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Blogging Starter Checklist – Updated

by Rajesh Setty at 10:31AM (PST) on November 14, 2005 | Permanent Link | Cosmos

Many of my close friends are entering the blogging world. I am so happy for them. I started blogging in Feb 2005 and I have learnt that we need to do a few basic things (for starters) and I have put together a starter checklist for new bloggers. I have used this list to help my friends and now I thought I will make this public. This list is by no means complete and all the items may not be relevant to everyone.

1. Register a domain name with your name and redirect to your blog.
注册一个国际域名并且指向你的网志

My friend Munwar Shariff wanted me to do this for a long time but I kept postponing it. Finally when I got it done, it was amazing to find out how many people were coming to the blog by typing in www.rajeshsetty.com. It costs probably $10 a year but it’s worth every penny.

2. Get a “Creative Commons License”
得到一个共创协议

Creative Commons makes it easy to assign a license for your online content. I use a license called “Attribution-NonCommercial 2.0”

This means (in english)

You are free to
* to copy, distribute, display, and perform the work
* to make derivative works

Under the following conditions:
* by Attribution. You must attribute the work in the manner specified by the author or licensor.
* Noncommercial. You may not use this work for commercial purposes.

3. Get a feedburner account and direct feeds through feedburner
注册一个feedburner帐号,把网志的直接feed关联到feedburner

Most probably your blogging software will automatically provide an RSS feed capability. However, chances are that you may not be able to track how many readers are subscribing to your feed. By burning your feed via feedburner, you can get those statistics. Again, it only takes a few minutes to setup a free account on feedburner.

4. Implement subscription chiclets
实现一个提交的快捷方式,方便加入书签或者RSS阅读器

People use variety of RSS readers and you want to make it easy for them to subscribe to your feed from those RSS readers. Feedburner provides scripts to create those subscription chiclets. I suggest that you should take a look at the available options and add those chiclets to your blog site.

5. Enable search
能够搜索

Again, search should be a standard feature for any website. Your blogging provider would normally provide the feature. You just have to find out how to enable it for your blog.

6. Claim your blog at Technorati
在Technorati登记你的网志

By registering yourself at technorati and claiming it, you have an ability to put your photo with your profile. When people search for stuff on technorati and your blog comes up in the search results your thumbsize photo appears with the search result. Every single thing helps.

7. Allow users to get your blog via email
允许用户使用电子邮件得到网志内容。

You will be amazed how many people want to read your blog via their email. It’s easy to set that up. You can get a script to do that by registering at Feedblitz.

8. Link to your profile
链接到你的个人介绍

Write up your introduction “elevator pitch” and link it from your blog. People want to know who you are. Celebrity bloggers can ignore this comment :)

9. Link to your photo album
链接到你的个人相册,比如flickr

If you have an online photo album with a service like Flickr, put in a link to that as well.

10. Announce your blog to the world
到处宣传你的网志
The first thing that you can do is to use a service like Pingomatic to ping a few servers. Of course, best would be to write compelling content that would make others link to your site.

11. Provide a way to contact you
提供一个你的联系方式,邮件、即时通讯软件(QQ、MSN Messenger)或者电话

Other than posting comments on your blog, provide a way (email, phone or both) for your readers to connect with you. I have made quite a few new friends from all over the world.

12. Link to your bookmarks
加入一个书签的链接,比如美味书签del.icio.us

If you have an account with del.icio.us and are tracking some interesting websites, you can link to your bookmark page.

13. Create meaningful categories and chunk content
建立有意义的分类和内容

Very soon you will have a lot of content on your blog and your readers will get confused where to go. One option is to create meaningful categories and file content appropriately. That will be a great service for your readers.

14. Put your photo on the home page
把你的照片放在首页

Blog is a conversation that you are having with your readers and it becomes more personal with a photo.

15. Ensure that your RSS feeds are OK
确保你的RSS Feeds是好用的(blogcn在这方面就是弱智)

Simple way is to subscribe to your own feed in your RSS readers. Other way is to use FeedValidator to check if everything is OK

[Update Nov 3, 2005]
16. Geo-tag your blog at Feedmap
加入Geo-tag在Feedmap(对于中国用户暂时没必要)
Feedmap provides a simple way of associating your physical co-ordinates (city, zip) to your blog. As more people sign up for this service, your blog will appear in the “bloggers nearby” for your neighbours blogs.

17. Include a blog link in your email signature
在邮件的签名里面包含自己网志的链接
Even people who you know may not know that you have a blog. Best is to include the link to your blog in the email signature.

[ Updated on November 14, 2005 ]

18. Claim your blog at Feedster
在Feedster登记自己的网志

You claimed your blog at Technorati. Now, please go ahead and claim it in Feedster as well. If you do well, you might even get into the feedster elite club “Feedster Top 500” :) You can add an icon or your photo to personalize the search results

19. Register at Findory
在Findory注册一下

Findory aggregates some of the finest blogs and they recommend content based on users’ interest. So if a user is reading an article in another blog that has similar content, he or she may be presented with your blog to consider reading.

20. Register at blogwise
在blogwise注册一下

Blogwise is a directory that is created manually by a bunch of cool folks. You can submit your blog for inclusion and someone over there will add it to the directory if they find the content appropriate. You can check out the listing for Life Beyond Code and may be leave your comments on this blog there.

Also, don’t forget to check out Stephan Spencer’s extended checklist on the same topic. Great stuff there.

I am sure there are many more but this should give you a start!
我知道有很多更好的方式可以选择,所以这只是一个开始。


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