We’ve saved ourselves a bit of time here. Yesterday we explored some of the options available for information mining on the web and used the example of learning how to create a successful blog. Today, we begin the process of learning from the goldmine of information we uncovered. So where to begin?….
Rather than even attempt to assimilate or summarise this information, I’ve categorised the excellent resources that our researching method uncovered:
Round-ups
Much like this post, these articles contain a fantastic round-up of the best blogging resources across different categories. You stumble across one of these pages and you’ve got your work all done for you - you just need to digest it all! Time for some java beans I think…
- My 50 favorite blogging resources
Categories includes best blogs/articles, blogging platforms, design/templates, marketing, corporate blogging and books - 80+ Tools for Successful Blogging
Lists almost all the necessary blogging tools and most of the top articles published in the last couple of years covering successful blogging, blog SEO, monetarisation, maintenance and so on.
Case Studies - From Beginning to End
What better way to learn than from people who have actually done it. You can literally follow these step by step, it really easy painting by numbers.
- 25 Steps To A Wildly Successful Personal Finance Blog
The step by step account of how someone created a personal finance blog that grew from a readership of 3 to one that averages 1,600 readers and earns a nice income too - 21 Surefire Tips for a Successful Blog Launch
Generic advice about how to make sure your blog launches successfully - The real reason nobody reads your blog
Explains why successful blogging is about establishing and maintaining mutually beneficial relationships, with a couple of interesting case studies
General Blogging Tips
- 8 Steps to Growing Your Blog Community One Person At a Time
Ideas about attracting more traffic to your blog
Common Mistakes
- The Top 10 Blogging Mistakes I Made in My First Year
Let someone else make the mistakes for you, so you can learn from them!
Blogs about Blogging!
- Blogs about blogs, bloggers and blogging
Quick guide to all the leading blogs about blogging and why you should be reading them - 66 Successful Bloggers and What they can teach you
And every one of them has something to teach
Blog Setup
- Top Wordpress Plugins
A great list of the some of the most useful and most popular wordpress plugins - The Top Ten WordPress Plugins/
What it says on the tin!
Post Writing
- Essential Posts that Every Blogger Should Know
Every blogger should know these 9 essential posts to help fill the gaps while still delivering quality content to their readers.
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