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…