(Akiit.com) Let’s just clear on thing up – blogging can be about absolutely anything. It can also be transferable across a number of different niches. Whether you want to use it to share your daily life, get across your business plans or even give people tips on how to save money, it is something that has garnered a lot of attention over the past decade because of just how adaptable it is. People can, and do, earn a lot of money from their blogs – but how do you go about setting one up in the first place, and how do you get on the road to being a successful blogger?
Create Your Website
You will need to look at either getting a blogging platform set up (WordPress, Blogspot and Blogger are the most common ones) and working your way around there for a couple of days to get used to all
of the features and settings. The good thing about using these sites is that they have inbuilt themes within theme, meaning that you can wholly use them as your website itself. If you want to have your own domain and more hosting space, you will have to pay for it. If you want to take an alternate route, you can look into shared hosting. This is where you will be able to start your website up from scratch, which can be great if you know your way around the ins and outs of coding. With this, you will be able to get your site to just how you want it to be without having to pay extra for themes or coding them yourself.
Know What You’re Talking About
Those who are in the know can spot a fraud a mile off. This isn’t meaning to increase the Imposter Syndrome that quite a few people are feeling currently, but it’s certainly something to think about. Only start talking about something when you’ve got at least a good background knowledge of what it is. If you only know basics, say it. Speak about the stuff that you are interested in and know about -and this goes for business, too. If you know that what you are doing with your business model works, tell your readers about it. Don’t make a spin off something that hasn’t been proven.
Link It Up
The best way that bloggers make money is through advertising or sponsored posts. Even if you are hiring somebody for content creation for a business blog which goes out only once a week, you will need some sort of SEO strategy within your post for it to really hit your target demographic. The higher that you appear in search engine rankings, the more traffic that you will be gaining – useful for getting more money to your blog. Using paid advertising such as AdSense from Google can increase how much revenue you are getting from your website just from people clicking through sponsored links to the affiliates that have been recommended – it really is that easy.
Staff Writer; Shelia Freeman