How To Start Blogging : A Complete Guide For Beginners

How much do you know about blog, blogger or blogging? Well, as familiar as you might be to what a “blog” is, there are many people who hear it frequently but have no idea what it really is. If you heard a little about it, you must be thinking about starting a blog to share your thoughts on a subject that you love or just to promote your business or profession, right ? Yes, so you searched about how you can start your own blog and this is how you reached here :)
So, let’s start from the very beginning.

What Is A Blog ?

A blog (originally came from the word "weblog" or "we blog") is a type of website or part of website. It is usually referred to as an online personal diary that is regularly updated. Although blogs are used for much more now, like online journalism.

A blogger is the person who blogs or write contents for a blog.

The act of authoring a blog, maintaining a blog or adding contents to blog is referred to as Blogging.

Got it ? Let me give an example, this article that you are reading just now belongs to a blog, ie. The Easy Tech and I am a blogger.

Why To Start Blogging ?

Blogging is becoming more and more popular everyday. Take a look at this list to make your decision about blogging. I want to share the reasons why I believe you need to start a blog right now.

To express your thoughts and opinions :

If You have something to say, blog provides a platform to it, and be heard.

To promote something :

Blogging is a great way to promote yourself or your business, product or service online.

To guide and inform others :

Blogging is an excellent way to help others by providing advice, experties and resources to readers.

To build your writing skills and confidence :

After publishing your articles regularly and getting feedbacks from readers, you'll be able to improve your writing skills and confidence.

To increase knowledge and skills in a field or topic :

Since successful blogging is dependent on posting frequency and providing updated, fresh information, it's a perfect way to help a blogger stay abreast of the events in a specific field or topic.

Strong online presence and communication :

You'll get chance to get connected with many bloggers, awesome peoples and experties of related field.

To make money :

If you work hard with patience and practice to provide quality contents and build audience, you can make money through advertising and other income-generating activities on your blog.

How to create a blog ?

So, are you ready to start your blog today? If yes, then follow me on this journey and I will share you everything about starting a blog.

There are few things you must have to consider before/during setting up a blog. They are :

Choose Perfect Niche For Your Blog :

Your niche is basically what your blog is about. You need to know what you want to write about. This should be determined by the goals you have for your blog as well as your personal passions, talents and backgrounds. It is much easier to write about something that you're interested in. Never forget, CONTENT IS KING.

Pick Up a Perfect Domain :

Your domain name is your web address. For e.g, www.theeasytech.com is domain name for this blog. Your name needs too be memorable, easy to spell and it should give people an idea of what your blog is about. Please keep in mind that domains will most likely cost nearly about $10/yr and you can buy it from registrars like godaddy.com, name.com, namecheap.com etc. But if you don't have money, don't worry, you can also start with free blogging platforms like blogger.com, wordpress.com, tumbler.com etc.

Choose Good Hosting Services/Companies :

In simplest terms, hosting service is a server where your blog is held. They also cost few dollars per month. You can buy hosting from reputed providers like hostgator.com, bluehost.com or from local companies. Again, you can get free hosting services from companies like Google(blogger), 000webhost.com etc..

Select/Create The Best Design That Suits Your Blog :

You can search on internet for the free themes/templates that suits on your blog. Or you can hire professionals to design it if you don't know how to create a design/templates. You must have good knowledge in different programming languages used for web page designing to create a template yourself.

Is it possible to start a blog where everything is free?

Yes. You can begin your blog today without spending a single penny now(or ever). If you don't have money to spend on it, you can start with free domain, hosting services and designs provided by blogging platforms like blogger.com and wordpress.com. But the domains by them look like yourdomain.blogspot.com, yourdomain.wordpress.com instead of yourdomain.com, yourdomain.net etc.
You can also buy domain name only and use hosting provided from them for free.

Conclusion

I hope this was enough to clear the basic concept about blog and blogging for beginners. In previous years, I also didn't know about blogging. But now I can proudly say that I am a blogger. This confidence came to me because I know 'why I am a blogger'. I know that why you are here. Benefits of blogging are endless as I have explained above. So, why don't you start today ? Blogging is either Free or Inexpensive. If you have no money to start, you can use free domain/hosting provided by sites like blogger.com, wordpress.com etc. You can customize and upgrade anytime. I'll write about step-to-step guide about them in future posts.
If you still have some questions, then please don’t hesitate and leave a comment below, or simply use the contact form. For more informations, guides and tips/tricks, keep visiting theeasytech.com .
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