New Bloggers Guide

Welcome to blogging !

This guide is my attempt to document the stages that I go through as I bring this blog onto a little stage of itself. Lot of work awaits before a blog is polished enough to face the world.

This is very much a work in progress, and I will update it as I go through the steps.

Getting Started

• What do you blog about and why ?
• Find an Internet Place To Call Your Own
• What is in a domain name?

Making it all look good

• Spicing up your blog with amazing pictures
• Showing Code Snippets on your Blog

Tuning the engine

• Askimet - Spam Gone!
• Permalinks - Looking Good
• Self Analysis with Google Analytics
• Plugin: Google XML Sitemaps
• A human readable sitemap
• Speeding up Wordpress with WP Super Cache

Promoting your blog to the world

• Setting your Blog on Fire with Feedburner