Guide To Starting Up A Blog – Part I


I’m glad that I was sitting down when I saw this guide on starting up a blog from gHacks, as although Martin knows a hell of a lot about blogging, SEO, hosting, revenue generation etc I’ve never seen him write a post about blogging. I have however managed to coax out some of his knowledge in the Connected Forums.

In part I Martin gives some good tips on the things needed to start writing your first articles:

  • domain
  • hosting
  • blog software
  • ftp client
  • basic html/php knowledge (not essential – I got by and learnt as I went along)
  • a niche

My personal addition is to stress the importance of a good domain name. I groan when I see sites with awful domain names. For instance, one of my key readers has a domain name for a tech blog that sounds more like a porn site.

Always try and get a domain name that contains at least one of your keywords. I went for Connected Internet as my domain as I was originally going to write about mobile devices and convergence.

One tip which Martin also gives is to get a .com, .net or .org domain. Not getting a .com address is one of my biggest blogging regrets. I went for a UK domain as I was expecting most of my traffic to come from the UK, but my site is dominated by Americans. Once I’d realised and did a check, I discovered that connectedinternet.com and connectedinternet.net had already gone. I’m convinced I’d get a bit more traffic if I had a .com address.

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About the Author: Everton is based in London and has worked in the internet and mobile space for over ten years now, and before that worked in corporate strategy and consulting. He has a degree in Economics from Cambridge University, and currently runs the Portal and online operations for one of the largest ISPs in the UK. He also writes for Windows 8 News, Windows 8 News and One Tip A Day.

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  1. Martin says:

    You are right this is my first post about blogging. It is pretty basic stuff but I think it can be helpful for some who start a blog. I might continue writing more articles that are of interest to webmasters in the future but I’m not sure yet.

    Thanks for the link ;)

  2. Fitri says:

    Thank for your tips

  3. Enblogopedia says:

    Well I did a similar Guide two weeks ago..I wrote a To-Do list and discussed each point in a separate article.

    I believe that you`re right about your domain name…but what can we say….content is First no matter what your domain name is! ;)

  4. short1 says:

    Does anybody know how to set up boonex, and what script should I install on the server  to get this done..any help would be kindly appreciated http://www.synapsewebdesignz.com

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