Free WordPress Ebook – Blogging is dead, long live blogging

Blogging is dead they say. Move to Twitter, move to FriendFeed… Some bloggers are just lazy I think… I say long live blogging! Download the “WordPress Blogging” ebook now for free (or read on).

It’s easy to just write 140 character updates all day long. It’s easy to copy / paste a piece of text you have read somewhere and write your two line comment on it. If you’re too lazy or you find it too hard to write consistent blog articles that your targetted audience finds useful, maybe blogging is not for you. But that doesn’t mean that blogging is dead.

Social media helps your blog grow

Twitter, FriendFeed etc. should in no way replace your existing communication channels like a website or a blog. You cannot get much across via social media. And with the speed and real-time of social media sites, your work there will very fast go into the lost archives and never be seen again.

There must be a balance between tweeting and blogging. Real-time social media and a blog work very well together and doing it right, it can help you establish a presence in your field and give you a much larger exposure. See more on marketing on Twitter.

Blogs put your work into a permanent form

It is very important to put your work in a permanent form. You do not do this by tweeting or writing status updates. With Twitter you would have to repeat your work over and over again to be able to create any value as tweets get archived very easily.

It is all about now. Lifetime of a tweet is some 15 minutes. After 15 minutes you will not get many retweets anymore, replies to it or clicks on the link.

When you put your work in a blog post format, it is there forever. You can put it in a sidebar, you can put it as a sticky post, you can put it in pages, you can bring it back to your front page. And Google finds it easily.

It will be there for a long time and it will continuously help and provide value to people and help build your name and authority.

Tribute to WordPress blogging free ebook

As a tribute to blogs, bloggers and the best blogging platform WordPress, I have now collected a lot of info for begginer bloggers on how to blog and put it all in an ebook format. And it is free! The blogging e-book features:

• Why you should be starting a blog
• How to install a blog with your own domain name
• All the settings and SEO work you need to do as soon as you create a new blog
• All the best plugins that you can use to customize and improve your blog
• How to make your blog secure
• Introduction to writing content and starting to get visitors

Download WordPress Blogging Ebook now and please share this with your friends!

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