{"id":32030,"date":"2017-11-13T05:25:06","date_gmt":"2017-11-13T13:25:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/macallan-internal.ningops.com\/blog\/?p=32030"},"modified":"2017-11-29T00:21:42","modified_gmt":"2017-11-29T08:21:42","slug":"blogging-beginners-guide-to-starting-a-blog-with-ning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ning.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/blogging-beginners-guide-to-starting-a-blog-with-ning.html","title":{"rendered":"Blogging: A Beginner\u2019s Guide to Starting a Blog with Ning"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>Do you need to promote your brand? Does something inspire you? Starting a blog can propel both you and your brand to new levels. Blogging is an effective and inexpensive tool to share your news and thoughts with other people. It can become a&nbsp;cornerstone of your marketing strategy, bringing you a steady income.<\/p>\n<p>A promotion concept is the basis for a successful blog launch. So here are the key components you need to start your blog from scratch.<\/p><\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you need to promote your brand? Does something inspire you? Starting a blog can propel both you and your brand to new levels. Blogging is an effective and inexpensive tool to share your news and thoughts with other people. It can become a&nbsp;cornerstone of your marketing strategy, bringing you a steady income. A promotion [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":32031,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[94,88],"tags":[13,113,12,28],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v16.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Blogging: A Beginner\u2019s Guide to Starting a Blog with Ning &#8902; Ning Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"What can be a better way to express yourself than starting a blog? Read this Ning step-by-step guide to know how to create a blog that rocks.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ning.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/blogging-beginners-guide-to-starting-a-blog-with-ning.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Blogging: A Beginner\u2019s Guide to Starting a Blog with Ning &#8902; Ning Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"What can be a better way to express yourself than starting a blog? Read this Ning step-by-step guide to know how to create a blog that rocks.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.ning.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/blogging-beginners-guide-to-starting-a-blog-with-ning.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Ning Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2017-11-13T13:25:06+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2017-11-29T08:21:42+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.ning.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/blogging-with-ning.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"800\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"465\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"6 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ning.com\/blog\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.ning.com\/blog\/\",\"name\":\"Ning Blog\",\"description\":\"Ning lets you create your own social network for just about anything\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.ning.com\/blog\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ning.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/blogging-beginners-guide-to-starting-a-blog-with-ning.html#primaryimage\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.ning.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/blogging-with-ning.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.ning.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/blogging-with-ning.jpg\",\"width\":800,\"height\":465,\"caption\":\"how to start a blog\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ning.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/blogging-beginners-guide-to-starting-a-blog-with-ning.html#webpage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.ning.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/blogging-beginners-guide-to-starting-a-blog-with-ning.html\",\"name\":\"Blogging: A Beginner\\u2019s Guide to Starting a Blog with Ning &#8902; Ning Blog\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ning.com\/blog\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ning.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/blogging-beginners-guide-to-starting-a-blog-with-ning.html#primaryimage\"},\"datePublished\":\"2017-11-13T13:25:06+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2017-11-29T08:21:42+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ning.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/b52a3f0ae30bea6fc008e0bfebd1eeca\"},\"description\":\"What can be a better way to express yourself than starting a blog? Read this Ning step-by-step guide to know how to create a blog that rocks.\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ning.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/blogging-beginners-guide-to-starting-a-blog-with-ning.html#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.ning.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/blogging-beginners-guide-to-starting-a-blog-with-ning.html\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ning.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/blogging-beginners-guide-to-starting-a-blog-with-ning.html#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.ning.com\/blog\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Blogging: A Beginner\\u2019s Guide to Starting a Blog with Ning\"}]},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ning.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/b52a3f0ae30bea6fc008e0bfebd1eeca\",\"name\":\"Ally Windsea\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ning.com\/blog\/#personlogo\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/580849f6eab20d7d88ebfa29b19f2d23?s=96&d=mm&r=pg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/580849f6eab20d7d88ebfa29b19f2d23?s=96&d=mm&r=pg\",\"caption\":\"Ally Windsea\"},\"description\":\"Ally is a Content Manager in Ning.\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.ning.com\/blog\/author\/ally\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32030"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/99"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32030"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.ning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32030\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35361,"href":"https:\/\/www.ning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32030\/revisions\/35361"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}