How to Make Money From Your Blog

The whole post is a must read. This is just one of Steve Pavlina's points in this post. I have printed out this list of technologies and am working on really learning them at more than the basic (read the FAQs page).

How to Make Money From Your Blog: "Web savvy

What do I mean by web savvy? You don't need to be a programmer, but you need a decent functional understanding of a variety of web technologies. What technologies are "key" will depend on the nature of your blog and your means of monetization. But generally speaking I'd list these elements as significant:

* blog publishing software
* HTML/CSS
* blog comments (and comment spam)
* RSS/syndication
* feed aggregators
* pings
* trackbacks
* full vs. partial feeds
* blog carnivals (for kick-starting your blog%u2019s traffic)
* search engines
* search engine optimization (SEO)
* page rank
* social bookmarking
* tagging
* contextual advertising
* affiliate programs
* traffic statistics
* email

Where am I at with this list of elements? I am obviously using blogger (new) and getting hands on experience with this platform. I will be signing up for a wordpress.com account and getting some hands on with it in the coming week.
Three years ago I was learning and using HTML/CSS to make a web site. Will need to refresh my memory on this and move past where I stalled out before.

Just spent 5 minutes turning on comment moderation and word verification for Mike'sScratchboard. From what I have read this is enough for a small blog but the work load involved with comment moderation of a large circulation blog can be over whelming.

With the rest of the list I am at the I have read the FAQs stage. Got some work to do.