Mom Blogging

The book I read to research this post was Mom Blogging for Dummies by Wendy Piersall which is an excellent book which I bought from kindle. A lot of the information in this book applies to any kind of blog. First of all if you want to run adverts on your blog you have 2 major choices you could use blogger where you have to have a blogspot domain name or you could run the wordpress software which is a free download from wordpress.org on a 3rd party server. Wendy does the latter. She advises if you hire writers for your site that you pay them a percentage of the advertising revenue that way you aren't paying out more than you have got coming in. Some good advice if you are on twitter 10% of the time you should advertise your blogs, 20% you should retweet others & the rest should be giving people informative information. Apparently she reckons facebooks better than twitter because you can write longer messages & you'll probably have a lot of friends already there when you join. I must admit I prefer twitter because my followers have grown without a lot of effort on my part. Also you should blog on something you enjoy & that seems effortless to write. I think even if you are mom blogging you still have to do research ie say if your child has measles you have to read a book on that subject & also maybe alternative medicine so that you can compare the potential cures & thereby keep your blog interesting. By the way if you enjoy my computing blogs have a look at my proper computing blog at scratbag.me it has over 450 posts.