How to start Your First Blog and make money?

Blogging for beginners. Have fun blogging!

What is the blog?

For me, a blog is an online magazine or a website that deals with a particular subject or professional activity or informational website displaying information.

It is a platform where you can write or share your views on an individual subject.

Why people blog?

The topic here I am writing itself a blog. Now you know what is a blog but now you have to know why do people blog, do people get something by blogging or they do it for fun.

As a truth different people have different interests. Some follow it as a passion, some for fun and most of them blogging for making money. Yes, they make money by blogging.

Most people start a blog to earn money. So you want to earn money by sharing your thought and knowledge then blogging is one of the best platforms for you.

Nowadays lots of people earn thousands of dollars every month through blogging.

Should you start a blog?

As I told that you can earn money from a blog, you might be thinking to start your own blog and earn money. That's great, but if you thinking about eligible to make a blog then there is no such terms or conditions to start a blog.

In short, anyone can make a blog either it is 5th standard boy or girl or 90 years old man or woman. If you are able to write some good articles then you can be the next blogger.

If you have a laptop or a smartphone with an internet connection then you can be blogging from anywhere doesn't matter whether you live in a village or city.

Remember one thing, you can earn money from your blog but it is not that will make you rich in one night. So don't get panic and have patience. You need to give time to create unique and good content to your blog. one day you will get good earning.

If you are beginner, then you can start with blogger.com which is free provided by Google. Keep posting quality content. Once you have numbers of quality content on your blog and have good traffic, then you can apply for online money making programs like Google Adsense. Also, You can go for affiliate marketing later to make more money. Also by postings sponsored a post on your blog, you will be able to make more money.

Blogging for beginners

Blogging is not that difficult, but I can imagine that you would like to know more before you start. So start a blog by following easy steps.

1. Decide and choose your topic about your blog.
2. Choose one right blogging platform.
3. Pick the right domain name.
4. Grab the suitable hosting. 
5. Design your blog website.
6. Post contains, get traffic and start earning.

Decide and choose your topic about your blog

This is the most important thing you should do before starting a blog. Think about the topic which you are going to post on your blog. Find the right niche you are going to work on. It could be a particular topic like lifestyle, food, travel, law, comedy, economics, or any other topic you think people would relate to and love to know more about. More the engagement more would be your chances of growing rapidly.

Choose one right blogging platform.

Choosing where you do want to set up your blog is very important. There are many platforms available for blogging but 3 top must blogging platforms are Google's blogger, Tumblr, Wordpress.

Google's blogger

If you are just a beginner and don't want to invest any money then you can go with blogger. Because the blogger provides all its features for free.

You can start with blogger.com which is free provided by Google. It is provided by Google so your visibility at Google searches will be good.

It has a large community with good quality of themes. It is easy to set-up and you set Adsense and analytics very easily with this.

Tumblr

Tumblr is really simple for people to make a blog and put whatever they want on it.

Nowadays it Became very famous because it gives you social networking in a microblogging environment. its provide you a dashboard, where you can view other Tumblr blogs which you follow.

Themes and other plugins are very basic in Tumblr but it's to the purpose of building a micro-blogging website quickly.

WordPress

WordPress is the most popular blogging platform for nowadays because of a large number of free and paid themes, plugins, and best Content Management System.

You can create a more advanced user-friendly blog by using free WordPress plugins and themes.

WordPress is search engine friendly that ranks your website higher on search result pages of search engine.

If you are ready to invest some money then I recommend you to go with the WordPress blogging platform.

Know more: Eight reasons why you should use WordPress

Pick the right domain name

Pick the right domain name domain is one of the most important things you should consider while making a blog or a website.

Choosing the wrong domain you will lose in the first step of search engine optimization (SEO).

Well if you don't know what is a domain then, the domain is the URL like yourblog.com for my website is digitalideaforum.website.

Its best things to consider while buying domains:

• The domain name should be attractive and creative. 
• Make sure that it fits and relate your blog topic.
• Don't choose any long domain name ( it looks weird ).
• Avoid digits ( URL without numbers looks clean and good ).
• Buy high quality domain like .com, .org, .in, .uk, .us, .jp, .info, .website etc.

Grab the suitable web hosting for your blog.

Hosting is basically the company that puts your website up on the internet so everyone else can see it. Everything will be saved there.

If you are using google's blogger them you don't really need a hosting as blogger provide inbuilt hosting which is way more powerful.

But if you are using a platform like WordPress then it is important to get hosting for your blog. You can choose hosting depends on your requirement.

If you are a beginner then it is better to have a little expensive hosting. You can choose to host from Bluehost as well as from Godaddy. Both hosting companies provide better hosting for a beginner.

Design your blog website.

After Set up with a domain name and web hosting the main part is to choose the theme for your blog. WordPress had tons of free and paid themes but there are numerous themes in blogger.

So you choose any of the themes you like. If you want to add premium theme then purchase a theme from ThemeForest.

Choose Theme wisely because it displays the look and feels of your website or blog. So decide the theme as per your blog topic.

If your blog is on WordPress then use the theme like GeneratePress its one of the fast loading theme.

GeneratePress is fast loading user, friendly, and you can customize easily anything you want. Its provide the best support to the customer.

NOTE: Once you start your blog, make sure you have at least 10–15 posts before applying for Google Adsense program. Also, make sure to have a privacy policy and terms of use published in your blog.

Go to: AdSense Approval with 1st Attempt

Ways to Make Money Blogging

There are lots of ways to make money from a blog. I have listed a few main ways to make money blog for beginners.

• Affiliate Marketing (Promote products and earn commission)
• Display Advertising (CPC ads like Google Adsense and Media.net)
• Direct advertising (Direct sell your ad space on your blog)
• Paid and promotional posts
• Paid Link sharing etc…

In case you have more about Blogging, welcome to share them by Commenting below!