Thursday, April 28, 2011

Huffington Post Complete Guide to Blogging Review

If you've never read the story of how Huffington Post was created it's pretty interesting.  Arianna Huffington provides the details in the Blogging Review Guide Book I'm reading.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/

Why Blog?  I blog because I am. -  Cali Williams Yost

Here are the things I've enjoyed about the book...

1.  Blog Infrastructure 
Which website to use for setup?
www.blogger.com
www.typepad.com
www.livejournal.com
www.wordpress.com
www.movabletype.com
www.facebook.com

2.  Ways to Enhance the Blog -
www.tumblr.com
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
Video Logs - Vlogs
Photolog or sketchblog

3.  Anatomy of a Blog Post -
A. Template
B.  Header (Add your header here and put on every page and post)
C.  Titles - Short, clear, and Catchy
D.  Date/Time
E.  Tags
F.  Bio
G.  Blogroll -  list other blogs and connect them with your site.
H.  Sidebar
I.  Pull quotes
J.  Linking
K.  Comments






Measuring Traffic -
1.  www.sitemeter.com
2.  www.statcounter.com
3.  www.google.com/analytics
4.  www.google.com/alerts

Search engines to get listed with -
1.  www.google.com
2.  MSN (search.msn.com/docs/submit.aspx
3.  https://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/submit
4.  buzz.yahoo.com
5.  www.digg.com
6.  www.delicious.com
7.  www.technorati.com

Making Money on Blogs -
1.  www.google.com/adsense
2.  www.amazon.com/associates
3.  Linkshare companies
4.  www.publisher.yahoo.com

Community Institutions -
1.  www.webbyawards.com
2.  www.bloggies.com
3.  www.bloggerschoiceawards.com
4.  www.lulublookerprize.typepad.com
5.  www.thebestofblogs.com
6.  Meetup groups are good too.

The Book also had several pages listing The Huffington Post Blogroll which I'll list a few of my favorites but you'll have to check out the book to get the entire list.

1.  www.boingboing.net
2. www.buzzmachine.com
3.  www.dealbook.blogs.nytimes.com
4.  www.ecofabulous.com
5.  www.blog.wired.com/business
6.  www.justjared.buzznet.com
7.  www.popsugar.com
8.  www.treehugger.com
9.  www.blogs.wsj.com/wealth
10.  www.firstread.msnbc.msn.com

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