{"id":36,"date":"2006-09-04T20:44:00","date_gmt":"2006-09-05T03:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.1keydata.com\/wordpress\/?p=36"},"modified":"2007-09-21T17:44:17","modified_gmt":"2007-09-22T00:44:17","slug":"pimp-my-blog-in-8-steps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.1keydata.com\/blog\/pimp-my-blog-in-8-steps.html","title":{"rendered":"Pimp My Blog in 8 Steps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Blogging is fun, and you obviously want others to read your blogs (otherwise you wouldn&#8217;t want to make it public, would you?) But in the vast worldwide web, how do you get other people to even know that your blog exists? This is the question I faced when I started looking into blogging recently. In this post, as well as the next few posts, I will discuss all the things I did to pimp my blog.<\/p>\n<p>At the high level, my goals are as follows:<\/p>\n<li>Easy feed management.<\/li>\n<li>Make it easy for people to subscribe.<\/li>\n<li>Make it easy for people to bookmark \/ tag.<\/li>\n<li>Account for all SEO best practices for a regular web site.Below are the 8 steps for pimping my blog:\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.topcatblog.com\/2006\/09\/pimp-my-blog-in-8-steps-steps-1-2-domain-name-and-blog-software.html\">1. Decide what domain name to use<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.topcatblog.com\/2006\/09\/pimp-my-blog-in-8-steps-steps-1-2-domain-name-and-blog-software.html\">2. Decide on a blogging software \/ host<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.topcatblog.com\/2006\/09\/pimp-my-blog-in-8-steps-steps-3-4-sign-up-for-feedburner-and-technorati.html\">3. Sign up for Feedburner<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.topcatblog.com\/2006\/09\/pimp-my-blog-in-8-steps-steps-3-4-sign-up-for-feedburner-and-technorati.html\">4. Sign up for Technorati<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.topcatblog.com\/2006\/09\/pimp-my-blog-in-8-steps-steps-5-6-make-it-easy-to-bookmarkshare-and-subscribe.html\">5. Make it easy for people to bookmark and share<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.topcatblog.com\/2006\/09\/pimp-my-blog-in-8-steps-steps-5-6-make-it-easy-to-bookmarkshare-and-subscribe.html\">6. Make it easy for people to subscribe<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.topcatblog.com\/2006\/09\/pimp-my-blog-in-8-steps-steps-7-8-header-tags-and-enable-auto-discovery.html\">7. Change template for header tags<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.topcatblog.com\/2006\/09\/pimp-my-blog-in-8-steps-steps-7-8-header-tags-and-enable-auto-discovery.html\">8. Enable auto discovery<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In the next few posts, I will discuss each step in detail. By reading through this series, you&#8217;ll be able to get the world to notice and start reading your blog as well.<\/li>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blogging is fun, and you obviously want others to read your blogs (otherwise you wouldn&#8217;t want to make it public, would you?) But in the vast worldwide web, how do you get other people to even know that your blog exists? This is the question I faced when I started looking into blogging recently. In [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[30],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1keydata.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1keydata.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1keydata.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1keydata.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1keydata.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.1keydata.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1keydata.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1keydata.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1keydata.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}