I’ve recently had a number of clients asking about adding a blog to their site. They have so many questions, many of the same that I’ve had over the past year and a half. So I decided to compile a list of all the resources that I have found immensely helpful…at least those that I can remember and/or have bookmarked with one bookmarking tool or another!

I’m sure I won’t get them all on here…so no offense to anyone. And I will be updating this post with whatever new, awesome things I find as time goes by…feel free to add your sites or things you’ve found helpful in comments

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• Blogging Basics 101- “where there are no stupid questions” a very newbie friendly blog with great tips and information.
• Blogging Help- nother great place to get easy for everyone to understand blogging tips and also a very non-intimidating place to spend some time!
• Blogging Tips- again a wonderful resource for information about all things blogging without a lot of mumbo jumbo that you have to be at least an intermediate blogger to understand!
• Blogging 101- an intro to reading and writing a blog
• About Web Logs- I’m always a sucker for about.com for pretty much everything…their blogging section can be pretty helpful.
• Wordpress Codex Intro to Blogging
• Blogger Forum- helpful community for all blogger levels!
• Performancing- this one could really go in almost all of the categories of my list here…plus, it’s the home of several of my favorite free wordpress themes.
• Daily Blog Tips- exactly what it says with great stuff for new and seasoned bloggers.

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As a fairly new blogger, I had been warned by many of the comment spammers. After the first two weeks of blogging, I got my first spam comments and started to check out the options available to cut down on those pesky commenters.

Shortly thereafter, I was made aware of the Akismet plug-in which comes standard in Wordpress. I immediately activated it on all of my blogs. Now, I’ve read a lot of reviews of Akismet. Some say it’s great, many say it’s not exactly complete protection.

As I said, I was only a few weeks into blogging when I activated Akismet, but up to that point I literally had 2 spam comments. As soon as I got the plug-in working for me, I noticed that I was getting at least 5 spam comments per day in my Akismet spam tab.

Here’s my question: Does Akismet really block spam or is it attracting some spam?

I don’t know if there’s any correlation there or not. Perhaps, I would have naturally received this sudden influx of spammy comments within a few weeks anyway. Have you experienced anything similar?

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