7 Remarkable Tips To Start Your Own Blog And Make Money From It

November 27th, 2016 | by Ravi Chahar || 16 Comments |

In this era of online business, people are trying their hand with the blogging. Are you the one who is searching for the guide to start your own blog and make money from that?

Well, here you are. In this article, you will learn everything about starting and building a rock solid blog. Blogging is like a business to everyone which is the source of income.

Every blogger needs a step-by-step guide to starting a money-making blog. People are heading towards the streets of home money making.

From a simple accountant to the business owners, everyone is blogging.

Why can’t you start your own blog and make money from your home? Yes, you can. The guide consists all the things you want to know before entering in this blogosphere.

What Do You Need To Start Your Own Blog

There are many things including the domain name, web hosting, the CMS etc in the list. We are going to learn about all of these, one by one.

#1. Choose The Niche You Love

The first thing is to choose the topic of your blog. Most of the people jump into the professional blogging by searching the trending topics.

But they should know that it’s about them and their future goals.

“Suppose you choose to write about WordPress and you don’t have any interest in these technical things. Why would you do that?”

Blogging is a long run and you must choose the niche you love, not what the people are talking about. You should know the real truth about blogging.

Think about the time when you would get bored writing about the niche you chose to get the higher ranking. What would you do?

You should start your own blog and make money with that but take your passion along with you.

#2 Choose Your Blogging Platform ( free or paid )

In this new era of blogging, people are going after WordPress because of its interface, service, freedom and more. WordPress is a Content Management System which helps you to handle your blog.

There are two versions, one is full-hosted and another is self-hosted. You would like to read WordPress.org vs WordPress.com difference.

“To build a professional blog, you should choose the self-hosted ( WordPress.org ) version.”

If you choose the free version then you won’t need to buy anything. Just use the WordPress server and start your blog.

But there are many demerits. You won’t get more freedom. And if you’re dreaming about making money then Google AdSense doesn’t really approve a free blog.

There are many reasons to use WordPress for your website.

#3. The Domain Name

The domain name is the name of your blog. It would be the URL of your blog. The name with which you want to start your own blog and make money.

While choosing the domain name for your blog, you should take care of many things.

• It must consist the keyword of your niche.
• You can also build your own brand with your name.
• No numbers.
• No extra signs like “-, +, @, #, *”.
• Keep it simple yet effective.
• .com or .net extension

What are you thinking about? Are you going to start a blog with your own name?

Well, from a professional approach, you must choose a domain name including the keyword of your niche.

As you can notice, I have included “blogging” in my domain name. You can do the same.

Though people are choosing the different extensions for your blog still, it’s always good to go with .com and .net.

It’s human nature to include the .com extension after every name on the internet.

There are many domain name providers including GoDaddy.

#4. Choose The Web Hosting

You may have read about the web hostings. It’s like buying a place on the web to locate your new blog.

“Haven’t you bought the space for your car/bike to park for a few hours?”

The concept is the same. But here you have to buy the web hosting for a year or maybe more. It gets renewed accordingly.

There are many web hosting providers in the market.

• BlueHost.
• InmotionHosting.
• Siteground.

I had used all of the web hosting mentioned in the list. The best thing is that you can get it at a pretty affordable price, best service, 99% uptime.

If you’re looking for a web hosting to handle your already existing website with the higher data then WP Engine is considered as one of the best web hostings.

When you choose a web hosting, the first thing to check the reviews. Don’t just pick up the names from anywhere and buy it.

Most of the things of your blog are dependent on the web hosting. From security to the growth of your blog, everything is inter-related to hosting.

“Most of the web hostings provide the single-click WordPress installation. You won’t face any problem with that.”

You can easily install WordPress from cPanel of your hosting.

#5. Get A Nice Theme For Your Brand New Blog

The basic set up of your blog has been completed. Now, concentrate on the design.

There are many theme providers which can help you to get a nice and elegant WordPress theme. Though there are many free themes in the WordPress repository and it’s always recommended to get a better theme.

You can install the free themes from your WordPress admin panel only. Just go to Appearance>>themes>>add new.

In the free themes, you won’t get many options. Those themes are not “search engine friendly”. And you want to start your own blog and make money which needs a better-looking theme.

A few of the theme providers are there which can help you.

• ElegantThemes.
• MyThemeShop.
• Genesis Themes.

And if you’re a developer then you can choose the Thesis framework. It gives you more freedom to develop and design your blog your own.

NOTE:- If you need the BloggingLove Theme then you can get it from here.

#6. Install The Best Plugins For A Kickass Start

There are thousands of plugins in the WordPress repository from which, you have to choose the best plugins for your new blog.

There are many things you should know when you choose the plugin. Always check the compatibility with the version of WordPress.

Read the reviews and see the ratings of the plugin. If you install a poorly coded plugin then it can break your blog. So be careful.

Go to plugins>>add new and search the plugin.

You have to choose a WordPress plugin which can satisfy you.

Let me provide you the list of important plugins for WordPress.

• Akismet.
• SEO Yoast.
• WP-Optimize.
• A Contact Form Plugin.
• Jetpack from WordPress.com.
• A social sharing button plugin.
• A Security Plugin.

These are the types of plugins you must have. Though if you’re using the Thesis framework then you won’t need to have any SEO plugin.

There are 10 best WordPress contact form plugins which can help you to generate a page so that your readers can contact you.

After the completion of installation process, you would get many spam comments. To get rid of that, install Akismet.

#7. Do the Proper SEO Settings

SEO is one of the major factors to get success in this blogosphere. People are out there with the best SEO settings for their blog.

And you should too.

• Start with the general settings :- Fill the name of your blog and the tagline, fill the site URL and adjust the time zone.

• Choose the SEO friendly permalink :- To get the higher ranking, you should choose the SEO friendly permalink structure.

These are the basic SEO settings for now.

When you install any SEO plugin then the required settings should be done from there.

If you want to start your own blog and make money then you should concentrate on the SEO of your blog.

You have to learn about the ways to write the SEO-friendly article, how can you get higher page views and more.

How Would You Start Publishing Your Blog Posts

You have set up your blog, what now? What’re the next steps to take?

Are you ready to write your first blog post? I am sure, you’re excited about it. But the thing is how would you craft your first post?

For the beginner, let me give you the tour.

• Login to your WordPress admin panel.
• Check the dashboard and open posts.
• Add New.

And bang, here you are with a nice post editor.

There would be many buttons to improve the design of the article, To enhance it, install “WP-EDIT” plugin.

But what about the topic and SEO of the blog post?

Have you learned the ways to write a post which can stand among millions? The first thing is to search for the keyword of your blog post.

There are many free tools like Google Planner, Keyword Tools etc. To improve the SEO of your blog post, you must use the best keyword with the higher search.

You can even search the keyword from the Google search. Suppose you’re searching for “best blogs”. You can see the Google suggestions.

If you want to know what an SEO-friendly article consists then have a look here:-

• Use catchy headline.
• Attractive sub-headings.
• Straight to the point.
• Include proper keyword.
• Give examples.
• Appropriate keyword density.
• Avoid duplicate content.

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Money making blogging is what people crave for. How about you? Do you want to make some money from your blog?

Well, the answer can’t be negative. There are many ways which can help you to fulfill your dream to start your own blog and make money from that.

Did You Forget About The Search Engines? How Would You Tell Them About Your New Blog?

You have started your own blog, but how would Google and other search engines come to know about your blog? The answer is the sitemap.

Add a new plugin to generate the sitemap for your blog. But if you are using SEO Yoast then it will help you to create the sitemap of your blog.

The sitemap is like a map which guides the search engines about the posts and pages present on your blog. You should submit it to Google Search Console.

I have shown you the extension for the sitemap. It would be different if you use SEO Yoast for the sitemap.

You should also submit your site to the Bing webmaster tools. It’s good to have the traffic from the different search engines.

How To Guide Google Bots About Crawling of Your Website

Google bots need a guide which can tell them which portion of your website should be crawled and which isn’t. To start your own blog and make money, you should create a text file.

Robots.txt file is a simple text file containing some simple rules which guide the Google bots to crawl your website.

There are a few important WordPress files which shouldn’t be crawled and indexed. Use this file to accomplish that.

This is an example of the Robots.txt file.

What About The Writing Style of The Articles

Every person has something unique to disclose through his/her writing style. Two people can’t be similar. You just have to be yourself.

With the time, you will learn the ways to craft a better people engaging blog posts. Don’t overheat anything, provide the quality content only.

“Quality is always better than the quantity.”

There are a few things you should remember.

• Focus on the niche, don’t get distracted.
• Speak your own words.
• Generate it with the quality.
• Think about your readers’ satisfaction.

What’s More, Can You Do To Start Your Own Blog And Make Money

People are out there with the same thought. You’re not alone with a blog now, you have to take care of many things.

Blogging isn’t just about writing. There are many things which influence the growth of your blog. Let me point out a few.

• Email marketing.
• Facebook marketing.
• Twitter marketing.
• Other social media platforms.
• Blog promotion ( 80/20 rule ).

Promotion of the blog post is a way important than writing it. 80 % of the total efforts include the promotion, only 20% includes the writing.

You should learn the way to promote your website to get 100000 visitors.

Learn more about social media marketing including Twitter, Facebook or any other social media platform you like. Don’t try to be an everywhere person.

Choose your social media platforms carefully.

Build your content strategy and be the one with the power in this blogosphere.

Starting a blog is easy but handling it is a way harder than you think.

“Keep learning and enjoy blogging.”