How to start your first professional blog?
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Making a blog is easy. But, to build a professional blog is
hard for some people especially for beginners. There is a difference between
making a blog and building a blog. Making a blog means you just make a blog.
But, building a blog means you have to have strategies and skills to make your
blog more professional and beautiful.
Professional here means a blog which is considerable with
choosing an exact topic, theme design, social media, blog content, niche, and
communication. A beginner probably still confused where he should start his
professional blog. Here are the things you have to consider before starting your
professional blog:
Blog name
Blog name is important to make your blog exist in the
internet. Choose the name which easy to mention and remember. Blog name also
can help you more easily indexed by search engine. For example www.yourname.com, or you can put keyword in
your blog name such as www.servicecomputer.com
etc.
Blog topic
Some beginners maybe still confused what topic to be the
blog topic is. Before making a blog, you may make topics list which are you can
take one of them to be your blog topic. Decide one of them that you think very
nice and interesting for you. The most important thing is that you have to
choose a topic that you are interested in. For example, you have a skill about
computer services. It is better for you to make a blog about computer services.
Most beginners doing something wrong here. They choose a
topic that can bring more people such as fashion, health, or forex trading. But
on the other side, they don’t understand about it. Finally they copy paste
articles from other blogs to make posts. I think this is the worse way to be a
professional blogger. Try to take a topic which you really understand. It can
make you more easily to develop your blog consistently.
The second important thing that you have to know is about
niche. Niche here means very specific topic. For example you are interested in
health. You can specify the topic (health) become maybe about diet tips, weight
loss, nutrition, drugs and others. Specific topic is very useful for blogger.
There are so many blog or website that has already explained about the same
topic such as health. It is really hard for you to make a blog with general
topic. Niche topic helps you to keep focus on what you will convey in your
blog. Google likes a blog that focus to the specific topic.
Niche topic leads you to know your market target. Niche
topic makes your blog become the clear positioning. If you wanna make money
from your blog such as Google Adsense, niche topic makes you more easily to
have a deal with Google Adsense Program.
Blog platform
There are so many platforms for making a blog. The most
popular are Blogger and Wordpress. The platform has each advantage. Such as in
Blogger, you can easily change form and design theme as like you want. The same
also in Wordpress platform. Wordpress has so many plugs in that helps you to
add more widgets in your blog. More widgets, can make your blog more beautiful
hehe.
Blogger and Worpress provide free themes. You can choose one
of them that you think suited to your topic. Or you can also find out any theme you like by download or purchase.
Custom domain and hosting
If you really want to make a blog as your personal business,
custom domain is very important for your blog. Custom domain can make your blog
easier to find in search engine (SEO). Not only that, users believe that your
blog is feasible to be visited. It gives them the sign that your blog has the
quality of your content there. There are so many custom domain providers you
can find. Maybe you have to pay for buying custom domain you need. If you wanna
buy a custom domain, I recommend you to buy “COM” or “NET”. COM is the most
popular custom domain. You can register or claim your domain custom to these
several domain hosting provider such as 000webhost.com, freehosting.com,
one.com, doteasy.com and many more.
Time
Think about the opportunity when you are going to write
content for your blog. “Time is money” and “Time is sword”. Use your time
effectively to build your blog. This is no problem if you wanna be a fulltime
blogger. But, if blogging just for your additional job, this is important for
you to make a proper schedule when you have to blog.
That’s all the things that you have to consider before you
start your blog. Comments, suggestion and critics are very important to
increase and enhance this blog. Thank you…
