Creating your website or blog

Alan

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Creating your website or blog

« on: March 15, 2007 »

Almost all articles on promotion techniques for freelance writers say about creating one’s personal web site or blog. This is considered to be essential for any professional writer, because a web-site is one of the easiest and most efficient ways to present yourself and market your works.
But it’s not enough to create another site on the web. What you have to do is to make your site competitive and popular.
Design and content should be perfect! In other threads we’ve already touched somehow significance of learning SEO stuff. selfpromotion.com is a good place to start with. If you read it carefully and thoughtfully you will see that starting your own web site and making it popular isn’t always easy. Creating one’s blog may be easier and faster. Tips for bloggers from inkthinker.blogspot.com will help you to make your blog successful!


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Re: Creating your website or blog

« Reply #1 on: March 19, 2007 »

Thanks Alan!
After looking through the links you've posted in this topic I've started thinking of creating my own blog. I love reading some blogs but had doubts whether I am able to do something similar. But information in your resources can serve significantly to the purpose of creating a personal blog.


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Re: Creating your website or blog

« Reply #2 on: April 23, 2007 »

I frequently visit my fellow writers' blogs and that's kind of fun to post comments there, but it's definitely not easy to maintain your blog. You constantly need to provide new content there and be quite original to attract attention of users.


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Re: Creating your website or blog

« Reply #3 on: May 25, 2007 »

Guys, can you help with my blog idea?
I write both in English and in German. Can I create a blog which would be bilingual?
For example, in German version articles in German would be displayed and in English version - those written in English. Also some articles I have in both languages or I plan to translate some German articles of mine (which I admire) in English.
Thank you for help! Wink


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Re: Creating your website or blog

« Reply #4 on: June 14, 2007 »

I was looking for a different blog systems and one of my friends advised me WordPress (http://wordpress.com/)
What do you think about it?
I still have not enough time to spend it on creating blog, but may be in a month or in September I will start it so now I'm looking for the best choice.


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Alan

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Re: Creating your website or blog

« Reply #5 on: June 20, 2007 »

WordPress is a good choice, Sarah.
You can host your blog not only on wordpress.com
You can buy a domain naime and hosting which will have nice name, i.e
http://sarah.de/
but unfortunately this domain name is taken, there is a photoalbum of one page!
You can try to communicate with owner, may be he or she will sell you this domain.
http://www.sarah.com/
is also taken, there are some senseless messages!

You can check the availability of domains here:
http://domain-suggestions.domaintools.com/

You can register your domain and install blog system there. So you will have the same blog but will your name Wink


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Re: Creating your website or blog

« Reply #6 on: June 20, 2007 »

Thank you for links!
I've checked different choices, but the problem is that I still don't know wheather I should use my real name or a nickname...


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Re: Creating your website or blog

« Reply #7 on: July 24, 2007 »

Hey guys! Share you blog link with me Wink


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