Starting a blog and Blogging

As some of you know, I had a blog called Sweaty Shop. It was, for all intents and purposes, my main blog. Recently I decided to move that blog to here at Starting A Blog. [UPDATE: it was moved again a couple of years later] Why move an aged blog? Sweaty Shop has been around

Today I went to the dentist for my semi-annual cleaning. I always schedule them for the early morning as it allows me to get to bed earlier. Graveyard shift sucks…. What does that have to do with this blog? Well let’s see, is this blog about dentistry? No. Healthcare? Nope. Is this a personal blog?

I must apologize for the apparent lack of activity, I have not abandoned the project. Here’s what’s been going on. I had recorded most of the videos when I lost my voice for six weeks. There were no other symptoms, but whenever I started to talk, I very quickly got so hoarse that I could

The video training series entitled “How to setup your own WordPress blog and forum” is still under production. Make sure you enter your email address into the newsletter subscription form to receive updates about the video series and newsletters. I’m looking forward to helping you get your blog and/or forum up and running. – Jeffery

So you want to start a blog? If you have no idea how or where to get started, this blog’s for you. What is your topic? What’s your topic? Finally realizing your dreams of uniting with others who enjoy knitting little cat booties, raising puppies, coin collecting, internet marketing, or whatever. It doesn’t matter what

11th Commandment: Thou shalt not write a blog post that hast not been optimized for SEO. I hear so many different things about SEO (Search Engine Optimization) that sometimes I want to pull my hair out. Don’t do this, do that, don’t do that, do this instead. Half of what they talk about is perpetuated

Confessions of a comma abuser I am a proud, serial, comma abuser. Really, I am. If you didn’t notice then that’s because you’re worse than I am. Or you don’t know any better. Either way. I don’t always know when I’m breaking the comma rules, but often I do. For example, I use the comma

While I was responding to a post on a forum about generating traffic I thought to myself, “Hey, this will make a great blog entry and maybe even an article” 🙂 My way to generate natural, organic traffic When I first got started I was overwhelmed with the “do this” and “do that” for generating

For a list of articles in this series, go here: How To Set Up A Blog and Forum Article Index Welcome to part 13 of How To Set Up A WordPress Blog And Forum. Today we will finish installing one of the more popular forum software called PHPBB. I know some of the screens are

For a list of articles in this series, go here: How To Set Up A Blog and Forum Article Index Welcome to part 12 of How To Set Up A WordPress Blog And Forum. Today we will be installing one of the more popular forum software called PHPBB. If you have HostGator for your host, then