If you are away from your blogging workspace for several days, what will you do? If you are a serious blogger, you won’t leave your blog without any updates for several days. This is when you can do scheduled posts.

What is scheduled posts?
They are posts that you write before hand, and will be published automatically during the time that you have set earlier.

Many blogging platform allow you to write scheduled posts. It is a good practice to write scheduled posts to keep your blog “alive” when you are away. [...more]

Many bloggers who first started a blog will ignore the importance of the “About” page. I’ve came across some Wordpress blogs with a link to the “About” page, however it is left unmodified with the default message such as:

This is an example of a WordPress page, you could edit this to put information about yourself or your site so readers know where you are coming from. You can create as many pages like this one or sub-pages as you like and manage all of your content inside of WordPress.

Many people try to hide their true identity in the blogosphere. But most bloggers who own a niche blog will provide an “About” page to serve as an FAQ section of either their blog or the author themselves. How are you going to write an “About” page? What’s the impact of it? [...more]

So you decided to start a blog. You need a domain name for your blog. What is a domain name? It’s the address or URL (Universal Resource Locator) that points to your blog content. People recognize your blog by the address. Therefore, it is important for you to pick a relevant domain name that most identify your blog.

If you are not ready to buy your own domain yet, it is also important for you to choose a subdomain name for your blog that resides in some free blog services such as Blogger or Wordpress.com in the form of subdomain.domain.com. (i.e, xiaoyenzi.blogspot.com) [...more]

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