This time, I will be providing you a simple guide about blogging for beginners. This post contains information on choosing blogging platforms, advantages, advertisements, promotions etc. Alright lets get started. I presume you are well equipped with good amount of Internet and social networking knowledge.
Basically a blog contains the following features:
- Title - Heading of the blog.
- Body or Post - This is where the content of your blog goes in, or you share your thoughts here.
- Archive - The list of posts, containing title and snippet of description.
- Labels - Categories of the posts or topics.
- Comments - This allow other users comment on your blog, as an appreciation.
There are two most used and popular platforms Blogger.com and Word press.com as both are Free platforms. For a newbie I would ask to start blogging career through 'blogger' as its easy to setup and edit, whereas Word press is more sophisticated and SEO enhanced. And word press encourages pure blogging and no revenue can be produced with free word press hosting.
Building up a suitable and easy navigational Template, with respect to blogging platforms. This is an important aspect, an attractive template is always difficult to showcase. Give a professional look to your blog. Show the audience what you and your blog is capable of? You can create pages in your blog, have a 'About page', don't be anonymous and be visible. When write a post, make sure to give an attractive title and good content in body. Also make sure of providing labels or categories. Always share your post, when published through various other social networks. So you need to build your social status with one and another. Make friends with other bloggers.
Most bloggers use their blogs for production of revenue by means of advertising or monetizing with ad agencies. Most popularly used and trustworthy is Adsense from Google. The other ways to generate revenue is through Affiliate marketing or even merchandising.
The blog only starts generating revenue if you have good amount of traffic to your site and is recognized by search engines. So submit your blog to various other search engines, this will help you with ranking of the blog. Your blog should be more popular to be placed in the first 3 pages of Google. So, that's about it. Drive more traffic, to your blog that's the whole point you'll eligible to mint money.
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