Get Started With Your own Blog

To many, starting a blog can seem like a major undertaking. Below you will find all of the posts on Art of Blog to help you get your feet on the ground. If you are brand new to starting a blog get started with our One Week Challenge, where you will learn how to setup a successful blog in one week!

Latest Posts to Start Your Blog

A Dream to Host 3.0 – Two Column WordPress Theme

If you’ve ever used a free theme, you know that some are just flat out junk. To help solve that problem we’ve create one that isn’t junk — In fact it might be the best free two column WordPress theme around. Back in 2007 we launched A Dream to Host

Blog Photos: The Complete Guide To Using Photos on the Web

We’ve all heard the saying “A picture is worth a thousand words” You just need to be sure that those thousand words are doing you good. Why is it so hard to find good photos? Well for one, we all can’t afford to hire models, professional photographers and fly to

Typography Basics – Some Fundamentals for Body Copy

I tend to define typography very simply: “Designing the written page for better communication of a message.” But that simplicity can get ugly fast. Ask Google a question about typography and soon you’ll find yourself immersed in Classical proportions, the Golden Mean, Fibonacci sequences. Not to mention modular systems, double-strand

Influence: How To Grow Your Microbrand Online

“In reality you need to worry about two things when you are building a microbrand online. The first is converting first-time visitors into repeat visitors. The second is finding more first-time visitors.” That’s a quote from “How to Turn Traffic & Trust into Sales” by Nick Reese. When you think

HDR Photo of Puerto Galera Pier in the Philippines

How to Think Outside the Box With Your Blog Photos

Let’s face it, these days the attention span of the average internet user is about 1.5 seconds – at best. Each day, we’re bombarded with thousands of conflicting messages, so getting people to stick around long enough to actually read our blog posts is increasingly difficult. That said, finding a

List Building 101: Push vs Pull Marketing

Do you look at your web presence as a business or a hobby? Chances are you are somewhere in between, but that doesn’t mean you won’t want to make money some day. The first thing every would-be “guru” and Internet marketer will tell you is “the money is in the

Affiliate Marketing for Beginners

Affiliate marketing can be loosely devised as a method for those selling products and/or services to traffic that elects to visit. For example, if a website contains content centering around dog-related products and includes a link to Amazon.com that contains many helpful books, then chances are that the link is

Two Sure-Fire Ways to Increase Website Traffic

Generating traffic is the hardest part of running a website. Whether you are just starting out on the web or are as seasoned as webmasters come, there is always an opportunity to increase your traffic allowing you reach more visitors and potential subscribers. There’s a lot of advice out there

Writing Your First Pages: About, FTC Blogger Disclosure, Privacy Page

This is part eleven of the One Week Blog Challenge series. By now you should have your blog all setup and ready to launch. The first post I would recommend writing is the About Me page/post. Worpress automatically includes an about page with some dummy text. Personally, I like deleting

Enable Your Fans – Top Community Building and Social Sharing Tools for Your Blog

One of the most important aspects of blogging is to build your community and make it easy for people to share your content. You want to give your fans the tools to do it easily and intuitively – without cluttering your site with distractions. Here are some of the best tools available for your blog.

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