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

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As I prepared for a recent mini ProBlogger event event in Perth, I created a little list of some of the ‘dos and don’ts’ of blogging that I wish I’d known back in 2002 when I started. Do think beyond what you’ll write today – develop an editorial calendar. Do create something to sell from your blog.

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207: Smartphone and Tablet Apps for Bloggers

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One of the biggest changes that has happened in my blogging since I began back in 2002 is the technology I use. One of the biggest changes that has happened in my blogging since I began back in 2002 is the technology that I use. There was no such thing as text overlay really going on in blogging back then.

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

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I look back on the early days of ProBlogger and I look at the first posts I wrote and they were all text, there was no images in them at all. I started blogging in 2002, 2004 for ProBlogger, of course things have changed. Do you want your logo to be included in those text overlays? Underlining is something I don’t generally do.

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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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278: Evolve Don’t Revolve Your Blogging

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” Now, I started blogging in 2002. It was a mind-blowing question to be asked because everything has changed in my blogging since 2002 except for the fact that a blog is pretty much the same thing. There’s lots of things have changed since 2002. The way we’ve been in 2002 is changing.

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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. Not a single post on the front page of that blog in 2002 had even any image in it, it was purely text.

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191: Tools for Creating Great Visual Content for Your Blog

ProBlogger

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. Not a single post on the front page of that blog in 2002 had even any image in it, it was purely text.

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