5,263 Words On Starting A Profitable Blog
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So you’re starting a blog from scratch, or maybe you have some experience and want to make sure that you’re not missing anything. Either way, I think I can help you out. I wrote this monstrosity of an article because I couldn’t find one anywhere that was thorough enough.
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I wish I had more time to teach everyone one-on-one. Since I can’t mentor everyone this way, I want to create a resource for everyone.
Where I Would Start
If I had to start my entire business from scratch right now, I would start a blog. (I actually did start this blog recently, although I already have some profitable websites.)
Definition of a Blog
For those of you that are brand new to internet marketing, blog is short for weblog. It’s kind of like a journal or diary, except you don’t use it only for history. You can use it to post news on a topic, give tips about a specific niche, or to write random thoughts if you want. A blog puts the latest entry at the top, and the blog creates archives all of the older entries for you.
If you go to the homepage of this blog, you will see the latest post I’ve made. To the right, you will find 10 or so recent posts. These are the last things I’ve written for you on this blog. You will also see categories. With a blog, each time you post, or write an entry, you choose which category you want the entry to appear in. You will also see archives. Usually a blog organizes the entries you post by the date they were posted. Since this is the first month this blog is online (written Feb. 2007), under the archives you can only see February. This will be expanded to show more months as time passes.
Sounding Complicated?
I know that many of you are thinking right now that it sounds really hard to create a site that will do all of that for you. I know that it can be overwhelming to learn something brand new. The beauty of a blog is that YOU don’t have to make any of that work. There is free software that will do all of it for you. (We will get to that a little later, I just want to let you know now so you don’t get scared and click the back button.)
Why I Would Recommend Starting A Blog Instead Of An E-commerce Site (or any other type of site)
The biggest reason I would recommend starting a blog is because it’s easier. You don’t have to learn HTML. (HTML is the programming language that websites are written in.) Your biggest obstacle as someone trying to learn how to make money online is learning how to put a website together. You have to make tons of pages (that you designed yourself), and make sure they all work together. You have to create the layout, design, links, navigation, and content. (For the newbies, content is the articles, entries, and posts you put on your site. It’s the actual material that you write.) If you start with a blog you don’t need to do the layout, design, links, or the navigation. It’s all done for you, you just write the content.
Another reason I would start with a blog is that your blog will do some of your marketing for you. The program that I’m going to tell you to use will automatically alert some blog search engines when you post a new entry. These blog search engines will create links for you, and people will be able to find your site. The more you post, the more exposure you will get with the blog search engines. Even if this was the only marketing you ever did, you would be able to get some visitors and build up your list of readers.
My most recent protégé just started a blog about fitness. He just started last week! He and his mother are working together on the project. They haven’t done any marketing at all, other than the marketing their blog does for them, but they have already been able to get a few readers to their site. (Along with a little bit of money, which brings me to my next point.)
Blogs are easy to monetize. In other words, it’s easy to create a revenue stream for blogs. There are quite a few ways of creating revenue with blogs. The easiest and most effective way of monetizing a blog is with Google Adsense. If you look at the top of this article, you will see a Google ad unit. If one of my readers clicks on one of those ads, Google pays me. Depending on a number of factors, I might get between $.10 and $2.00 for a click. Google direct deposits this money in my account every month. You can opt for a check if that’s what you prefer. You make money day or night, as long as you have readers that click on ads. Some of your readers will naturally click because they will see things that interest them.
The reason I like Google ads over other similar programs is because they match up really well with the material on your pages. If they find this site because they’re interested in internet marketing, I don’t want them to see ads about tennis shoes or home loans. Google does a good job of showing ads that are related to the site.
Using Google Adsense is 100% free. After you have a website up, you can sign up with their service and use their ads on your site.
Hopefully You’re Convinced That Starting A Blog Is The Way To Go
If you are, let’s talk about where you go from here.
You Should Choose A Topic
Choosing a topic isn’t the easiest thing in the world. What are you passionate about? I’ve seen lots of different kinds of blogs work! This blog is about internet marketing and personal development, but I have other blogs that are more technical. I have a site where I publish cell phone news, and it does quite well. The most important aspect of picking a topic is your interest level. Here are some ideas to get you started:
- Parenting
- Personal Development
- Finance
- Real Estate
- Fitness
- Recipes
- Technology
- Politics
- Dieting
- Celebrities
- Art
- Movies
- Update: 5/1/2007 - Check out a new article I have called “Ideas For Profitable Blogs“
You could literally start a blog about anything that you’re interested in. The important thing is that you have enough interest to keep working. Most blogs die out after a month or so, the owner loses interest!
What do you read about? I’m constantly reading about internet marketing, and how to better myself as a person. I spend a lot of time searching in those two areas, and that’s why I chose to start a blog about them.
You Should Then Choose A Domain Name
A domain name is the .com name for your website. The domain name for this site, of course, is courtneytuttle.com. Your first option is to use your name, like I did. Your other option is to choose a name that is more related to the subject of the site.
For your first site/blog, I would use a name that is related to your subject material. This can spark some interest from people that see the name and can make it a little easier to do well in Google and other search engines.
By choosing to use the name courtneytuttle.com, I know that it will take some extra work. People who see the name won’t have any idea what the site is about. I have to put in some extra time to establish my domain name as a brand.
By opting to use a name that is related to your subject, you can save yourself some marketing time.
How To Find Out If A Domain Name Is Taken/Registering Your Domain Name
There are plenty of sites around that allow you to do this. The one that I use for this is www.prouddomains.com. If you go to the site, you will see a search bar, where you can type in any domain name. It will tell you whether the name is already taken. If the name you want to use is available, you can register it there for $8.99. You will then own the name for one year.
You will probably find that quite a few names are already taken! Here are a few tips that you can use to find a good name that’s available.
Pick your subject and add a name to it. For example, if your subject is real estate, you could try prosperrealestate.com, or mountainrealestate.com. You just add another word at the beginning.
Use .net, .biz, .org, or .info extensions. Some webmasters would disagree, but I haven’t found any difference at all between using a .com,a .net, or any other extension.
Once you decide on a name, you will go ahead and register it. Make sure to save your login information! Save everything or you will definitely regret it later. Congratulations, by now you should own a domain name.
Setting Up Web Hosting | What Is Web Hosting Anyway?
A web host is the computer on the internet that stores your website. You buy web hosting so that your site/blog has a place to ‘live’ on the internet. I use prouddomains.com for my web hosting as well. (The same company that I use to register domain names.) They aren’t the absolute cheapest anywhere, but they are pretty cheap, and they have a support phone number that you can call if something gets messed up. I’ve called them quite a few times, especially in the beginning when I made quite a few mistakes.
If you use prouddomains, you need to get the deluxe hosting to make everything work properly. Its cost is $9.99 per month. At one point they will ask you if you want a Windows server or a Linux server. You need to choose the Linux server.
Once you buy the hosting account, they will guide you through setting it up. You will basically setup a user name and a password that you will use to access your site later. After you setup your hosting, it will take a few hours to become active.
Install Your Blog
Once your hosting is setup, you want to install your blog. The blog software I would recommend using is called WordPress. It’s the best around, and WordPress does a lot of the work for you. This site was built using WordPress.
If you are using prouddomains.com for your hosting, it’s going to be really easy to setup WordPress. Prouddomains.com will actually install it for you. This is what you need to do. First, you will go back to prouddomains.com. You will then hover your mouse over Web Hosting, which is a blue button up at the top. It will drop down a little menu for you, and you’re going to click on My Hosting Accounts. Prouddomains.com will then have you sign in, unless you’re already signed in. Once you sign in, they will show you your hosting accounts. Most of you will probably only have one. You should see a link that says ‘open’. It will be under the control panel column. Once you find the ‘open’ link, click on it. It will then open up the control panel for your hosting account.
At that point, you will see quite a few little icons, (Account Login, Domain Management…..) and you are going to look for one that says, “Value Applications.” It looks like this:
Once you find this icon, you’re going to click on it. You will be taken to another page where prouddomains.com has some applications that can be installed on your site. One of these applications is WordPress. You’ll find it listed in the left column under community tools. Once you find the link to WordPress, go ahead and click on it. You will then see a red button that says, “Install Now.” Go ahead and click the button.
It will then ask you which of your domains you would like to use. Most of you will only have one, so you will select it, (if you have more than one you will select the one that you want to use) and then you will click continue. You may need to scroll down a little to find the continue button. It will then have you fill in a ‘Database Description’ and a ‘Database Password’. For the description you can put anything you want. You could put ‘Dave’s Blog’ if your name is Dave. It really doesn’t matter at all what you put there. For the password, fill in whatever password you want to use. Make sure that you save this information. Write down the information every time you fill out something like this. After you fill it in, click next.
Another screen will come up that will ask you to choose an install directory. Since this blog is going to be your whole site, you don’t want it in a directory. After your domain name, you will see a box that will probably have the word, ‘WordPress’ in it. You need to delete it. Click your cursor in there and backspace the whole word. You will then click next. It will take you to another screen where you need to fill in a little more information. It will have you choose an admin name, and an admin password. You will also need to enter in your email address. It needs to be a real email address. It will also have you give your blog a title. This can be changed later if you want, so fill something in. As you can see, the title of this blog is, “Internet Marketing And Personal Development.” You can use whatever title seems relevant to your subject. Don’t waste a lot of time here, again, because your title can be changed later. Once you have filled that in, click finish. For now you’re all done!
It will take prouddomains.com anywhere from 10 minutes to an hour to install your blog. When they are done, you should be able to see it by going to your site in internet explorer. Once it’s setup, somewhere on your website you will find a login link. You will login with the admin name and admin password you just set up. Once you login, I think you will find everything to be pretty self-explanatory.
If you have any questions about how to do anything, please leave a comment! I will be more than happy to answer any questions. I would at this point take some time to click on everything in there, just to see what everything does and how it works. You Now Have A Website! If you have made it this far, that tells me that you’re probably pretty persistent. Will you make it through this entire article? I’m willing to bet that most people won’t. This is pretty frustrating to me!
So many people ask me for help, but somehow I know that if I direct them to this article, they won’t even read the whole thing. Most people are looking for an easier route. They don’t want to put in the time. They are looking for the easiest way possible to realize their success.
That’s why I really don’t believe that most people can make money with the internet. It seems that most people can’t be successful at all! They simply don’t have the persistence. I would ask you right here whether you are a persistent person. If you can’t muster the energy to do everything in this entire article, I don’t think this business is for you. If you haven’t been a persistent person in the past, perhaps this is the time to learn how to be one. If you can be persistent, you can make this work.
Now You Have A Site - What’s Next?
Now is the time for you to start writing. We need to get some material on your site. Really quickly before you publish anything, let’s check on one little marketing tool that you’re going to need. Login to your site, go to options, and then go to writing. Scroll down to the bottom, and you’ll see a box labeled Update Services. You need to make sure that the following URL is in the box - http://rpc.pingomatic.com. If it’s there, your blog will let the blog search engines know each time you update your site. This is a very important marketing tool, so if it’s not there make sure to copy the URL above and paste it in. Make sure that you click the update options button if you have to do this.
As soon as this is done, you’re ready to add some categories. You probably want to start with at least 5 categories. Every subject has some categories of information, and you should take a little time to decide how to split things up. My most recent protégé started a site about health and fitness, and has the blog divided into these five categories:
- Aging Gracefully
- Fitness Exercise and Weight Control
- Fitness Tips
- Muscular Strength and Endurance
- Stress Relief
This site will end up with quite a few categories, but started with these basic five:
- CourtneyTuttle.com News
- Finding A Voice
- Motivation
- Promoting Your Blog/Site
- Search Engine Optimization
I have added a category for beginners, and can see that I will be adding more soon. I tell you this so you know that your blog will always evolve. Don’t worry about trying to create a finished product right now, just come up with the best five you can.
How To Add Categories To Your Blog
Once you’re logged in to your site, you will go to Manage, and then to Categories. You will see a link that says, “add new.” You will click the link and then it will let you fill in the category name. Don’t worry about filling in the other stuff; it will fill it in for you. Once you’ve filled in the name, go ahead and click, “Add Category.” You will need to do this once for each category you want to add.
Now You Need To Add Entries To Each Category!
Now is the time to start writing! What do have to say to the world? If you’re hurting for ideas, you should have a look at my article, “Read Your Competition’s Work.” It’s always good to read what your competitors and fellow bloggers have to say. You should also be reading sites that offer news about your subject. You can use ideas to get at those sites to start writing. It’s never worth plagiarizing! People want to know your unique perspective on things; it does no good to write the exact same thing as everyone else. People want to know what you think!
By now you should have an article in each one of your categories. Well done!
What Now? How Often Should You Blog?
This topic is highly debated, but I can tell you that you should try to blog every single day. A blog gives you the unique ability of getting repeat visitors that will come back every single day. Most websites don’t have this kind of draw, but you can! Of course, if I go to your site tomorrow and see the exact same thing I saw yesterday, why would I check it everyday? If you want to do well, you will create new entries at least 5 times per week. For more on this, check out this article, “If You Can’t Post Daily, Don’t Quit Your Day Job.”
How Good Are Your Entries?
Even more important that how often you post is the type of material you’re posting. I try to make my articles extremely thorough. That’s why this article ended up so big; I wanted to ensure that people who read it could realistically end up starting a blog. Your users will know if you’re really trying to help them, or if you’re just trying to get something on the site that day. If you focus on writing material that actually helps people, people will come back again and again. I want this site to be a place where people can go to find help. I want them to grow when they read what I have to say; in fact I want this site to be the best site out there for this!
I understand that this will take some time, but I really believe that if I continue to be thorough and aware of what people need, I can make it happen. You have to try to provide the best information you can.
Blogging And Comments
One nice feature about a blog is that people can leave comments. If you’re reading this entry, you’re more than welcome to leave a comment when you get to the bottom. Some webmasters believe that responding to visitor’s comments is too time consuming. I absolutely disagree! Responding to comments is one of the best things you can do, it creates trust between you and your visitors, and makes it so they want to come back to the site again and again.
At some point, your site may outgrow comments! If you’re getting too many comments to manage, you may need to eventually turn them off. Until then, it’s a great way to establish a relationship between you and your visitors.
Respond to your visitors and answer their questions. From time to time they will ask you questions that you don’t know. It is most definitely in your best interest to find the answer for them! You can learn yourself and also establish yourself as an expert in your field. Other users will also see that your site is an interactive place where they can find the material they’re looking for. From time to time, you will see that your visitors answer each other’s questions!
Do You Want To Have A Quality Site?
Many of you are probably just in it for the money. I teach people how to make money online all the time, and the truth is that most people I teach don’t want to do very much work. They want to do the bare minimum. I read the blogs of many successful online entrepreneurs, and there is one common mentality that they all have. They want their sites to be the absolute best in their industries. I notice that I said they want their sites to be the best. This doesn’t necessarily mean that they are the best.
One thing is certain, they give their all to make their sites the best resources they possibly can. You should keep in mind that when you’re starting from scratch, you won’t be the best right away. Over time, you can establish your site/blog as a great resource for people.
Promoting Your Blog / Getting More Traffic
Now you have a site, let’s talk about getting you some traffic!
#1 Way To Get Traffic - Creating Valuable Material
The absolute best way to promote your blog is by creating content that actually helps people. Many bloggers and internet marketers rely on search engines for 100% of their traffic. In reality, it’s a lot easier to get traffic from word of mouth than it is from search engines! If you are pumping out material that is truly helpful to people, they will keep coming back, and they will tell lots of other people about it. They will link to you with their blogs. They will link to you from myspace, facebook, and send emails to everyone they know.
When I think about writing for this site, I try to think of what topic will help my readers the most. I know that the only way I will reach my goals is to help other people to reach theirs. I’ve met so many people that really want to learn this business, but don’t know where to start. I want this site to be a resource that they can use from start to finish. This means that everyday I think about what information will be the best for you, my readers!
When you create material that will actually help your readers, they will notice. Remember that you will always be more successful if you write for your readers.
You want to make sure that your blog’s content is original. I find original things to write about all the time. I do it by writing about things I can’t find anywhere. I searched for months for an article on how to make money blogging. I found quite a few, but couldn’t find anything that covered all the major topics, start to finish. Even though I know a lot about making money online, blogging has some unique and interesting characteristics that make it a little different from traditional website marketing.
Over time, I have learned a ton, but never found an article that covered everything. This is the kind of topic I look for, that’s why I wrote this one!
Pinging The Blog Search Engines
This part of your marketing will be done for you if you’re using a WordPress blog. Earlier, I had you make sure that this was set up properly. Each time you publish a post on your site, WordPress will ping (send a special message) the blog search engines. They will update their search engines, adding your new material to their results. The way blog search engines work is quite different than the way regular search engines work. Blog search engines will show the most recent entries found under each topic. This means that you can increase the traffic to your blog simply by posting more often.
Commenting On Other Blogs
One super effective way of getting traffic for your blog is by commenting on other blogs. When you comment on a blog, they allow you type in the URL to your website. When you type this in, you want to put in the entire URL. When I do this, I type http://courtneytuttle.com/. It will then make a link that people can follow to your site. Usually when I comment on blogs, quite a few people will visit my site to check it out. The webmaster of the blog I’m commenting on usually has to approve the comments, so he ends up visiting my site too.
Often bloggers will read other blogs to find significant material for their readers. Bloggers who have found me this way will often link to my blog, as they find material that is useful for their readers.
Blog Carnivals
Blog carnivals are places that feature a ton of blogs about a certain subject. There are blog carnivals about almost any topic. If you do a Google search for blog carnivals, you’ll find quite a few sites that do them.
Usually you’ll see a list of a ton of topics, and if you want to get into a certain blog carnival, you simply have to write an article about that topic. You submit it to the carnival, and they link to your site. This can drive quite a bit of new traffic to your site. If people like what you have to say, they will continue to come back again and again. Other bloggers will be checking out the carnival as well, and some of them may link to you if they like your material.
SEO - Search Engine Optimization
Search engine optimization is making it so that your site does well in the major search engines. As of the day I’m writing this article (2/25/2007), Google by far is the biggest search engine. Yahoo! and MSN can also bring significant amounts of traffic to your site.
If you want to do well in any of these search engines, let me point you in the right direction. The most important method you will use to do well in search engines is keeping your site updated. If you stop adding new material to your site, your search engine traffic will slowly die. Most search engines want to see fresh material added to your site constantly, and this is especially true with Google. Google will drop your site altogether if it isn’t updated for a while.
How Do I Get Into Google In The First Place?
Luckily with a WordPress blog, this will be taken care of for you, as long as you continue to publish new material. When your posts get you into the blog search engines, Google, and all the other search engines will naturally find you.
How Do I Get A Better Ranking In The Search Engines?
There are two articles I’ve written about this, and I’ll post them here for you:
To learn more about getting better rankings and search engine optimization, you can also visit the search engine optimization section of this site.
How Long Until I Start Getting Traffic?
This totally depends on you! If you start commenting on other blogs, you will start getting traffic right then! The more blogs you comment on the more traffic you will get initially. Blog carnivals are also ways of getting traffic in a hurry.
As far as traffic from search engines, it will take you at least a few months. As your site continues to grow, so will your traffic from search engines.
How Long Until I Make Money?
This is the most asked question by far! It will take at least a few months after your blog gets set up. Of course, the more direct marketing you do (word of mouth, commenting of other blogs), the more accelerated this process will be.
Sometimes people are learning this business, and they ask if they should quit their jobs. My answer is almost always, “Are you crazy?” You don’t quit your job while you’re learning a brand new business. Learn the business, and then quit your job!
Yes, you can make a very significant income doing this. However, not everyone is going to make money. To tell the honest truth, you have to be pretty smart and wicked persistent. Most people can’t handle writing day after day. When you have a website, you do the work and don’t see the results for months. Most people honestly can’t handle it.
Hopefully This Gives You Somewhere To Start
I really want to create a helpful article that could help my readers to get started. If I could only give you one piece of advice, it would be to keep learning. I will continue to leave you with valuable tidbits of information. I will try to give you the material you need to find success.
Update (12/19/2007): I have now had this site for 10 months and it has grown 1000 times over. I am truly grateful for starting a blog. I also have a new post on starting a blog that was written with a lot more experience: Starting A Blog The Isn’t A Time Sucking Money Pit.
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February 27th, 2007 at 8:33 pm
Courtney, Thanks for taking the survey on my site. And your site is great! Great article here! Best wishes!
December 24th, 2007 at 2:22 am
thanks for this article. It do helps me a lot. I did not know ‘PING” until after reading your article
I am building site which promote trade shows, but i just aware that google the spider “love” blogs more than pages.. so we add blogs by wordpress and then ‘PING” to more than 20 address
wow, our pages was indexed so fast and i can even find out what we post is 1 hour ago.
I do think that there are still many people do not know “PING”…
March 16th, 2008 at 11:50 am
i know PING but i didn’t imagine its big impact in marketing your blog - not until this article
March 3rd, 2007 at 10:11 pm
Court, thanks for writing this article. I can already see the benefits of doing a blog; after only having mine up for roughly two weeks I have made about $9.00. That’s not a ton of money I know, but…it’s a great start and as long as I am persistent and work hard that should only increase. All the information in this article is extremely valuable, at least it has worked for me!
March 13th, 2007 at 7:51 am
I made the switch from Blogger to Wordpress using your article. I’m writing a post (or two, or three…:-)…about my experience. I will be referencing this article with a link! Thanks! Great stuff!
March 13th, 2007 at 9:44 am
[…] No. I’ve just spent the last 5 days putting together the whole thing. Courtney Tuttle has an excellent article that walks you through setting up a Wordpress blog. I recommend printing it out and reading it. If you are serious about setting up a professional blog that will serve you and your readers well for the long term, then this is the way to go. The only changeI made was I used ANHosting instead of Prouddomains.com. ANHosting is recommended by Wordpress along with a few others. I like that ANHosting are very responsive to email and I can do an instant chat to get help 24/7. Of course their phone service is 24/7 also. And their install of Wordpress took all of about 5 minutes. The whole time for setting up hosting can take a little longer than that as you will need to update your DNS if your domain is registered elsewhere like mine was. Where to find Wordpress Themes. […]
March 20th, 2007 at 10:27 am
Excellent How To manual. I got my site up earlier today. Now I just need to start writing.
Thanks,
David
March 21st, 2007 at 7:14 pm
This was extremely helpful. I have a question. I already have a website. I like the artwork and other design features of my site, but I want to turn it into a blogging site. The host is Fat Cow. What tips can you give me? Thanks.
May 21st, 2008 at 9:20 pm
I had this same dilemma. I started a blog (which I shall work on improving following the advice here) alongside my established website. I used a widget provided free by feedsweep (http://www.feedsweep.com) and placed it on the homepage of my website. This way my website users can easily see new entries as I update the blog.
The widget is on the right hand side of my homepage underneath the news items if you want to see how it looks.
March 22nd, 2007 at 11:12 am
Hi Kelly! Welcome and feel free to ask questions anytime.
I would definitely recommend using WordPress to set your blog up. Since you have a site set up already, you should install your blog as a section of your site, instead of as your entire site.
Your web designer could add a link to the blog in the menu, maybe under where the link to your family newsletter is.
Wordpress has a ton of themes (looks) you can choose from, and You could find a nice black one that looks like your site. Your web designer could probably build a flash logo for the top that matches your existing site.
FatCow can help you to install WordPress, fortunately it’s one of their applications already. Make sure that you install it in a folder! The URL will be http://www.crabbapple.com/blog, or something similar. That way your site will be the same, except it will have a new section!
April 2nd, 2007 at 7:54 pm
Hi Court, thanks for writing this marvelous article. Now I have a clear picture of what to do.
However, I still have a doubt here. I am hosting my blog at wordpress.com with my own domain pianologist.com.
Realizing that I am going to monetize it sooner or later, I would want to transfer to own hosting at ANhosting.com. Shall I use the same domain pianologist.com right away? or wait until I keep everything running and setup at says pianologist.net, only then merge the .com blog to my .net blog and use .com afterthat?
Would appreciate it if you would give some opinion on this matter.
Thanks!
April 2nd, 2007 at 11:24 pm
Hi KCLau!
Welcome to the site and you have asked a very good question. I would use the same domain right away! Google already knows about pianologist.com, and that’s reason enough to stick with that one. If you used seperate domains for a while and then merged them, Google would penalize you for having the same content in two places. It would be much better to keep it all on the .com!
April 3rd, 2007 at 5:54 am
thanks! this is something I never realize that Google actually penalized for double content appearance. Now you are my best mentor since the day I start blogging months ago! Appreciate your hard work.
April 7th, 2007 at 12:29 pm
I truly appreciate you taking the time to write this article. It was extremely insightful and helpful for me. I have recently shifted the direction of my blog to a more tech service and software content focus instead of the usual blogging about my life and I’m trying to attain some traffic from such an audience. Thank you and yes I read the whole thing and I’m reading 3 other articles of yours that you linked to in this post!
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April 16th, 2007 at 6:47 pm
First of all I want to Thank You for this Very Informative Information, I started my website about 2yrs ago and as You can see I might have put the cart before the horse,I still haven’t added much content,I mostly just have links to products and services of which anyone who can type keywords into google,yahoo,or msn could find by going to the companies them selfs without going to my website, I’m trying to figure out away to use blog on http://www.findallproducts.com and still keep the products and services without infringing on copyright laws or anything like that, I would like to find out where You think I should start,As I was saying I feel like I put the cart before the horse, I should have created the content first and then added links later, I’m kinda at a stand still, I’m not very good at writing content,So If You have time or feel like it ,Take a look at my website and tell me what You think I should do, I will write content and really kinda enjoy it, As far as anyone wanting to read what I write, I’m not so sure about, I did want to tell You that I’ve been trying to find the information You have provided here on Your website for almost 3yrs, And like You said its an endless search from one list to another with nothing really certain, And I hate seeing RSS Means Really Simple Sindication, I have Read that so many times trying to find out how it will help my website til I’m blue in the face, And it seems like all the sites that start off by saying that have about the same content about it and thats where I stop and start looking for something else, When I started reading Your site I noticed it didnt say that so I kept reading and I’m Sure Glad I did,So Thanks again and I would like to add your link to my website if thats ok, just let me know
Max.
April 17th, 2007 at 8:10 pm
Wow.. such a long one. I wonder how long did it take you to write it - coz to me it’s a very very long article on how to start blogging. Wish I found something like it before.
Keep up the good work Court.
April 24th, 2007 at 7:13 pm
Hello, I just wanted to let you know I am hosting the May 1 edition of the “Blog It and Earn It” blog carnival at LifeIsRisky. I have received your submission and you will be receiving a ping back once the post goes live. Please note my blog is a “Do Follow” blog and I would appreciate it if you could either post a reciprocal link or make my comment “followable”. Thanks and keep an eye out for the post!
April 28th, 2007 at 9:17 am
Courtney, I just wanted to thank you for writing that. I am just getting into the blogging game myself and am looking for good information to get started. I actually found your site through a blog carnival - so I am going to have to give that a try. Thanks!!
April 29th, 2007 at 6:55 am
Hi Courtney,
Great advice, good to read it all in one place!
I run a free site that offers video advice to businesses, do you think blogging about the new sets we’re adding is an appropriate use of blogging?
Dave
http://www.guruonline.tv
April 30th, 2007 at 11:58 am
great article, it is posted at the carnival here- http://homebizblogger.com/2007/04/30/carnival-of-blogging-sucess/
thanks for submitting!
May 1st, 2007 at 11:35 am
Super information, Courtney! Thank you for taking the time to research and write! Great resouce! Good to have it in one place.
May 1st, 2007 at 12:08 pm
This is excellent. Over the past few days I’ve been trying to learn the ins and outs of blogging for profit, and this is by far the best article that I’ve read so far. Will be looking at more of your site soon.
May 1st, 2007 at 12:35 pm
Thanks so much for your compliments guys! I’m glad that I could be of some help to you.
March 16th, 2008 at 11:53 am
what we are reading is actually your hard work right? it actually excites me to know that somebody out there is typing these too many words just to teach other people
thank you again
May 1st, 2007 at 5:26 pm
Uau…that’s a great post. I’ve to read it again. A lot of good content. Thanks for sharing it.
May 1st, 2007 at 7:03 pm
I just want to say thanks for writing this blog entry. I´m fairly new to the blogosphere, having started my blog on wordpress.com a couple of months ago. I quickly realized that I didn´t want to stay there since I planned to monetize the blog, so I moved over to my own domain and host a month ago.
What you say about being persistent is very true. I started a website nearly two years ago and got discouraged quickly and it never went anywhere until I recently decided to make the effort. Now I am actually getting sales on that website (plr article packs) and am writing daily on my blog! Thanks for the info and inspiration. I have subscribed to your feed so I don´t miss any more important info.
May 4th, 2007 at 2:47 pm
Damn, that’s a big article. Why did you write that much? And no, I didn’t read it, but good job I guess, that many words, I am sure you made some good points somewhere.
March 16th, 2008 at 11:48 am
i guess you should read it, the article was outstanding
May 7th, 2007 at 4:48 pm
Very Informative! I really like your writing style!
Thank you!
May 7th, 2007 at 5:25 pm
Court,
First off I really liked reading this article and was so busy taking notes, I got sidetracked from the carnival reviews. Anway, on with the job at hand!
Thank you for submitting your post to the “Blog It And Earn It” blog carnival. This weeks edition can be found on LifeIsRisky at Blog It and Earn It May 8 2007 Edition.
The post will go live tonight at midnight (EDT). I hope you take the time to click over and read the other submissions and comment on the edition as a whole. This is my first time hosting a blog carnival and I must say I feel it was a great success.
Thanks again and I look forward to reading more of your posts in the future. Also, we are still looking for a host for next week’s carnival, why not drop your name in the hat?
May 7th, 2007 at 10:21 pm
Thanks Susan, I’m glad you liked it! I will definitely check out the other articles in the carnival. Are you still looking for someone to host the carnival? I saw on the carnival that you were going to host it again!
May 8th, 2007 at 2:56 pm
Thanks for the advice. I’d already atrated my blog but it’s good to have a checklist to see if I’ve done everything I should!
May 11th, 2007 at 9:44 pm
Excellent post. I wanted to leave my 2 cents here before I read your posts on SEO. Currently I am trying to increase my search engine traffic to 2500 uniques per day, and it’s been quite a struggle.
I find that interacting with money blogs is more motivating than taking the dive by myself.
Looks like I’ll be here for a while!
March 16th, 2008 at 11:56 am
2500 uniques is quite alot already for the niche that my established blog is at… it is PR2 yet no traffic… i made a huge mistake in choosing my KW
i rank for the KW out of 4M competitiors, but the KW doesn’t have traffic
May 12th, 2007 at 11:22 am
A great (if a little exhaustive!) article! Well done - how long did this take you to put together?
May 13th, 2007 at 1:52 pm
Hi Courtney,
I continue to be amazed at the quality of the advice that you offer. I have praised you on other posts but a new area that I would like to add is: I appreciate you recommending specific plug ins like the sociable plug in which I will be offering.
I added a link to your site on my actual website under the web design link area instead of the blog since it is wedding oriented and talking about seo/blogging seemed incongruous.
Do you know where I can get a detailed overview of how word press is laid out? ie.. how the various parts like index point to other pages like header,footer,posts,comments,etc and how to go in and edit each one to achieve various results?
I am afraid to try to change my blog because I do’nt have an understanding of what I am changing and am afraid I might not be able to recover if I made a change that messed things up.
I am moderately technical and after two years have a fairly good understanding of html but I don’nt understand anything about php or sql.
Thanks
Ray
May 15th, 2007 at 12:56 am
Excellent guide for people just starting out in blogging!
May 15th, 2007 at 4:53 pm
I have had a blog up and running now for about a year. At first, I was very casual about promoting it and adding content. Sometimes weeks would go by between each post. But, in the last few months I have increased my postings in an effort to help my local clients with common problems, and to give out good information and tips and tricks for Mac users.
Recently, I signed up with Google Analytics to start looking closer at my site’s statistics. I highly recommend Google Analytics. It has an impressive array of analysis tools.
My question is this: How many page views a day do you need to reach before monetizing a blog becomes makes sense? I am now reaching approximately 2000 PVs a day.
Thanks.
May 17th, 2007 at 9:54 am
I actually monetized from day 1! Some people disagree, but I think your site looks more professional if you monetize. If you’re getting close to 2000 views a day you could be making some decent money, well done!
May 17th, 2007 at 8:08 am
Wow, Court, I really enjoyed this post! I’ve been blogging for several years (still working on that ‘profitable’ part, with my author/lifestyle/womenshumor/books blog! ;-), and this is the most comprehensive, well-done start-a-blog guide I have ever read.
I look forward to getting to know you and learning more about monetizing.
May 17th, 2007 at 9:57 am
Sherri! Thanks for your kind words.
I just hope that what I write helps people to get better at this. I’m working on a new article about blog monetization, watch for it in the next week or so!
May 22nd, 2007 at 6:32 pm
Court, I’ll look forward to your upcoming monetization article, which would be very helpful! I also REX’d your original article on http://FetchRex.com.
May 18th, 2007 at 2:15 pm
Courtney,
This article was very helpful. I’ve done most of the things you mentioned, still I am getting frustrated. The $$$ is not what I would like. I have 2 blogs. One is So Sioux Me, a blog to inspire mothers to empower their daughters at http://www.traceesioux.blogspot.com and http://www.blogfabulous.com to empower women. I would greatly appreciate it if you could check them out and shoot me an email with recommendations. I’ve been trying to “attract” a blog mentor who can help me with my quest to empower through blogging. Thanks so much!
May 20th, 2007 at 9:51 am
Woww what a write up! Thanks for the onsite/offsite optimization techniques.
Make a search for “site:http://courtneytuttle.com *** -view” on google
you have too many supplementals, eventhough you have very nice &long writeups. I suggest that you delete your archive pages from google index
May 23rd, 2007 at 11:17 am
Thanks for your concern! Since my archive pages only show excerpts they aren’t the cause of having pages in the supplemental index. My site’s age and lack of back-links are the main reason that I have pages in there.
You won’t find a new site in the world that doesn’t have a good percentage of its pages in the supplemental index. The pages move out over time as the site acquires more back-links and continues to grow in size!
May 22nd, 2007 at 10:01 am
I am impressed! I’d done much of what you recommended already. But the remainder I hadn’t. Thanks very much.
Sheppard
May 23rd, 2007 at 11:18 am
Thanks!! I hope that you were able to learn something new that can be a help to you!
May 23rd, 2007 at 11:18 am
Hey Court -
No wonder you rock!
I just printed out all of these 5,263 words — too bad my printer’s out of ink — but I will still use them to start my new niche blog on WP.
Bless you, bless you, bless you,
Paula
I’m subscribing!
May 23rd, 2007 at 11:21 am
Paula, you are the one that rocks!! That was straight up a freaking awesome idea to compile a list of bloggers salaries, and I’m glad you found me!
I just hope that I was able to help you in some way with this article.
May 26th, 2007 at 5:52 pm
Check out this article
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It has some nice tips! Maybe you can implement them? They can help you get rid of the supplemental pages…
June 4th, 2007 at 6:00 am
Great article! This brings back memories of me trying to do this when I first started!
July 11th, 2007 at 12:53 pm
hey court,
great artical and stuff, its a no nonsense stright to the point. i really like your frank and honest approach. before i make my blog a reality, i have a few questions,
1st, should a blog have only single content or many, for exp: music, engineering, love life. topics which are not connected in anyway. what are their pros and cons,
2nd, for exp, what if the advise say under engineering caused damage/injury due to the readers neglegence, would i be reponsible?
3rd, could i have a blog run from a server run from my home running off a free domain, then when traffic picks up, i transfer my site to a paid domain.
4th, how do i protect myself from spammers, viruses, trojens, etc..
July 12th, 2007 at 11:23 am
Hi Robin! Let me answer these questions for you.
1 - Yes a blog should have one single topic. It will get more search engine traffic that way,and it will also be able to get more returning visitors.
2 - You wouldn’t be responsible as long as you had a disclaimer saying that you can’t be help responsible.
3 - I would buy a domain and use free hosting. That way the domain won’t have to be changed and you can upgrade the hosting when the blog is making money.
4 - Many web hosts, including prouddomains.com have firewalls to protect your site from viruses and trojans. You can protect yourself from spammers using Akismet!
July 15th, 2007 at 11:23 pm
I started a satirical parenting blog a couple of months ago and this article has been invaluable for me. I’m curring hosted by Go Daddy and am now considering changing to Wordpress.
Thanks for the info.!
Sheri
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August 15th, 2007 at 10:17 am
Your blog is invaluable. I don’t have a blog but have so much to say that I’m considering one. Because I’ve been reading since I was four years old, the things that distract me when I read your blog are these egregious errors: In bold, “Hopefully Your Convinced That Starting A Blog Is The Way To Go.” THE WORST! (Yes, I know I’m yelling.) And, under Blogging and Comments, the second paragraph, “If you’re getting to many comments ….” Obviously, these are errors that make many of your readers think twice about the value of your advice. I know it’s cool online for writers/readers to comment that it doesn’t matter how they spell. It does matter. It’s a signal to readers that you are not an aducated person and therefore may not be giving useful advice. Because you have used these words properly in other sentences, I have to assume that these are instances of careless editing. I’ve done it myself. For those who don’t know the difference, “your” indicates possession. As in “your backpack,” “your blog,” or “your intention.” “You’re” is an abbreviation of “you are.” As in, “You’re going to kick my ass, aren’t you?” Regarding to, too, two, this is also a crazy-making error. “To” is a preposition, as in, “I’m going to kick your ass.” “Too” means “also,” as in, “I’m going to kick your ass, too,” and may also mean excess, as in too much, too many, too long, too wordy (as in my comment.” Two is a number.
Under Pinging The Blog Search Engine, you used the sentence, “Earlier, I had you make sure that this was setup properly.” This should be intuitive, but maybe not. “Setup” is a thing. “Set up” is a process.
I’m not a fanatic about grammar. Split infinitives rule. Culteral innovations make a lot of sense, as in, “I be going to the grocery store.” Isn’t that better than, “I am going to go to the grocery store,” or “I intend to go to the grocery store,” or, “I am on my way to the grocery store.” Covers it all, doesn’t it? Unfortunately, some basic errors are so off-putting that many readers may not bother finishing the blog and probably won’t come back.
I think you should add in your advice to would-be bloggers that they buy a dictionary and use it. Even better, if they can’t be bothered, hire an editor. It matters.
Because you provide so much of substance in your blog, I’ll be back. Thank you for your hard work.
August 15th, 2007 at 11:35 pm
Am I the only person who has noticed that this guy has numerous grammatical and spelling errors in his OWN comment?
It’s “educated”, not “aducated”.
It’s “cultural”, not “culteral”. Culteral isn’t a word.
He also has an unclosed set of parentheses, and used caps where he shouldn’t have.
“Regarding to, too, two, this is also a crazy-making error.” Is this even a sentence? Um, no.
Anyways, I just found it funny to see that many errors, considering the topic of his comment.
When you have posted as many helpful articles as Court has, you are bound to have a typo every now and then.
I just want to say thanks for all your work, Court.
August 17th, 2007 at 1:24 am
Hello!
A great article about blogging.
I have added your blog in mine, plse do the same and i will be grateful indeed.
Many thanks in advance
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August 25th, 2007 at 5:37 am
Hi Courtney,
Thanks so much for your comprehensive article. I have just set up a blog that will provide reviews/info/thoughts about different events/venues/restaurants etc in my hometown, brisbane under my alias, Miss Brisbane. I will be reading with earnest many of your other entries in the coming days. My website address is http://www.missbrisbane.com
Thanks Again!
Thanks again!
August 26th, 2007 at 11:00 am
Thanks! I’ll take these into consideration. There are some great comments here as well!
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August 29th, 2007 at 9:54 am
This is a great post! Thanks for all the information, it definitely helps when creating a new blog.
August 30th, 2007 at 7:33 am
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Every time I read this post I find more information that can help me. Thanks again.
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What a great article. In one page!
I was curious to know how one would monetize an html site? Is this possible? Do you have any sites that would explain how to do this?
My next site will be a blog definitely - I can see all the advantages.
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Thanks for this great guide!
I am currently using the free version of wordpress (until i gets confident) and I would like to know if thats the reason why i can’t find the box for “Update services”? where to insert the link http://rpc.pingomatic.com.
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I currently use blogger instead of word press. But i have to add pinging icons to my blog, so they do it automatically. Its not as good as wordpress and it makes my blog look ugly.
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October 31st, 2007 at 3:01 pm
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November 3rd, 2007 at 8:45 am
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I found your blog and start to like it, especially the Do Follow Blog list! Thanks for provide it 
November 3rd, 2007 at 3:43 pm
Courtney, I appreciate your thoroughness about blogging. I am going to try to stay committed longer than a month. You are right - it takes serious dedication. Great site!
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Courty:
These are great how to instructions. What software can I use if I want to upload pictures on my site?
Thanks
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thanks for posting that. if each word were a foot, you wrote a mile. it’s definately worth taking the time to read everyone. i’m going to have to take a look at it a 2nd time and pull out the items that pertain to me.
December 14th, 2007 at 8:18 pm
Court. I have a question and if you respond here I’ll probably see your answer because I seem to find myself coming back to this article quite often. I want to build a privately hosted blog and I’m still looking for a host.
Is it really that easy to get wp going on proudnames? I may go with that service, but do you know anything about site5 or powweb–I’m trying to be a little economical right now, and these have some good rates right now. thanks.
December 15th, 2007 at 2:46 am
Man Chris it is much easier on ProudDomains.com than most hosts. They can handle pretty heavy traffic too, so you don’t have to change after you get more popular. I’ve have some huge days and I’m still only paying $10 per month for a ProudDomains.com deluxe hosting account. Most people at my level are paying at least $75.
December 16th, 2007 at 2:00 pm
Courtney, stumbled upon (literally)this page today and I am so glad I did. What a wonderful, informative article. As someone who is taking their very first steps into the blogosphere I found quite a few of your points, well, enlightening to say the least! I did read the article the WHOLE way through, by the way and also followed a couple of the links from it. Great stuff and well done!
December 17th, 2007 at 3:29 am
I have been an internet marketer for several years now. There was a time when I thought I could just do whatever I wanted and eventually I could become a successful marketing entrepreneur. Everyone was preaching the same things ie: build a list, build a website, promote here promote there, and to a degree these statements and suggestions are true. Does anyone really tell you how to really get good at list building and promotion?
There are actually many venues on the internet where you can get good responses to your online venture. Safelists come to mind as a good example of marketing your products and services . Google’s Gmail is an excellent e-mail account to help with safelist advertising, no e-mails are blocked or bounced due to full e-mail accounts. You can read other marketers ads and recieve credits to promote your own offers to the list. The most important things to consider when marketing in these forums are your subject line and your ad copy. A good subject line will entice others to click on your ad and good copy will keep them reading and will peak their interest to click on your offer link. The use of certain trigger words can also help to improve your conversion rates. Keep the content relevant to your website or offer, this keeps your visitors from feeling like they were tricked into visiting your site or offer.
Give something of value to your prospective customers, offer them an e-book or download that you were impressed with, obviously if you were not impressed don’t try to give something worthless and expect value in return. Give these items in return for a subscription to your newsletter or publication. this is a very simple technique for begining to build your list of customers. Information that is of value is at an all time high as far as the premium being paid by most marketers on the internet today.
Take the time to answer all queries in a reasonable amount of time, the quicker you respond to your clients the better they will feel about dealing with you. make time to help them to duplicate your techniques, an active downline is a happy downline.
Mark Perkins
Ebizwizard Inc.
http://ebizwizpages.ws
December 18th, 2007 at 12:46 pm
Thank you I found you blog to be most interesting and informative. I have been thinking about my own blog for some time and I think you gave me just the inspiration I needed. Thanks again.
December 20th, 2007 at 7:01 pm
I have worked with only static HTML sites; one for my art (the above link), and one for a business that I had to give up.
Blogs and WP are new to me, but I have been researching for many months to “get it right” before I begin.
I just want to say thanks for creating such a basic but in-depth article. I really appreciate it. Also, your suggestion links to other articles on the subject have really helped.
Cheers
John
December 20th, 2007 at 9:11 pm
That is by far the best article on starting a blog in the universe.
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January 12th, 2008 at 10:14 pm
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January 16th, 2008 at 4:21 pm
Hi Courtney. Thanks for all of the great directions and hints. With your help, in one night, I’ve initialized and am beginning to customize my site. However, I’ve somehow deleted the ‘logon’ tab on my home page and now I can’t get on as an admin to continue changing things. Any words of advice? Thanks.
January 16th, 2008 at 4:38 pm
Hey Kirsten!
Just type in your domain name into your browser and then add /wp-admin/ to the end of it - that will get you in.
http://yourdomain.com/wp-admin/
January 16th, 2008 at 4:43 pm
Hi Kirsten,
If your site is WordPress, type your site URL in your browser, then put a forward slash at the end of that, then type wp-login.php after that forward slash (no spaces in any of that of course). That will take you to your login page, then you can fix that problem.
If you have another CMS system, like Joomla or whatever, you can do the same thing, but you should go to your file directory for that system to see what the login file is called , then add that in the same way as above.
Good luck,
John
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if you like.
February 2nd, 2008 at 9:37 am
Thanks so much for this step-by-step article. It is very helpful. I have not started a blog yet but have asked several people about it and no one could advise. I love your site and have book marked it and will forward to others.
I have a question and maybe it is in your site somewhere but I have to study so I am asking…What is the difference between Windows Server and Linux Server? Thank you again for your excellent site.
P.S.
I wanted to suggest something to one of the commenters on this artilce. Spelling and proper grammar are so important in my opinion and either keeps me reading or skips the comment, story, article,etc. altogether. I am trying to improve my own writing and grammar skills by reading a text called “Simon & Schuster Handbook For Writers” by Lynn Quitman Troyka.
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Thank you Courtney for your helpful article! I am a hired writer for a celebrity gossip site and my fiance writes for a political site, but we would like to start our own blog. He’s not as familiar to blogging as I am, and it’s nice to see that the things I’ve been telling him we need to do are stated right here on this site in black and white! Thank you so much…and yes I made it all the way to the end of the article!
Best,
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February 5th, 2008 at 8:25 am
I think creating fresh content and increasing back links are the most important things once your blog is few months old and some decent traffic is coming to it.
February 6th, 2008 at 12:59 pm
Thanks this is an excellent resource. I’m just getting starting in the blogging world, so hopefully I can get some good viewers and earn a few bob along the way.
February 9th, 2008 at 2:03 am
Court;
I loved this article. I have a monetized blog currently but your resource is better than anything I could have written.
Thank you for all your hard work.
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February 14th, 2008 at 4:16 pm
Courtney,
I couldn’t agree with you more: life is truly about the “Law of Reciprocity”. If we give FIRST and give CONSISTENTLY, the universe has a way of responding in kind.
When I help someone secure the money they need to KEEP their home (yes keep it!) it feels good. Knowing that someone has been helped to keep a roof over the heads of themselves and their children is truly satsifying. Then in line with these universal principles, I too get rewarded at a financial level. Trying to defy these universal principles is not only futile but is also VERY frustrating. Work with them … not against them.
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Thanks so much. I am brand new to blogging (6 weeks). I have been a very successful public speaker and trainer over the last 30 years in face to face, seminar type teaching however, this is a whole new medium for me and you have given me some great ideas. I will continue to follow your tips and advice. Thanks again. Rick
February 21st, 2008 at 12:04 am
Wow,
I can’t believe all the work and thought that went into this post! Thanks for all the detail. I have an alternative health blog and I know I really need to add to it more and you have definitely encouraged me to do that. Keep up the good work!
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March 6th, 2008 at 1:10 pm
Court, I just started my first blog. Thanks for the help. One quick question…Can i change my set admin name and email address after i have set it up? For example if i chose the admin name “Bob” and the email “BobSimmons@hotmail.com”, can i change that to something else that is less personal?
Probably a real newbie question…
March 6th, 2008 at 1:15 pm
Never mind, that was easy!
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I am going to be starting linkbuildingbible.com soon. I am going to try and make it a large index of great link building resources. Does that sound like a really brandable name?
Thanks for always breaking stuff down step by step. It was all pretty much stuff I knew, but double checking that the ping address was there, and other stuff.
Also, the old links to the archive articles about onsite and offsite SEO are always nice gems to read and re-read.
March 10th, 2008 at 4:12 am
Didn’t think to check the pingback link on one of my blogs until I read it here.
March 13th, 2008 at 12:33 am
I must say that you put a lot of quality and thought into your posts. I really would like to thank you for this since you are really teaching me a lot.
March 16th, 2008 at 11:47 am
i wanted to do that setting up thing of wordpress on a paid host, but i am afraid that i might mess up and so the money i used to paid for the hosting will be wasted… those are hard earned money
March 16th, 2008 at 4:01 pm
Hi Courtney, Thanks for all the info. I followed your directions on how to install the blog. I used Prouddomains as my host site, and go daddy had my domain name. Now that I logged into my site after installing everything, I cannot find the adminstrator login link on my website. It a page that says I am parked free courtesy of go daddy. Do you know where the login info is? Thanks so much
Jason
March 16th, 2008 at 5:58 pm
Thanks again for everything. I have another question, this time about themes. On the wordpress theme section it says you can upload new themes to your wp-content/themes directory and then it will appear on the page. Do you know how to get the themes into this section, as I cannot find where this wp-content/themes section is? Thank you so much
May 12th, 2008 at 3:41 pm
I’m having the exact same problem. HELP!!!
March 18th, 2008 at 12:56 pm
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March 23rd, 2008 at 2:16 am
Wow I never knew there was so much to know about starting a blog. There’s really a lot to learn, especially for Wordpress blogs - will have to try one out for sure. Thanks for teaching us!
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March 25th, 2008 at 2:12 am
Hi Courtney,
I have followed your instructions and now have a Wordpress bolg hosted on Proud Domains.
(Pause for Appplause)
For my shiny new site I need a news theme. I am starting a local niche site as per Vics F**** instructions (Insert Vics favorite Word)
Firstly, can you recommend one?
Secondly, can you walk me through how to get the new theme on my web site?
I have tried following Wordpress’s instructions, but I just keep going around in circles.
(The fact i’m brain dead probably doesn’t help)
Thanks for all your efforts. All the best - John
April 6th, 2008 at 9:33 pm
Hi Courtney…
Not sure how I found your spot, but I bookmarked it several months ago. Decided then that yours was the article that I was going “live or die by the sword” with…Anyway, about 10 days ago, I “jumped” in. Much to learn and I really just want to write. But, there is homework. My site is up and running, but is not ready for “public” consumption as yet. My question…I am using Word Press as you’ve recommended and about a week ago, it began to tell me that my 2.3.3 version is “out of date.” Did I just happen to begin Word Press within “moments” of it upgrading? And can you tell me what I stand to lose by NOT upgrading? The process looks complicated and makes me a little nervous. Thanks so much for all your direction. It has been tremendously helpful.
Nancy
April 9th, 2008 at 9:20 am
thank you for your articlo, it took me a while but i got my blog alive http://www.dinerolife.com is a spanish blog, como ganar dinero.
I think your web is awesome
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April 13th, 2008 at 6:58 pm
I am spanish too and I will check your web, i amsure is good maybe i could do the same
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April 14th, 2008 at 3:49 pm
Great post, I learned something new and tried it immediately. Great! Thanks!
April 14th, 2008 at 10:14 pm
Thank you that was a great article and has really helped me get my blog started
April 21st, 2008 at 6:17 am
Lots of good tips here, but the article is too broad. For how basic and introductory it is, there are way too many lengthy steps. I think it would be better if it were broken up into 4 or 5 smaller, more easily digestible articles. That way, beginners could really dive in with a quick and easy 1st section, and progress to the later articles as they build up their blog. As is, there’s a bombardment of information, and it’s daunting.
April 21st, 2008 at 12:53 pm
What a great article! I’m in the planning & research stages of starting a blog (and have been for months now, I’m trying to assimilate as much info as possible before jumping in) and this kind of information is exactly what I need. I have a question though: I had planned to set my blog up with TypePad for various reasons, but lately it seems that all the blogs I read on how to start a blog recommend WordPress. What is the main difference between the two, and what would ones reasons be for choosing one over the other?
April 21st, 2008 at 6:53 pm
How does google automatically find wordpress? I’ve been trying and trying to get a particular site indexed.
I think it may be because it’s on a subdomain?
http://www.easypartfinder.com/rat-rod-parts is the domain name. Google doesn’t seem to want to index it.
April 26th, 2008 at 11:09 pm
Just wanted to say cool article, always helpful. I use blogger right now, but I want to switch to wordpress, what is the easiest way to do that anyone? and is it harder to use than blogger?
I love this site and that is why I have an interview with courtney on my site, http://www.virtualentrepreneurship.com
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Hi, thank you so much for creating this site. This is the best information I have found on the web in regards to blogs. I have registered a domain name but I wasn’t sure if I wanted to use Linux or Windows for the hosting piece. I’m a windows user, but you note in your article “you need to use the linux server.” Why is that? I’d rather stay with windows since I know it.
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great job, first of all!
I’m stuck on one of your steps, but the interface may have changed.
I’m at the step “install your blog” but no “open” option appears anywhere in prouddomain’s control panel. what gives?
thanks, andy
May 13th, 2008 at 2:00 pm
I’m disappointed that you glossed over the themes part, and wordpress itself is no help on this matter. I finally found a little info through a friend, anmd changingf the theme seems very complicated. wordpress only offers two lame themes as the default, and you are forced to go through many hoops to change it. Had I known this (and tha lack of support from you and wordpress) I probably would have thought twice. what a pain! wordpress should make it much easier.
May 13th, 2008 at 6:39 pm
Hi, I am not this site administrator but I wanted to offer some advice since I was in the same boat you are now. I bumped into the same problem with wordpress so I uninstalled it and installed lifetype. I found lifetype to be much more user-friendly as far as themes go. It took some tweaking but I was able to use a different theme than the default. You may want to try it. Good luck.
May 14th, 2008 at 8:37 am
many thanks for the info, caitlin. Wordpress does very little to make life any easier. I’m starting to wonder if Court is getting a little moolah to push their products. That would be a successful blog— at least for Court. The rest of us? Not so much.
May 14th, 2008 at 10:16 am
I started to wonder the same thing… whether someone might be getting paid to promote prouddomains, linux and wordpress.
Anyways, some of what is on this blog helped but you really are on your own. I took another look at the lifetype themes and I don’t know that I see that many. I thought there were more, but I may have jumped the gun. Regardless, I find lifetype to be the best so far.
You may want to uninstall wordpress and just look at all of the themes for the different applications. It depends on what type of site you are creating. I am creating a blog so I was limited to wordpress, lifetype, reblog, geeklog, serendipity and one other. However, I still find lifetype to be the best for my needs. I hope you find what you are looking for though!
May 21st, 2008 at 9:30 pm
I find wordpress really difficult to customise too. Installing new themes is easy, there are 100s on their website, but customizing the themes is hard work. However, it is just another example of what Court says about persistence - be persistent and you’ll eventually get your blog looking how you want it (something I haven’t actually managed to do yet). Making money online isn’t easy but persistence definitely pays off - after 2 years of working everyday on my website I am finally making some decent money.
May 15th, 2008 at 3:45 pm
Yes, wordpress is a minor disaster. Court didn’t mention that it looks fine in Firefox, but is an utter nightmare in Explorer. Wordpress has disabled any service or support whatsoever. That sealed the deal for me. I’m starting a blog about food and history. I’d be interested in learning about yours, Caitlin. feel free to send me a link at soulrecreation@yahoo.com.
I know I’m on my own, but I thought Court would more readily respond as he did with others. Perhpas he’s not taking his own advice and isn’t posting or responding much. I’m thankful it got me started, but Wordpress is NOT the way to go.
andy
May 18th, 2008 at 5:19 pm
What an article, a real guideline.Thought if i can know how to create a blog with differnt people?
May 20th, 2008 at 8:11 pm
well if I would have read this article before starting my blog maybe it could have been more sucessful lol, thanks for the info
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June 2nd, 2008 at 9:13 am
Dear Courtney,
Thank you for the valuable information you have provided for starting a blog. My wife and I have started a women’s online apparel business and we have been told that a webblog would be a great way to get exposure on the internet. We will follow your advice and read your other articles which contain information pertaining to what we are trying to do. Again, Thank you!
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hey courtney - thanks for your advice! i did find something that may be of interest to your readers … if you go to http://www.google.com/addurl.html - you can get your website/blog posted almost immediately in the google search engine! i was amazed!
June 5th, 2008 at 1:17 pm
Your post is too big for me to read. By the way how do you got 223 comments? Can you tell your secret?
June 5th, 2008 at 2:35 pm
Wow Court. I can’t imagine how long this took to write. It’s pretty indicative of your desire to really help people. I’m just now catching up on all the great information that you and Vic are offering. It’s genuinely helpful stuff and I hope you are being rewarded for providing it.
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Wow! This post is not THAT long. If people really cannot finish this post then Court is right, they should not be anywhere near a blog, lol.
June 18th, 2008 at 1:14 am
Thanks for the information. I’m only in a few months in, and keeping the persistence is definitely the hard part, but I’m mega stubborn, so hopefully that helps
June 18th, 2008 at 2:39 am
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July 7th, 2008 at 6:44 pm
Hi Courtney
First of all thank you for writing this it was very informative.
But I have a few questions.
I registered a free blog at Wordpress.com (officeorganization.wordpress.com) and I was wondering…
1- if having wordpress in my URL is doing anything to the amount of traffic I get or where my blog shows up on search engines. Would it be better with a custom domain?
2- should I change my hosting place from Wordpress to prouddomains if I get a custom domain?
3- is there a way to use adsense on a free blog hosted at wordpress.com?
4- what do you think of the blog I have now (officeorganization.wordpress.com) is the writing thorough and well written or do I need to work on it? (Please be completely honest)
5- do you think that I should expand to home organization and not just home office?
Thank you so much!
-Stephen
July 7th, 2008 at 11:01 pm
It’s quite long expression but full of information to get start.
The whole thing, the total semester of blogging courses are in there all essentials class. It’s like a fundamental text book on making money from blog
I love it.
Thanks you.
July 10th, 2008 at 12:22 pm
Courtney,
First of all thank you for putting together such concise information. It’s incredibly helpful. I’m now just waiting for prouddomains to approve my blog and then I’ll begin putting in content. I intended on directing people to other helpful sites from my blog by using “clickbank” and to generate income. What’s your opinion on this?
Thank You!
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July 11th, 2008 at 2:29 am
your post makes me more eager to go on blogging. I have just started my blog. Hope it will catch attention soon. I’ll be visiting your site more often. (”,)
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July 18th, 2008 at 6:14 pm
Great read, it’s helped out a lot and I appreciate it. I just started my sports blog site a couple weeks ago (http://www.sportsdegenerate.com/) and you gave me some good ideas.
Thanks!
Jon
July 23rd, 2008 at 12:33 pm
This is the most helpful article I’ve found anywhere - to the point & practical. I so appreciate it as I’m just getting started with the big idea! Thanks.
July 26th, 2008 at 6:43 pm
Hi Courtney
Here is proof of the quality of your article. People are still leaving comments a year and half after you first published it. Excellent article, and clearly written.
Thanks again and I would echo you and say that persistence is the most important part of internet marketing, whether blogging, or with a traditional website.
July 28th, 2008 at 12:22 am
Hi Courtney,
Thank you so much for publishing this blog. I was able to start my own in just a few days.I did have some difficulties (based on technical problems), but alas, it’s all done! I was glad I was able to have all the steps to creating a blog in one place. Thanks again!
July 28th, 2008 at 1:15 pm
5,000 word post filled with great information! Great post.
July 30th, 2008 at 4:36 pm
Courtney,
This post has been amazing and I don’t know how people make blogs without it. Well I have been through most of the steps and right now I am wating for prouddomains to install my blog. Well I have been waiting for awhile (over an hour) and when I type in my address still nothing is coming up. Am I being impatient or did I do something wrong? Thanks for ALL you help!!
July 30th, 2008 at 4:56 pm
Courtney,
Okay so I think I have got it figured out …I guess I was jumping the gun….well now I have another question. I am trying to URL pingomatic so I went to my writings and the only thing I can find is a tab called comments and pings. Well I am only able to check the boxes called “allow comments & allow pings” there is no where to enter a URL. Have things changed since this post was written? Thanks for you help
August 3rd, 2008 at 5:23 pm
Thank so much for your incredibly informative site. At first I questioned whether or not I was going to get any real information and tips. I really thought you were going to wet my whistle and then hit me with the hard sell to hire you for your SEO services. I couldn’t have been more wrong. Yesterday I added the All in one SEO for wordpress, Site mapper (which still comes up with errors, but I’ll get it to work) and Google Analytics for Wordpress. Wow.
I am now a loyal reader.
Warmly,
ANT
http://www.antcomic.com/
August 6th, 2008 at 11:46 pm
I can’t believe I just spent 20 minutes reading this entire page. My eyes!
Thanks for the valuable info. I guessed I missed the post you made ’splainin why you are MIA, Court!
I still don’t know how to install wordpress if I don’t use prouddomains.com.
I guess I have to go research that now! Thanks again.
August 7th, 2008 at 10:11 pm
Court,
Thanks so much for the information provided on your site. I feel like I’m attending ‘Courtney U’. Will be back again and again. Have a great week.
Leslie
http://www.legaledpro.com
http://www.lesliestudios.com