Hi guys, welcome to my blog. Here I’d love to tell you about:
1 What is a Blog?
2 Why is blogging?
3 Where to start?
4 Some Mistakes are Often Made by Newbie Blogger
5 Start developing a blog
6 Make money from blog
7 Conclusion
Rid, please teach me blogging!
Rida, how to build a nice blog?
Rida, I want to start blogging, where to start it?
Rida, I wanna be a blogger, but I do not know what should I do?
The above are the questions I get most often through email, Facebook,
SMS, WhatsApp, BBM, etc.
Honestly I'm a little bit confused when getting these questions,
because to answer it's not enough with just one or two sentences, but it took a
super guide complete from start to finish.
Well that’s the reason why I made this post. In this post I want to
share some of my experience for being a blogger especially for my friend who
may have the same question as above.
What I write below is the result of what I learned during over 1 year
of blogging. Although arguably not very experienced, but there's no harm if I
share what I have learned.
Without many words, read from the beginning to the end.
What is a Blog?
If you are a newbie, then the possibility is you still do not quite
understand what blog is.
On the internet actually has many articles that discuss what is a blog,
but here I will give only a trivial explanation.
Blogs are one of many types of websites available on the internet.
Here are the examples of types of websites on the internet:
News portal (eg detik.com, kompas.com, etc.)
Social Networking (eg facebook.com, twitter.com, etc.)
Search Engine (eg google.com, yahoo.com, etc.).
Forum (eg kaskus.co.id, ads.id, etc.)
Online Store (for example: amazon.com, lazada.co.id, etc.)
BLOG (eg ridanadia.blogspot.com)
ETC.
So what's the difference between blog with other types of websites?
The answer is: THERE ARE MANY DIFFERENCES ...
One thing that most distinguishes between blogs with other type of
website that is a function of the blog itself.
The main function of the blog in the beginning is to allow people to
write personal notes on the internet.
But this time the blog already has a lot of functions. Starting off as
a personal note, a place to share opinions and information, for political
purposes, to for business purposes.
Why blogging?
Now maybe you wondered:
What can I get if I blogging?
Here are some benefits that you can get if being a blogger:
1. Being a great writer
Honestly, when I created Blog for the first time, I’m so confused where
to start, what to write, For me to just write one sentence, it’s so hard.
But since being a blogger, Alhamdulillah with learning, day by day I
began to write fluently. Although not exactly nice, but for me it’s not bad.
Well, if you are the type of people who have interest in writing, then
I'm sure if you start blogging then your
writing skills will increase and it’s possible you’ll be a great writer.
2. Helping others
The benefits of blogging is not just for ourselves, with blog we can
also help others with the knowledge that we have.
There’s no more fun in blogging except to help others.
3. Build trust in the internet
When we can help others through blogs then we will be given the trust
by our readers for providing information that is useful to them.
Indeed, what is the importance of trust?
I am sure you know that the internet is growing around the world. Every
single day Internet users continue to grow more and many people begin to expand
their business in the online world.
One key to the success of online business is trust. Well, a blog is a
great place to build that trust.
4. Build Network
Another benefit is that we can easily build a network through blogs. If
our blog is consistently filled with useful articles in accordance with our skills,
there will be many loyal readers who often visit our blog.
If we already have the trust and also an extensive network on the
internet, it will be very easy to develop business on the internet.
5. Make Money
Of course that the blog can also become a source of income. How? I will
explain in more detail below.
6. And much more ...
Where to start?
Started Blogging
Getting started blogging it was actually very easy, but most of people
are puzzled by themselves.
1. Determine the purpose
Is the purpose of blogging important? Yes, It is. It’s very important.
If we do not have a goal then it is definitely our blog will have no clear
direction of purpose, and we also have been inconsistent in taking care of our
blog.
Blogging takes time, energy, and mind. Don’t waste becausyour time with
unclear purpose.
2. Determine the topic
Choose a topic which you’re really interested in. If you chose a topic
that you did not like it, then your blog will not be long last.
3. Choose a blogging service
There are so many services that we can use for the blog, such as
Blogger.com, WordPress.com, Tumblr.com, etc. Everything has its own advantages
and disadvantages. But I think Blogger.com is the right choice for us. Besides free,
blogger.com is very easy to use for beginners.
4. Start writing
If you already have a blog then the most important thing is to fill
your blog with posts. Start writing whatever you want to write according to the
topics you have specify already.
5. Beautify blog
It is actually not so important to be done by a newbie blogger.
You can change the template or the appearance of your blog with a
better template design, install widgets to be more beautiful to look at, etc.
But remember! Don’t too much. Because most beginner bloggers often changed
their blog’s template which only waste of time.
Mistakes are often made novice blogger
Blogger Beginner Mistakes
After you know how to start blogging, then you should listen to some of
common mistakes made by newbie blogger which you don’t need to do the same
thing the following:
1. Too busy with appearance
As I mentioned above, the common mistakes made by newbie blogger are
too busy to see the blog. Mutually templates, plug-detached widgets, etc.
Has a cool blog is good, but that will make your blog become big.
Something which made your blog popular is not due to the appearance, but
because of the content presented on your blog.
2. Concerned quantity than quality
Newbie blogger usually trying to fill the blog with the words as much
as possible and hope quickly getting a lot of visitors regardless of whether
the posting results of write themselves or other bloggers writing trace
results.
3. Too much reading the information but less of practice
As a beginner blogger usually you have a very curiosity. Read many
articles until your head is full of information and confused which one to do. A
little bit of information but actually practiced is better than have many of
the informations but it is not used.
4. Inconsistent
In the early days very diligently update the post on a daily basis, but
after that suddenly disappeared don’t know where. Update the blog regularly is
very good, but in my point of view consistency is more important.
5. Discussing too many topics
Is it a problem to discusses many topics? absolutely not. But
definitely your blog will not have the identity, and it will be difficult to
get loyal readers.
6. Too obsessed with statistics blog
A beginner blogger will usually be very diligent in checking the number
of visitors, pagerank, etc. It will not help to increase the visitor of your
blog but will only waste your time.
7. Made too many blogs
Honestly, enough for experienced bloggers that managing many blogs,
tens and even hundreds. But for a beginner it is not advisable to make too many
blogs because it would makes us not focus.
Although you’re not a beginner anymore, I think managing a lot of blogs
is not a necessity. All depends on your purpose. If you want to create a blog
to be popular, then there is no reason to manage many blogs.
8. Too ambitious to earn money fast
Inevitably many bloggers started blogging because they want to earn
money. They assumed that to earn money from blogs can be done overnight, but it
is not so. It takes time, effort and consistency.
9. Do not take advantage of the Google search engine maximumly
Instead of just a blog problem, many informations can be found easily
on google. So use Google well to learn blogging.
Developing Blog
If we already have a blog and some content on it, then of course we
want our blog has many readers or visitors. Well here we will start to do the
promotion, began to recognize the name of SEO, etc.
1. Stay focus in content
Content is a factor to make a success blog. Create a really good
quality content. What quality content is?
Searched by the reader;
Unique;
Useful;
Different and Original;
2. SEO
SEO or Search Engine Optimization is an attempt to optimize our blog on
search engines. If you want to get more visitors to your blog from the search
engines then inevitably you have to know about SEO.
But you don’t have to be a SEO expert to get visitors from search
engines. Simply use a basic understanding of SEO I think it’s enough to help
increase traffic to your blog from search engines.
I recommend you to read the beginners guide to SEO from Google.
2. Blogwalking
Blogwalking are the simply activities to visit to other people's blogs and
leaving a comment. Blogwalking is a clasic way which often done by a newbie
blogger to get visitors, but even today is still effective manner.
In addition, blogwalking also has many other benefits, including:
Make relationship with other blogger;
Getting backlinks is one of the most important factors of SEO;
Get ideas or inspiration;
Etc.
3. Social Media
Inevitably this time most people spend much time on social media. Take
advantage of social media as a promotion for your blog well.
4. Forum
On the internet many forums that contain people who have a hobby or
special interest. Join into the forums which relate with the topic of your
blog.
5. Social bookmarking
Social Bookmarking is a site that functions to bookmark pages that
exist on the internet online. Many bloggers use social bookmarking sites as a
place to bring visitors and also looking for backlinks.
One of the social bookmarking site of the most popular in Indonesia is
lintas.me. you can submit your blog’s posts to that social bookmarking.
6. Keep Learning
Keep learning to improve your ability of blogging. Take advantage of
Google to search for information that you may needed.
Join to forums like forums.digitalpoint.com there are a lot of useful
tips there.
If your blog is already success, it has a lot of readers, then start
making your blog as a money-producing machine.
“Really??? I do not believe it ..”
Yes, of course. Even the income from the blog can also be the main
income.
As long as we want to be consistent blogging, earn money from a blog is
not impossible although only with the free blog platform.
Now the question is ... how to earn money with blogging .... ??
Make Money from a Blog
There are so many ways to make money from blog. Here are some of the
most popular ways to make money from a blog:
1. Advertising Network
The most popular way is used by bloggers to make money from blogs is by
following the program's advertising network or Advertising Networks.
By following a program like this we just need to put a script or code
into our blog to automatically display the ads.
We will get paid if someone clicks on an ads on our blog.
Here are some of the most popular Advertising Networks:
Google AdSense
infolinks
media.net
revenue hits
vibrant media
chitika
and many more
2. Selling Ad Space in Blog
In addition through the Advertising Networks, we can also offer
advertising space on our blog directly to anyone who is interested in
advertising on our blog.
3. Sell Your Own Products
If you have your own products, then you can sell your product on your
own blog.
4. Sell Services
Selling services could also be another alternative to make money from
blogs. If you have skill at writing, then you can try to sell the services of
article writing. If you have a good skill in design, you can also sell design
services. And many more services that you can offer through blogs.
5. Join the Affiliate Program
If you want to sell products on your own blogs but do not have a
product that can be sell, then you can try to follow/join the affiliate
program.
An Affiliate Program is a
marketing program where you can receive commission
for helping a parent company generate sales. The parent company provides you
with all your advertising ools such as
banner ads, links and tracking codes for you to place on your sites, in your
email or internet listings.
When a visitor to your site or
listing clicks on an ad or link, the transaction is tracked. If this
transaction results in a sale for the parent company, you get paid for that
sale. It’s that simple!
6. And many more ..
Conclusion
Learn blogging is actually not a difficult thing as long as we have the
will. Fault or failure is a natural part of the learning process, so do not
worry if maybe this time you can not see the results. The most important is
keep consistent.
Nothing feels it turns out this post is already quite long. Hopefully
what I wrote above could benefit to you all, especially for those who want to
start to learn blogging.
Thanks.
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