that you do not have much to lose if the business does not work well. However on the other side the low entry barrier means that a lot many other entrepreneurs will be working in the same niche as yours and it means more competitions. In low entry barrier businesses the dedication, patience and perseverance in the initial years is what will distinguish the long term players from the non serious ones.

As in business, various reasons could contribute to a blogger’s failure:

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