2019 #VWEDU: WRT: Blogging: Starting, building, and promoting your blog about virtual worlds (MUVEs)

Blogging: Starting, building, 
and promoting your blog
about virtual worlds (MUVEs)

A summary collection of previous articles about blogging, with focus on virtual worlds (MUVEs).

Can I make money from a blog?

• Some do, but many use a blog to support a favorite project.
• Google AdWords
• Choose your goal.  To make money, you have to blog to get readers.
• Your favorite project may not be a good subject for that.

How do I start?

• The whys and hows of blogging 
• Blogging for beginners, the virtual world advantage. And blogging for instruction

• #VWEDU update 5/23/2019 Newcomer Notes, Freebies

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Previous Summaries

• Blogging in virtual worlds. How to... Summary
• Blogging as instruction and information in virtual worlds, summary

The social side

• Writing on the grid. The writing community of the Hypergrid
• Build an effective community blog for 3D virtual worlds

Organizing and curating

• Curating gets readers to previous articles.
• How to use a blog to organize a developing themed collection of information
• Give your blog article a search description, teaser, or other short promotion
• How to search this blog for what interests you.
• Use auto-curation on your blogs
• This blog is curated: How to use search to find things. Digital smarts

Collaborating

• A blog needs to post several times a week.  Collaborating spreads the effort.
• Collaborative fiction blogging in virtual world. Writing need not be lonely
• Create a collaborative blog to market your writing

Promoting: Suppose I gave a blog and nobody came?

• Your opening paragraph catches your readers. Or not. Checklist
• A collaborative blog is social media if you use it that way
• A dozen+ tips for building your blog about virtual worlds
• SEO: Build traffic to your blog about virtual worlds.
• If you want people to talk about your blog, don't lock them out.
• Social media for the virtual worlds. Summary

Handling the tech

• How to put columns in your Blogger pages

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Visit me on the web

• Drop by my web offices Weekdays: 12:-12:30 Central time (US)
• Cybalounge and 3DWebWorldz (Orientation room)
• I will be in both places, so you may need to speak to get my attention.
• Web-worlds, 3D virtual worlds running in a browser. Summary
• And we can visit the Writer's Workshop on the Web
• Don't register -- enter as guest.  

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