How to Start a Blog

How to Start a Blog

Now that we have learnt the basics of affiliate marketing, you are now ready to create your own blog! This will help you to quickly get a ... 22:44

Now that we have learnt the basics of affiliate marketing, you are now ready to create your own blog! This will help you to quickly get a practical feel of the things we are learning in this course.

A blog may help you to promote your profession or business. Or, maybe you could just write about something you love and share it with people. But the main idea is that you will be able to put affiliate links on your blog and earn commissions by selling other people’s products.

This topic will be covered in three parts. The first part will be coming up with an idea; the second will be how to make your blog useful for people; and the third will teach you how to start your blog.

PART 1: Think of a Topic for your Blog

If you are going to start blogging, the first thing to do is to decide what you want to write about. You need to come up with an idea.
The best topic would be something you love; something about which you can talk endlessly and, therefore, put into words. Here are a few recommended ideas to
help you get started-

1. Food & Nutrition
2. Fitness/Weight Loss
3. Body Building
4. Education
5. Skin Care/Cosmetics
6. Babies
7. Technology/Gadgets

If none of these topics help you in deciding a topic, ask yourself -

1. What am I really good in?
2. What really interests me?
3. What is that one topic on which I can easily collect information?

A blog can be about anything. It can also be about your business or profession.

PART 2: How can you make your blog useful to your users?

The key thing to remember is that if your blog is useful to your visitors, you’ll do great in the long run. When people find it useful, the traffic will increase. Some ideas for connecting with people are given below:

1. Teach People Something – Use your expertise in a particular area and share your knowledge with people who would like to know more about it.

1. Provide Information on Latest Trends and News- If you have expertise on a particular topic, then you would keep up with the news and trends related to the topic. The news that you provide should be ‘insider’ news. This will increase the readership of your blog.

1. Making People Laugh – Laughter is undoubtedly the best medicine in today’s world. Just think, how many times you surf the net to read things that can make you laugh! If you can get a person to laugh while reading what you have written, then people will visit your blog. Write things in a creative and funny way so that it tickles their funny bone.

1. Be an Inspiration – Do you have inspiring stories to share? Maybe you have recovered from a serious ailment and have overcome it bravely! Or, maybe you fought for your rights and would like to inspire others to do the same! Whatever your story, whether on the roads, workplace or at home, share it with others and motivate them to overcome their problems.

A piece of advice here! Visit other blogs to see what other bloggers are doing and how they are doing it. Visit a popular blog and try to identify the points that make it different and interesting. Google is your friend for this research.

So, while you are looking for ways to increase the readership of your blog, remember there are a few things that you should not blog about. Do not give out names and write about your workplace, share secrets or information that can cause trouble for other people. If you are writing about your workplace, then you should be aware of what is and what is not permissible.

Note - You will need to avoid copying and pasting from other pages online since that is treated as plagiarism and it would lead to your blog getting rejected by networks. The key is to take inspiration from other pages but innovate it while adding it to your blog.
You can also read through relevant books, magazines or have a discussion with people who would have knowledge on the topic you have chosen.

Now that you have a concept ready, let us get started with blog creation.

PART 3: How to Start your Blog?

You can create a blog on any of the following for free-
1. Blogger.com
2. Wordpress.com
3. Weebly.com
4. Wix.com

Let's go through the steps to create a blog on blogger.com for instant. Google owns a blog creation site, blogger.com, that is easy to use and will get you started in just a few minutes. The benefit of using Blogger.com is that you get the additional benefit of being able to use Google’s blog management tools.

You can create a free blog here!

So, let’s get started with the lesson on how to start your blog on Blogger.com.

Step 1 – Do you have a Google account? If not, the first step is to sign up for an account. Register for a Google account by clicking on the ‘Sign Up’ button that is located at the top corner on the right side.

Step ‘2’ – Click on ‘New Blog’.

Step 3 – Choose a blog name and your blog address. For this, you can select a template from the options given or see more options and change it later.
After choosing the template, select ‘Create Blog’.

Step 4 – Click on ‘Start Blogging’.

Step 5 – Enter the title and text and finally click on ‘Publish’.

With these steps, your blog will be ready. There are, however, a few things that you should remember.

The first of these is that your blog should always be active. This means that you should be consistent with maintaining your blog and make regular posts. Instead of trying to achieve perfection, make your blog live. Trying to achieve perfection will only delay things. You can make postings and then modify them later if required.

Here are a few blogs which you can view to understand how they look-
1. http://www.vegrecipesofindia.com/*
2. http://www.indiatravelblog.net/*

The above blogs have been sourced from www.topindianblogs.com* where you can go through more blogs for inspiration. They are considered as some of the best bloggers in India.
(* the owners of mentioned blogs and www.topindianblogs.com are not related to our course in any way).

You may create more blogs after your first one using your same account, but keep this one active and work to make it successful. Remember, that the key to successful blogging is interaction and consistency.

Consider this first blog as your practice blog. Get your blog going with a few initial posts. You will get better after a while. Feel free to play around, experiment and learn. You can similarly create more than one blog if you want on different topics.

If you are able to create a good blog then you don't need a website. There are millions of people who own a blog, have ads on their blogs and earn a lot of money through their blogs. Your blog will become popular if you are able to write original content on your blog and post articles where you are giving useful information to users. For all our members we will cover website creation also, as that is also very important.

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