Blogging Guide for beginners

In this post I want to share some of my experience for being a blogger.

What I write below is the result of what I learned during blogging. Although not exactly inexperienced, but it would not hurt if I share what I have learned.

Although previously I've been posting articles about the same before. (Create Free Blog)

If you was really new in the world of blogs, then you probably still do not quite understand what a blog.

On the internet actually has many articles that discuss what is a blog, but here I will give only a trivial explanation.

Blogs are one of many types of websites available on the internet.

Examples of types of websites on the internet are:

News portal (eg ccn.com, bbc.com, etc.)
Social Networking (eg facebook.com, twitter.com, etc.)
Search Engine (eg google.com, yahoo.com, etc.).
Forum
Online Store (for example: amazone.com, eBay, etc.).
BLOG (example: SeoBloggerHow.blogspot.com.)
ETC.

So what's the difference blog with other types of websites?

The answer is: A LOT OF DIFFERENCE.

One thing that most distinguishes between blogs with other type of website that is a function of the blog.

The main function of the blog in the beginning is to allow people to write personal notes on the internet.

But this time the blog already has a lot of functions. Starting off as a personal note, a place to share opinions and information, for political purposes, to for business purposes.

Why blogging?

Now you may be wondering:

What can I get if I blogging?

Here are some benefits that you get if being a blogger:

1. Being a great writer
Honestly, the first time I know the blog, I am among those who are not so able to write. To just write one sentence has been so difficult for me.

It is reasonable considering I had was not being educated, just graduated from junior high school.

But since becoming a blogger, so I can write fluently. Although not exactly nice, but for me it was very unusual.

Well if you are a hobby of writing, I am sure if you are blogging your writing skills will increase. and may become a great writer.

2. Helping others
The benefits of blogging is not just for ourselves, because of the blog we can also help others with the knowledge we have.

Nothing else is more fun than blogging in addition to helping others.

3. Build trust in the internet
When we can help others through blogs then we will be given the trust by our readers for providing information that is useful to them.

Indeed, what is the importance of trust?

I'm sure you know if the online world is growing. Internet users continues to grow every day, and more and more people begin to expand their business in the online world.

One key to the success of online business is trust. Well, a blog is a great place to build that trust.

4. Build Network
Another benefit is that we can easily build a network through blogs. If our blog is consistently filled with writings that are useful in accordance with our expertise, the more loyal readers who often visit our blog.

If we already have the trust and also an extensive network on the internet, it will be very easy to develop business on the internet.

5. Make Money
The latter of course that the blog can also become a source of income. How to? I will explain in more detail below.

6. There are much more ..

Where to start?

Getting started blogging it was actually very easy, but most people are puzzled by himself.

1. Determine the purpose
Is the purpose of blogging is that important? Very important. If we do not have a goal then it is definitely our blog will be no clear direction of purpose will be where, and we also have been inconsistent in managing our blog.

Blogging takes time, energy, and mind. Do not let it all go to waste because it does not have a clear purpose.

2. Determine the topic
Choose a topic that really you interested in accordance with a hobby or your expertise. If you choose a topic that you do not particularly like, might your blog will not last for a long time.

3. Choose a blogging service
There are so many services that we can use for blogging, sepertiBlogger.com, WordPress.com, Tumblr.com, and others. Everything has its pros and cons. But I think Blogger.com is the right choice for you. Besides being free, blogger.com is very easy to use for beginners.Please visit HERE to read the tutorial blog on blogger.com.

4. Start writing
If you already have a blog then the most important thing is to fill your blog with posts. Begin to write whatever you want to write according to the topics you specify.

5. Beautify blog
It is actually not so important to be done by a novice blogger, but not a problem if done if not excessive.

You can change the template or the appearance of your blog with a better, install widgets to be more beautiful views, and others. But remember! do not overdo it because most bloggers beginners like mutually template or the view that ultimately only a waste of time.

Common mistakes made by bloggers who are still learning.

Once you know how to start blogging, then you should listen to some of the common mistakes made by novice blogger. so you do not need to do the same things as the following:

1. Too busy with the display.
As I mentioned a little above, the mistakes made by most beginner bloggers are too busy to display blog. Mutually templates, plug-detached widgets, etc.

Has a cool blog that is good, but, that will make your blog become big and known to many people is not because of its looks, but because you are presenting content on the blog.

2. Concerned quantity than quality
Blogger beginners usually vying to fill the blog with posts as much as possible. hoping to quickly get lots of visitors. irrespective of whether posting the results of his own writing, or the copy of the writings of other bloggers.

3. Too much reading the information but lack of practice
As a beginner blogger, usually very large curiosity. Read here and there until his head was full of information, and confused which one should be practiced.

Better a little information but actually practiced than most of the information but it is not used.

4. Inconsistent
In the early days very diligently update the post on a daily basis, but after that it suddenly disappeared somewhere. Update the blog regularly is very good, but consistency is more important in my opinion.

5. Discussing too many topics
Is it a problem if discusses many topics? absolutely not. But surely that your blog will be difficult to develop, not unique, does not have the identity, and it will be difficult to get loyal readers.

6. Too obsessed with statistics blog
A beginner blogger, usually will be very diligent in checking the number of visitors, alexa rank, pagerank, and others.

In a day can check hundreds of times. In fact, it will not help increase the number of visitors to your blog. and will only be a waste of time.

7. Make too much blogs
Indeed, bloggers already experienced that managing many blogs, tens and even hundreds. But especially for a beginner it is not advisable to make too many blogs because it would make no focus.

Although you are no longer a beginner, I think managing a lot of blogs is not a necessity. All depends on your goals. If you want to create a blog to be popular and enduring, then there is no reason to manage many blogs.

8. Too ambitious to earn money fast
Inevitably, many bloggers started blogging because they want to earn money. They assume earn money from a blog can be done overnight, but it is not so. (It takes time, effort and consistency.)

I can get the money after a year of blogging. A long time indeed considering I started completely from scratch. you might have been faster. or longer. Which obviously takes time, effort and consistency.

9. Do not take advantage of the Google search engine with a maximum
Instead of just a matter of a blog, any information can be found easily on google. So use Google well to learn blogging. (A lot of information on blogging guides on google)

Developing blog

Developing >>>>>>>>>> Blog

If we already have a blog and some content on it, then of course we want our blog has many readers or visitors.

Well here we start doing promotions, getting to know the name of SEO and others.

1. Stay focused to content
Content until whenever will remain a major factor in the success of a blog. Create content that is really good quality. What was it like quality content:

Wanted by the reader
Unique, different, and original
Useful and usable.

2. SEO
SEO or Search Engine Optimization is an attempt to optimize our blog on search engines. If you want your blog to get a lot of visitors from the search engines then you inevitably have to deal with SEO.

But you do not have to really be an expert SEO to get visitors from search engines. Simply use a basic understanding of SEO, I think I have enough to help increase traffic to your blog from search engines.

I highly recommend reading SEO beginners guide from Google. Free SEO is in the form of .pdf files and can be downloaded HERE.

Or you can read more about SEO in this blog.

2. Blogwalking
Blogwalking are simply the activities of visiting other people's blogs while leaving a comment.

Blogwalking is a long way is often done by a novice blogger to get visitors, but even today the way is still a lot to do.

In addition to getting visitors blogwalking also has many other benefits, including:

Make friends with a fellow blogger
Getting backlinks is one of the most important factors of SEO
Get ideas or inspiration
and others

3. Social Media
Inevitably this time most people spend time on social media. Take advantage of social media well as the promotion of your blog.

4. Forum
On the internet many forums that contain people who have a hobby or special interest. join into forums similar to the topic of your blog.

In essence, active readers where you often spend time. you can discuss with them in accordance with the topic you are interested in, and occasionally promote your blog. Most importantly do not promote excessive. because some forums have strict regulations.

5. Social bookmarking
Social Bookmarking is a site that functions to bookmark pages that exist on the internet online. Many bloggers use social bookmarking sites as a place to bring visitors and also looking for backlinks.

(But I never do this)

6. Keep Learning
Keep learning to improve your blogging. Take advantage of Google as a search for the information you need.

join the forums because a lot of useful tips there.

Read my post on how to increase visitors to the blog for more details.

Making money from blog

If your blog is already large and well known, already has a lot of readers, then it does not hurt to start make your blog as a moneymaker.

Is it posibble???

Really can. Even the income from the blog can also be very large.

As long as we want to be consistent blogging, earn money from a blog is not impossible. although only with the free blog platform.

Linda Ikeji who is a blogger from Nigeria is a simple example. Successful earn substantial income from a free blog, with a capital of consistency.

This blogger income reached 22.000 + US (But do not know now) per month just from one blog. http://lindaikeji.blogspot.com (now use their own domain name). For more information about this successful blogger, you can read it here.

Linda Ikeji

Linda Ikeji! whether this is a blogger with the most revenue in the world?

not.! if you want to know who the blogger who has the highest income, then the answer is Arianna Huffington. (But do not know now) "because this blog has been bought by America Online (AOL)"

Arianna Huffington

The owner of this blog The Huffington Post reached 590 000 USD per month. WOW! (Ago. don't know now) "because this blog has been bought by America Online (AOL)"

I also have to earn money from a blog. Although income is still a little bit, not as much as Linda Ikeji, especially Arianna Huffington, but no harm to have a dream to be like them.

Now the question is ... how to do ??

There are so many ways to make money from blogs. Here are some of the most popular ways to make money from the blog:

1. Advertising Network
The most popular way is widely used to make money from blogs is by following the program's advertising network.

By following a program like this we just need to put a script or code into our blog to automatically display the ad.

We get paid every time someone clicks on an ad on our blog, (PPC / Pay Per Click)

Here are some of the most popular Advertising Networks:

Google AdSense (Read: How to Register / sign up Google AdSense through blogger)
Media.net
Chitika
Bidventirs
and much more.

2. Selling Ad Space in Blog
In addition through the Advertising Networks, we can also offer advertising space on our blog directly to anyone who is interested in advertising on our blog.

The advantages of this method is the income that we get will be more certain, because we ourselves will determine the price.

3. Sell Your Own Products
One way I'm doing in my other blog, namely selling my own product. If you have a product, whether it be physical or digital products, will be very solid if you sell it through a blog.

4. Sell Services
Selling services could also be another alternative to make money from blogs. If you are good at writing, then you can try to sell the services of article writing. If you are good at design, it can also sells design services. And many more services you can offer through blogs.

5. Join the Affiliate Program
If you want to sell products on their own blogs but do not have a product that can be sold, then you can try to join the affiliate program.

Affiliates is a program where we help market the products of others. and we will get their commission on each sale.

6. And many more ..

5 way over only a small part that we can do for being money from blogs. There are still many other methods are good for making money from blogs.

For further explanation you can read my post on 29 ways to make money from blogs.

Conclusion

Learn blogging is actually not a difficult thing as long as we have the desire.

Fault or failure is a natural part of the learning process, so do not worry if maybe this time you can not see the results. The most important thing remains consistent.

Nothing feels it turns out this post is already quite long. Hopefully what I wrote above could benefit you, especially for those who want to start to learn blogging.

thanks.