Blogging is a great way of earning money online. Many people want to start their own blog but very few of them can be succeeded.
In this article I will show you step by step guideline to start your own blog.
If you have any special knowledge on any subject, you can start your own blog.
Let’s see the steps you should follow to start your own blog:
- Find out what special skill or knowledge you have that you want to share with others
- Start writing to others’ blog or website
- Start writing on free blogging networks
- Buy your own domain and hosting
- Develop your own blog
- Start writing to your own blog
- Make your website search engine optimize
- Monetize your blog
Find What Special Skill or Knowledge You Have
On this planet everyone have some special skills or knowledge. You should share your knowledge or skills with others. Many of us don’t know what special knowledge or skill we have. So it is very important to find out the skills we have inside our mind.
May be you have a skill that can help to many people but you are not enough conscious about that skill.
So, find out what specialty you have.
You can share your knowledge in many ways and blogging is one of them.
Start Writing to Others Blog
As you are very new in blogging, you should not start writing on your own blog. You should start writing on others’ blog as a guest writer. When you get enough experience on blogging then you can start your own blog.
Start writing on others’ blog is not very difficult if you have a good writing skill and good knowledge on that you are writing about.
But if you don’t have enough skill on writing, then you should start writing on social platforms like reddit, weheartit, facebook, etc. It will help you to grow your writing skill.
Start Writing on Free Blogging Networks
As you have already writing on social platforms and others’ blogs, now you have got some experience about start your own blog.
It will be wise decision if you start your 1st blog on a free blogging network. There are many free blogging networks on the internet. Blogspot, Medium, Minds, WordPress, etc are very famous and very high authority blogging networks.
If you start blogging on these blogging networks, you will get some traffic at the initial stage, which is not possible if you build your own website for blogging.
Buy Domain and Hosting
As you are now writing on a free blogging network and you have some regular followers, now you can invest some money to buy a unique domain and hosting for developing your own blog website. Try to buy old domain. It will be helpful for you.
Develop Your Own Blog Website
You have already bought your domain and hosting. Now time to develop your blog website. The most easy and best way to develop your own blog through WordPress. On this planet 36% website developed on WordPress.
If you develop your website on WordPress, then you don’t need to hire any developer. Just watch a video on YouTube about WordPress website develop and follow that.
If you want to develop your blog website other than WordPress, then you may need to hire a web developer.
Start Writing on Your Own Blog
Now you have your own website. You have also got some experience on blogging. So this is the right time to start writing articles for your blog.
Write unique and informative articles for your blog so that traffic can enjoy your blog.
Continue posting articles to your website. It will increase your website value.
Do SEO for Your Website
You have published some articles to your website. Now you need traffic to your website. For getting traffic you have to do SEO, digital marketing, social media marketing, etc.
If you want to get fast result about getting traffic, you can hire an SEO expert or digital marketing expert.
An SEO expert can make your website more valuable, trustworthy. You can get more traffic if you hire an SEO expert for your website.
Monetize Your Website
You have enough traffic to your website. Now time to make it monetize. Easy and the best monetization technique is getting Google AdSense.
Apply for Google AdSense. If they find everything ok, they will approve your website for AdSense.
You can also monetize your website through affiliate marketing. You can sell Amazon, eBay, ShareASale etc. affiliate products or services and get paid through your website.
End Words
Blogging is a very good profession. Many people earn 4 to 5 digit in a month from blogging. You can also start blogging by following the above steps. If can be an alternative career for you.