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How to Configure Pinterest for Your Blog

Kathy posted this in Blogging

I am going to be completely honest here: I do not know much about Pinterest as of today.

Other than the fact that it is growing in popularity so fast my head is spinning.

As of this writing, I have not officially marketed my blog. By that I mean, I have not told more than a few people about Back To Family.

I am trying to set up and tweak it to be the best it possibly can be before I launch it.

I have been very meticulous in keeping it a secret. I have set up a Facebook page which as of today is unpublished. I have set up as much as I can without “going public” yet.

That being said I made a HUGE mistake today.
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How to register a domain name

Kathy posted this in Blogging

Choose a name that suits your blog.

Something easy to remember. Write it out. Look good?

Many extensions are now available with .com being the most popular.

Sometimes .com is not available, as in my case. Don’t be discouraged. Pick another.

When you register a domain name, you do not own that domain. You will need to register it yearly.

You then need to purchase hosting- a place to store the information (WordPress blog) you want to access via your domain. I’ll cover that in a future post.

This actually should be the easiest step on the path to blogging. However, for me it was one of the most difficult.

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How to choose a blog platform

Kathy posted this in Blogging

When I first began this journey, I was completely clueless. Now, a year later I am only moderately clueless.

I spent the last year reading blogs, reading books about blogging, reading online tips about blogging, researching more blogs to check out, re-reading books about blogging, re-reading online tips about blogging…

You’d think I’d be an expert by now. Nah!

It is one thing to read a blog and a book on how to blog. It is an entirely different thing to blog.

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