These days
creating a blog is just a click away, but is it really that easy? No I’m
afraid. I too was a beginner at blogging a few months ago and to be honest I
haven’t mastered the technique to it yet, so why am I writing this post you
might ask? Well I intend to help you see what lies ahead after you have created
your blog with Blogger or Wordpress , note that there are more ways
to create a blog, but these two are the safest and easiest to use to enter the
blogging world.
Back to the
point of what lies ahead after you have created your blog: first you will start
by posting your first post on any topic that you chose, picture or video and
will assume that this is all you have to do for traffic to come storming to
your blog, but soon you will realize that this is not the case.
The most
important thing to do is get your blog out there and you will do this by
submitting your blog to free directories like Google
and yahoo for example, this is only the
first step and will not ensure that a potential customer or visitor will find you.
As you know there are millions of blogs and websites out there and seeing Google
is the search engine used most by people your aim should be to get your blog to
a top ranking in Google, which is not as
easy as it sounds. To do this you will have to create many backlinks to your
site and this can be done by commenting on blogs similar to yours and leaving
your link, this will ensure that your blog is crawled more by Google and in
time will lead to a higher ranking in Google.
This is what will allow your blog to be found between millions of blogs and
generate a large amount of traffic.
Advertising
your blog and creating backlinks to it are only important aspects to consider
if you intend on generating revenue out of it, but even if you intend on making
money you should never put these to aspects of blogging above what you post
about on your blog, because in the long run the visitors will only come back to
your blog if your articles you post about are of good quality
The next
thing you will want to know is how to make money out of a blog? Well once you
have a constant amount of traffic coming to your blog, which is between 10000
to 100000 or more you can sign up for things like Adsense, which is owned by Google
and what it does is generate ads that is similar to your content, and displays
them on places you chose fit on your blog or you can chose to make use of
affiliate programs like clickbank and click2sell,
which allows you to advertise products on your blog and when a product is sold
through your blog you get a commission based on the agreement between the
seller and you. Note clickbank cannot be used by Blogger users unless they register there URL
under a dot com URL which can be done from your Blogger dashboard, but has a
fee to it.
Always
remember the reason why you blog should always be because you love doing it,
don’t just keep money on your mind, yes earning money is great, but its better
to connect with your visitors and attract people who love what you write.
With blogs
your imagination is the limit, don’t let anybody tell you that you are not good
enough and always remember when you pursue something with all your heart you
shall achieve greatness in it.
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