If you ever thought about how to start a blog or what is blogging? You are at the right place.
But let us assume you are still unknown about the term blogging. So what exactly is blogging?
The blog is a personal website where you can write about your personal experience, expertise, tutorials, or any articles on what people would love to read it.
For example: How many of you daily use Google search to find any information, so when you enter any word in the Google search you will be shown thousands of relevant [blogs] in the search results.
When you click on any of the top 10 search results, you will see a website with the information exactly you are looking for your queries.
Should I Start a Blog?
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Anyone can start their personal blog. You should be passionate person and one what can write about any particular niche. You can write blog post – articles on any expertise in whatever language you are comfortable.
You can start a blog on traveling tips, cooking, interiors, farming, sports, poems, tutorials, history, cell phones, gaming, festivals, or any expertise. But when you start a blog for any particular niche, say you want to start a blog on bike riding tips and you write one good article on it with around 2000 words and next blog you write of health tips, then you are going be failed in the blogging.
So you need to stick to one blogging niche only. You can search for ideas to write more blog articles relevant to your blog niche. If you start with the food blog, you can write for unlimited recipes on your blog.
You don’t need to quit your current job, you can do blogging in your free time, and once you start generating revenue. You can take blogging as a full-time profession if you are a passionate writer and love writing information.
I started this blog as a passion and to provide free information to an online audience. But if you want to make money from blogging, you need to have dedication and should produce quality long blog posts [800 – 1200 words minimum] on your personal blog.
I know you won’t believe in the statement MAKE MONEY ONLINE? Blogging is real and many bloggers from India are making a good income monthly from blogging. It takes a lot of dedication and effort to earn money from blogging. So this is not for those who are looking to earn money from a blog within 1 year.
Note: You cannot generate an online income from a blog unless you get a lot of traffic on your blog. You need to post content regularly and optimize your blog. SEO, Social Media, Link Building is involved to market your blog.
Below are the list of top blogger’s who earn a great income from their professional blogs.
Bloggers Earning Report: 2021
| Professional Blogger | Blog Name | Monthly Earnings |
| Yaro Starak | https://yaro.blog/ | $40,000 |
| Abby Lawson | https://justagirlandherblog.com/ | $41,000 |
| Darren Rowse | https://problogger.com/ | $50,000 |
| Trevor and Jennifer | https://showmetheyummy.com/ | $46,000 |
| Ryan Robinson | https://www.ryrob.com/ | $50,000 |
| Steve and Jennifer | https://mywifequitherjob.com/ | $80,000 |
| Rosemarie Groner | https://www.busybudgeter.com/ | $86,000 |
| Lindsay and Bjork | https://pinchofyum.com/ | $90,000 |
| Jon Morrow | https://smartblogger.com/ | $100,000 |
| Michelle Schroeder | https://www.makingsenseofcents.com/ | $100,000 |
Bloggers earn money by selling products, online coaching, direct ads, sponsor content, email campaign and affiliate marketing.
If you don’t know any of it. You can use Google Adsense for earning money by displaying ads on your blog if you have good traffic on your website.
There are many other bloggers who earn a decent income from the blogs and enjoy the life of being an independent blogger and not working under any boss.
Find Your Niche and Decide What You Can Blog About
Niches mean topic or subject in simple terms. Before you jump to idea of starting your own blog, you should brainstorm on niche for your blog. You need to have a great knowledge of a subject on what type of articles you are going to publish on your blogs.
You can start blog in English, Hindi, Marathi or any native language. Search engines works for every language.
Example: If you start with Recipe blog: You have unlimited number of recipe you can publish on your blog. Here is an example of a recipe blog: – http://www.manjulaskitchen.com/
Here are few blogging ideas to start.
- Business Blogs – https://articles.bplans.com/
- Cooking Blog – https://food52.com/
- Technical Blog any specific subject:- SEO, Math, History, Places, Coding, Designing – https://www.wired.com/
- Financial Blog – https://www.basunivesh.com/
- Sports any specific – http://hoopistani.blogspot.com/
- Gardening – https://reemasgarden.com/
- Gym Fitness – https://www.trendsnhealth.com/
- Video Gaming – https://www.gamasutra.com/
- Photography Tips – https://www.naina.co/
- Interior Designing Blog – https://trumatter.in/
- Life Coaching – https://www.milindjadhav.com/
- Music Instruments – https://dibakarbala.com/
- Home Recipes – https://hebbarskitchen.com/
- Parenting Tips – http://www.shishuworld.com/
- Travel Blog – https://the-shooting-star.com/
- Farming – https://www.indiafarmsblog.com/
- Real Estate – http://blog.zricks.com/
- Education – https://edtechreview.in/
- Lifestyle – https://blahandmore.com/
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You can ultimately blog on anything
Think of a Good Name for Your Blog and Domain
You should always use a unique and easy to remember
When you choose a domain name [blog name] brainstorm if it is going well with your blog. If you are going to blog about cooking or recipes. The blog name can’t be www.technojunction.com, It has to be something like www.foodzest.com or anything which sounds and easy to remember.
Choose CMS Platform and Buy Hosting
90% of professional bloggers use WordPress for blogging. WordPress is an open-source framework.
You don’t need to be an expert in website design or development to manage your blog. You get a login and password, where you can access the website and add content & publish it.
Once you buy the hosting you need to install WordPress by following the steps: https://www.bluehost.com/help/article/install-wordpress
Bluehost also provide 24/7 live chat support. So if you have any questions or issues they will help you to get started.