Getting Started: Tips and Tricks for getting your blog up and running

If you’ve decided to start a blog but your aren’t quite sure how you should go about it, you are in the right. We cover everything form setting you own blog hosting to creating your first few posts.

As I visit internet marketing forums and blogs around the web one of the most popular questions I see being asked, especially by folks new to blogging, is, “How do I get more traffic to my blog?“  This question is usually asked without any context to speak of and rarely is even the domain name of the blog in question supplied.  There is generally no shortage of answers like get more inbound links, socially bookmark your domain, list your blog in various directories and blog carnivals, and a plethora of other answers that, like the original question, generally have no context.

From time to time I’ll answer these questions by first asking three specific questions about the persons website that every blogger should know about their blog.  It never ceases to amaze me, however, the number of bloggers that can’t answer these three questions which are essential bits of information that will help you determine how to get more traffic to your blog…

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