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When you’re just getting your blog up and running, it’s easy to get caught up in the excitement of just launching a blog and rush to get going – so much so, that you make mistakes along the way. I know from personal experience how easy it is to screw things up with a blog – or even just miss opportunities I could have taken advantage of. So – to help you get started on the right foot (or get back on track if you’ve run off course) here are the 8 most common (and biggest!) mistakes I see new bloggers making: Want to learn how to start a blog? Check out my step-by-step tutorial. 1. Setting an Unrealistic Publishing Schedule When you first start blogging, you are full of ideas. It’s all new and fresh, so it’s easy to publish like a madman and get all your ideas out. At first, you’re going to think that publishing every day won’t be tough at all – but I can PROMISE you, you WILL slow down, and it will get harder. That said, some bloggers don’t set ...

Now that you have your blog set up and traffic is coming your way, you’re ready to start monetizing your blog. You must have seen or heard about people who make a lot of money from blogs. Some people aren’t even afraid to show it off to their readers. Here are a couple of folks who do extremely well with blogging: Pat Flynn from SmartPassiveIncome.com makes around $80,000 per month (he started his blog 5-6 years ago, though). Lindsay from PinchOfYum.com makes around $20,000 per month (she started her blog in 2010). Regina from  ByRegina.com  makes around $7,000 per month. Start with these seven most common ways you can make money blogging. Want to learn how to start a blog? Check out my step-by-step tutorial. 1) Affiliate Marketing Affiliate marketing is a type of performance-based marketing. As the blogger, you include links to a product or service offered through another business’s affiliate program. If one of your visitors clicks o...

I created this site to give beginners a fast, foolproof guide to starting a blog, without having to learn HTML or waste your time reading long, boring tutorials. In fact, over 9,500 people have already setup blogs using this guide! I also wanted to help you avoid all the expensive mistakes that most people do. P.S. This guide is 4,000 words long which means roughly 20 minutes of reading. So grab yourself a tea, coffee or juice (whichever you prefer) and start with STEP 1. If you get stuck,and I’ll do my best to help you out. … And once you’ve set up your blog , I’ve additional guides for getting more visitors to your blog as well as making it profitable. This should keep your start easy and painless. Ready to create your blog today? Let’s get started… Here’s how to start a blog: Choose your blogging platform Choose a domain name and host Customize and edit your blog Write posts and add pages Get traffic and make it successful (Don’t worry,...

According to data referenced in a recent piece in the New York Times , titled “Blogs Falling in an Empty Forest”, approximately 95% of blogs fail ; the piece, that analyzed several failed and “retired” bloggers, to understand why they quit, came to the conclusion that many blogs fail due to lack of readership. Luckily, I’ve grown some blogs into 5 00,000+ monthly visitors (see image below) and I’ve literally tried every method on the the internet. However, I want to let you know that it didn’t happen overnight and it took a lot of testing, failing and starting all over again. Want to learn how to start a blog?  P.S. This article is VERY comprehensive at over 8,000 words ; it contains 101 unique and practical ways to promote a blog and get traffic, with links to case studies, research, resources and tutorials when necessary. I believe this is the only guide you’ll need if you want to unleash an avalanche of traffic on your blog. Enjoy. Pub...