This week’s shopping bonanza will focus on blogging and resources for eager minds who want to delve deep into the minds of bloggers. After using both Blogger and WordPress to power my blogs, I firmly believe in WordPress, which is why I’ve included the WordPress instructional books and not the Blogger books. Most professionals will advise that any serious blogger get started right away with a self-hosted platform – it might be a bit outside your range at first, but these books outline a lot of the super technical stuff really well. Beyond that, it will save you the hassle later of having to move everything over to another platform when you’re ready to make the jump (trust me, losing readers and traffic by switching URLs and losing some posts in import isn’t a walk in the park.

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Let the games begin! The BlogOnExpo started today, with PsPrint as an exhibitor. There are some great sessions available online FOR FREE! This is the first free online bloggers expo of its kind. Setting precidents is important people! The organizer has done a bang up job of getting some pretty knowledgable people interviewed and contributing to the online sessions. Today’s contributions are:

Sessions

• Social Media – Neil Patel from ACS SEO
• Logo Design Trends
• What to Do When you lose your Biggest Traffic Source – John Chow
• SEOmoz Guides – Rand Fishkin from SEOMoz

Interviews

• Matt Mullenweg
• Guy Kawasaki
• John Chow
• Darren Rowse
• Ryan Block

Having personally attended sessions with Neil Patel and Rand Fishkin on the panels, I can say that those will be great quality and I’m looking forward to checking them out. Darren Rowse is also a great guy (man behind ProBlogger.net) whom I enjoy following on Twitter, so that should be a good interview as well.

The expo will run for a few days, so mosey over and check it out.

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