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

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