Can someone offer advice on starting a tennis blog?. Please help!!.?

Question

Hi,

I'm a big tennis fan, and I would like to start my own tennis blog, but I know very little about blogging. I was hoping someine could answer some questions, and give me some tips?. The questions I have are the following:

1. What are some of the better free blog sites for tennis?. In other words, which blog sites are the most popular for tennis fans, where I would receive the most activity or interest on my blog site?.

2. I would like to add a free counter to my blog site. Can someone recommend some free counters to choose from, that are reliable?.

3. This question is real important: When I download pictures to my blog, will I have the option to add a small caption with each picture, describing the picture itself?. I would like to add the caption, or description underneath each picture I download. Do the various free blog sites provide the option to do this?. I did a search on blogger, and none of the pictures I saw that were posted on the different blog pages had a caption to go with the picture. Again, I would like to add this caption or description with each photo. Will I be able to do this?.

4. How many photos can I download to my blog site?. Is there some kind of limit that I can't exceed?. Also, how much text can I add to my blog site?.

5. When I'm building my blog site, will people still be able to view it?. I don't want people to see it until I have it completely finished. Will I have the option to save what I'm working on, and then post the blog site so people can view it, once I have finished it?.

I tried to explian my questions as best as possible. I would be very grateful if someone can answer these questions, and offer any other advice or insight on making my tennis blog a successful one?.

Thank you!

Answer 1

1. I'm not sure I understand you question, but if you are asking what are some popular tennis sites, just google.



2. Personally, I believe counters are a waste of time. Either your number is so low it looks like your site is horrible or it is so high in a short time, it looks suspicious. FYI, most counters let you set the starting number and they aren't very accurate



3. If you use a site like blogspot.com (I use this), you can upload pictures directly into a post and just continue typing (your caption)



4. Blogspot.com has no limits



5. If you use blogspot.com, you can save everything as drafts. People can only view published items.

Answer 2

I am very sorry you are going through this. I have too laugh at these two Church going married people texting about dressing sexy so they can indulge in adulterous actions during preaching. Wow! He broke his marriage vows and says he does not want to break up the family. Why do all married men say that dumb crap? He sure did not feel guilty about cheating while you were in the dark. Honestly I would not be able to cope with him living there and if you forgive him right away, he will do it again. I think you need to take some time for yourself and really think if you want to remain married to him. I would ask him to leave. Go over all the options of trying to work things out or getting a divorce. Please don't be afraid of raising your daughter on your own. As a wife you deserve respect. He obviously does not respect you and if you decide you can't forgive him then go after everything. The house, car, alimony, and pension plans.

Answer 3

When you first decide to start writing a blog you need to figure out how you are going to get it on the web. There are many CMS (Content Management Systems) available, but I suggest using Wordpress. It is the simplest yet robust solution. You have 2 options for hosting: free hosting at Wordpress.com or purchasing a plan and hosting it yourself. If you are first starting out and don’t know much about hosting your own site I would go with the free option, but if you are serious about blogging I highly suggest getting your own hosting plan and manage your site independently. If you host and maintain your own site you have much more control over everything: the biggest is the ability to put advertisements such as Google Adsense on your blog pages.



After getting your Wordpress blog set up, there are a few plugins I suggest adding to your site. Plugins are add-ons for your site that extend Wordress to do just about anything you want. You can discover plugins at the Wordpress plugin directory or doing a Google search for the function you want can usually find you what you need. The top 3 plugins I suggest installing when you begin blogging on your new Wordpress site are The Wordpress Network, Google XML Sitemaps, and All in One SEO Pack.



The Wordpress Network plugin gets your blog a lot more readers and provides them with valuable content related to what you are blogging about. When you install this plugin you are automatically joined up with a huge group of other bloggers called The Wordpress SEO Network. The plugin adds links at the bottom of your blog posts to other posts in The Wordpress SEO Network that are directly related to what you are writing about. This gives your readers a little more information on the subject and keeps them interested. It also makes it more likely they will come back to your site because you gave them the most info about what they were looking for. The best part of it, you also get links pointing back to your blog from other sites. These back links provide 2 huge advantages to your blog. First, because these links are on other sites writing about similar stuff you are, their readers become your readers. You started your blog to get people to read it right? Next, and most importantly, these back links tell Google that your site is popular. Google ranks sites by how many one way links point back to your pages. The higher Google ranks you, the higher they place your site on their search pages when people search for stuff you write about. This will get you more readers than you know what to do with!



The Google XML Sitemaps plugin creates a special XML sitemap which will help search engines like Google, Bing, Yahoo and Ask.com to better index your blog. With such a sitemap, it's much easier for the crawlers to see the complete structure of your site and retrieve it more efficiently. The plugin supports all kinds of WordPress generated pages as well as custom URLs. Additionally it notifies all major search engines every time you create a post about the new content. Download here

All in One SEO Pack helps you create search engine friendly titles for your blog pages. It also helps you add meta tags and descriptions to your pages that tell Google and other search engines more about your site. When posting your links on sites such as Facebook, they use this info when creating the description that displays. Having a good description when someone sees your link can mean the difference of whether they click that link or not.



Once you have the basics of your site together like I’ve laid out for you, all you need to do is write great content. If you write interesting and informative blogs then people will keep coming back to see what you have for them. If you have a good base of readers you might want to start monetizing your site with advertisements. If your blog gets a high Google ranking advertisers will pay you to put their advertisements on your site. If you follow my outline you have the best chance at getting your site up in the ranks and earning some income. If you contact The Wordpress Network they can put you in contact with advertisers based on your content that would be interested in advertising to your readers.