Sponsor: TBA
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