The title actually should be “The Shit No One Tells You About Before You Start Your Blog”
1. Self Hosting - If you plan on hosting your blog you better be familiar with servers. All your admin and maintenance work will done from your server. Screw up there, and you screw your blog.
2. Learn Some HTML/PHP - Because no theme you try will ever be exactly what you want. You want to tweak the them you have to tweak the code. It doesn’t take long to learn.
3. Learn To Be Like Totally Sociable -From Stumble Upon, to Blog Log to Blog Catalog you need to join social networks and promote, promote, promote you blog. If it makes you feel better I’m ranked number 5.7 millionth most popular website according to Alexa.
4. There Is More Than Adsense -Google doesn’t control everything…yet. Take a look around and find the right choice. The are numerous advertising sites for your blog out there.
5 - You WILL Spend At least 12 Hours Out Of Your Day Doing Something Blogish - Its inevitable.
