"Hello World!" and other blogging tips

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Ok, so this is my first blog on The Wealthy Affiliate, and I wanted to touch on something the rest of newbies might be wondering about. Or, if you aren't a newbie on WA, maybe you have just set up your first Wordpress site and have questions? Read on to be enlightened...

When you first set up a Wordpress site, you automatically have "your first post" generated for you automatically. It's titled "Hello world!" and is totally automated. Just get rid of it. That's right, delete that puppy! Don't be afraid. It's not going to mess anything up. It is only used as an example- in ALL templates and themes!

How do you know what to write about on your blog? There is a simple formula to use that will help you to alleviate the stress from trying to decide what to blog about. It's like this:

1- What do you want to write about?

2- Come up with a catchy title for the subject of what you want to write about.

3- Write about it.

4- Determine your keywords after (or as) you write your blog.

5- Publish and promote!

Or, you could just use a tool like this one (If you can help me convert this into a clickable link, I would deeply appreciate your help!)

http://www.hubspot.com/blog-topic-generator

Don't worry too much about your blogging topics in the beginning. Just keep a schedule of how often you will blog and try to stick to less than 3 specific subjects (we all know a single subject can have hundreds of topics associated with it) and your niche will come to you!

I certainly didn't plan to blog about blogging today, but why not? It's what was on my mind! I can always unpublish it if it ever becomes a conflict with my "current" blogging style!

Happy blogging everyone!

SusanRocks

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This is very helpful! I am putting a star on this to help me find it. What is your take on writing one's "About Me" page? One person wrote to the effect "It isn't really supposed to be about me."

Go see my about page on my site I'm working on now- http://howtomakemoneyonlinewithnoscams.net/home/about

That is straight from Kyle's lessons
A recap of that lesson is here: Mistakes To Avoid On Your 'About' Page

Let me know if you need any help!

SusanRocks

Hi Susan,

Welcome to WA and congrats since it looks like you are making GREAT progress! I was wanting to help you with your question but when I click on the html in blue above it appears to be a clickable link so I am not sure what you are asking. I read through this entire post with all comments below but maybe I am misunderstanding what you are trying to make clickable. Can you explain?

No worries, I figured out that free members can't post clickable links and have since become premium :)

Thanks for wanting to help!

SusanRocks

Thank you Susan. Nice way to start by being a help to others.
Harold

Thanks! It's what I do best!

Yeah, there is quite a lot you can adjust on your site in the beginning

Thanks Loes! I am working it... any chance you know how to fix that link in my post?

Ah you can go to the little blue flower at the top and edit post there

I see how to edit, but I want to make the link clickable... what you see if HTML code, but it's not working

Like this? http://www.hubspot.com/blog-topic-generator

yes like that! but i tried to do it in several ways in my post... maybe because i'm not premium?

you just put in the plain link, directly, without < a href etc

yea, that's how i tried the first time... watch...

still not clickable, hmm, I don't know, why it isn't, did you hit the enter after you put it in, that 'll do the job sometimes, set your cursor right behind the link and enter

Been there, tried that. Im thinking maybe it's because I'm not premium yet.

Hi Susan, thank you! Since I fall into the "newbie category" these tips are very helpful. I've been seeing a couple of you who just started already put up your blog so that's impressive! I know that you have had some experience with this as well so thank you for sharing your knowledge.:}

All it takes to post a blog is to start writing whatever is on your mind... you can do it!

Thank you for that blog, I like your formula!

Thanks Mikael! I am trying to add a hyperlink to it for the generator, but I'm not doing it right, apparently lol

I can't help you with that, sorry. I am still new to this technologie. But good luck

Someone will come along and help me lol

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