Oh man! Where do I start ? !

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Starting out in blogging can seem a little bit daunting to some – it definitely did to me.  As a guy who was learning html and php (very basically) I was on the outlook to learn something more thought provoking – yes html is hard to learn, but once I learnt the basics it got kind of boring.

Looking into blogs, I realised I could start this ‘blogging thing’ straight away with a simple few steps, but did I want to?  I quickly looked around at a few blogs (where looking at one, quickly led me to read another) and this summised that it probably would be best for me to host my blog on my own domain, and use the hosting account that I currently had at the time.

I quickly searched around some problogger sites, looking for newbie posts and found Darren Rowse to have an area that was content for beginners.  This was highly beneficial to me, but still wasn’t totally what I was after.  I didn’t want to be ‘spoon-fed’, but I did want some more detailed posts that followed sequentially.  What am I getting at?  Well, I really didn’t know where to start, what was the difference between .com wordpress and .org wordpress, and was blogger better than them both?  How would I upload to a blog and how exactly did it work?

More importantly though I wanted to understand what type of people bloggers where, did they all own websites and just use a blog for a journal to boost traffic to their site, or was it more than that?  I quickly found out that some bloggers earn more in a month than many do in an entire year – could then, I become a blogger?

I started to ask more questions of myself:

• Could I actually blog and how would this fit in with my other online goals?
• What would I blog about and which topic would I choose?
• How could I install this software stuff – as I’m not a techie at all?
• Is there one resource where I could learn from?

There were many more questions though and more thought provoking ones too.  I wanted to find out just how justifiable and reliable blogging was, but I also wanted to understand if I could actually achieve something by doing it.  I’d learnt that most bloggers already had forums or websites and had used monetisation methods on these sites to earn some revenues, but I hadn’t, did this deter me?  No, I just understood that if people such as Shoemoney, Problogger, JohnChow and Yaro had made money in the past and were continuing to do so, then couldn’t I take a share of the pie – by blogging too?

The main obstacle in my way was learning how to get the foundations in place and exactly what to do – this has taken me a lot of time to do, and although beneficial, there has been a lot of crap about (self-bragging etc) and the resources have been hard to understand. 

This is why I’ve decided to go ahead and produce a newbie blog steps area for this site – it will have weekly content added throughout this year and hopefully carry on after that, I’m aiming to cover everything that newbies need in order to get their own blog started – a demanding but conscious project as I’ve been blogging for less than 6 months – but I’ve got great expectations.

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