Comments on: Basic Blogging Questions You Might Have Been Afraid to Ask

By: Have You Been to Blog Island? | Ask Tinu

Have You Been to Blog Island? | Ask Tinu — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 08:42:22 +0000

[...] And you do all the regular stuff that they say bloggers are supposed to do. [...]

By: Amy

Amy — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 19:00:18 +0000

This is a helpful post. Thank you for the information.

By: Sue Olson

Sue Olson — Thu, 03 May 2007 14:11:11 +0000

I finally got back to this post. I was wondering about Feedburner! I am happy to know that pure tenacity will get me through – I’ve got that! And I too have started to understand code simply by staring it in the face! Woo Hoo!

By: Eureka! « momeorganizer.com

Eureka! « momeorganizer.com — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 18:58:41 +0000

[...] Wendy PiersallÂ has been an amazing support – answering my questions so quickly when I know she has more exciting things to do!Â She gave me the push I needed to just START blogging then followed up with advice when I needed to move to Blue Host.Â Â I must say that Blue Host has amazing technical support.Â Amazing in the fact that they did not treat me like a total goofball when it was obvious that I was WAY out of my league.Â Because of other people supporting me I am gaining knowledge really quickly.Â I intend to pay-it-forward!Â Thanks. [...]

By: Working at Home on the Internet

Working at Home on the Internet — Sun, 22 Apr 2007 11:37:15 +0000

[...] Basic Blogging Questions You Might Have Been Afraid to Ask by Wendy Piersall… Wendy answers some questions for the Novice Bloggers that they wouldn’t ask for fear of being embarrassed. [...]

By: Tara

Tara — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 11:55:17 +0000

Nice article. I am a newbie blogger myself. As a print based designer you lose touch with whats going on in the web – all these words blog, RSS, CMS are in the the mags and you wonder what they are. Some magasines give you descriptions but they always assume a certain amount of knowledge on the subject.I would have liked to read an article like this a few months ago when I started my blog.

By: Speedlink’s: April 20 2007 | Alpesh Nakars’ Blogosphere

Speedlink’s: April 20 2007 | Alpesh Nakars’ Blogosphere — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 08:01:02 +0000

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By: Ariane Benefit

Ariane Benefit — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 15:00:18 +0000

Awesome post Wendy! Your new blog/site is amazing!!! Gorgeous, too. I what what CMS enterprenuer.com uses? It’s a really neat site. Do you recommend any particlar CMS systems for article management on a website?

By: Jewelle

Jewelle — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 12:04:51 +0000

Such help! Thanks for making it clear.

By: At Home Mom

At Home Mom — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 17:02:29 +0000

Thanks for the information. IÂ´m a relatively new blogger and although I know some HTML, IÂ´m finding other areas a little more challenging, so it was nice to have links to where I can get better explanations. I use Wordpress as well, and have found it to be very useful.

By: Amanda

Amanda — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 14:00:15 +0000

I ask questions like that to my friend jenny. Things I should know about wordpress but never bothered to learn I ask her.. repeatedly till it sticks into my head.

By: Amy

Amy — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:52:08 +0000

That is really informative. You would be correct in assuming I knew these things, but I did have a somewhat different perspective on them.

By: Dan and Jennfer

Dan and Jennfer — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:50:25 +0000

Hey Wendy, great post.

I would add that Tags are very important since tag pages rank VERY highly in natural search results with Google.

Also they help you slice and dice your content, so when you have 2,000 posts in a year you’ll be able to reorganize your site rather than junking stuff.

That having been said, UTW and such can be a royal pain to install – we spent a bunch of time figuring out the best SEO approach to wordpress, and tags are a key part of it. But it has to be set up right, or it’ll bite you.

Have an awesome day!
Dan

By: Jenny

Jenny — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:09:52 +0000

I have a friend who keeps asking me what tags are. I should show this to her since you explain it so much better then I did.

By: Suzanne Lamoutte

Suzanne Lamoutte — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:09:25 +0000

You really touched the core of what is necessary for internet marketing. Way to go, Wendy.

By: Sharon

Sharon — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 23:25:15 +0000

I think wordpress rocks. You can basically have it function as a website (actually even better). there are loads of plugins to use to make it however you want your blog to be

By: lornadoone

lornadoone — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 21:25:18 +0000

Thanks for all of the thought and time you put into answering my questions, Wendy. You have cleared up some thoughts for me, and I feel better moving forward with ideas for my next endeavor(s). I sort of feel like I have a mentor or an ally in my corner, and it adds an extra little spring to my step! The fact that you can do non-blog pages on WordPress has sold me on the idea of using it, and I feel a lot more confident in facing the PHP issue now that I know my HTML experience will help decrease the learning curve.

By: Derrich

Derrich — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 20:10:33 +0000

I would say knowing HTML is the key here. It’ll help you shed some light on php…or you could get the Wendy Piersall decoder ring. =)

By: Blain Reinkensmeyer

Blain Reinkensmeyer — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 16:42:18 +0000

O also regarding the last paragraph, yes it is weighed with php, but a lot of it just understanding simple html.

When I think of php I think of hard coding that is tedious and needs a coding junkie to do it, wordpress’s platform is laid out so really anyone can do it. Besides all you need is to just download the templates an upload them!

By: Blain Reinkensmeyer

Blain Reinkensmeyer — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 16:40:17 +0000

This is a great post Wendy, really does a good job of explaining the basics behind these services and sites. I take for granted that I understand feedburner, technorati, and the like but those just stepping into the arena would probably be pretty confused by all of this!

Solid read