How to Start Blogging for Beginners
I’m often asked how one goes about starting a blog. It’s not hard, but it can seem overwhelming until you jump in and start writing your first one. I recently ran across a great set of free video tutorials on the absolute basics of how to start blogging for the complete beginner.
My mentor, Yaro Starak, and his friend, Gideon Shalwick, put together a free series of 10 short videos (5-15 minutes each) that take you from square one - knowing nothing about blogging - and teach you everything you need to know to set up and start posting to your own WordPress blog.
These free videos are a gold mine of information I wish I’d had when I started. I watched all 10 this afternoon and I learned a few things I didn’t know. It never hurts to review the basics, especially when you learned them by the seat of your pants!
Here’s a summary of the 10 video topics:
- Why you should use WordPress
- How to get your own domain name
- How to get a web host
- How to install WordPress with one click
- How to upload files to your web host using FTP
- Choosing a WordPress theme for your blog
- How to install and use WordPress plug-ins
- How to create your first blog post and blog page
- What RSS is and why you need it
- How to use FeedBurner for supercharging your RSS capabilities
Here’s the link to the website containing the free videos:
After watching the videos, you have the option of signing up for Yaro Starak’s Blog Traffic Tips Newsletter and downloading his Blog Profits Blueprint, a free report that tells you everything you need to know to eventually make a living blogging. I’ve read it and work by it, and it’s not an over-night success, get-rich-quick gimmick. It’s solid information that will require you to put in a lot of work if you want to earn at least part of your living blogging. You may become able to quit your day job after your blog(s) take off.
Again, signing up for the newsletter and Blog Profits Blueprint are optional and completely free.
So have a look at the free videos and maybe take a gander at your own blog, even if it’s just something you want to produce for your friends and family to stay connected. You don’t have to share it with the whole world if you don’t want to 
Here’s the link again:
I wish you all the blogging success you desire,
Sherri Joubert
Blog Mastermind student and Blog Profits Blueprint follower
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