Things To Remember When Choosing A Blog Name

Choosing a blog name is a difficult task, and something some people just can't do.  So... they give up and don't ever have the chance to make it in the blog world. But there are some things to remember when choosing your blog name that will help ease the process.  Here are a few of them. Keep It Short - The longer the name, the harder it is for people to remember it.  And since you're probably going to want to use the blog name in the u...

A question was asked today at IzeaFest during the "Tools & Plugins" panel. After one of the panelists told everyone his biggest referrals come from Google Images, they were all asking how to optimize their images for the search engines. It's a great question and one that I've not seen many people give an answer for. When we're talking about optimizing your images we aren't talking about anything rocket science. In fact, it's much easi...

I've already taught you how to setup a blog using blogger.com, and I promised that I'd show you how to setup a wordpress.org blog, so I'm keeping to that.  It's taken me some time to gather up my thoughts, but now I'm ready; so here it is: WordPress is the most popular blogging software used online today. This is because it is not only free to use, but has a huge support community that helps new and veteran users alike. The biggest advantage t...

For those of you who are just joining me here at Steven-Sanders dot com, I've got a series of articles going on entitled "Blogging 101", where I teach you how to start blogging and eventually how to start making money on your blog. This is the 3rd installment of this series of articles. You can find the others further down my blog, or you can click here to see them. We've already talked about the different types of blog platforms as well as...

There are many types of blog platforms on the net, but when most people talk about blogging, they only think of the three biggest and most popular platforms:       - Blogger       - Wordpress.com       - & Wordpress.org The first two are both free accounts that are hosted on a free hosting service.  While the third is free blog software that requires you two pay for your own hosting account and domain name. If ...

This is part 1 in a series of posts for newbie bloggers that are intimidated by the thought of starting a blog.  Also known as blogaphobia (this should so be added to webster's dictionary). For our first lesson we will discuss how to choose the best blogging platform for you. There are no right or wrong platforms to choose, only a hard decision about what your goals are with your blog.  In a blogger vs. wordpress vs. typepad univers...