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How to Use This Page
The ‘Eight Steps to Build, Grow, and Monetize Your Blog’ are organized in order according to how I’m doing things on Virgin Blogger Notes. You might find a different order works better for you, and that’s fine. There’s no right or wrong way to build a blog!
The links beneath each category will take you to articles I or my guest posters here have written about the topics. Some categories are still sparse, but they’ll be filling up in the weeks and months ahead as I journey along the blogging path
By the way, I look up words and terms on the free dictionary, NetLingo, when blogging-talk sounds like gibberish, so give it a try if any of the terms here are confusing to you.
Eight Steps to Build, Grow, and Monetize Your Blog
Step One: Choosing a Market/Branding
- Setting Your Blogging Goals
- How to Choose a Blog Topic, Will You Love, Honor, and Cherish Your Blog Topic?
- How to do Market Research on Your Topic
- Branding Tips for Your Blog
- Choosing a Domain Name
- Choosing a Tagline
Step Two: Setting up Your Blog
- How I Set up My Blog
- How to Write a Seriously Good About Page
- How to Backup a WordPress Blog
- How Commentluv Stole my Heart From Disqus
- 10 Plugins to Boost Your Blogging
Step Three: Content Creation
- How to Find Your Authentic Blogging Voice
- Designing a Custom Content Strategy
- The Power of Pillar Content
- Creating an Editorial Calendar
- Can You Post to Often on a Blog?
- 57 Blog Post Ideas
- 8 Secrets to Writing Sexy Blog Headlines
- How to Serve Up Tasty Blog Content
- How to Write Lovely Link Posts
- 9 Luscious List Post Tips
- How to Write Riveting Review Posts
- How to be Your Own Blog Post Fairy
- How to Rant and Still Respect Yourself in the Morning
- Why Bite Size is the Right Size Content
- 9 Ways to Get Your Creative Groove Back
Step Four: Blogger Productivity, Mindset, and Focus
- Blogging Mindset
- How to Have a Blog and a Life
- How to Kick Your Blog Into Summer Gear
- How to Handle a Dream Snatcher
- 6 Things That Get Easier About Blogging if You Just Keep Going
- How to Live With Your Inner Critic
- How to Love Blogging When it Doesn’t Love You Back
Step Five: Social Media (Coming Soon!)
Step Six: Building an Email List (More Content Coming Soon!)
Step Seven: Traffic Building, Marketing, and Promoting Your Blog
- Simple Marketing and Promotion Tips
- A Newbie’s Guide to Guest Posting
- Guest Posting and Social Media Promotion
- Growing a Prosperous Community
- Newbie Interview Tips From My Virgin Interview
- What Lil’ Wayne can Teach You About Marketing Your Blog
- How to Host a Winning Blog Contest
- How to Avoid Blog Plateaus and Grow Your Blog Infinitely
Step Eight: Making Money (Coming Soon!)


