Okay, no blog is a good blog if it doesn't have traffic right? Well not exactly you can have a great blog that doesn't get traffic. The point is that you need to have a strategy for getting traffic to that awesome blog of yours. So I'm going to talk about generating traffic to your blog. There are few things you need to consider when are thinking about generating traffic to your blog and these aren't any different than if you were planning for a regular web site.

The exception is that blogs will generate traffic much quicker. I didn't say A LOT of traffic much quicker. Just much quicker. You need to consider your target audience and from where you are generating your traffic.

Blogs can do can do anything a regular web site will do, they just do it faster and they do it better. Let's get right into it shall we?   more »

I'm a little behind in publishing my Blogging 101 series. I'm an IT Systems Engineer by day and the end of the year is a very, very busy time of year for my company believe it or not. It's been eating into my publishing schedule the last few days.

So I will pick up the series in several more hours yet but it's coming. My series has been well recieved and I appreciate everyone's interest and support!

There a lot more how to blogging stuff the come!

In the mean time I thought I'd jot down some basics as a recap for newbies while following shortly with the How To Blog 101 series How To Blog 105 on Blog Promotion and How To Blog 106 Blogging For A Living.

Enjoy!

Well, let me start by saying that blogging is "HOT" ...   more »

Welcome to lesson four in our series on Blogging Basics. I How To Blog 103 you learning about several important features the seperate blogs from regular websites. You also learned about blogging tools and how they can aid you in the publishing process.

Let's turn our attention now to actually publishing your first article or item. Let's start first though with a few basic guidelines that will make your articles more effective for your readers much loved by the search engines and respected in the blogosphere.

Before you can publish an article you first have to select a blog software tool to publish with. I recommend signing with TypePad first and then BlogHarbor (the company that hosts this blog)

Cost:

TypePad Price Plans:
Basic $4.95/50MB diskspace monthly
Plus $8.95/100MB diskspace monthly
Pro $14.95/200MB diskspace monthy

TypePad's blog hosting service offers ...   more »

I'm half way through the Blogging 101 series and I'm considering doing a few video tutorials to enchance the series or perhaps as a follow up in the form of an intermediate series with videos showing more specifics tasks. The Blogging 101 series is basic coverage of blogging fundementals for layman.

Hmmmm.....   more »

In part one of How To Blog 103, I discussed what a blog is and how a blog differs from a standard or regular web site.

You learned that a blog and a web site are similar because they generally appear to be the same in form. They both allow you put content on the Internet in the form of a web page using HTML and read with a web browser.

But you also learned that blogs are distinctly different from a standard web site in several different ways. You learned about some features that are unique to blogs and make blogs an ideal tool for publishing content to the web.

In this second and final part to How To Blog 103 I'll discuss specific blog software tools, and I will conclud with a link to my growing list ...   more »

In How To Blog 102 , the previous installment of this series you learned some basic essentials for planning your blog.

You learned about a few different types of bloggers plus different types of blogging styles. You learned a few pros and cons as well about the blog I.R.S factors.

I want to now discuss how to choose the right blog software tools for your blogging efforts. This lesson will be a two-part lesson because I want to cover some features that set blogs apart for regular web sites. Then I'll cover the remaining topic of evaluating blog software tools.

Blog Software Defined
Blog software is any software that allows you to blog. Now that may a bit like over stating the obvious but let's examine this for a minute. There are certainly characteristics that are unique to blogs and some features that some would ...   more »