How to Start a Blog?

Welcome! You have a question in your mind! How to start a blog? Well, what you are about read is a blog! So now, you have gain first hand knowledge on blogging. You will know more when you read more in this blog!

Many have opinion that blogging is serious stuff. Yes it is serious stuff to do. But to be a human, you must hate serious stuff. Yet those who write blogs are  humans. So if you want to be a blogger, stay as a blogger. Know that, blogging is fun. Don't force yourself to write very high quality contents. It must come up eventually. Though blogging is serious,  you have enjoy your blog. It's not a factory job which could be done even without interest. If you fail you enjoy your blog, then it will turn into a boring text and make audience to move on to next search for a quality blog.

Find your niche:

First as a blogger, you have to find your niche to create content. If you wish to have blog which deal with one subjective matter then you will have to find niche on which you are about to blog.

To find niche content, one must know oneself. What you are good at? On what am I suppose to blog! To make progress, your blog must be continuous, no discrete content will draw continuous visitors. To have following, you will have find your niche and blog on that.

How to find your niche content? Will be next question you might ask me. To be frank, your niche content is your passion. Think on what you are passionate about! What things you discuss with your friends and family more. This could be your niche content. Rest is your creativity.

Blogging platforms:

Now, you have your niche content on which you are passionate enough to start blogging. But how to create a blog? When you have a search for creating a blog, you will find most popular blogging platform. It is none other that WordPress. It is a open source blogging package with multitude of plugin to customize your blog. All we have to do is get a server and the WordPress code run. That's it you have created a blog for yourself.

But such platform raise affordability question! You will end paying server charges. Hosting your own blog provide liberty to manage it at your wish but for a cost.

To have a cheap and effective blogging platform, you can opt for blogging services such as WordPress.com (not WordPress.org), blogger, hub pages, so on. Setting up a blog on blogging platform will be discussed at later stages.

Writing blogs:

Blogs are not made in a day. It is a continuous process. You have to blog periodically. Don't make your blog idle for long time. But that doesn't mean that writing gibberish blogs will make it active. To run a blog, you need readers who visit periodically. They have expectation that you will post some good content to read. If you can provide feeder to those followers, you will have an successful blog. So avoid irrelevant and vague contents.

Original and unique content:

Think of a reason to blog! It might surprise you for the reason to blog. For example, consider blogging about "chess game". Before you start blogging, just run a search on your favorite search engine. In this instance, " how to play chess game " you would see a lot more than what you have intended to blog. You will find from tutorial to famous world class moves of chess tournaments.

So what is the use of your blog! How will reader get impressed with your blog? What will make them to read your blog? As the search shows, almost content market is saturated. Almost you can find anything in internet. So what will be the special attributes to your blog? Simply filling up words should not be your strategy. If it is it will increase the bounce rate (later, I will explain about bounce rate). For now, concentrate on how to keep your reader on the blog.

To make reader stick to your blog, provide a original and unique content. To be very simple, please don't copy and paste any contents from other sites. Most people do copy and paste. We are not common people working in a software company (no offense). Those who are thinking about copy and paste strategy may quit reading this blog! Any further, you will find uninteresting.

For those who are willing to have original and unique content, you will find this post useful. For a post to be original, you must create your own story. Sorry! We are not doing a movie here. The story is the content subject. The subject matter of your blog must be original. It must be your thinking and observations than others. Think yourself as a story teller. Will your children listen keenly to the same story which they read last night? So create original stories for your readers.

Your blog story may be related to current trends, latest news regarding your niche content, any interview about the subjective matter of your blog. But it must be original. Remember, create your own story.

And second important factor in blogging is unique content. Your subjective matter of the blog must be unique. Unique writing in the sense it must distinguish from others. But this fact is somewhat abstract. Not only you, many fellow bloggers will blog about same subject matter. So to make a content unique, you must apply innovation. When some view or opinion are expressed regarding the subjective matter of your niche, you must apply your innovation to add crux to the discussion. Add fire to the fuel, your blog will be hot. Your content will be hot and will be become most sought blog on internet. Unique and original content is the secret of success.

When you are about to start a blog, keep these factors in mind. Blogging is not to pass time. It is valuable and make difference to life. Unique and Original content will take you to the online podium where you will be treated as celebrity.