If you’ve ever thought about starting a blog – or a website of any sort – you’ll have run up against a major decision point. It needs a name. Choosing what to call your blog tends to be wrapped up in a whole host of other problems – like knowing what topics you...
Back when I got into blogging, in 2007-08, new bloggers were often told to choose a “niche”. If you wanted to be successful – so the thinking went – you needed to have a very specific topic, to differentiate yourself from all the other blogs out there. A full decade...
A fair amount of conventional blogging advice is aimed at people who see themselves as bloggers (rather than writers – or even business owners) and who want to build and “monetize” a blog: sometimes called “ProBlogging”, after Darren Rowse’s site...
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