new blogger

I have found recently a useful article at HowTo Market Your blog in 2007. It gives me good idea about problems for new bloggers. Just a few to discuss:

1. Get own domain.
   For new blogger it is much easier to start with any available service such as blogger.com. It will help to be use to blog, adjust layot, templates. Then is possible to switch to a custom domain name on blog, for instruction how to do that follow Advanced Use.


2. Host your own blogging software. Looking ...
   Wordpress 2.2 is available for download. To run WordPress your need hosting with PHP and MySQL.


3. Content is a king. Writing a blog give you a way to improve a writing skills. But don't forget to read what other bloggers has created. Communicate with other bloggers.


4. Feel and Look. Find a free wordpress template and customize it to suite your needs. It will help to boost you happiness and willingness to write anything


5. Enable permalinks. An URL that points to a specific blogging entry even after the entry has passed from the front page into the blog archives. Because a permalink remains unchanged indefinitely, its use avoids link rot. Most of weblogging systems support such links, including Wordpress, Movable Type, LiveJournal, RapidWeaver, Pivot and Blogger


6. Create keyword rich headlines, create unique title tags. The TITLE tag can be found by viewing the html source of your page, and it looks <TITLE>This is a title tag</TITLE>


7. Enable trackback and ping functionality, and ensure your blog pings pinging-services.
   It is part of service provided by blogger.com


8. Publish full feeds. No idea how to do that, except this is probably a feature of blogging software. Next question coming - what is pundits?