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How to Create a Blog - Part 12

March 6th, 2009 • stephenlawes • 0 comments • Related • Filed Under

My Newbie Blog is visited every day by people with questions about how to create a blog.  I was thinking back about my own blogging journey and how it has changed over time.  I have spent most of my life working with computers.   My first exposure to a computer was in 1972 at a terminal that allowed you to play a game of sorts where you would type in where what room you thought something was in and the computer would give you clues to help find whatever you were looking for. This terminal was more like a typewriter than anything we would call a computer today.  IN 1979 I went to college and took a class in Fortran.  Fortran was a computer language that worked by using a type pad to make a a deck of cards and then the cards were fed into the main computer.  It was a very time consuming process.  In the early 80’s I had a Radio Shack Color Computer and I could go on Compuserve which was a big deal at the time.

I eventually ended up selling computers and can remember the first IBM’s coming out with the two floppy disk drives.

Seagate introduced a 20 MB Hard Disk and I remember thinking that no one could ever use 20 MB of Hard Disk space.  And then came Windows and you needed at least 40 MB of Hard Disk Space.  And on and on ……………….

What does all that have to do with creating a blog?  I guess I am amazed at where things are now and I am wondering what they will look like 10 or 20 years from now.  I would encourage all of you newbies to keep your eyes open to look for ways to utilize the Internet and be ready to go with the changes that come along.  I am sure we haven’t seen anything yet!

Starting a Blog Consulting Site

July 4th, 2008 • stephenlawes • 0 comments • Related • Filed Under

I have been doing more consulting lately so I have decided to start a new site to take on that side of my blogging business.  I think that developing the new site will ultimately make some people very happy.  On the new site I will be expanding my range of services.  On this site (My Newbie Blog)  I primarily assist people with support on SEO and fixing the little problems that pop up from time to time.  I have called this service “A Little Extra Help” and I will continue to provide this service at very reasonable rates.  On the new site I will be developing and offering a full range of services including complete blog start up, a variety of article writing services, quick and easy technical help to help people when they get stuck (utilizing remote PC software when necessary),  training and coaching on all areas of blogging business (utilizing skype whenever possible), and also making available blogs that are already aged and linked.

The new site, Blog Consulting (www.blogconsulting.biz) will begin to take shape over the next couple of months.  I would expect it to be fully functional by October 1st, 2008.  Of course, if you have been reading this site, you know that it will take some time to get that site positioned on the search engines.  That particular area of blogging is very competitive and most of the established sites have been around awhile and have a lot of links pointed at them.  I consider it a challenge and fully expect it to take at least 12 months to begin to even get close to page 1, if it is actually possible.  While the site is waiting I will be utilizing a variety of other methods to get some traffic to the site (i.e. Adwords, 125×125 ads on certain sites, etc).  If you would like to take advantage of the services offered head over to the site and we will be happy to help you.