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Top 10 for Beginner Bloggers
Top ten tips for beginner bloggers to learn the most important things to keep in mind when they start blogging from blog writing and blog design to blog marketing and blog monetization.

15 Tips to Increase Traffic
Learn how to drive traffic to your blog with these simple blogging tips even the beginner blogger can use.

Top 10 Reasons to Start a Blog
Ten reasons why you should start a blog. You can blog for fun or blog for business, but whatever the reason is that your blogging, learn the top reasons most people become bloggers from this list.

Create a Blog in 4 Steps
Follow these four steps to create a blog and you'll be blogging within minutes - for free!

Blogging Software Comparison
Choosing a blogging software provider is confusing. Learn what the most commong blogging software platforms are and the differences between them.

5 Tips to Monetize Your Blog
Follow these five tips to boost your blog's income.

RSS Overview
Learn what RSS is and how blog feeds and blog subscriptions can make blogging and reading blogs easier.

What is a Blog?
Beginner bloggers can learn everything they need to know to start a blog with this introduction to blogging.

Write an About Me Page
Learn to write a compelling About Me page for your blog to establish who you are as a blogger and to get readers interested and keep them coming back to your blog for more.

How to Find Paid Blogging Jobs
You want to get paid to write a blog, but you don't know where to find a paid blogging job? Take a look at these resources.

Is Blogging Right for You?
Take a look at these factors to consider before you start a blog to determine if blogging is right for you.

Profile of Heather Armstrong
Heather Armstrong if famous for being fired from her job at a dot-com startup because of the content on her personal blog, Dooce.com, which has grown to be one of the most successful blogs online.

Blog Monetization Without Ads
Learn the many ways you can earn money from your blog without using ads.

Choosing a Blogging Software
Learn six things every blogger should know before choosing a blogging software to start their blogs.

Blog Search Engine Submission
Want to increase traffic to your blog? Get the ball rolling by submitting your blog to search engines like Google, Yahoo, AOL, MSN and Technorati.

Choosing a Domain Name
Before you settle on a domain name for your blog or website, consider these factors and tips.

Choosing Blog Topic
Five tips to help you choose a topic to write about on your blog that will help you achieve long-term success.

Start a Successful Blog
It's possible for anyone to start a succesful blog. Learn how you can become a blogosphere star in this article.

Blog Advertising Overview
Learn the ways bloggers can use advertising to generate income from their blogs.

How to Create a Blog Home Page
Learn the critical elements required to make your blog's home page the best it can be.

Wordpress Overview
Learn what Wordpress offers as your blog host.

Blogging Tools Overview
Learn to navigate the myriad of blogging tools available to bloggers to help make your blog successful in the ever-changing blogosphere.

Affiliate Advertising Overview
Learn what affiliate advertising programs are and how using affiliate programs can help you earn money from your blog.

What is a Blog Trackback?
Learn what a blog trackback is and how it can help you market your blog and increase traffic to your blog.

Blogger.com Tutorial
Follow this step-by-step tutorial to learn how to start a free blog in Blogger.

Blog Advertising Directory
Learn which companies and websites offer opportunities for you to earn money from your blog through ads and more.

Tips to Write Blog Posts
Follow these five tips to write posts that get noticed and keep readers interested.

Business Blogging Overview
Why start a blog for your business? Learn the answer and find out how business blogging can boost sales and customer satisfaction.

Free Photo Sites
List of the top 5 websites that offer free photos to use on your blog.

Blog Posting Frequency
Learn the requirements of blog posting frequency and how often you should publish new content on your blog to attract and retain readers.

Starting a Free Wordpress Blog
Follow this step-by-step tutorial to learn how to start a free blog in Wordpress!

10 Tips for Blog Contests
Learn the 10 of the most important things bloggers need to do to host a successful blog contest that drives traffic to their blogs.

5 Tips to Use Digg
How to use Digg effectively to have a better chance at getting your submissions noticed and boosting traffic to your blog.

Open a Google AdSense Account
Bloggers can learn how to start a new account with Google AdSense to earn money from your blog.

Theme
A template designed specifically for use to enhance the visual appearance and usability of a blog.

Profile of Perez Hilton
A profile of successful celebrity blogger Perez Hilton of perezhilton.com.

Blog Post Overview
Learn the elements of a blog post and how they are used together to create compelling blog content and drive traffic to your blog.

PayPal Donation Button
Add a PayPal Donations Button to your blog to begin earning money from your blog.

SEO Expert Interview Part 2
An interview with SEO expert Gab Goldenberg who provides intermediate steps for bloggers to follow to optimize their blogs for search engines and bring more traffic from keyword searches.

What is a Blog Contest?
Learn what a blog contest is and how you can use it to drive traffic to your blog.

Google AdSense Wordpress Theme
Learn how to find Wordpress themes that are optimized for Google AdSense to help you boost your blog earnings.

Business Blog as a Sales Tool
Learn six ways you can turn your business' blog into an effective sales tool.

Top 5 Blog Stat Trackers
An overview of the 5 most popular and useful blog stat trackers to measure the performance of your blog.

Top Social Bookmarking Sites
Overview of the top 10 social bookmarking sites on the web.

Promoting with Blog Carnivals
Learn what a blog carnival is and how can you use blog carnivals to drive traffic to your blog.

Copyright and Fair Use
An overview of considerations bloggers should make before using information that could be copyrighted on their blogs.

Top 10 SEO Tips
Ten tips to help you optimize your blog so search engines will find it and drive more traffic to it.

Social Bookmarking
Definition of social bookmarking.

15 Blog Sidebar Items
15 items bloggers put in their blog sidebars to increase traffic, reader loyalty, page views and earning potential.

Increase Blog Subscribers
Follow these 5 simple tips to boost the number of RSS subscribers to your blog's feed.

Beginner SEO Tips Interview
An interview with SEO expert Gab Goldenberg which will provide beginner steps for bloggers to follow to optimize their blogs for search engines to bring more traffic from keyword searches.

Overview of Digg
The pros and cons of using Digg to promote your blog along with some tips to get the most traffic from Digg.

BlogDesk Review
Review of BlogDesk as an offline blog editor - what does it offer bloggers, the pros and cons, and more - to help bloggers determine if BlogDesk is the right blogging tool for them.

Popular Political Blogs
Learn which are the most popular political blogs in the blogosphere.

Plug-in
An application or tool that can be added to a blogging software to enhance the blog's performance or provide added features.

Comment
Definition of comment.

Blogroll
A list of links to blogs recommended by the blogger and typically found in the blog's sidebar.

Using Offline Blog Editors
If you're not using an offline blog editor, check out these 5 reasons why you should be - today!

What is the Social Web
Learn about the role of blogging in Web 2.0, the social web, and the how it effects bloggers and marketing blogs.

Blogs About Celebrities
Learn which blogs are dishing the latest dirt about celebrities.

Virtual Vocations Overview
VirtualVocations is an online telecommuting job aggregator that can help you find a job as a professional blogger.

How to Get a Job Blogging
Follow these steps to land a paid blogging job as a professional blogger.

Hired Blogger Skills
Look for these five essential skills in candidates to write your blog to ensure success.

Review of Blogger.com
Learn the pros and cons of using Blogger.com as your blogging software.

Should Children Blog?
Learn the pros and cons of letting children blog before you let your child start a blog of his or her own.

BlueHost Tutorial
Step by step instructions with screen shots showing how to open a new blog hosting account with BlueHost and initiate an existing domain name transfer.

Bloglines Tutorial
Use this step-by-step tutorial to learn how to register and subscribe to blog feeds on Bloglines.

URL
The unique address of a page on the internet.

BlueHost Review
A review of BlueHost as a blog host from About Web Logs.

Social Web
Definition of social web or Web 2.0.

What are Blog Categories?
Learn how blog categories help keep the information and posts found on the blog organized and easy to find.

Kelly Phillips Erb Interview
Interview with successful blogger Kelly Phillips Erb, Business Channel Editor at b5media and author of Taxgirl.com.

Essential Wordpress Plug-ins
11 plug-ins that every Wordpress blog should use.

HTML Overview for Bloggers
Bloggers will learn what HTML is and how HTML can help you enhance the appearance and functionality of your blog.

Popular Blogs About Business
Learn how to find popular blogs about business.

Popular Green Blogs
A list of popular green blogs that discuss topics related to the environment, sustainability, green business, green living and more.

Domain Name
Part of the URL that represents a specific website. The domain name is the piece of a URL that is the property of the website owner. Domain names are typically preceded by 'www.', which identifies the server the site is stored on and end with '.com' or '.edu' or another extension that represents the type of website (commercial, educational, nonprofit, etc.) although with the explosion of domain name demand, extensions have lost some of their relevancy.

Blog Search Engines
Looking for blogs? Check out this directory of blog search engines to find blogs.

Ping
A signal sent from one web server to another to verify its existence.

Web Logs - HowTos
An index of HowTos for the Web Logs guide site.

What is a Blogroll?
Learn what blogrolls are and how bloggers can use them to increase traffic to their blogs.

Google AdSense Income Tips
Learn the steps you can take to increase the earning potential of Google AdSense ads on your blog.

Creative Commons Licenses
Before you use a photo or image on your blog that you find online, learn what you legally can and can't do with that photo.

Avoid Blog Comment Spamming
The unwritten rules of the blogosphere tell bloggers and blog readers to avoid writing comments on blogs that can be considered spam. Learn what blog comment spamming is and how to avoid it.

Choose Affiliate Ad Program
Follow these tips to make sure you choose the best affiliate advertising program to help you earn money from your blog.

Easton Ellsworth Interview
Interview with successful blogger, Easton Ellsworth, of Know More Media and BusinessBlogWire.com.

Weight Watchers Vlog
Profile of Weight Watchers' foray into video blogging with the hiring of popular vlogger Faint Starlite (aka, Esther Brady) whose vlogs will appear on a special Weight Watchers MySpace page.

Finding Free Photos: Flickr
Finding photos and images you can legally use on your blog can be challenging. Learn how you can find photos through Flickr that you can use on your blog legally.

BlogHer Interview
Interview with BlogHer.com co-founder and COO Elisa Camahort Page who shares information for bloggers to learn how to use BlogHer to promote and market blogs, network with bloggers, find blogs and more.

Tax Deductions for Bloggers
Don't overlook these deductions bloggers can take on their tax returns.

Blog Carnival Definition
Definition of blog carnival from the Blogging Glossary.

Offline Blog Editor Features
Learn the 10 essential features you should make sure an offline blog editor provides before you download it and start using it.

Flugpo David Metz Interview
Learn in the founder's own words what makes Flugpo different than any other social website online. Flugpo is a little bit MySpace and a little bit Craigslist rolled into one.

Entrecard Review
A review of how to get started with Entrecard and how to use it to promote your blog.

TypePad.com review
Learn the pros and cons of using TypePad.com as your blogging software.

Blog Business Classifications
Sole proprietor or corporation? Learn which business classification is best for your blogging business.

RSS
Really Simple Syndication, a file format that creates web content syndication.

Trackback
A way to notify a blog that you've linked to them from your blog and automatically leaves a link as a comment on that blog which tracks back to the original link on your blog.

Technorati Tutorial
Step-by-step instructions to learn how to use Technorati to search for blogs, blog posts and more.

Amazon Associates Review
Decide if Amazon's affiliate advertising program, Amazon Associates, will help you earn money from your blog with this review.

Interview with Gayla McCord
Interview with successful blogger Gayla McCord of b5media and MomGadget.com.

Tag
Definition of tag.

Business Blogging Dont's
Business blogging has its own set of special considerations when it comes to content. Learn more about what you shouldn't write about in a business blog.

Feed
The syndicated content from a blog.

Feed Reader
The tool used to read RSS feeds.

Blog Statistics Explained
Visits, visitors, hits, page views, what do they mean? An overview of blog statistics and how to use them to track your blog's traffic and earn money from your blog.

BlogHer Blog Directory
A lesson in using BlogHer to find blogs about a variety of topics written by women.

Wordpress Blogging Jobs
Learn the best source to find blogging jobs related to Wordpress from blogging to design, programming and more.

Blog Network vs. Independent
Bloggers have two choices for their blogs, join a larger blog network as paid, professional bloggers or launch their blogs on their own. Find out the pros and cons of both and determine which is the right choice for you.

Paying Blog Networks
Learn which blog networks pay bloggers to write blogs.

Link
Definition of link.

Blogosphere
The online community of bloggers.

Sidebar
Definition of the term Sidebar from the Blogging Glossary.

Entrecard Tutorial
Step-by-step tutorial showing bloggers how to sign up for a new account with Entrecard to start marketing your blog and drive traffic to it.

Blog
Definition of blog.

Social Networking
Definition of social networking.

BlogDesk Tutorial
Step-by-step tutorial showing bloggers how to download and get started using BlogDesk as their offline blog editor.

What is Social Networking?
An overview of how social networking can help bloggers.

Blog Host
The company that provides the space on their servers and equipment to store your blog.

How Do I Start a Blog?
From About Web Logs Blogging FAQs

What is a Blog Carnival?
Learn what a blog carnival is and how bloggers use blog carnivals to drive traffic to their blogs.

Blogging Software Provider
Definition of Blogging Software Provider.

Permalink
The permanent link to a specific page within a blog or post that remains unchanged.

What is Blogging Software?
From About Web Logs Blogging FAQs

What is Social Bookmarking?
How can bloggers use social bookmarking?

HTML
The programming language used to create web pages.

How Can I Make Money Blogging?
From About Web Logs Blogging FAQs

Home Page
The primary entry page for a website or blog. The page a user is taken to when he or she types in the main URL for the site.

Blogger
A person who writes a blog.

Entrecard CEO Interview
Interview with Graham Langdon of Entrecard. Learn how to use Entrecard to increase traffic and revenue on your blog from the man who started it all.

Fast Company and Citizen Media
Learn how Fast Company has added social networking to its website with the introduction of user-generated content through blogs, forums, questions and answers and more.

What is Sphinn?
Sphinn is a social bookmarking site dedicated to online marketing including search marketing and interactive marketing.

What is a Blog Host?
From About Web Logs Blogging FAQs

Web Logs - FAQs
An index of FAQs for the Web Logs guide site.