blogging basics for beginners

Getting Ready to Launch {Blogging Basics for Beginners}

November 15, 2012

If you’ve followed this series from the beginning, you should have a basic blog set up and ready to go. Hopefully you’ve created an About page, added a few things to your sidebar and have a basic idea of how to create posts and pages. So what’s next? Get Ready for a Soft Launch If [...]

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Setting Up Google Analytics {Blogging Basics for Beginners}

November 8, 2012

Today we’re talking about setting up a Google Analytics account to track your traffic, audience demographics and more, but before we get to how to set it up, a word of caution: Tracking your traffic, learning about your audience and watching for trends are important parts of developing strategy for your blog and understanding what [...]

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Creating an About Page and Other Important Pages {Blogging Basics for Beginners}

November 1, 2012

As I mentioned last week, pages are a great way to provide content on your blog that you don’t necessarily want to show up as a dated blog post or be sent out to subscribers. Today, let’s take a look at some of the most common types of pages:

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Understanding Basic HTML {Blogging Basics for Beginners}

October 11, 2012

While WordPress offers many automated ways to change and enhance content on your blog in addition to providing a visual editor, you will benefit in the long run by learning some basic HTML code, which you can use in posts and pages as well as sidebar text widgets. Text Here are some basic examples: Headings. [...]

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Setting Up RSS Feeds and Email Subscriptions {Blogging Basics for Beginners}

September 20, 2012

Now that we have our blog installed and our theme selected as well as any customizations, we want to put in the place the ability for the readers to subscribe to blog posts. Many people use RSS readers while others enjoy getting the latest content delivered directly to their email address. While all WordPress blogs [...]

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Setting Up the Twenty Eleven Theme {Blogging Basics for Beginners}

September 13, 2012

As we mentioned in the introductory post, the beauty of WordPress is the ability to customize your site — almost without limit — through an easy-to-use dashboard. In our last post, we talked about how easy it was to get a WordPress up and running with Hostgator. This time around we are going to cover [...]

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Choosing a Domain Name & Setting Up WordPress {Blogging Basics for Beginners}

September 6, 2012

Blogging Basics for Beginners: A 12-Week Series to Walk You Through Setting Up a WordPress.org Blog will run every Thursday from August 30th through November 15th. This week we’re going to talk about choosing a domain name and setting up WordPress.org with a Hostgator hosting account. This is a long post, so I’d recommend focusing [...]

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Common Blogging Terms {Blogging Basics for Beginners}

August 30, 2012

After our announcement post a couple weeks ago, we heard from so many of you who were anxiously awaiting the start of this series, so we’re excited to jump in today. We’re going to take this step-by-step, so if you’re already a little bit familiar with blogging, it may seem like we’re going too slow, [...]

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Blogging Basics for Beginners {Upcoming Series}

August 17, 2012

I’m excited to announce a new 12-week series that will run every Thursday from August 30th through November 15th. I’ve partnered with James — who contributes regularly to Life Your Way on all things blogging — to bring you Blogging Basics for Beginners: A 12-Week Series to Walk You Through Setting Up a WordPress.org Blog. [...]

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