Step-by-step to blogging

Big mistakes made by most bloggers include choosing an idiotic name. A blog’s name is as important as your name. If you are serious about making an impact with your blog, don’t go for silly names. It just reflects how silly, bitchy, stupid, childish you are.

a) If you are not planning on going anonymous, use your real name. E.g. ali.blogsome.com is cool. boynextdoor.blogsome.com is UNcool.

b) If you are not sure if you want to be anonymous, how about using your initials? Like KY.blogsome.com?

c) If you are not blogging about personal stuffs, then choose a niche name like petshop.blogsome.com? Or booksreview.blogsome.com?

d) Aim high. Target international readers. Don’t use ethnic names which will seem foreign to people who do not understand the language.

Pick something that people can spell easily. Don’t try to be Frenchy and uses some shitty names that no one can pronounce or understand. Think big, you want people to remember the URL.

Avoided all those hyphens and underscores. Nobody likes to type with the shift key. If your choice of name is taken, use numbers.

Remember, all great bloggers use their real names. And smart bloggers pick names that stays on people’s mind. Like Blog It!

One advice - see a blog you like and see what the person is using.

Most people start with free provider like Blogger. But Blogger is over-used. So, chances are you are not going to find a nice name.

The name is something like your choice of name.blogspot.com.

So, I am all 100% encouraging new bloggers to use Blogsome. I am using Blogsome. Blogsome is the provider. And Blogsome uses WordPress which rawks.

I am not going to give beginners too many choices. Forget about Typepad, Multiply and all those frilly stuffs meant for girlish teenagers in throes of puppy loves and crushes. Either you take Blogger or Blogsome.

Blogsome is much easier to handle than Blogger. Blogsome has so many stuffs Blogger does not have. So, I am going to cut down all craps.

Use Blogsome. Period.

Here is how you do it:

Go to Blogsome’s homepage.

There are just TWO steps.

Features include:
1. Fast, easy and free
2. Choice of WordPress themes
3. Upload photos
4. Personlize your design
and more…
Get blogging in minutes!

Next : What name should you choose?

Some people blog for themselves.

Some do it for an audience.

Others get orgasmic with huge attention.

So, who is your target audience? You? Your family? The outside world, total strangers. Anybody but the people you know?

Having a clear answer to this affects the way you write. Therefore, it is good to think first. Whom are you writing for?

Many people had started blogging only to close it down later because their writings are discovered by their employers, colleagues and loved ones.

A blog is like your life. You have to be careful how you live it so that in future, you have no regrets about it. In real life, some things maybe easily forgotten after a few months or years. But a blog is a written archive that may stay permanently to haunt you. You do not want to be running for the Prime Minister’s office or CEO of the conglomerate only to be held back by a teenage confession of yours revealed in your blog 20 years ago, do you?

Now that you have asked :

Why do you need to blog?

Who is your target audience?

We will go on to Where to begin in the coming article.

Bookmark this page. You will be a better blogger - that’s a guarantee.

Before you jump on the blogging bandwagon, ask yourself why do you need a blog?

Some people treat a blog as their online diary.

Many maintain it to mark milestones in their families’ lives.

A lot use it to disseminate information.

Majority write to entertain.

Others target it to bring awareness.

And a whole multitude are just craps.

Not forgetting those no-brainer ‘copy and paste’ jobs for ads revenue like Google Adsense, Ad-brite, Amazon.com and etc.

Which do you want to focus on?

However, you do not have to immediately answer this question. Many bloggers started with mundane rantings and develop a niche topic for themselves.

But it is good to think first which aspect of your life are you going to write about. Your career? Hobby? Interest? Family? Sex? Darker side? Saintly appearance?

Do you have the ’steam’ to carry you through? Or will that interest fizzles off after two posts? One is ‘Hello World’ and the next ‘Goodbye’?

Think. There are millions of blogs out there. Think how yours can stand out. More goodies will be coming soon.