Blog for a Beginner

Blogs are now becoming very popular and common for those who want there articles to be read and commented upon and primarily for those who want an easy way to earn right from the comfort of their home. But, let me make something very clear, if you are among the 2nd group (They who want to earn from a blog) success will not be a piece of cake and will not come over a night.

Having said that I still say it is easy. Working from comfort of home should increase your patience. Patience, research, lots of hard work, a little amount of intelligence and common sense are the basic ingredients for a money making blog. I recommend you to not believe on all those “overnight success stories” spread all over the page which is a result of “online earning” search on any of the search engines. These are only plots to trap you in their deals which initially say “We are 100% free with 100% earning guarantee” but in the end of signing up a deal with them comes a request of so called easy and reasonable payment. I bet that you have been a victim to such sites. Well don’t worry, nothing is lost.

I will share with you in details about blogging and other ways of online earning in my articles. I don’t guarantee you success and neither can any one else in the e-world but i will encourage you to put in hard work and see the results yourself. I will try to keep things as simple for you as I can so that newcomers can also understand and make the most of my articles.

In order to start with a blog you need to keep in mind following steps. By one by one reading following steps and acting upon them you will be soon owning your very own blog and then comes the hard work part that you will have to put in: giving your time to it and keeping it active.

Selecting a topic for your blog
Selecting a blog service provider
Creating a blog
Increasing traffic to your blog
Selecting affiliate program (Part 2)
Keeping your blog active (Part2)

Selecting a topic for your blog is just like selecting a business in which you will earn. This is the very first step towards your success and if taken lightly will surely not let you achieve what you desire. People who are in a hurry to start with a blog don’t think about what topic they are selecting and come to a decision. This way they may select something that they are not very good at and end up calling this program a scam.

As I told you earlier that patience is the basic ingredient for successful earning online. Don’t hurry while choosing a topic. You should always choose a topic which you are good at. We cant expect a farmer to write blogs about rocket science. If you write a blog on a topic which you are good at you will definitely add in it better matter which will subsequently increase your readers and traffic.

Don’t forget to ask your family and friends suggestions about what you are good at,  because I also didn’t know that I am good enough at this topic (earning online) to start a blog on it. Think about what topic most  internet user might search for more information.

Select a Blog Provider Service

Once you are done with selecting a good topic of which you have detailed knowledge and on which you can write a lot of stuff the next step comes in. Now you will have to choose a blog provider and almost all are free of cost. There are a lot of blog service providers available on internet you just have to choose one.

While choosing a blog provider you must keep in mind that you will be using that to create your own blog. If you are a newcomer or even if you are not you will like things to be easy and flexible for you. Thats what you need to keep in mind while selecting a blog service provider. Some providers give their users quite difficult tools to create a blog and they are quite inflexible which results in a bad looking blog which instead of attracting users repels them while some are very easy to use, user friendly and provide their users with very flexible tools to create blogs. Keep in mind that good looks also make your visitors want to come again and tell others about your blog.

The following are the top 3  user friendly services that you can use to create your very own blog:

Blogger.com

Sixapart.com

wordpress.com

Creating a Blog

Once you have selected a blog provider service open its site. You will be asked to sign up in order to create your own blog. After signing up comes the creative part. Don’t forget that your every action is directly responsible to draw traffic to your blog and while I say about creation of blog it is damn serious.

You will find a “create a blog” or a similar link after signing up procedure.Click it and after that select the looks of your blog, colors, fonts, templates, gadgets and other functionality for your blog. While doing so be very simple and think from a visitors mind. Choosing of better colors, templates, fonts and gadgets should be for making the visitor say that your blog is simply beautiful and different from other blogs.

Don’t make your blog look so redundant, complex or superfluous try to keep it simple. When you see a very complex website you tend to find an alternate for that and of course you would not want that to happen to your blog

Increasing Traffic to Your Blog

Creating a blog after filling up long time consuming forms and placing ads after joining an affiliate program is not enough to get you a decent cash while you sit back on your comfortable chair. I told you that you generate a small revenue when a visitor of your site clicks on the ads you placed there. In order to have your site visited you will have to spend sometime each day to direct targeted visitors on your blog.

Q: What is a targeted visitor?
A: All those visitors who visit a site related to the topic they were searching are called targeted visitors.

They who accidentally come across your blog are not targeted visitors and their probability of clicking on any of the ads placed by you is almost zero. But the targeted traffic’s probability of hitting the ads is very high because they were looking for the topic of your blog and the ads placed on your blog are also relevant to the topic.

Here I will tell you a few effective ways of directing traffic to your blog. Going through all the following ways will drastically increase the traffic of your blog.

S.E.O (Search engine optimization)
Joining communities that discuss about blogging
Joining programs that offer traffic to your blog
Telling your own friends, relatives and family about your blog

Continue to Blogging for Beginners – Part 2

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