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Blogging has become quite a popular activity for millions of people around the world and also one of the most famous platforms for people to visit online. Today, people want to start blogs not only because they want to share some useful information but also because it gives them a great chance to make huge income. To make great income, share awesome information and have followers with a blog, you need to go through the process of creating a successful blog.
Here are some things that you must consider in order to start a blog successfully.
1. Get Serious
The first thing that you need to do in order to start a blog is to get serious with this job. If you are not serious and just want to start a blog half-heartedly, you can go with a free blog service. However, if you really want to start a professional blog with followers and an opportunity to make money, you want to go for a paid blog. Every blogging service has free and paid options. You can enjoy a lot of options with the free version but the most important ones are locked and you have to pay for them.
2. The Blogging Service
You can try almost any online service for blogging for free. This gives you an idea of the experience of creating a blog with that platform. There are many to choose from but WordPress tops them all. However, you can always consider other options too. Choose the blogging service based on its users and reviews. Furthermore, make sure your blogging platform offers you great integration with different hosts and unlimited number plugins and themes etc. In most cases, you are not able to access the professional themes on these platforms if you are a free user.
3. The Hosting Service
You also have to look for the right hosting service for your blog. You can let the blog be hosted on the platform that you have chosen for blogging. You could also look for third parties for hosting your blog. With third parties you will have many options to choose from and you are definitely going to find one with more affordable packages. Some hosts will even throw in your personal domain in the package for free. Your hosting service, however, must allow you to install your blogging platform on your CMS with just one click of a button.
4. Write What You Are Passionate About
It’s important that you choose a topic for your blog that you are passionate about. You don’t just want to go through the most popular topics on the most famous blogs just to be on the safe side. The problem is that those topics might be pretty popular but you might not be that good about them. It is best that you choose a topic and subject that you have great knowledge of. Blogging is all about writing interesting material frequently. You can only do that when you are writing about your favorite subject.
5. Use Social Media
Of course, social media is your best place to share about your blog. Share across all your social networking profiles the link of your posts. This will drive traffic on your website and it will be free traffic with free marketing. Make sure you use different social networking platforms differently and based on the nature of the majority of populations on those networks. The best way to do it is to use a software tool that helps you disseminate your blog posts across various social networking platforms at the same time and provide you with great analytics too.
6. Create A Network
You have to create a network of professionals who share the same passion as yours i.e. blogging. Visit their blogs and interact with them in the most professional way possible. According to an expert from TheBloggingBuddha, guest blogging is a great way to make a network of bloggers. In guest blogging, you write a post and ask the owner of another blog to host your post. From that post a link is directed to your own blog. The other owner will host your post for its originality, readability and quality. You can also let other bloggers write guest posts on your blog.
7. Do Reviews
Doing reviews of famous companies and their products has become the biggest means of making money for bloggers around the world. First, you want to make sure that the products you choose for reviewing are somewhat related to the subject and nature of your blog. Secondly, be sure to review as fairly as possible. Run giveaway campaigns to get more traffic on the blog. Of course, you are going to charge the company for this service or choose from many other methods to get paid for this service. You could literally make millions of dollars through reviewing on your blog.