3 Things To Remember When Starting a Blog

[Antarctic]

1) You Will Not Become “Big” Over Night

This is one of the first and most important things to remember when starting a blog. Sure, it may be easy to start a blog, but it’s getting it “big” that’s the hardest. Believing that you will become “big” is a great thing to do, it just wont happen over night; becoming popular takes time, work, and some skill. There has never been a single blog that has made it’s way to the top in a single day or night.............

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[Joshua Farrell]

Also one thing that is not listed in the article in said link, is pinging.

If your blog does pinging for you, like a wordpress.org blog, you need to go to the writing setting in the WP_Admin panel, enable both of the remote publishing by ticking the boxes next to the two items, and insert the following into the update services text field.

http://ping.myblog.jp
http://api.moreover.com/RPC2
http://bblog.com/ping.php
http://blogsearch.google.com/ping/RPC2
http://ping.weblogalot.com/rpc.php
http://ping.feedburner.com
http://ping.syndic8.com/xmlrpc.php
http://ping.bloggers.jp/rpc/
http://rpc.pingomatic.com/
http://rpc.weblogs.com/RPC2
http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping
http://topicexchange.com/RPC2
http://www.blogpeople.net/servlet/weblogUpdates
http://xping.pubsub.com/ping