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Beginner Week: My 43 DOs and 25 DON’Ts of Blogging

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Eleven and a half years ago when I hit publish on my first ever blog post, I had little idea what I was doing and what was going to unfold for me over the coming decade. My 43 DOs of Blogging. Do create a blog that is meaningful to you. Do set yourself some goals and objectives for your blog.

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210: Launching a Blog: How Many Posts Do You Need?

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It probably partly comes down to your personality type and what’s going to help you to get your blog launched. This is what I’ve done in most occasions when I’ve launched a blog too. I think back to my first blog, back in November 2002, it all happened very, very quickly. The first one was a welcome post.

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How to Start a Blog in 5 Steps

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In this post I want to walk you through the basics of how to start a blog, and while I do, I want to answer some of the basic technical questions that many pre-bloggers need to answer to get their first blog up and running. How to Start a Blog. Posts will appear on the front page of your blog once they’re published.

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246: 9 Ways to Accelerate the Growth of Your Blog

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Having said those things, I want to talk about these nine things that have helped me to accelerate the growth of my blogs over the years, things I wish I knew back in 2002 when I started out and I hope that that will help you in your journey as well. I started blogging in 2002. This is a picture of my first blog.

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216: How to Create a Style Guide for Your Blog (and Why You Should)

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Today I want to talk about style guides – how to create them for your blog, and why you should create them for you blog as well. Style guides in my opinion are one way that you can really lift a good blog to a great blog by building more consistency across your content, across from one blog post to another.

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278: Evolve Don’t Revolve Your Blogging

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We’ve also got Kelly Exeter, who’s brilliant on writing, editing, also design, self-publishing. He’s brilliant on creating products via blog marketing and just really helping you to shape your business. . ” Now, I started blogging in 2002. When I first published it, I didn’t look like this.

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191: Tools for Creating Great Visual Content for Your Blog

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When I was looking back at some screenshots of my very first blog from 2002, recently, I was amazed by how boring it looked. Not a single post in the first few months of my blogging used even an image – it was purely text. Have you ever asked your readers how many people read your blog on their phone?

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