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Blogging 101: How and Where to Start
Starting a blog can be so rewarding–and so scary if you’re faced with a giant learning curve. This Blogging 101 series is designed to help you go from zero to a successful blog (whatever success looks like to you.) We’re starting with the basics. This week we’re talking about choosing your blogging platform, and how to set up a self-hosted blog if that’s your choice.
When I started to think about writing some how-to-blog posts, I thought about actually starting a whole new blog for that.
But then I realized that this fits perfectly here. Because blogging is a great way to gain some accountability (trust me–you guys are the best accountability partners EVER) and it can become a way to earn a little income. You don’t have to be the world’s best writer to do it. You don’t have to take the world’s best pictures. All you really need is a willingness to be open and authentic, and to learn. I’ve had enough feedback from The Blog Planner to know that at least some of you have thought about starting your own blog.
Maybe I can help. Especially if what’s holding you back is the idea of the huge learning curve involved.
So–Saturday is blogging day for now. Let’s see how this goes.
I’m going to start with talking about the foundation–the blog platform.
You have a couple of choices. You can go with a free blog that’s hosted on a big group server. That would be a wordpress.com, blogger.com, or maybe Tumblr. I’ve had free blogs before. This blog started out as www.goingreno.wordpress.com. I spent most of 2014 blogging at Tumblr. I’ve been a contributor at Fierce Fatties, which is a free WordPress blog (it doesn’t have .wordpress.com at the end because the domain name was purchased. WordPress still hosts it.) My author blog is a free WordPress blog. And I’ve blogged on and off at different free WordPress blogs for at least ten years.
Self-hosted means that you purchase hosting–think of it like paying rent for your blog’s space on the Internet–instead of using a free platform. It’s the difference between living for free in your parents’ garage and renting your own apartment. I I’m going to tell you how to rent that apartment in a minute, but let’s take a minute to really think about both choices.
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