A puzzling question that often makes you curious to know “How to Start a Blog” and promote yourself as a brand.

Don’t worry… Your Blogging Guide with complete analytics is here.

Blogging Guide-How to Start a Blog

I know you are serious about it…

Let’s begin reading this guide and kick-start your booming blogging career.

This blogging guide-how to start a blog covers all the major areas of blogging along with issues.

As an aspirant, you are looking to start a new blog and you are good at writing but not able to use your skills.

You will learn in this guide how to make money and brand yourself as a blogger. This blogging guide-How to Start a Blog is a step by step guide to starting your blogging career.

Before reading the blogging guide, you should know WHY YOU SHOULD START A BLOG. Then, we have enough reasons to learn HOW TO START A BLOG.

Here we go…..

Analytical Records-About Blogging

Going through the past 3 years’ record, I have collected enough reasons to start blogging as a career to earn money.

• Google algorithm updates 2018 concentrate more on content, blog, vlog, and podcast. (Record, 2018)
• 53% of marketers say blog content creation is their top inbound marketing priority. (HubSpot, 2017)
• In 2017, 66% of marketers reported using blogs in their social media content. (Social Media Examiner)
• 65% of marketers planned to increase their use of blogging in 2017. (Social Media Examiner)
• 1 in 10 blog posts is compounding, meaning organic search increases their traffic over time. (HubSpot, 2016)
• Compounding blog posts make-up 10% of all blog posts and generate 38% of overall traffic. (HubSpot, 2016)
• Companies that published 16+ blog posts per month got almost 3.5X more traffic than companies that published 0-4 monthly posts. (HubSpot, 2015)
• The Number of Bloggers is expected to reach 31.7 million in 2020. (Statista)
• Blog articles with images get 94% more views. (source) 
• Blogs have been rated as the 5th most trusted source for accurate online information. (source)

Now it gives a clear idea of a blog’s worth. Your concern is quite obvious that how to start a blog.  Now we are proceeding towards “HOW” we can start blogging as a career. It can be part-time or full time.

You can channelize revenue from blog and vlog and help other companies to place their display ads. It could be AdSense, Affiliate, and so on.

Blogging Guide: Tips and Tricks

PICK THE BEST BLOG CATEGORY

Decide the blog category which suits your knowledge and passion. Delivery of best content is of high importance.

CHOOSE A GOOD DOMAIN NAME

You need to choose a domain name that is suitable for your blog. You can check on Go Daddy and as per requirement, choose .com, .in, and so on.

CHOOSE A HOSTING ACCOUNT

Hosting account is a very important factor so choose wisely.  You can opt for shared hosting in the beginning. Go Daddy, Site Ground, and Blue Host are the few options.

WORDPRESS THEME

There are many free and paid WordPress Themes but prefer to choose a paid theme that is pocket-friendly. Sometimes there are many plugin issues with a free theme, so one-time theme selection is a better option. Look for theme options on websites like ThemeForest, Colorlib, etc.

Now we are going to read how you can write a nice blog post…

How to Write a New Blog Post

Now once you have hosted the WordPress and installed all necessary plugins like All in one SEO, SEO YOAST, GOOGLE ADSENSE, EMAIL MARKETING PLUGIN, TOTAL CACHE, AND SO ON.

Go to your dashboard, click to posts then click on new post option.

Congrats! Start writing your very first blog post…. 

High-quality content with proper keywords will enhance the google ranking. You have to look into the following parameters

Title – Prefer a good title with one focused keyword to write a neat blog post

Meta Description – Nicely crafted meta description helps search engines to rank your blog post higher.

Start and End – Starting of your post should be in relevant context with the correct use of keywords and end the post with a conclusion to make it complete post

Tags – Take care of H1, H2, H3 tags throughout the blog post

Keywords – Use proper keywords throughout the post without stuffing

Featured Image – Use a nice featured image for your post. Get free images from Canva, Pixabay, etc.

Plugins – Few plugins are very much essential for your WordPress website like All in one SEO, SEO YOAST, GOOGLE ADSENSE, EMAIL MARKETING PLUGIN, TOTAL CACHE AND SO ON.

Now you should know how to drive traffic……

Driving Website Traffic

Driving traffic is not an easy job. You need to be more focused to drive traffic via email marketing, search engine optimization, social media marketing, submissions, and so on. Submissions include a list of work like link submissions, blog submissions, etc.

Email Marketing

Start your email marketing campaign and grab the attention of your visitors. Few examples of them are MailChimp, ConvertKit, Constant Contact and GetResponse.

Social Media Marketing

Social media marketing creates a huge audience base, generates leads and converts into sales.

For Social Media Marketing, read the SOCIAL MEDIA MARKETING GUIDE and step by step improve your social media presence. Each social media platforms can direct traffic to your website and make your blogging site-a huge success.

Search Engine Optimization

It will surely help you in long run. On-page optimization and off-page optimization techniques can bring your website to Rank 1 in google search results. 

For SEO, Read SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION GUIDE and reach your ultimate goal. This is not a one day work but slowly and steadily, you can make it happen.

HOW TO MAKE MONEY FROM BLOGGING

Once your website is ready and has 10-15 good quality blog posts, you can opt for Google AdSense. With the growth of your website visitors and credibility, you can start Affiliate Marketing which generates huge revenue.

Visit your niche sellers and most of them are nowadays open to affiliate marketers. Why your niche or related sellers? If you want to start affiliate marketing and you write blogs for a certain niche, then the chances of conversion are more with the same niche within a short span of time. This will enhance your experience.

After a certain stage, bloggers start selling their own products and services so those options are also open for you. Your experience will count. Start your career with blogging and grab the opportunities around you.

Congrats! You have done it. Now start writing for your own blog.

Inference

I am writing with my own experience. Have a précised strategy and step by step go-ahead to become a distinguished and reliable blogger. Your credibility will count once you stand out from the crowd. You can earn more than your own expectation.

BLOGGING GUIDE-HOW TO START A BLOG IS COMPLETE NOW, start your own journey. Write to Tarannum Khan at digitaltarannum@gmail.com

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Tarannum Khan is a passionate and proactive Marketer, Blogger, Author, Educationist, and Speaker who has more than 6 years of experience in the field of digital marketing. She derives simple solutions for complex goals. She has Proficiency in SEO, Designing & Animation software for promotional campaigns and has Edge over Google AdWords, Affiliate Marketing, Content Marketing, SMM, SMO, and Blogging.