Guide to how to start a money making blog

Free blogs

There are free blogging platforms online that are very useful when you first are getting started with blogging.. One of them is available at wordpress and the other one can be found at blogger. When it comes to blogger this is a free blog owned by google, that in fact ranks well in the search results. Blogger are being used by successful online marketers even because of its nice features. The benefits with having a Blogger blog is that you can have a overview of your blogs visitos,in other words the traffic to your blog. Wordpress also offers a good free blog as well with some useful features.

Why having your own domain name and hosting?

Although wordpress offers paid packages for setting up a blog I would anyway advice you to get a wordpress blog with your own domain name and hosting. One of the reasons for this is that you can get a domain name that is branded to you and/or what you are promoting. It is also a good thing when it comes to your blogs exposure and its ability to rank well in the search results. Having a blog with your own domain and hosting will also make you look professional. Having a wordpress blog with your own domain name and hosting means also that you can set up your blog any way you want to. You could decide totally on your own what apps and plug ins you want to be using, what theme you want to use for your blog etc. You can go to the wordpress website and download a wordpress blog as a zip file to your computer and then just upload that file to your domain hosting account, what ever hosting company you are a customer with.

Getting started blogging

When you want to get started blogging then what you can blog about as a online marketer is things you have learned through your time working as a online marketer. Share value about things that your readers can learn from. You could also do reviews about products you are using but also tutorials. Share a lot of value with your readers to be looked upon as an expert and leader in your niche. To get results with your blogging you should avoid being to " pitchy" , that will only make you seem desperate to makie that sale. That will only make people stay away from you, and you do not want that... Instead you want of course to attract more and more people to your blog. Search engine optimization is really important when it comes to getting traffic to your blog,so you must search engine optimize all your content. Backlinking from your earlier posts to your new post that you are writing is actually a effective way ti improve your blogs search engine ranking. Getting plenty of comments on your posts will also help your search engine ranking for your blog.

Ideas for blog posts

If you are feeling stuc and you do not know what to blog about then have a look at the top bloggers blogs to see what they are blogging about. Never steal someone elses work of course, that is illegal. However you could get an idea for a new blog topic this way. Another way of getting ideas for your blog post, is to in fact ask your readers what they want to learn more about. Should you not have answers to your readers questions, then google it because you can find a lot of value through searching for different things through the search engines You could also ask another marketer that might have that knowledge that you are seeking.

More exposure for your blog

To get more traffic to your blog and toi improve the search engine rankings for your blog, you should connect with other bloggers,so that you can exchange comments and social sharing with each other. At Facebook for instance there are plenty of blogging groups where members are exchanging likes, comments and social sharing on each others blogs. Of course, after you have written a new post then share it instantly on as many social platforms as possible. This will benefit your level of exoposure for your blog, as well as benefit your blogs search engine ranking.