The Beginners Guide To Starting A Blog

What is a blog? How do I start one? What do I write?

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A blog is an online journal where you can write almost anything you want (within the law of course!). Blogging for profit means you create a blog that others want to read.

Most blogs come with choices in design, layout, format, colours and settings, depending on what blogging platform you use and what template you choose.

A blogging platform is a web hosting site that allows a blog to be created, typically using popular software such as WordPress or Joomla, though there are many others to choose from. Beginners are probably best choosing WordPress as it’s fairly easy to learn to use.

A template is a design (free or paid) that you choose to use for the look of your site. There are millions to choose from, or you could even pay to have your own design.

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Some bloggers choose to run video blogs and they are often hosted on sites such as YouTube.

Most blogs contain the following features.

A title – The title of your blog post – in this case, it’s “How to Begin Blogging From Scratch”

The Body – This is the main content of your post. It may be text, like this one, images and may include embedded audio or video.

Trackbacks – This is how you link other sites you like to your blog.

Permanent Link or Permalink – This is the URL of your article and will not change, so your article can be easily found by visitors and search engines.

Comments – Allows visitors to leave messages on your blog.

Blogging is simply a few templates and the information is stored in a database. Unlike a regular website that may be made up of hundreds of pages, a blog has only a few pages that request the relevant information from the database.

Starting out blogging can be quite simple. If you don’t want to set up your own blog on your own domain, there are a lot of places you can go to create a text blog for free. Blogger (by Google) and WordPress.org are just two of the most popular.

Blogging is great for business use. It doesn’t have to be a personal blog. Business blogs can be quite profitable with various forms on income streams available.

I have author friends who blog to advertise themselves and their books, others blog current issues, news, entertainment and a myriad of other topics.

Entrepreneurs can benefit from blogging to promote their businesses. Imagine if a blog has thousands or more visitors a day what income producing opportunities there are available?

If you want to create a business blog, don’t forget to let a little bit of yourself into your blogging. People want to know you’re a real, live, living, breathing person.

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Don’t be afraid to start, blogging is really easy, and it’s a whole heap of fun!

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