Starting a Career in Blogging

Blogging career recently has gained some popularity and unfortunately; many people don't know how to avail such a wonderful opportunities.

Choosing Your Blogging Platform

You can choose from a number of different blogging platforms to start your own blogging website. If you are new to this just want to start with free blogging, then Blogger and WordPress are the two best options for you. But with these you will not get the complete control over the look and feel.

If you want a complete control over your blogging platform, then you need to spend about $70 per year to own a website with complete control. You need to spend $8 a year on registering your domain with Dodaddy and $60 to get a web hosting for a year from Hostgator.

It is suggested that use WordPress on your blogging platform server. It is so because this software offers you huge amount of templates, tutorials and plug-ins for free to help you get started with your new blogging platform.

Choosing Your Niche

Choosing a vision or topic for your website is extremely vital. You need to choose niche about which you have extensive beforehand knowledge as the quality of work you put on your blog will directly affect the popularity of your website. Uniqueness and individuality of the subject matter is so crucial.

Choosing niche is not the end; another important factor you need to keep in mind while choosing a niche is the competition level. If you choose a niche which is highly competitive, there are chances that you will get very few people to your website. Always choose a niche with low competitive level. For instance, search for the results on the Google for your chosen niche and see the number of results shown, anything less than 10,000 would be less competitive, something over may not be ideal for you.

Setting Up Your Blog

After purchasing a domain name and web hosting, you need to set up your blog. Hereunder are given few points for your help:

The first thing you need to do after purchasing a domain name and web hosting is to change your DNS settings. You will get your DNS in your provided email or you can change it from your Control Panel.

After changing DNS settings, you have to install WordPress on your server. You can install it manually or through Fantastico, if your host has it. You can also install it in your Control Panel.

Customizing Your Blog

Once your blog is all set up, next step is to customize its appearance. WordPress offers you thousands of different themes and templates, which you can use to customize the appearance of your blog. Select the right theme and templates according to the subject matter of your website.

After customization, you need to install different plug-ins according to your website requirement. Generally, the plug-ins commonly required include stat counter, spam protection, search engine optimization etc.

If you want your blog to be successful, you have to be consistent with your posts.

Starting a Career in Blogging

By: Tauqeer Ul Hassan

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