6 Things You Must Know Before Starting a Blog

I am pretty much sure that you want to start your own blog that’s why you’re here to learn 7 things that you must know before starting a blog. It normally happens in our life whenever we do a new startup then after some times we realized that I wish I could know this thing before a startup to make things better.

In the same way, you’re going to learn 7 things that you must know before starting your blog. I think this guide will definitely help you if you are a beginner and going to start a blog.

Patience and Effort

The first thing that you have to understand that blogging requires lots of effort and patience. To make a successful blog you have to work continuously. Definitely blogging is still possible in 2021 but hard work and continuity is the key to success. Daily tons of blog gets launched on the internet But only a few of them reach real success.

Have you ever think what is the reason behind this? The only reason is a lack of effort and patience. If you really want to be successful in blogging then never lose your patience. Sometimes it happens that during struggle time we feel very low but take a moment and keep yourself up again.

There are two kinds of people on the internet one who just watch or read content on the internet and leaves it but they don’t do anything. They can’t earn money online because they just reading and doing nothing. And the second kind of people watch or reads content on the internet then they create their own content and after creating content they give it back to the internet. These people earn a decent amount of money from the internet.

Choose a niche

Before starting a blog, choose a niche on which you want to create your blog. Do not follow anyone blindly and start creating a blog on that niche. Do your research and find a suitable niche on the basis of your interest. Because if you have an interest in a niche then you can create amazing content. Always keep in mind that content is king in blogging.

Let’s take an example that you have created your blog and you did the SEO to get traffic. You have also shared your blog post on various social sites to get more audience. Let’s suppose you gained a great amount of traffic but why people stay on your blog is just because of your content. It doesn’t matter how good-looking or well-designed a blog you have but if you don’t have eye-catching content then the user will not stay on your blog. If they found something interesting or eye-catching then they will definitely stay on your blog for a while.

While choosing a niche always keep in mind that you have the ability to write a great piece of content on that niche.

Choose A Perfect Domain Name

In simple word domain name is the name of a blog or website like youtube.com or google.com. Always keep a few things in your mind while choosing a domain name.

• It should be short and clear

• Easy to remember

• Choose a domain name that represents your brand or business

• Just use 2 or 3 words in your domain name

If want to spend some money then you can buy top rated domains otherwise you can also use the free domain. The top-rated domains like .com, .in, .org are available at very affordable prices.

Choose a right Platform

Choosing the right platform is the most important part of blogging. There are various blogging platforms where you can create your blog. The two most popular blogging platforms are Blogger and WordPress. WordPress is a free open source software that allows you to easily create a blog. You can download WordPress software free of cost but to create a blog in WordPress you will need to buy a hosting plan and domain name.

As we have discussed that domain name is the name of the website and the hosting plan provides space for your website or blog. There are various hosting providers from where you can buy your domain name and hosting. For this, you have to pay money according to their plans.

While blogger is a free blogging platform that is provided by Google. Blogger provides you with free hosting and domain name and you can create a blog without paying anything at all. The domain name of the blogger looks like yourdomain.blogspot.com. Your domain means whatever domain name you choose for your blog.

So if you’re ready to pay money for hosting and domain then you can choose WordPress and if you’re a beginner and don’t want to spend any money then you can choose blogger. Definitely, there are various advantages of WordPress over blogger because in WP you are going to use paid hosting and WordPress provides you more features and customization options. In WordPress, you can use plugins to add more enhancements to the blog but these plugins are not available in blogger. But for a beginner blogger is also a great platform because you can create a blog without spending money.

Choose A Theme

Themes are used to give layout and design to your website. According to the look and feel you can choose the theme which best fits your blog. You can choose them on the basis of your platform. In WordPress themes are used and blogger templates are used for the design of a blog. While selecting a theme or template keep few things in your mind

• Your theme should be SEO friendly

• It should be responsive and mobile-friendly.

• Never use nulled or cracked theme on your blog.

• Keep Learning Keep Growing

The next important thing that you should know that you have to be a self-learner who is ready to learn new things to take blog to next level. Things like SEO ( search engine optimization), keyword research, content marketing will help you to rank your blog in the search engine to get more organic traffic.

Other things like how to set up google search console and google analytics for your blog. Google search console tells you that how google is measuring your website and Google Analytics tells you that how your blog is performing. And there are many more things that you have to learn to grow your blog. On this platform, I’m going to discuss all these topics with you so stay tuned with me.🤟

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Kamaljeet Kaur