The most important step in becoming proficient at anything is to learn the terminology. That applies to investing in stocks, to learning to blog.
Here are the most basic terms you’ll need to gain understanding in, if you are to become successful at
Blog is short for weblog. It’s just a series of posts presented online in reverse chronological order (newest date first). A blogger is someone who writes the post and
A post is simply a new entry into the blog
The rest of the terms you’ll need are to do with the technical parts of
You need a platform on which to store your blog. This is the software program that allows you to post blogs. You can find a free host or host your own. The most popular free hosts are Google’s Blogger and WordPress. WordPress can host a blog for you, or you can have your own website and domain and host it yourself.
Free or hosted, you can design a blog to suit yourself with templates which let you make it look the way you want. There are loads available on the net for free or for a fee. A template allows you to choose the colours, design, style of text and more.
Blogs can be public or kept private. If you’re interested in making money from your blog, you want it to be public and then you need to learn a whole heap more about what topic you want to write about, how to write successful posts, how to get your blog found by people and more.
Blogging 101 - Blogging For Beginners
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