How to Start a Blog of Your Own? Find All Info in One Place
I often see people asking tips and information on how to start a blog on LinkedIn group discussions, Q & A section of Hubpages and on yahoo answers as well. So, today’s post is specifically focused on answering this question and helping wannabe bloggers make a head start in the blogosphere.
There are many different issues lurking behind the desire to know how to start a blog. In addition to getting tips about the entire step by step process of starting a blog, wannabe bloggers also want to know where to start a blog, best place to start a blog, how to start a blog and earn money and how to start a successful blog etc.
Where to Start a Blog?
This is the first query that comes to mind after gaining info about the process of starting a blog. Well, there are a lot of places where you can start a blog and some of these options are free while others are paid services. Options to start a blog of your own for free are numerous but only a handful of them are popular and famous with the blogger community. Some of the most popular free sites to start a blog are blogger.com, WordPress.com, Tumblr.com etc
Best Site to Start a Blog For Free
Let us not get into a discussion about pros and cons of using a free blog platform or debate whether paid or free blogging sites are best, because I have already covered that in two of my previous posts here. If you ask my opinion two of the best sites to start a blog for free are WordPress.com and Blogger.com.
WordPress.com is undeniably the best site to start a blog for free, and has received the top review and top ratings on all the blogging platform review sites.
In addition to giving the blogger a wonderful array of professional looking and highly versatile free themes to choose from, WordPress.com is also choke a block with free plugins and widgets that make the blogging experience quite a treat. Moreover, it is the best user friendly blogging platform that makes blogging smooth and easy even for newbie bloggers.
How to Start a Google Blog?
If you want to start a Google blog, you should head towards blogger.com. Blogger.com (as most of the wannabe bloggers are already aware) is a free blogging site powered by Google. Blogger.com has been around since 1999 and you only need a Gmail account or a Google account to get your free blog started on this site.
Your blog domain will read as yourblogname.blogspot.com. There are plenty of free templates to use here.
How to Start a Successful Blog?
With billions of blogs in the blogosphere and cut throat completion going on, the burning question that every newbie blogger want answered is how to start a successful blog that stands apart from the crowd.
A successful blog is one that has many followers, subscribers and provides value to readers. Here is a post by Michael on how to become a top blog in your niche.
How to Start a Blog and Make Money?
Being successful and popular amongst readers and followers is not enough and majority of us have started blogging with the intention of developing into an online business.
While it goes without saying that it is important for your blog to become popular before you can make money from it, there is no guarantee that becoming popular is a magic bullet that will help you start a blog and make money from it.
You must assume a proactive approach to monetize your blog to make money from it. Here are 5 tips to monetize your blog. Unless you incorporate any, many or all of these 5 monetization methods, you cannot earn money from your blog automatically.
At this point, I would like to request your attention to an important point in starting a blog and making money from it. None of the blog monetization methods will work on the free blogging platforms because they are restricted or inaccessible for free users.
You get what you pay for. So, if you want to earn money from your blog, you should definitely go for paid blog hosting. You can find a detailed post on blog hosting vitals here.
Synopsis
Starting a blog is extremely easy and you just need an email id (at the least) to get started. But instead of rushing into the blogosphere totally clueless, I suggest that you learn everything that is there to know about how to start your blog and collect tips about all the nitty gritty of blogging before you get your brand new blog.
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I am using blogger platform and I decided to give a try to their ‘Dynamic Views’ template. One one hand the template can make your blog look really good and you can change it very easily. On the other hand Dynamic Views missthe flexibility of the old blogger template. You can no longer move around the sections of the blog, everything is default. I hope that in future they’ll give the template more flexibility.
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Have you ever used WordPress Nina? Would like to know your experiences about using Blogger
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Well, first of all, What is a blog? A blog is short for “weblog”. Basically, it is just a website that has entries listed in reverse chronological order. The original idea behind it was to be a online journal or diary that was updated daily. Over the last decade many software programs and blogging platforms have been created to make the process VERY EASY. As the blog writer, depending on which platform you use, you can just type your entry, press submit and it shows up on your blog for the world to see.
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Creating websites used to be exceedingly difficult, requiring a huge amount of technical knowledge. The Internet was more or less the domain of computer programmers and their readers. We were following the television paradigm, where larger websites produced mass content for a huge audience of readers. Nowadays, knowing how to start a blog is a matter of knowing which websites provide blogging software. However, the audience has proportionately shrunk almost as quickly as the array of producers has grown.
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Nice and Simple Steps. Really useful for Newbie.
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Thanks Amit. Newbies like it easy and simple
Many people especially newbies usually face a rough time when starting a blog. I just love the way you have presented this post that will make any person understand how to go through the process of launching a blog.
Blogging is the best way to express yourself and generate some revenue while you are at it. Follow what you have read in this article and you can be sure to start on the right footing.
Thanks Dr Kavita. Great post!
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Thanks for the kind words Stephen. Blogging is a great way to start earning online.
Brilliant article on how to start a blog. I have also started one but I am using blogger. At the moment, it is suffering from bugs. I hope they sort it out there. Thanks
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Thanks for the visit and comment Shalu. I visited your blog and found it quite good. By the way in case you did not know, you can always transfer your blog from blogger to WordPress by using Import function. Hope the bugs get fixed soon and your blog does extremely well. All the best
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Thanks for your visit and comment Suraj. I am glad that you found this post to be helpful.