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1. Choose your topic.
Before you start you will need to think about your blog’s topic. Remember if you pick a good topic people will be coming back to your blog. The more people you have, the more money you can make. Before blogging you need to brainstorm. Take a week and write your ideas in a notebook. When thinking about a topic you will need to consider these things:
- Things that you are interested in.
- Thing that you have a lot to say about.
- Thing that other people might be interested in.
2. Choose and describe your audience.
After you know what you are writing about you will need to describe your audience. This will help you to tailor your content to them. After all they are the once that will be making you money. These are the people we are tailoring our blog to:
- People looking for advice in blogging, finance and consumer rights.
- People who know what they want to do, but are not sure how to start (or do it)
3. Find similar blogs.
Look for blogs that are covering the same topic. That way you can get a feel of what people are interested in.
4. Choose your platform.
You have a lot of choices. You will need to decide for yourself what you want. We prefer to host our own Wordpress installation because it gives us a lot of flexibility. However you might want to consider these
choices if you don’t know that much about web development:
5. Install your blogging software or register your blog.
6. Get a domain name.
If you think that your blog will becomes popular you would want to have your own domain name. It will give you flexibility to move from one blog hosting provider to the other without major problems.
7. Install or enable spam prevention.
There are many spammers that are visiting blogs and spamming comments. You will need to install spam prevention for your blog or enable spam filtering if you are using blogger. Sites that have blog spams usually look unprofessional.
8. Comment on other people’s blogs.
If you don’t know how to start you can start by visiting other blogs and comment about there content. You can later ping them or leave a constructive comment in there blog with a link to yours. BUT DON’T SPAM OTHER BLOGS. MAKE SURE THAT YOUR BLOG HAS GOOD INFORMATION.
9. Update Often
If you want people coming back to your site update your blog often. If you don’t people will forget about it.
Resources:
Books on this subject:
Blogging For Dummies (For Dummies (Computer/Tech)): Susannah Gardner, Shane Birley: Books
The Rational Guide to Google Blogger (Rational Guides): Wei-Meng Lee: Books
WordPress For Dummies (For Dummies (Computer/Tech)): Lisa Sabin-Wilson: Books|
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ProBlogger: Secrets for Blogging Your Way to a Six-Figure Income: Darren Rowse, Chris Garrett: Books
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