How To Start Blogging
September 2, 2011 Blog Tips, Blogging Tools, Blogs
A lot of people want to learn how to start blogging, whether it be to earn money online or simply write about their thoughts and experiences. However, first a brief introduction to what a blog actually is. When it comes right down to it, a blog is really just an online journal, a diary of sorts, where you can talk about whatever you want. You could post every day about what you did that day or have a blog just about your hobby or even keep one to talk about your favorite products and hope to make money with affiliate comissions. There are few rules apart from keeping it clean. For that reason they come in all sorts of shapes, sizes and designs, and your blog page is literally yours to anything you want with.
On your blog posts you can have text, videos, pictures and links to other blogs. Much depends on the type of blog you have and who is the provider, but WordPress allows more than Blogger or Blogspot, especially if you have downloaded it to your own website. Having said that, wordpress can be a little harder to learn but it’s in your best interest to try because most of the software and plugins you may want to use only work on wordpress. Many cPanel web hosts offer WordPress facilities.
The first thing you want to think about when starting your blog is what to write about. Many people use keyword research to help them figure out what posts to make. This will help you in two ways, actually. One is that it will give you ideas on what to write about and the other is that by using the right keywords, you know that your blog will be found in the search engines for terms that people are actually searcing for.