Work from home is trending nowadays. One of the best ways to earn money online is by blogging. On this blog page, you will know everything about blogging to start and become a professional blogger.
WHAT DOES BLOGGING MEAN?
Blogging is written & visual information sharing on the web on a platform owned by you or on another platform that facilitates you to share content.
Blogging is not just writing great content or adding a few images but far more than that.
Blogging is not just writing great content or adding a few images but far more than that.
It's the platform to answer queries. It's the media to solve the problem of your viewers by sharing your knowledge on a particular subject. It's to develop trust & faith in you from the spectators.
It's one of the media to generate sales.
WHY BLOGGING?
Every person is an expert in their field, so it is better to share your knowledge, and pieces of information you have for the benefit of others as well as it provides you with the chance to earn through your platform.
You might not be an expert in any field, but you might have some thoughts which you want to share with others, and you might have some good or bad experiences of your life it's better to share.
WHAT ARE THE BENEFITS OF BLOGGING
A blog is the display window of your shop or a business where you display information, in turn, you sell particular items, advertise certain products, motivate your viewers to buy a product or service and many other ways you get benefits from your blog.
WHAT IS REQUIRED FOR BLOGGING
1 Your mindset for blogging-- if you are not prepared to create a blog nobody can force you for blogging.
2 Computer/Laptop/Smartphone with an internet connection
3 A hosting platform on which your blog files are saved and run on the internet.
Certain plans include a free Domain. Hosting companies facilitate free WordPress installation for writing and publishing your blog.
You can create your blog in just a few hours.
Still, you need to know more in detail for making your blog valuable by getting more viewers on your blog.
Here, you will know everything about blogging.
This blog page will give you the information on the tools you need for blogging. Some tools are free to use and a few are paid tools.
I'm also adding a to-do list as a blogger that will help you to increase traffic(without viewers your blog is like a diamond in a storeroom) hence enhancing earnings (without earning it is a waste of time).
How to start a blog?
To start a blog you have to prepare, plan and have to do certain research to create a successful blog.
It's better to start blogging phase-wise. I suggest three phases that are planning, writing and publishing and after publishing.
1st Phase - Planning
Before creating your blog I will advise on the following planning
1 BLOG TITLE:
Any catchy title which attracts viewers related to the content is a first success to drive readers to your post.
Your blog's attractive name, which is easy to remember and has a search volume on Google or any other search engine, is the first step for generating traffic to your blog.
The heading of a blog post is equally important to get the attention of viewers.
You can generate your title at
Headline generator
Upworthy title generator
Tweak your Biz
2 CONTENT IDEA TOOLS
As you are about to start a blog you need to mix your knowledge with people's choices.
What do the viewers want to know?
You should try to give an appropriate solution for the viewer's problem.
To know what the viewers are searching for to get ideas for your content the following are the best tools.
Quora is the best site to get an idea of what most people want to know
Google Trends help to know the trending contents
Blog Topic Generator
Buzzsumo
Ahrefs content explorer
3 DESKTOP EDITOR
While reading if your viewer gets irritated due to spelling mistakes and language he will immediately leave your site and will never return to your site.
Hence it's advisable to use correct language without any mistakes for which you require a desktop editor.
It corrects your grammatical mistakes and helps you to write in bold & clearly.
The following are some of the desktop editors.
Hemingway Editor
Grammarly
Frase
Open Live Writer
4 BLOG READING & CONTENT DISCOVERY
Read more blogs to discover the content and what your competitors are writing, how they are writing, and what topics they have used in their blogs.
Pocket is one of the libraries of world-class Blogs including mine-- hahaha
Feedly
Flipboard
5 NOTE-TAKING TOOLS
While reading or doing something an idea clicks in your brain note it down immediately on
Evernote
Trello
you can also have fun, plan, and organize the above tools
6 DESKTOP IMAGE EDITING/VIDEO RECORDING TOOLS
To make a blog attractive/informative we need to insert images/videos.
The following are a few of the tools for editing images and videos.
Loom & Snagit are screens & video recorder software, it can also be used in vlogging( video for Youtube to share your experience)
Canva, Pixir, and Picmonkey are some of the image editors
Picfont is good at adding text to the pic.
Use the right size(600 x 335 pixels) of an image to avoid more loading time for the blog. Resize on Simple Image Resizer or I Love Img
7 KEYWORDS RESEARCH TOOLS
Keywords are one of the most important factors to generate traffic from search engines.
Keywords are the group of words that is used by the searcher on search engines to know something, to get the answer to their queries.
Research for the keywords to use in your blog which will facilitate search engines to discover your blog for high ranking from millions of other blogs.
Find out the exact keywords which have high search volume and low keyword difficulty.
If more blogger is using the same keywords then it's difficult to rank high for that particular keyword due to a lot of competition.
Keep one or two long-tail keywords to optimize search.
Suppose you select the keyword "shoes", and make it specific as "men's shoe", more specifically "comfortable men's shoes", again you can make a long-tail keyword as "comfortable men's shoes with a broad front", this will provide search engines to lead to your Blog.
Although the volume may be low you can rank higher for this particular keyword.
Make researches at
Google keyword planner
Long-tail pro
KWfinder- is trusted by SEO professionals, and has a simple, effective & powerful SEO tool kit
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WHAT IS THE ROLE OF KEYWORDS IN BLOGGING
Google keyword planner
Long-tail pro
KWfinder- is trusted by SEO professionals, and has a simple, effective & powerful SEO tool kit
Read more
WHAT IS THE ROLE OF KEYWORDS IN BLOGGING
8 APPLY FOR AFFILIATE & GET APPROVAL
Affiliate marketing is one of the best sources to earn money from your blog.
It's promoting certain products on your blog by placing advertising banners on your blog or writing a review of a product.
Before applying do research fast-selling products, and trends, related to your topic of Blog & directly apply on the company site.
You can also apply on an Affiliate Market place which provides many companies to promote as well as Account Managers to take care of all approved products in one place.
The following are the best marketplaces for affiliates.
Click Bank
Share A Sale
Impact Radius
Commission Junction
JVZoo
Amazon
cuelinks
eBay
Read more
HOW TO MAKE MONEY THROUGH AFFILIATE MARKETING
AFFILIATE MARKETING TOOLS TO GENERATE LEADS
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Click Bank
Share A Sale
Impact Radius
Commission Junction
JVZoo
Amazon
cuelinks
eBay
Read more
HOW TO MAKE MONEY THROUGH AFFILIATE MARKETING
AFFILIATE MARKETING TOOLS TO GENERATE LEADS
9 GET DOMAIN & HOSTING
The Domain is part of the address of the site & Hosting is the technical service provided by the technical companies, many companies are providing free Domain along with Hosting.
Know more about hosting in my Blog
What is hosting and what types of Hosting
Lots of hosting service provider sites are offering their services. You have to choose wisely. Reliable hosting, fast, provides 24/7 support services as well as economical.
Lots of hosting service provider sites are offering their services. You have to choose wisely. Reliable hosting, fast, provides 24/7 support services as well as economical.
The following are a few of the renowned hosting service providers.
Hostinger
MILES WEB
You may select any that suit your budget.
Hostinger
MILES WEB
You may select any that suit your budget.
10 INSTALLATION & CUSTOMIZE
Although almost all Hosting services provide software for blog
If it's not provided you have to install the software.
WordPress is the best software to blog, after installation, select a theme best for your topic and loading time.
You can also customize it by changing the layout, colour and font size to make it a fantastic creation.
You can also make a free blog although it's not advisable if you really want to make blogging a profession.
You can also make a free blog although it's not advisable if you really want to make blogging a profession.
Preparation is the same only you don't have to purchase a domain and hosting, read more
HOW TO MAKE A FREE BLOG STEP BY STEP
The peaceful atmosphere and comfortable place help you to concentrate & create wonderful & unique content.
Images related to blog content give a powerful & attractive impact on the Blog & also avoid the stress of continuous reading.
Although pop-ups are annoying but helpful to get the subscription with the email address for email marketing.
LeadsLeap is one of the sites to design pop-ups and get leads. It also helps you in making your email list for further promotion.
These are a few tips.
Sign up for the search engines. Although more than 140 search engines worldwide, the main traffic comes from Google, Bing, Yahoo, Yandex, AOL, & Duckduckgo.
Submit the URL( address of the site) to search engines like Google, Bing, Yahoo, and Yandex, to ease searches, it is like inviting someone to your home with the proper address to avoid a hassle in searching.
HOW TO MAKE A FREE BLOG STEP BY STEP
2nd Phase- WRITING AND PUBLISHING
After preparing for a blog, you required certain things while blogging.
1 CHOOSE THE RIGHT PLACE
The peaceful atmosphere and comfortable place help you to concentrate & create wonderful & unique content.
Content should be at least more than 2000 words using keywords helpful for search engine optimization.
Although everyone has their own style of functioning.
2 IMAGES FOR THE BLOG
Images related to blog content give a powerful & attractive impact on the Blog & also avoid the stress of continuous reading.
Since the Blog is a commercial site hence always use Royalty free images to avoid any legal problems in the future.
You can get royalty-free stock images from
Pexel
Pixabay
Unsplash
Shutterstock
After adding an image to the blog please add the properties of an image which include image title text and alt text. In alt text write a short description of the image including keywords for SEO.
Although it is always better to use photographs clicked by you to give a uniqueness & it's your own property.
3 Take AI Writing Assistance
You can generate ideas, descriptions and blog posts with the help of AI writing tools within a few minutes. This tool also helps you in your marketing campaigns.
Although I don't recommend using AI tools for entire blog pages since Google can easily find out and can penalize your blog. Tools like Organility.ai can detect AI-written content.
4 AFFILIATE MARKETING TOOLS
Blogger earns by monetizing their blog, know more in
HOW TO MONETIZE A BLOG
Affiliate marketing is one of the main sources of income. Tools for affiliate marketing are links, banners, copy and use it in your blog.
HOW TO MONETIZE A BLOG
Affiliate marketing is one of the main sources of income. Tools for affiliate marketing are links, banners, copy and use it in your blog.
Although pop-ups are annoying but helpful to get the subscription with the email address for email marketing.
LeadsLeap is one of the sites to design pop-ups and get leads. It also helps you in making your email list for further promotion.
PropellerAds helps to develop a pop-up network as well as earn by push notifications, install as a widget, and HTML code in between the content.
After writing a complete blog post check it for spelling mistakes, add images and affiliate banners and links. Check it once again and after satisfaction publish your blog post.
3rd Phase- AFTER PUBLISHING
1 SUBMIT
After publishing your blog, the main job is to submit it to search engines said for SEO( search engine optimization)
These are a few tips.
Sign up for the search engines. Although more than 140 search engines worldwide, the main traffic comes from Google, Bing, Yahoo, Yandex, AOL, & Duckduckgo.
Submit the URL( address of the site) to search engines like Google, Bing, Yahoo, and Yandex, to ease searches, it is like inviting someone to your home with the proper address to avoid a hassle in searching.
Submitting URLs of your blog pages helps search engines crawl through your site, the first process of search engines is to scan and collect details like title, image, keywords, and linked sites.
Google search console -- for Google
Google Analytics-- for getting reports of traffic to the Blog
Bing Webmaster Tools-- for Bing
You can also submit for all search engines.
Submit Sitemaps
It is like sending the map to a friend to search engines & verify, you can generate sitemaps at
XML sitemap generator
On the Google search console, you can submit as https://(your site domain)/sitemap.xml
It is like sending the map to a friend to search engines & verify, you can generate sitemaps at
XML sitemap generator
On the Google search console, you can submit as https://(your site domain)/sitemap.xml
After submitting to the Google search console, sign up for Bing webmaster tools through your Google account. It will help you to import data from the Google search console.
Request Indexing
On the Google search console, left side menu you will find URL inspection, do an inspection of the page URL, and it will provide the result about crawling & indexing.
Request Indexing
On the Google search console, left side menu you will find URL inspection, do an inspection of the page URL, and it will provide the result about crawling & indexing.
If not indexed, indexing request is the second process of the search engines, in easy words arranging files in a cabinet with marking on it.
This, along with other factors, will decide your site's ranking, the third process of search engines.
SmallSEOTools.com provide all tools to check, analyze & act to improve
Link Management for quality backlink & SEO service
You can also check the ranking of the site on Uber Suggest and Moz...
KNOW MORE
WHAT IS MOBILE-FIRST INDEXING?
HOW DOES IT AFFECT SEO?
This, along with other factors, will decide your site's ranking, the third process of search engines.
SmallSEOTools.com provide all tools to check, analyze & act to improve
Link Management for quality backlink & SEO service
You can also check the ranking of the site on Uber Suggest and Moz...
KNOW MORE
WHAT IS MOBILE-FIRST INDEXING?
HOW DOES IT AFFECT SEO?
2 PROMOTE
Promote the site on social media by sharing the link.know more about
You can also use pic/ video editing tools which I hope you have obtained during the planning.
You can also plan a schedule to post on social media & get marketing & analytical tools on
Buffer social media
Tailwind -- especially for Pinterest
Hootsuite
GainRock- ready-use creatives for social media, email marketing
Write comments on others' blogs as an authority on the subject to get a backlink.
Buffer social media
Tailwind -- especially for Pinterest
Hootsuite
GainRock- ready-use creatives for social media, email marketing
Write comments on others' blogs as an authority on the subject to get a backlink.
Email marketing
Promote via mail, you can mail to your contact by your mail account personally, bulk mail needs a platform to design attractively, schedule & campaign your promotion
MailChimp
Aweber
GetResponse
3 Analyse & Act
Regularly monitor progress & re-plan the schedule accordingly
you can analyze on stats of your blog, also on
Google Analytics
Jetpack
Moz.com
4 Guest Blogging
Guest blogging & inviting others to post on your site helps to increase traffic
Let's understand the types of traffic
Organic traffic which is driven by search engines increased by optimizing search engines
Direct traffic which is through the search engines by URL mainly comes from repeated users who want to read more due to your fantastic content, focus on your content because the content is the Boss
Paid traffic which comes from the advertisement
Email marketing traffic drives from email campaigns
The social media traffic is driven by promotion on social media
Referral traffic drives from the link you share on various platforms
Nice information especially for newbies
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