Important tips to know before starting a blog from the scratch

Blogging is no more a hobby for people as it was in early days , but people started choosing blogging as a career , some people do it for part time and some do it as their full time profession. Now majority of people create blog from scratch with an intention to make money . Daily several people are quitting their job to become a full time blogger , because blogging is  giving him much more money than their full time job . This also the fact that by blogging several peoples are earning more money than an industrialist .So here I am going to let you know the step by step process to start a blog , it does not require to be a programmer or computer expert  . it is very easy and any one who can operate computer can create its own professional looking blog  within few minutes.  But before let me tell you some important things about blogging which may be in your mind.

Benefits of Starting a blog . Why people are choosing blogging as their full time career?

1 – Blogging is a tree which gives you fruit for life time  just you need to plant your tree – Blogging is such a profession in which a blogger earns money for life time from his blog and post which he write one time . while in other job you only get paid for the month in which you worked. If you go for long holiday no company is going to pay you for your leave. But blogging is such a source of passive income in which you are earning even when you are in deep sleep at night .

2 –Freedom of time for your friend & family –  If you are doing it for full time , you are your own boss , you can spend more and more time with your friend and family , even when you are busy with some other work for few days or months your blog is still earning your monthly income.

3 – Percentage of people searching for information on internet is increasing  day by day – Since now with the advancement and ease of accessing internet on  computer  & mobile devices people prefer to search for any kind of information on internet , no one is going to look in encyclopedia or book or dictionary . And this trend will defiantly grow much more in upcoming years. Hence there is a huge chances of growth in blogging as their career . I will say that in whatever topic  you have good knowledge , just post it on your blog , people are information hungry and you have a chance to make money from your knowledge.

Do every blogger make money from his blog ? how much a blogger can earn ?

Yes , every blogger make money from his blog  less or more , it depends upon the depth of knowledge about his blog topic , how much quality post he can write on his blog  , His Search engine optimization knowledge . every thing depends upon how much visitors are coming to your blog . Straight forward I will tell you how much time you will invest on your blog daily , you will earn that much more money , if you spend daily one hour on your blog and if you write 1 post in 3 days even you can make money , But  if you do it for full time  you can earn too much money . several blogs like –  tech crunch makes more money even than a big company . and several blogger who do it for part time can only able to pay their utility bills only .

How long does it take to start making money from a new blog ?

To be very frank , from a new blog you will not be able to earn any money up to 6 months ,even you regularly post article on your blog  , because it takes some time to get the trust of search engines like google , bing , yahoo & msn etc . once your blog gets 6 month older & if your blog have at least 30 quality and unique post then you will start getting visitors on your blog by organic search of google  and others.

How many blog post & daily visitor should have on my blog to make decent money from blog ?

In order to earn good money i.e ( $1000 USD) per month , you should have at least 100 unique & quality post on your blog . and your blog should have daily traffic / visitors  or page view of – 10,000 .

If you have sufficient post do basic  search engine optimization , on page and off page optimization , create few quality back links , and you will be able to earn very good amount of money from your blog.

How to increase visitors or organic search traffic  on my blog ?

There are several factors which are responsible in getting good number of visitors or organic search traffic on a blog  wich are following –

a – Create quality  back links  –  Back links are nothing but just your blog/website name mentioned on other websites or blog . this is very important to get higher results in search engine rankings , because  google and bing giver highest priority to back links in their search result listings. For example you want to hire a web designer for any project , you will defiantly refer to people in the same field that who is best web developer in this area , suppose if their are 5 web developer in your are , then you will love to hire that web designer to whom more people will refer , similarly google does in website ranking & organic  search listing.

b – Create longer , unique and engaging posts –  google is always looking of new information , if your information is unique and nowhere on the web  it will be accepted by google , google loves text rather than images , photos and videos , so try to keep your website full of text with less images , Don’t use image from google image , capture your own photo which you use on your website. Create visitor engaging post , so that the new visitor should come again and again back to you website and he refers other friends aswell.

c – Do on page and off page search engine optimization for your blog –  SEO is very important for a blog if you have not done seo for your website , you wont get the proper result of your hard work . so do some basic SEO for your blog , it consist of On page optimization and off page optimization .

ON Page optimization – Means you have to use those words or sentences in the title of your post and blog  which has more demand . you can find those key words from – google keyword planner tool . use internal linking your posts , use those key words in the body of post as well  , always write seo friendly meta description and meta tags.

Off Page Optimization – Get some quality backlinks from those websites who are popular in  your niche ,  Create social media pages and try to get good free traffic from facebook , google + , pintrest , youtube , twitter  etc. now a day if you have good number of followers and fans on social pages it also reflects a positive symbol towards your blog in the algorithm of search engins.

What are the various ways to make money from blog  ?

Yes , offcourse after a very hard work every one needs some money to meet out his financial demands , so there are various ways to monetize your blog , some of the most famous are following –

a – Google Adsense – This is one of the most famous & trusted  source for a blogger to make money from their website . about 80% of blog make money by google adsense. Because it pay high revenue and always on time , since it is owned by google . in this program when some one click on ads shown your website you will earn money on each click.

b- Affiliate marketing – By promoting other companies products and services on your blog , when any sale is made from your affiliate link you will get a commission . The most famous affiliate marketing companies are – amazon , click bank , commission junction , shareasale etc.

c- Direct Banner Advertisement –  if your blog becomes very famous , then you can sell your blog space to several companies directly , with your own fixed rate . you can find those advertisers on – buy sell ads . com

d- Sponsored post / Paid review  , chitka , infolinks etc are other source of earning from blog .

Lets Get Started now –

Step 1 – Choose a topic for your blog –  Guys the very first thing is choosing an appropriate topic for your blog , don’t try to write on several topic on same blog because it will be useless , you will not be able to get good traffic from search engines if you do so . so always write post on a single topic in which you have lot of knowledge , then only you will be able to make money within few months.

Step 2 – Choose a Blogging Platform , Free or paid – Guys this is very important to know what are the advantages and disadvantages of using free and paid blogging platform , Blogger/ blogspot is a free platform by google itself , where you need not to buy either domain or hosting , every thing is free on bloggger . and wordpress is the best blogging platform which is also free but you need to purchase a domain name and hosting space and a theme if you wish. But both has its own positive and negative points which I am mentioned here .

Blogger vs wordpress advantages and disadvantages

Blogger Advantages  – it is completely free , no need to buy domain & hosting , no need to concern about safety , very easy to operate .

Blogger Disadvantages –  Search engine don’t take it seriously , because there is very limited options in blogger to optimize the blog , As of now all most 95% of successful bloggers are using wordpress . You can not install additional advertisement plugins or adons in blogger which are required by various advertisement companies. Look of blog is dull  don’t look professional.

WordPress Advantages –  Search engine optimization is superb , Great professional look , much more options and tools than bolgger , More customization options , etc

WordPress Disadvantages – You need to pay for Domain name and hosting space , It takes some time to understand how to work on wordpress , Take care of your risk own for your blog.

Step 3 – If you choose blogspot then click here to know how to use blogger & if you wish to create blog by wordpress click here for word press tutorials.

Step 4 – Now start posting you articles , when you post at least 30 article , apply for monetization.