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.
Welcome 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.
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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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Hey Darren — Just wanted to thank you for all the great content on your blog. It’s been really useful in developing my own ebook website: http://www.howtowriteandsellyourebook.com/
Have plans to convert it to a blog format as soon as I can master the WordPress program.
Anyone have any tips for learning WordPress? Or can you give me some idea of what it costs to have a custom theme designed?
Keep on bloggin’, buddy.
Paul
Blogging is very addictive. Thus, when your going to start a blog, you have to stay really focused on your topics of choice and the niche you desire to attract, regardless if your blogs goal is to just speak your mind or to build a strong redearship followed up with some added value revenue streams, i strongly suggest that you stay really focused. Key word is be “original” and have fun with it, thats the key.
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thanks again Darren, I spend an hour or so each week reading tips and reviewing sites-I always find yours the most helpful…and Australian!
cheers
Mark at Motive8
great list. will read those article soon
I am a stay at home mom and started blogging due to bordom (and crazy-dom). Then I found I really liked blogging and HTML and CSS and maybe I could create alitte job for myself. Your blog really helped me understand all about the “business” of blogging. I really want to have some great content but at the same time make money doing what I like to do. You and all your guest bloggers have pointed me in the right direction. All of the comments are right–you HAVE to write an e-book!
Kerith
I started blogging just 3 weeks ago. I agree that once you started making blogs, they become most likely the best part of your every day when you’re about to write about anything, or should I say blogging about everything.
Thanks Darren for your endless support to us beginners in blogging. I even wrote a blog about you on how I appreciated your help.
http://pangong-ilong.blogspot.com/2007/09/darren-rowse-problogger.htm
By the way, I used your picture in your about me page, is that okay?
Thanks thanks =)
I started my blog three months ago. I am lucky to find your series for begginers. It really help me a lot to develop my blog. thank you.
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I’ve hit a wall. I want to build my blog and it’s pages, around the idea based on the Way Stations of the westerns. I see it in my mind’s eye, but I just can’t seem to make it a reality. I know what I want to say but I can’t seem to get past page 2.
I guess you can tell I’ve never done this or written anything before. But with so many people crashing and burning on their journey to find and succeed with an online home business I thought I could be of help.
For many of us, the net is like a huge black hole and we are merely adrift. We need somekind of map!
Catherine
I’m new to blogging. About a month or so now.
Thanx be to my brother, who helped me set it up and give me a few pointers. That eventually led me here. I’ve been reading a whole bunch of things on problogger. like 31days to better blogging.
Now I found this and I’m going to use it alot! :)
Thanx.
how do i build a “blog” or web site to do a survey on emtpy nest syndron, a study im working on?
Pretty good tips :), keep on the great posts! I used some of your tips and it proved to be reliable.
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That sounds interesting and I hope I can use some of your tips 8)
Very good tips on blogging. I have used some of these tips and they worked pretty well for me. I am glad I stumbled onto this blog of yours.
I read the article on blog design and agree that blog designs are pretty important. I didn’t think much about blog designs before until I just changed mine to wordpress and am now convinced of this. The article I just read from your blog just reaffirmed my belief and I now have a decent blog design. Thanks for that.
Peter
These articles have been really beneficial. I am also reading stuff on some of your friend’s websites like Yaro at http://www.entrepreneurs-journey.com.
I am going to implement some of these ideas and see how it goes from there!
Wow… All I can say is this is one of the most comprehensive set of articles I’ve seen on beginner blogging. Great work!
Good tips and very useful for implementing for bloggers.
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Hi,
I stumbled upon your blogging site about a week ago.thank you for offering all this advise for FREE. everyone wants to sell you something and most of the time its fluff.
I prefer to research and do the work and then share it. I can’t wait to implement some of these ideas.
thank you!
Before beginning to blogging we must consult as far as which we are going to do, since those small tips will help to increase ours page rank.
Thanks for the great tips! can use all the help I can get!
Thanks
Steve
Definitely my go-to blog information source, very informative, thank you!
I started a blog a few days ago. It’s really new to me, and I really have no experience. I stumbled upon this article, and I assure you, I will be digging through archives like mad.
This was so informative! Thank you!
Darren,
Thank you so much for such wonderful tips.You are helping blog sphere to grow :)
This is a great overview of all the stuff I and others need to know.
Thanks for the tips.
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The tips are found really useful. I am new to blogging.
I will be implementing the tips in my blogs.
Great tips. I have been blogging for a little while, but I still feel like I have a lot I could learn. Thank you for the help!
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Kudos and many thanks to Darren for a job well done
Great information. I have just started my first blog and have found your site to be truly helpful.. Keep up the great work.
Once again, not only is the content exceptional, but you basically hand it to us on a silver platter :) Thanks for everything you do.
cheers
Blogging profession which unfortunately does not have the same standards as other forms of journalism. This site raises the bar for all those would be bloggers and sets sterling example for others to follow.
I have a blog off of blogger.com and that is working out great. It does much more than you’d expect from a free blog-hosting website. I have even made some money off of it. Blogging is great way to make money online. Darren’s posts have been guiding me well through the process.
I doubt I’ll have anything more to add to a series put on by such a veteran of blogging.
Thanks Darren for all your help. It’s certainly an exciting area to be in and I hope I’m 1/10th as successful as you in the blogging arena!
! I am looking to start a blog.
I’ve tried to take on board your tips in my new blog. Keep up the good work.
Having just started my own blog I found this article, and others on your site to be very useful. On behalf of all of us just starting out in the blogosphere, thanks for all of the great and relevant info!
What a great post for newbies! Although it is for blog beginners, I have learnt a lot from this article. Hats off to Darren !!!
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I’m also writing an article to help beginners on blogging. I may add a link to the video in the article. Thanks for the great tips,
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