Whether you blog as a hobby, or as a way to make money, you want peoples’ eyeballs on your blog. The best way to achieve that goal is to blog about things that no one else is discussing. It seems as if almost every blogger jumps on the bandwagon when either Lindsay Lohan [...]
Powerful spam tools
Unfortunately, one of the side effects of blogging is spam. Spammers see blogs, and they see an open market. Or so they think.
Your Hostablog blog runs WordPress, which means that you have powerful means by which to prevent spam from reaching your readers. After all, why should you let a company [...]
category: Blogging
New to blogging?
If you’ve found our website, but don’t use the Internet often, you may be wondering why someone would want to have a blog. Isn’t that just for political pundits, or folks who live in their parents’ basements? The answer would be “no.”
You don’t have to be a computer expert to have a blog. [...]
category: Blogging
Return the favor
The nicest thing you can do for someone in the blogosphere is link to their blog. When someone links to your blog, the nice thing to do is link back. Now, you can do this by mentioning the specific site in a blog post, or ou can add the site to your blogroll, [...]
category: Blogging
What can’t you do?
Here at Hostablog, we want you to get the best experience that you can out of blogging. We want you to express yourself, and have fun with it. We do, however, have a few reasonable rules that are put in place to protect the interests of all of the bloggers who use our [...]
category: Blogging
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Time the entry
If you want to write a post now, but you don’t want to post it right away, that’s no problem. Suppose you’re going away for the weekend, and you want to write posts in advance, spacing them out throughout the weekend. That is also not a problem.
WordPress makes it quite easy to make [...]
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Endorse, but follow the rules
At some point, you may find your blog so popular that companies approach you to endorse or recommend their products or services. This is all well and good, but if you’re based in the United States, there are some rules you have to follow, thanks to the Federal Trade Commission.
Essentially, you have to give [...]
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What to blog about?
If you’re new to the world of blogging, you may be short on ideas as to what to blog about. You can blog about anything, really. Did you run across a news story you have an opinion about? Share that opinion in a blog post! Do you want to share something [...]
category: Blogging
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Make it private
If you have a blog, but you want to make one particular post private (so that only friends and family can see it), you can easily do that here at HostaBlog!
When you’re editing your post, look to the right and click the “Edit” option next to “Visibility.” There, you can choose to password protect [...]
category: Blogging
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Comments…your choice
One of the nice things about running your own blog is that you have the power. An element of blogging is comments from your visitors. Now, you can choose to allow them or not. As the blog owner, that is completely your call.
You can allow comments to be posted without [...]
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