58 Istilah dalam Dunia Blogging

1. Blog

Blog merupakan kependekan dari Weblog yang merupakan bentuk aplikasi web yang menyerupai tulisan-tulisan pada sebuah halaman web umum.

2. Blogger

Sebutan bagi seseorang yang menulis di blog mereka

3. Blogging

Kegiatan - kegiatan yang dilakukan dalam dunia Blog

4. Blogroll

Merupakan fitur dari Blogger yang menampilkan Link - link tertentu sesuai yang mereka tambahkan. Fitur ini biasanya digunakan untuk Tukeran link sesama blogger.

5. Blogosphere

Istilah yang dipergunakan untuk menjelaskan dunia yang diciptakan oleh jaringan Blog.

6. Postingan

Suatu kegiatan oleh seorang Blogger untuk mengirimkan Artikel ke dalam Blognya.

7. Laman

Hampir sama dengan Postingan, tapi tulisan yang diketik di Laman, nantinya akan muncul tersendiri menjadi menu pada halaman Blog.

8. Komentar

Tempat yang dikhususkan untuk para pengunjung untuk memberikan komentar pada suatu postingan, bisa berupa saran, kritik, dan diskusi.

9. Komentar SPAM

Komentar yang ditulis semata-mata hanya untuk promosi atau memperoleh backlink dan komentar yang ditulis tidak bersangkutan dengan Postingan yang dibahas.

10. Traffic

Traffic adalah orang - orang yang mengunjungi blog kita atau yang biasa disebut dengan Pengunjung.

10. Anchor Text

Sebuah teks yang berisi link didalamnya, Misal : Rida Nadia

10. Backlink

Sebuah link yang terdapat pada blog lain yang menuju ke Blog kita.

11. Tata letak

Tata letak merupakan bagian dalam Blogger. Pada bagian ini berfungsi untuk menambahkan, menghapus atau mengatur letak Gadget/Widget dalam Blog.

12. Template

Suatu pola atau desain pada suatu Blog. Template ini berfungsi untuk mengatur tampilan blog.

13. HTML

Hyper Text Markup Language atau yang disingkat HTML ini adalah bahasa yang digunakan untuk membuat sebuah halaman web.

14. JavaScript

JavaScript adalah bahasa pemrograman yang khusus untuk halaman web agar halaman web terlihat lebih hidup.

15. SEO (Search Engine Optimization)

SEO adalah serangkaian tindakan dengan teknik tertentu untuk mengoptimalkan ranking sebuah blog pada halaman pencarian search engine seperti Google, Bing, dan Yahoo.

16. SERP

Merupakan kependekan dari Search Engine Result Page yang merupakan hasil pencarian terhadap mesin pencari (search engine). Misalnya Anda sedang melakukan pencarian di Google dengan menggunakan kata kunci yang Anda cari, kemudian akan muncul 10 hasil pencarian sesuai dengan kata kunci Anda tadi. Nah, Itulah yang dimaksud dengan SERP.

17. Keyword

Secara singkat, Keyword adalah Kata kunci. Yang merupakan kata/frasa yang diinput seseorang di mesin pencari (search engine). Contohnya, Anda mengetik di Google dengan menggunakan kata kunci "harga blackberry terbaru".

18. HomePage

Halaman utama/awal pada suatu web.

19. Header

Bagian paling atas halaman blog. Ini biasa digunakan untuk Menempatkan Judul dan Deskripsi Blog atau Logo Blog.

20. Sidebar

Kolom-kolom yang terdapat disisi blog. Biasanya digunakan untuk meletakkan Gadget/Widget tertentu.

21. Footer

Bagian paling bawah halaman blog.

22. Gadget

Kumpulan elemen atau fitur-fitur (gratis) yang sudah disediakan oleh Pihak Blogger.

23. Label

Label adalah sebuah kategori untuk mengelompokkan artikel (postingan) yang berhubungan yang telah terdapat di Blogger. Tujuan menampilkan label ini agar mempermudah pengunjung untuk menemukan Artikel yang sedang dicari.

24. Arsip

Merupakan gadget Blogger yang berfungsi untuk menampilkan terbaru berdasarkan hari, tanggal, bulan maupun tahun.

25. Favicon

Favicon merupakan singkatan dari Favorite Icon adalah sebuah ikon yang ditampilkan dengan logo sebuah web atau blog yang ditampilkan pada Address bar.

26. Followers

Gadget dari Blogger untuk mengikuti suatu blog.

27. CSS

CSS atau Cascading Style Sheet adalah salah satu bahasa pemrograman web untuk mengendalikan beberapa komponen dalam sebuah web sehingga akan lebih terstruktur dan seragam.

28. jQuery

Merupakan sebuah library JavaScript yang sangat ringkas dan sangat sederhana untuk memanipulasi komponen di dokumen HTML.

29. Feed

Feed sering disebut juga dengan Feed Web atau Feed News, adalah format data yang digunakan pada pengguna internet untuk berlangganan pada postingan suatu blog.

30. RSS (Really Simple Syndication)

RSS merupakan format web feed yang ditulis dalam format XML (eXtensible Markup Language) digunakan untuk menginformasikan suatu konten digital yang sering di Update, seperti Blog, News feed, atau podcast.

31. XML

Merupakan singkatan dari eXtebsible Markup Language, adalah sebuah format teks sederhana yang diturunkan dari SGML, dan digunakan untuk memudahkan sindikasi informasi dengan menggunakan teknologi RSS.

32. Atom

Atom adalah sebuah format indikasi feed yang dikembangkan sebagai alternatif RSS. Atom memungkinkan seseorang mendapatkan update artikel dari sebuah web atau blog.

33. Ping

Ping merupakan singkatan dari Packet Internet Gopher, yaitu sebuah tool jaringan komputer yang digunakan untuk menguji apakah sebuah komputer atau hosting bisa dibuka di internet. Dalam dunia blogger, ping merupakan tindakan mengirimkan pesan jaringan ke suatu server untuk menginformasikan bahwa blog kita telah di update.

34. Pro Blogger

Seorang blogger profesional atau yang sudah berpengalaman dalam dunia Blogging.

35. URL

Merupakan singkatan dari Uniform Resource Locator, rangkaian karakter menurut format dan standar tertentu, yang digunakan untuk menunjukkan alamat link tertentu. Misal : http://ridanadia.blogspot.com.

36. Link

Alamat URL yang terdapat pada teks atau gambar.

37. Alexa Rank

Sebuah peringkat website yang dibuat oleh situs Alexa.com. Alexa Rank menampilkan peringkat website berdasarkan trafik pengguna internet yang memasang Toolbar Alexa pada browser mereka. Bila nilai angka pada Alexa Rank blog kita semakin kecil, maka akan semakin bagus.

38. PageRank

PageRank merupakan cara (algoritma) untuk memberikan peringkat pada halaman web yang mencerminkan seberapa penting halaman web tersebut dengan halaman web lainnya. PageRank digunakan pada mesin pencari (search engine) seperti Google. Skor PageRank berkisar antara 0 - 10. Bila nilai angkanya semakin besar, maka akan semakin bagus.

39. Domain

Domain adalah nama unik yang diberikan untuk mengidentifikasi nama server komputer seperti web server atau email server pada jaringan komputer atau internet.

40. Hosting

Tempat atau jasa internet untuk membuat halaman website yang telah anda buat menjadi online dan bisa diakses oleh orang lain.

41. Plug-In

Sebuah modul program komputer atau alat yang berinteraksi dengan yang lain untuk menambahkan fungsi tambahan yang spesifik, atau mendukung format file yang spesifik.

42. Social Bookmarking

Suatu web untuk menyimpan, mengelola, dan berbagi alamat situs yang dianggap favorite.

43. Social Network

Layanan web yang menyediakan kumpulan cara yang beragam untuk mempermudah pengguna (user) untuk berinteraksi, seperti chat, email, video, blog dan Lain - lain.

44. Social Media

Sebuah media online, dengan para penggunanya bisa dengan mudah berpartisipasi, berbagi dan menciptakan isi meliputi blog, jejaring sosial, wiki, forum dan dunia virtual.

45. Black Hat SEO

Suatu teknik yang dipergunakan oleh seorang webmaster untuk mengoptimasi web atau blog mereka dengan cara ilegal yang melanggar peraturan (TOS) yang ditetapkan mesin pencari (search engine) seperti Google.

46. White Hat SEO

Suatu teknik yang dipergunakan oleh seorang webmaster untuk mengoptimasi web atau blog mereka dengan cara legal dan tidak melanggar peraturan (TOS) yang ditetapkan oleh search engine.

47. Duplicate Content

Konten hasil duplikasi (biasanya berupa teks/artikel) dalam sebuah situs atau blog.

48. Subscriber

Pengunjung yang berlangganan kepada suatu web atau blog, bisa melalui RSS Feed, Email ataupun Atom.

49. Niche Blog

Suatu kata/frase untunk topik atau subjek bahasan tertentu yang terfokus dan diminati oleh kalangan tertentu.

50. Dummy Blog

Merupakan situs atau blog yang bertujuan hanya untuk memperoleh backlink untuk blog utama.

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51. Adsense

Periklanan online yang dimiliki oleh Googledan memberikan kesempatan kepada para Blogger untuk melakukan monetisasi blognya dengan menampilkan iklan kontekstual di blog mereka. stiap kali orang/atau pengunjung mengklik teks iklan Google Adsense, maka si pemilik blog akan mendapatkan sejumlah komisi. Selain dari Google, Adsense lokal pun tidak kalah pentingnya.

52. Adwords

Kebalikan dari Adsense. Adwords memungkinkan perusahaan atau individu untuk memasang iklan dan mempromosikan produk, jasa atau situs mereka berdasarkan perhitungan cost per Click (CPC). seorang pemasang iklan harus menentukan kata kunci yang hendak dibidik nya dan berapa harga yang bisa ia berikan untuk setiap iklannya. Iklan Adwords bisa muncul di halaman hasil pencarian Google maupun di Unit iklan Adsense di situs atau blog yang mengikuti program Adsense.

53. Affiliate Marketing

Affiliasi, sebuah cara yang dangat populer untuk mendapatkan uang dari internet di mana seorang pemilik program affiliasi memberi kesempatan orang lain untuk memasarkan produk atau jasanya dengan imbalan sejumlah komisi.

55. Hits

Jumlah pengunjung blog yang bisa dihitung berdasarkan IP atau ID nik.

56. Blogspot

Salah satu layanan yang memfasilitasi pembuatan blog secara gratis dan mudah. Layanan Blogspot disediakan secara gratis oleh Google sehingga secara otomatis blog yang menggunakan fasilitas dari Blogspot biasanya lebih mudah muncul dalam hasil pencarian pada mesin pencarian Google.

57. Blog Walking

Kegiatan mengunjungi berbagai blog sesuai dengan minat dan kebutuhan. Kegiatan ini sering dilakukan oleh para blogger untuk memperbanyak pengetahuan dan wawasan seputar berbagai informasi terkini mulai dari informasi seputar teknologi, selebriti, games dan lainnya.

Melalui kegiatan blog walking pula, dapat terbentuk hubungan yang interaktif antar sesama blogger. Blogger yang mengunjungi blog lain dapat memberikan komentar atau saran pada kotak komentar yang disediakan. Selain itu blogger tersebut juga dapat mempromosikan blog nya dengan memasang link URL menuju ke blognya. Suatu bentuk simbiosis mutualisme yang baik antar para blogger.

58. Rate card

Patokan fee yang akan diminta oleh blogger kepada pemasang iklan.

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Personal Blogging Tips

Personal blogs, like professional and business blogs, require some thought before you jump in and start throwing words on the screen if you don’t want your blog to be a flash-in-the-pan. While many bloggers are itching to start creating content (Hey isn’t that why you want to blog?), there are factors to consider first to ensure you don’t get blindsided once your information’s publically available. Here are twelve such factors.

1. Host your own blog. While there’s a cost to this approach, it can help you in the event that your blog grows into something bigger. Understand that no matter how stable a blog hosting platform is now, it can disappear. A self-hosted blog (on your own URL) enables you to broaden your audience and gives you greater control. You own the content you create and have greater freedom to publish what you want.
2. Anticipate and budget for technical support. Regardless of what you think when you start, there’ll be something you want to do requiring more technical experience than you have. Therefore, create a small budget for this purpose.
3. Brand your blog. Before you tell me you’re not a company or organization, understand that if you don’t brand your blog that will be your brand. Determine blog formatting, color use, typefaces, media, voice and other elements to ensure they’re consistent.
4. Set blog category structure. What major topics will your blog cover? Think in terms of the keywords your audience will use to search for your content. Stay away from cute titles don’t mean anything to robots.
5. Plan for your blog’s future. Where do you see the content on your blog leading? Think 1 year, 2 years, 3 years out, while this may seem like the distant future, time passes quickly. This influences what you’re writing. Even if it’s only for one short term event such as your wedding, training for a marathon or dealing with a disease.
6. Determine terms of use. How are you going to allow others to use your blog content? Many people assume anything that appears on the Internet can be freely reused. (In reality, this isn’t the case.) So it’s best to protect yourself and make your terms of use public.
7. Watch your language. This isn’t restricted to four letter words but also encompasses your grammar and usage. It’s important because it reflects on your blog and brand.
8. Take the mini-skirt approach to blog post length. Blog posts should be long enough to cover the topic but short enough to stay interesting. (Here’s the research on blog post length.)
9. Don’t forget the blog eye candy. Think beyond text. Use photos, graphics, video, audio and presentations. These formats are often at the heart of personal blogs. Make sure you have permission to use photographs of people you know. This is particularly important when it comes to children.
10. Publish consistently. Remember that a blog is a media entity. Before you remind me that it’s your personal thoughts, it’s important to think about your readers. To this end, mind your editorial calendar. Research has shown that it’s best to publish two to three times a week. If you don’t do this, at least be consistent in when you publish.
11. Be selective in where you share your content. Don’t’ plaster your posts on every possible social media platform. Give thought to who’s on each platform and their interests. Consider where your topic makes sense.
12. Determine how you want to handle comments. Do you want them closed, moderated or open? When you start getting comments is too late to get a policy out. (Need help? Here are blog comment guidelines.)

Remember blogs are a lot like children, once they come into being they have a life of their own you can’t necessarily plan. That said, you can ensure you make a good first impression and lay the foundation from which to grow and learn.

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The 5 Best Places to Start a Blog

Blogging. The thing your friend does that you could do better. The hobby of the century. Your key to boss-less freedom and your cat’s one shot at fame. So do your homework with this list and start a blog the whole world, and your mom, will love.

1.   WordPress.org

 

Stats:

·        Recommended for: Blogging and websites

·        Founded: May 27th, 2003

·        Founder: Matt Mullenweg of Automattic

·        Total users: 60 million, 19% of the internet and 1 in 5 websites as of December 2013

·        Total employees: 151

·        Pros: Elegance and ease

·        Cons: You need to get a domain name and web hosting first

·        Costs: Your domain name and hosting can be bought together for about $3-6 per month. I recommend HostGator for this, but other places are more than willing to charge you more

·        My verdict: The best place to blog if you’re serious about it. Good for all types of review websites, fashion blogs, single page websites, business websites, mommy blogs, company sites, eCommerce sites and more..

2.   WordPress.com

 

About:

WordPress.com is a free blog-hosting site with roughly half the features of .org. The general idea here is less maintenance for you, but less control of the blog. Get a .wordpress domain name like “ridanhblog.wordpress.com” or pay to use your own domain name. Need a niche? WordPress.com sees 100,000 posts published each day so you’ll surely find like-minded thinkers. Not a full company website but a loyal companion for one. Write posts, try a free theme, set up social media buttons and learn blogging at WordPress.com.

Stats:

·        Recommended for: Mass community blogging

·        Released: November 21, 2005

·        Founder: Matt Mullenweg of Automattic

·        Total users: 56 million blogs

·        Pros: Ease to use with little you can mess up.

·        Cons: Less customization and a bit fussy with adding certain features.

·        Costs: Free, you can pay WordPress.com to get a domain name without the “.wordpress” addition.

·        My verdict: A lovely intro to blogging that about 1 year in takes us all to a crossroads: stay put, or transfer to WordPress.org.

3.   Blogger

 

About:

Blogger is Google’s free blog-hosting site. More popular at the turn of the millenium, Blogger still offers a great service but the designs are a bit elementary. Login and publish your first post for free with only a Gmail account. Try Adsense “monetization”, design a new layout and even edit your first piece of code.

Stats:

·        Recommended for: Blogging

·        Founded: August 2013, 1999

·        Notable events: Bought by Google in February, 2003

·        Founder: Evan Williams of Pyra Labs

·        Total users:

·        Pros: Publish anywhere, huge community, images, video, edit HTML/CSS, template designer, track traffic stats in Blogger, Adsense at no charge

·        Cons: While Blogger is where many writers started publishing, it’s designs appear a bit childish today. Google owns your blog – they axed Reader – so acknowledge a bit less control upfront.

·        Costs: Pay $10/year for a domain name without the “.blogspot” extension – otherwise totally free.

·        Future predictions: May merge with Google+.

·        My verdict: Everything blogging should be and more – Blogger was the sandbox for names now headlining in tech. The only real negative comes from outgrowing Blogger, at which point many (like myself) transfer to WordPress. Less popular today – even Google’s PR Mogul Matt Cutts runs a WordPress site.

4.   Tumblr

 

Introduction to Tumblr:

At a time when WordPress and Blogger were neck-and-neck for new users, Tumblr showed up as the 3rd guy to the party. They received lots of sign-ups from users wanting a totally refreshing take on blogging, and have grown ever since. Tumblr was recently bought by Yahoo, who has interesting plans for the whole blog advertising thing.

Stats:

·        Founded: February 2007

·        Founder: David Karp

·        Total users: 152 million

·        Pros: Ease of use and ability to share your friends’ work through re-blogging.

·        Cons: Less customization, just a shade less professional and not ideal for conducting business.

·        Costs: Free, pay Tumblr to get your own domain name without the “.tumblr” addition

·        My verdict: Great for photography and other forms of art. Super-simplistic designs and a whimsical vibe make Tubmlr a great choice for any new blogger.

5.   Weebly

 

Stats:

·        Founded: 2006

·        Founder: David Rusenko

·        Total users: hosts 15 million websites

·        Pros: Drag and drop feature so easy a monkey could use it.

·        Cons: Less control for the user

·        Costs: ?

·        My verdict: I’ve heard a lot of positive reviews here. For a company owner who needs a website but despises tech, it’s Weebly or Squarespace, and both are sound choices.

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How To Start a Blog - 7 Free Beginner's Guides

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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