When I was looking to expand my blog network I spoke with a friend in the hopes of recruiting his expertise who asked me, “how do you start blogging?” “It’s easy!” I said, but then told him that would be one long email and I’d rather talk him through it. Realizing I’ve been [...]

There are many available options for blogging software and the great thing is that any of them worth considering are free. As I mentioned before, you could chose to go with an option like Blogspot instead of a self-hosted blog but I wouldn’t recommend that for anything but the least serious of bloggers-to-be.
My recommendation [...]

So you’ve read about how to register your domain and what you’ll need to start hosting your new site, but you’ve also heard about free services like Google’s Blogspot that will host your site for you. Let me explain why I am against options like Blogger for any sort of a monetized blog.
Blogging for [...]

So you’ve registered your domain and are ready to go. Next up you’ll need your hosting service. This service will provide your web server and storage space for everything you need to make your site available to readers.
Again, there are lots of options out there and thankfully you can get a lot for [...]

Once you’ve selected the right theme for your new site you’re going to need to pick a domain name and lock it down so no once else gets it before you do.
First step is picking the domain you want to write under. Lots of options to consider, so let’s go: 1) Make it [...]

Picking the topic of your blog is just about the most important decision you’ll have to make in this entire process. First and foremost, you’ve got to select a theme that you actually care about if you want to have any drive to write about it. A hot topic on the search radar [...]