If You're Planning to Start a Blog - Makeup and Beauty Blog

This blog has been ane of the funnest (most fun?) things I've ever washed. It's the perfect creative outlet for me, a style to connect with good people and mentally challenging (like jumble and Tetris only with pictures of makeup and cats!).

Every once in a while someone who'south thinking nigh starting a blog will send me an email.

Wendy wrote:

"Howdy Karen,

I have been a fan of your blog and your piece of work has inspired me to start one for mom's and parenting. Do y'all take whatever professional advice or resource information that you tin can suggest for me to get started. I am adequately new to blogs and need a little help."

I don't recollect of myself as an proficient, just here are some things that might assistance.

1. Why blog? — If the answer is to brand friends, to express yourself, to explore your inventiveness or to learn something new, then you've come to the right identify. 🙂 If the respond is to make money fast, stop correct there. Trust me when I say that there are far easier means to earn a living than by starting a weblog.
2. Read the transmission that came with your photographic camera — This one took me about a yr to effigy out, LOL! I kept thinking that other bloggers must take merely had better cameras than I did. And so I dug out the transmission that came with my old Canon Powershot SD200 and WOW! My pictures all of a sudden got a whole lot ameliorate.
3. Use keywords in the name of your blog — It will assistance people detect you lot on the search engines, so a parenting blog might be chosen something similar parentingblog.com or mommyblog4parents.com.
4. What do I blog near? — Pretty obvious, but choosing a topic you love to talk virtually (and have loved for years) is a great identify to start.
5. Apply self-hosted WordPress — This is but one blogger's opinion, but I've used Blogger and another web log system called Nucleus and recall WordPress.org is the best past far. It has more plugins (to add features like polls and games), more people who use it (which ways more people who tin can help) and does everything I need.
6. Join an e-mail list/blog network — Virtually niches have networks of like-minded bloggers. Search Google for ones in your niche, and enquire them if you can join. I adopt ones with an e-mail distribution list that members use to communicate with each other. I hear that Twitter's great for networking, besides, but I think you have to like instant messaging to appreciate Twitter.

Do you bloggers out there have any other tips or advice about starting a blog?

Your friendly neighborhood beauty aficionado,

Karen

P.Southward. I tin't believe I virtually forgot to mention OnSugar! Information technology'south a combination web log network/blogging platform that takes a lot of the guesswork out of blogging, and information technology comes with a built in network (which takes care of #6 above). At that place are other platforms out in that location, but OnSugar is probably the ane I would accept used if it had been around back when I started.

Reader Interactions

younghize1969.blogspot.com

Source: https://makeupandbeautyblog.com/just-for-fun/if-youre-planning-to-start-a-blog/