The Basic Way To Start Blogging

When I created my first blog, I was able to earn over $5000 in my very first month because I provided value. It was quite simple really, I found a problem on the Internet, I provided the solution on my blog and then I monetized it with affiliate offers.

 1. What’s your niche? What you are passionate about?

Most bloggers will tell you to blog about your passion, this is wrong, you should blog about a Profitable Passion or interest you have. If it was just simply your passion, I would be blogging about something rediculous. Instead I blogged about web design because that is what I enjoyed and knew I could make money from. To give you a good idea of what niches make money, go to ClickBank and click Marketplace and any category they have, are niches that people are selling things in, for example, gaming, health, fitness, design, marketing etc.

2. Choosing the right domain name? How important it is?

There is no hard and fast rules to your choice of domain . The conventional rule is to use a keyword in your domain. For instance, if you write about pets, your choice of  domain name should probably include keyphrases such as “pets”, “dog” or “cat”.

However, keep in mind that most good domain names has long been taken so a combination of two or more keywords is recommended here. When working on finding a new domain I use a great FREE tool called Instant Domain Search which will straight away tell you as you type each character if the domain is taken. I currently register all my domain names with GoDaddy which is a very popular service among most website owners.

3. Hosting Your Website On The Internet

Once you’ve registered a domain name you can call your own, the next course of action is buy yourself a reliable hosting provider. We have partnered with one of the best and most reputable hosting provider in the industry – HostGator which gives you the right hosting package with superb support system at the most affordable price.

4. Change your DNS (domain name server)

What comes next is to point your domain to HostGator of which the whole process is actually quite simple and takes only a minute to do.

For the sake of simplicity, please refer to How to Change Your DNS to HostGator.

5. Blog setup is as easy as 1-2-3

Installing WordPress isn’t as difficult as what other make you think otherwise. A neat little script called Fantastico makes setting up a blog as simple as pie. No real technical knowledge of required.

If you think installing WordPress is only for the technical savvy, let me share you “How to Install Your Blog using Fantastico the Easy Way”

6. Tell the world who you are with “About Me” page

Anonymity is the privilege and the fun part of blogging. But your readers deserves the right to know who is talking to them and whom they will be talking to. In such an impersonal world of blogging, a little introduction about you makes it more personal and improve your credibility as a blogger. What you want to reveal is really up to you but just don’t hide behind the mask of your blog.