Starting Your Own Blog

Starting Your Own Blog

Starting your own blog can be exciting. The truth is there is money to be made, but it takes time.

I am creating this blog with the beginner in mind. If you are brand new to blogging, this is the perfect place to start.

Starting Your Own Blog- What is the purpose of a blog?
The purpose of a blog is to create pages on a particular subject, you know about and give as much quality information as you can. Include your personal thoughts and allow your readers to really connect with you. The other purpose in starting your own blog is to make money, get rich perhaps..... lol, funny, but true!

Starting Your Own Blog- Where to create a blog
You can create your Blog here at Blogger, which is a very reputable site. There are many other legitimate sites to start your own blog, as well. Sign up is free and never a cost to you.

Starting Your Own Blog- How do you get paid?
Once you create your Blog at Blogger, you will notice they will allow you to automatically put Google AdSense ads up around your blog. If you do not have a Google AdSense account, they help you with that, as well. When someone clicks on an ad on your blog, you get paid.

You can take this a step further and sign up as an Affiliate with Amazon and or Clickbank, again for free, and put their ads around your blog, as well.

Starting Your Own Blog- Choose a Topic
It is best to create a "Niche Topic" which means a specific topic for your blog. For example, your blog may be about "Hand Stamping and Creating Cards" and in this blog you can post as often as you would like. The more posts, the better. Within that subject you may post about "Supplies Needed to Stamp Cards" and the next post may be "Making Birthday cards."

At Blogger you can create many different Blogs in your one account. So keep each Blog subject specific.

Starting Your Own Blog- Getting Traffic, the Basics
Not only do you want a good quality blog with lots of information, but you want your site found by being ranked well in the search engines. This topic is an article in it's own, but I will share the basics.

First, never stop learning. Learn as much as you can about SEO, Blogging in general, Getting traffic to your site and promoting.

Choose your keywords. At Blogger they will ask your keywords after you write your blog. They call it labels. Now you want to make sure your keywords are in the Title and many times through the articles without getting spammy. This is the major key to getting your article found.

Starting Your Own Blog- Choosing Good keywords
The key is to find searched keywords, that pay well per click and there is not alot of articles written about the particular subject. You can use Google Keyword Tool Click Here for Google Keyword Free tool to find keywords. Put your keyword in and hit submit. Next you will see below and to the right "Choose Columns to Display" click "Show estimated average cpc" this will give you a good idea on what keywords pay better than others. It also shows how many times those words were searched in the past month

Take this a step further and personally search your keywords. Do many pages come up? You want to find keywords that do NOT have alot written already, so YOUR blog comes up higher ranked in the search engines.

Starting Your Own Blog- Promote
Find your Url to each post you make in your blog by clicking "File" and then "Properties" and then you will see your Url. You can go to to Google and Bing and hand submit your url. You can also promote your own blog by submitting each post at Digg or Shetoldme (both are free and great ways to promote articles or blog posts)  Click here for SHETOLDME 

Starting Your Own Blog
Starting your own blog sounds a bit complicated, but it is not. You do not need to worry about every thing I have mentioned here, at first. Take it one step at a time and feel free to come back and visit my blog anytime. Starting your blog and setting it up is easy. It is making money on your blog that can be a bit more difficult. As I mentioned, give it time, write as much as you can, and keep learning as much as you can.