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5 Steps To A Professional Grade Blog On A Budget

Jason Yormark

Secure your domain name. There are hundreds of places you can go to secure a domain name. It’s cheap, dependable, and easy to use to manage multiple domain names. If you haven’t figured out what domain name you want, you might want to take advantage of some great research tools to figure it out.

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Choosing a blogging service: Blogger, Tumblr or Wordpress

Mindjumpers

There are pros and cons for all of them, but it depends a lot on whether you want to spend any money, want to have your own domain name, what kind of options and functionalities you want and what kind of skills you have in doing the design and maybe programming. I will go through to most widely used blogging services.

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5 Tips for Making a Consistent Social Media Marketing Effort

Mindjumpers

2: Get vanity URLs Start by scooping up vanity URLs on sites like Facebook and Twitter and buy your domain name. Vanity URLs mean that your Facebook page or Twitter account can be found through your brand name – like for instance facebook.com/yourname or twitter.com/yourname. Leave a Reply Click here to cancel reply.

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Community Bootstrapping: Tools & Strategies To Build A Community.

Jason Yormark

Their main offering is completely free, so as long as you can deal with a “custom.ning.com” domain, and their ads, you won’t pay anything. If you want to use your own domain name, or remove the ads, you’ll have to pay a few bucks, but still relatively cheap ($5/month for your domain, $25/month to remove ads).

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How friendfeed Can Teach You About Your Friends

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

link] Show the domain: You can’t underestimate HOW something as simple as showing the domain name beside a link makes it easier to scroll through the information. Digg Diigo Disqus Dopplr Facebook Fetch Flickr FriendFeed gdgt Google Reader Identi.ca link] Persistent Searches: Save searches so you can revisit them.

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Should Philadelphia be taxing bloggers?

The Way of the Web

That’s when it becomes something which pays back the cost of hosting, domain names, computer equipment, broadband internet, and conclusively becomes something which makes a reasonable amount of income for the blogger (and also for the city – how many people won’t bother investing time and effort to create revenue for themselves and the city now?)

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Analysis of Five Top Blogs and What You Can Learn from Them

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Their domain name Their post type – length, frequency and value. Their Domain Name Another great thing to analyze from these blogs is their domain name. I personally believe that your domain name will affect your blogging career and how people look at your blog. All this info.

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