Oh wow, I didn't know about the whole blog thing. I really really love to cook, infact I'm going to a culinary college. Maybe I should make a blog with my recipes in it with pictures, and even put videos on it :O

That sounds like a great idea, Chocokriz. Have you read up about search engine optimization and keywords?

There are a lot of resources on the forum that might be useful to us - since you haven't done a project yet, either, right? Keep a lookout for any articles that might good for first time starters like us.

Nope, I haven't done a project yet but I'm pretty eager to. But of course, I need to learn a lot more. hehe. I'm most concerned with how to get traffic from the search engines. Should I word my writing in a way that would attract viewers or is there some software that I put up on the blog or something?

hi chocokriz,
a piece of advice for you!!

Dont start a blog on a subject which is demand or for which you have maximum adverts or the keywords which are more in demand these days on the internet, coz if u dont have interest in these topics then eventually your content will get exhausted and you will have to copy stuff from other websites!

Instead i suggest write a blog on the topic which really interests you and who can write truckloads on it; coz that will mean you will write more and you will get more money, which eventually means that you will earn more.

And if you are concerned about advertisements, belive me google has got ads for just about everything under the sun!!

Thanks,
Cheers!

Absolutely right on the point.

Chocokriz, You are really lucky one that you don't have a website on which you would be working again and again. You are getting great webmaster lessons and if you really have some time then you should check out the Tips and Techniques Section it has loads of articles on how to choose a good domain name. How to set up your website and then how to market it properly.

When I was at your stage there was nothing like this and I was just wondering this and that.

Think for hours and hours before starting a content based website. Choose some topics, write them on paper and then think on all of them. Cancel some of them and in end you will have the theme and topic for your new site. It would be a good idea to think for 12 hours rather then spending your time for the rest of your webmastering days wondering what to write and how to write on that topic.

You might want to consider whether you would like to use Blogger or a different type of blog software.

well....i would recommend wordpress...its working fine with me and comes free with your hosting package and to top it all it is highly customizable!

Wow, thank you so much for that advice guys. I really really appreciate it.. But you don't understand, I love it so much, I can do it 24/7 =D But I won't dive in head first. Even the things that people love SO much, they can even get exhausted from. I'll be careful :O

Hmm okay, thanks <3 So I guess it DOES have its own software sort of thing. Sounds sorta like Livejournal in a way.