This post, Free Blogging Checklist to maintain your blog is a checklist that you can use for developing and maintaining a blog.  There are many factors associated with designing your blog and publishing it on the Internet.  This checklist developed by PinArtwork will help you in that endeavor.  It’s not intended to cover every aspect of blogging, but it encompasses a majority of the items that you will need to research. 

“A blog (a truncation of “weblog”) is a discussion or informational website published on the World Wide Web consisting of discrete, often informal diary-style text entries (posts). Posts are typically displayed in reverse chronological order, so that the most recent post appears first, at the top of the web page. 
                                                        From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


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Blogging overview:

“The emergence and growth of blogs in the late 1990s coincided with the advent of web publishing tools that facilitated the posting of content by non-technical users who did not have much experience with HTML or computer programming. Previously, a knowledge of such technologies as HTML and File Transfer Protocol had been required to publish content on the Web, and early Web users therefore tended to be hackers and computer enthusiasts …

Bloggers not only produce content to post on their blogs but also often
build social relations with their readers and other bloggers …   

Many blogs provide commentary on a particular
subject or topic, ranging from politics to sports.

Others function as more personal online diaries, and others function more as online brand advertising of a particular individual or company. A typical blog combines text, digital images, and links to other blogs, web pages, and other media related to its topic. The ability of readers to leave publicly viewable comments, and interact with other commenters, is an important contribution to the popularity of many blogs. However, blog owners or authors often moderate and filter online comments to remove hate speech or other offensive content. Most blogs are primarily textual, although some focus on art (art blogs), photographs (photo blogs), videos (video blogs or “vlogs”), music (MP3 blogs), and audio (podcasts).”

                                                                 From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Free Blogging Checklist to maintain your Blog

1. ☐   Setting up your blogging platform ( a domain)
           ☐   Bluehost      ☐   Blogging Courses – 30 Day Blog
   Challenge *
            Bluehost has free domain name for 1^st year and 1-click Word
   Press installed
   
        * 30 Day Blog Challenge – one of many blogging courses
   highly recommended
2. ☐   Plug-ins
           ☐   All in One SEO *      ☐   Yoast Plug-in  (pick one of these
   two SEO Programs)
           ☐   Akismet Anti-Spam  *   ☐   Constant Contact  * 
   ☐   Google Analytics *    ☐   Milo-Tree Pop-up  *  
      ☐   PI Button *
                                         * Suggested plug-ins
   
   ☐   Widgets – Optin Monster  (See Lead Magnet)
   ☐   Testimonial Rotator
   
   ☐   Commercial e-mail messaging program
       Constant Contact – Please tell them I (Scott Charleboix)
   referred you to save both of us $30

• ☐   Themes – Find the perfect theme for your WordPress website.
          Choose from thousands of stunning designs with a wide
  variety of features and customization options
         
• ☐   Terms to know for WordPress
         ☐   Header         ☐   Publish and Update
         ☐   Footer          ☐   Categories
  
  ☐   Knowing the difference between a post (blogs) and a page (constant)
  
• ☐   Design a logo and pins (for Pinterest)
         ☐   Canva
  
  ☐   Purpose of your blog
          ☐   Utilize your experience, knowledge, and skills
  
• ☐   Suggested pages on your blog to setup
         ☐   Home    ☐   Disclaimer   ☐   Privacy    ☐   About Me
         ☐   Blogs (especially for static websites) 
    ☐   Terms and Conditions     
  
• ☐   Editing Comments
  
• ☐   Branding your blog and your pins (for Pinterest)
         ☐   Importance of using Pinterest
  
  
• ☐   Social Media
          ☐   Facebook    ☐   Facebook Business page 
     ☐   Facebook Groups
          ☐   Twitter        ☐   Instagram          
                   
• ☐   Tailwind (for Pinterest users)
  
• ☐   Pinterest Personal account     ☐   Pinterest Business account
                                                            Claim your website (instructions)
  
• ☐   Search the Internet for Blogging Plans  
         ☐   How to Create a Bangin’ Blog Business workbook
         ☐   Blogging Course Workbook – Allison Lindstrom
         ☐   Ultimate Pinterest Planning Calendar – Simple Pin Media
  
• ☐   Lead Magnet
         ☐   63 Point Checklist for Optin form
                ☐   Optin Monster  and   ☐   Constant Contact  
  
• ☐   Setting up a Domain E-mail
  
• ☐   Forwarding E-mails