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How to Blog: Blogging Tips for Beginners

Posted By Darren Rowse 14th of February 2006 Start a Blog 0 Comments

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.

Blog Tips for BeginnersWelcome to my How to Blog – Blogging Tips for Beginners Guide.

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.

Lastly- if you enjoy these posts and want to keep in touch with ProBlogger – subscribe via our RSS feed.

Blogging Tips for Beginners

Introductory Posts

Blog Design Tips

Tips for Writing Content for Blogs

Tips on Making Money from Blogs

Blog Networks

Other Beginner Blogging Tips

Want more Blogging Tips for Beginners?

If you want more blogging tips I can recommend two things.

1. Subscribe to ProBlogger – This blog is updated daily with news and tips relevant to bloggers wanting to improve their blogs. You can subscribe via our RSS feed or via email by adding your email address to the field below:

2. Check out the archives of ProBlogger – Over the last few years I’ve published over 3000 posts and blogging tips to ProBlogger. The links above just scratch the surface. One way to get into our archives is through our Archives Page which highlights the different categories of the blog and suggests some of the more popular posts from DEHE. Alternatively use the search feature at the top of the blog to hunt down the topics you want to know more about.

About Darren Rowse
Darren Rowse is the founder and editor of ProBlogger Blog Tips and Digital Photography School. Learn more about him here and connect with him on Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn.
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  2. syahid ali says: 02/23/2007 at 12:03 pm

    i know that i will come here often after reading this segment. thanks!

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    Thank you so much for providing such a vast source of information. I just got started blogging and you have provided a invaluable source of information to the blogging community.

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  8. dan says: 03/14/2007 at 10:54 pm

    Really good post. vERY informative

  9. Assep Purna Mulyanto says: 03/17/2007 at 11:46 pm

    thanks for the information Darren, and i’ve got an idea now. thnks u very much. horrayy!!

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    like most of us who read your blog for beginner its a great help. what ever personal reason (money or fame) a blogger has for doing it. i hope you continue doing it and be inspiration to young blood like us. i also like about the photography blog. more power.

    ps.
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  13. roy reyes says: 03/28/2007 at 9:29 am

    Dear Mr. Rowse,

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  14. Go4Mails says: 03/30/2007 at 7:37 am

    nice post. helpful in many ways….thanks.

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    Thanks for the information. It really helped me starting out.

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    Finding your problogger site is what started me thinking about starting a blog of my own. I am very excited about what I have started writing about and realize that because I chose such a broad topic I will probably flounder soon. I am hoping that by reading through the rest of your beginner series to get the know-how or at least a helping hand to break down my blog a little further.

    What I have read so far has helped quite a bit.

    Thanks for all of your wonderful hard work getting this information together.

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  23. Layne says: 04/30/2007 at 2:14 am

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  37. Bruno says: 06/13/2007 at 6:08 am

    Hi there,

    I have recently created the blog at http://short-term-london-property-to-rent.blogspot.com

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  38. Gregg Eppleman says: 06/14/2007 at 2:49 am

    Darren,
    Thanks so much for offering all this advice to rookie bloggers like myself. I am brand new (3 weeks into this) and would be completely lost without your pages.

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  41. Misty says: 06/29/2007 at 9:05 am

    Hi Darren, Thanks so much for the valuable information in your blog. A 3-day newbie like myself is learning a lot from you.

    I’d like to have my own domain/host, can anyone recommend a good Web Hosting service? Thanks.

  42. Nicholas the copywriter says: 07/04/2007 at 12:31 am

    Hi Darren

    I agree with misty, thanks for a great resource.

    The crazy thing is just, like with everything new, it takes time. Take yourself for example. I do not know your background, but I bet you have some serious technical, writing, advertising, marketing background.

    You forgot stuff we are only now discovering. Obviously, you are one of those people that wish to share and build society and that’s why you have such a huge following. You share, pure and simple.

    I sometimes wish I could plug into a mind like yours and learn EVERYTHING you know in a flash. Right now, I am building and failing and building and failing, but always forward.

    This resource have been a great help!

    MISTY. I use Godaddy, but I did the database setup on my own. I do not think they are the best though. Try Thirsphere hosting, they have amazing resources on Internet Marketing as part of the package.

    All the best!

  43. Misty says: 07/04/2007 at 7:45 am

    Hi Nicholas,

    Thanks so much for your feedback.

    I have just signed up for a Web Hosting Service with Lunarpages today. It is one of the services that were recommended by Damien Rileys (http://rileycentral.net/wordpress/2007/06/03/blogging-platform-setup/), who has some experience with Lunarpages.com. I’ve also heard that it has good tech support from others. WordPress is included in its Fantastico Script Library at Lunarpages.com. Dimien has offered to help with blog related questions. I usually get his replies in a day or so. Try him if you have questions in the future if you like.

    http://www.lunarpages.com/basic-hosting/

    I have just begun to play around with the tools given there. I’ve installed the FrontPage extensions as per instructions. Still trying to figure out where the FrontPage client resides(i thought that it resides on the server).

  44. Misty says: 07/04/2007 at 8:56 am

    Nicholas, This is to follow up on my last post. Looks like I can start to build the blog content as soon as I installed WordPress from Fantastico using Lunarpages. I have a lot to learn moving forward, but I am excited about it.

    Darren, Thanks again for teaching me how to start on blogging. I am a frequent visitor at problogger.net.

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    how do i make my blog more popular ? please tell me i have started it 3 months ago and i just have about 1,300 visits please help me !

  47. Niall says: 08/01/2007 at 10:26 pm

    Really good advice here Darren! I just started my own blog a few days ago (after years of avoiding what I thought was “yet another social web thing”). Having googled around a bit on blogging in general I came across your site and have to say its very cool. Like the design etc, very smart and the information you’ve got on here is just great! So thanks for sharing your tips and thoughts and look forward to your newsletter.

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    I googled “Tips for attracting readers to your blog” and various posts from this site popped up. I read a few and I must say, it has given me GREAT!!! advice. I still have to do my homework before I begin bloggin hardcore. I liked the advice so much I subscribed.

    Thank you!

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  50. ning says: 08/22/2007 at 10:25 pm

    I am a beginner on blogging,I found this page is very important as the summary and contents of blogging for beginners,I have bookmarked it in my google toolbar.
    I subscribe to your blog via email too.

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