All about Blogging: How to Start & Manage Your Own Successful Blog

All about Blogging: How to Start & Manage Your Own Successful Blog

 

So, what exactly is the point of blogging?
First and foremost, let me inform you that blogging is a profitable business and that blogs are simple to start up and maintain.
Imagine being paid to write about topics that interest you whenever and wherever you choose! 

So, what exactly is the point of blogging?

First and foremost, let me inform you that blogging is a profitable business and that blogs are simple to start up and maintain.

Imagine being paid to write about topics that interest you whenever and wherever you choose!

Because of the freedom involved, you may maintain your blog at your speed, and with Internet cafés readily available all over the world, even your vacation won't interfere with your blogging.

Or should I say: even your blogging will not interfere with your vacation?

Let's look at the blog's profitability in this post and then create our own for free!

Interested?

Continue reading!

First and foremost, you must create a blog.

There are many choices, including hosting a blog on your domain or obtaining a free one.

Let us begin with the free blogs.

You may get one at http://www.blogger.com or the more recent (and better!) http://www.wordpress.com.

WordPress is a powerful and endlessly extensible free blog engine.

Because Google owns a blogger, it will be discovered quicker by Google's radar, and you will be indexed more rapidly.

WordPress.com, on the other hand, is a relatively new choice. Therefore I have no comparison on the speed with which search engines index it.

On the other hand, WordPress is superior in that it has more sophisticated features like Trackbacks and Categories.

You can also better organize your sidebar links (more about this later).

Create a free blog at Blogger or WordPress.

Then, acquaint yourself by posting your first blog post and experimenting with the settings and layouts.

Here are some terms to add to your blogging vocabulary:

Permalink: Permalink is an abbreviation for permanent link, a URL (Uniform Resource Locator) that links to a particular post on your site.

Trackback: When you comment on someone else's blog article, your comment will appear in their "trackback" area.

However, this functionality is not accessible with a Blogger account.

Pinging: Pinging appears to be discussed nearly every time blogging is addressed today.

Pinging is the activity of notifying a specific aggregator whenever your blog is updated so that the aggregator may display the most recent post from your blog on their website.

This is an excellent method to get visitors, and I'll go over it in more detail later.

Content

Next, consider the kind of material that is appropriate for your site to make it lucrative.

You must realize that there is no set scope for your blog, which means you may write about anything that interests you.

Remember that the difference between a lucrative and a non-profitable blog is the manner you write.

Which would you instead read: your university professor's lecture notes or your favorite author's newest novel?

The majority of the time, people choose to read "light" things.

When people visit your site, they are searching for content that they can readily obtain and information that is easily accessible.

So, to attract more visitors and keep your existing readers coming back for more, it's critical to personalize your blog articles.

This may be accomplished by picturing yourself conversing with a close buddy.

A wonderful sense of humor would be an added benefit for your readers, so attempt to include humorous remarks in your articles when appropriate.

Another thing to remember is to avoid addressing your reader as a plural unit.

Don't write as if you're going to give a speech.

Instead, write as though you're discussing with a single person, an equal buddy, since this will allow your reader to connect to you more readily.

Aside from that, it's a great way to create your own identity via your words.

We're inherently inquisitive animals, so your visitors will want to know as much about you as they do about the information you're providing them.

Having a unique personality in your blog will create a world of difference between your gadget blog and all of the other gadget blogs out there.

This is similar to establishing your brand name, where people remember your blog's name when they need information on gadgets, similar to how people think of McDonald's for fast food or Nike for sportswear.

The following time, there will be more on the topic of content

When word spreads about your blogging prowess, people who need to know about blogging will actively seek you out!