Update: See our more recently published posts on the topic of starting a blog at How to Start a Blog in 5 Easy Steps and how to make money blogging.
On the page below you’ll find links to a series of how to blog tips that I’ve written with blogging for beginners (and ‘Pre’ Bloggers) in mind. It unpacks the basics of blogging and a lot of the decisions and strategies that you’ll want to consider when setting up and starting a blog.
How to Blog – My Ultimate Guide to Blogging for Beginners
Since developing this series I’ve produced a book specifically for beginner bloggers. You can learn more about it on our ProBlogger the Book page. The book is filled with up to date blogging tips for beginners – you can get it on Amazon here.
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Blogging Tips for Beginners
Introductory Posts
- What is a Blog?
- 23 Questions for Prospective Bloggers – Is a Blog Right for You?
- How to Choose a Niche Topic for Your Blog
- Choosing a Blog Platform
- Choosing a Domain Name for your Blog
- Blog Tools
Blog Design Tips
Tips for Writing Content for Blogs
- Useful and Unique Content
- Post Length
- Granular (One Topic) Posts
- Using Titles Effectively on Blogs
- Scannable Content
- Basic HTML Tags
- More on Writing Content for your Blog
Tips on Making Money from Blogs
- Introduction to Making Money from Blogs
- Should I blog for Money?
- Making Money From Your Blog – Direct Methods
- Making Money Because of your Blog – Indirect Methods
- How Much Money Can a Blog Earn?
- Introduction to Advertising Optimization – Traffic
- Introduction to Advertising Optimization – Ad Position
- Introduction to Advertising Optimization – Ad Design
- Introduction to Advertising – Ad Relevancy
- Introduction to Advertising – High Paying Ads
Blog Networks
- Introduction to Blog Networks
- Why Should you join a blog network?
- Why you shouldn’t join a blog network
Other Beginner Blogging Tips
- An Introduction to Using Images on Blogs
- How to Start a Blog Partnership
- Kick Your RSS – Jumping on the Syndication Bandwagon
- Introduction to Trackbacks
- Tag You’re It – Leveraging Tagging for your Blog
- 10 Techniques for Finding Blog Readers
- 19 More Strategies for Finding Readers
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