{"id":10380,"date":"2006-08-19T01:25:16","date_gmt":"2006-08-18T22:25:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2006\/08\/19\/if-i-had-to-start-my-blog-again\/"},"modified":"2006-08-19T01:25:16","modified_gmt":"2006-08-18T22:25:16","slug":"if-i-had-to-start-my-blog-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2006\/08\/19\/if-i-had-to-start-my-blog-again\/","title":{"rendered":"If I had to start my blog again"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p>There is a group writing project &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.problogger.net\/archives\/2006\/07\/25\/if-i-had-to-start-my-blog-again-group-writing-project\/\">If I had to Start My Blog Again<\/a>&#8221; at <a href=\"http:\/\/problogger.net\">ProBlogger.net<\/a>.  If you are just starting with your first steps in the blogosphere, go read at least t<a href=\"http:\/\/52reviews.com\/2006\/07\/30\/my-starting-blog-over-favorite-posts\/\">hese posts<\/a> &#8211; they&#8217;ll save a lot of time and will provide you with a lot of things to think about.  If you are an experienced blogger, then check those posts anyway &#8211; you&#8217;ll still save a lot of head-banging.  And, of course, you are very welcome to share your thoughts on the subject.<\/p>\n<p>And just to give you an example by my own actions, here is the list of things I&#8217;d do differently (though most of them were mentioned by other bloggers too):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>My own domain.<\/strong>  I should have bought my own domain on the first day of blogging.  Even earlier.  Moving my website back and forward didn&#8217;t do it any good.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Less of DIY.<\/strong>  Somehow I felt that because I am an IT professional, I had to do everything myself.  Blogging scripts, webdesign, hosting, etc.  Over time I realized that I can use other people&#8217;s work too.  And that it won&#8217;t make me any less of a professional.  If I&#8217;d realize it earlier, my blog would have been better today &#8211; with more posts, with less formatting troubles, with less outages, etc.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Speciality.<\/strong> I should have picked a topic for my blog. For way too long it was a blog about everything &#8211; me, technology, web, movies, etc. It&#8217;s difficult to change this now, but I&#8217;m working on it (for example, with a bunch of my other abandoned blogs)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Better writing.<\/strong> I should have paid more attention to my writing.  Especially considering that English is not my native language, I should have been twice as focused on what I type.  And, of course, writing in full sentences would have helped too.  I&#8217;m glad to report that I&#8217;ve realized this some time ago, and I am also working on improving my writing.  The progress, though small, is obvious.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p>There is a group writing project &#8220;If I had to Start My Blog Again&#8221; at ProBlogger.net. If you are just starting with your first steps in the blogosphere, go read at least these posts &#8211; they&#8217;ll save a lot of time and will provide you with a lot of things to think about. 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