Answers To Four (4) Popular Questions Asked By Upcoming Bloggers

Asking questions is one of the secret things successful people do to succeed, Don't Feel like you know it all because you Don't. As a newbie in the blogging atmosphere your best tool should be Google .





Here are some Question Aspiring Bloggers Keep Asking.

1 . How Do I Create A Blog?

If you fall under this set of people,you are yet to be a blogger you are an aspiring blogger that is yet to start blogging, there are different platform that host your blog for free all you need to do is get a gmail account of your own via www.gmail.com , An Android Device(SmartPhone),Laptop(PC),Chrome Browser(apart from opera and uc browser any other browser can be use)

-To create a blog there are two(2)Platform I will recommend you use.

*Blogger(Most Preffered For Beginners)
*WordPress (Most Preferred for bloggers with little experience and html,CSS coding ability)

*Blogger is a super easy to use,free and flexible platform owned by Google, you can create and start blogging on blogger for free.

How To Use Blogger

Visit www.blogger.com , Sign in to your Google account (gmail) you will be redirected to blogger homepage, Click on create a blog , Enter The Blog Name (e.g newspot.blogspot.com)You Want to Use, Write a tagline , then choose a template to use then submit.



Blogger is simple because all the necessary things a blog need are present in your dashboard , you can create post, change template,create a page , change settings etc by clicking on the menus already present on your dashboard.



(Complete tutorials on blogger coming up - Search Google For More Tutorials on Blogger)


*Wordpress

Wordpress is another simple and free to use platform(Actually WordPress.org is free and self hosted while WordPress.com is not)
I will not recommend WordPress for a newbie blogger but if you feel you can handle it visit www.WordPress.org to sign up .


2. Is Blogging Free ; How Much Am I Going to Spend.?

While like I mentioned early blogger is a platform that allow you host your blog for free with a default domain name .blogspot.com . However, you can change from .blogspot.com to a custom paid domain extension like .com , .net , .ng etc for a token . A .com domain name is around $10 / Year . Yes blogging is free only if you will use the default domain extension.

3. Is Blogging Profitable?

Yes with the help of Ad networks like Google AdSense,Propeller Ads,Media.net you can make money blogging.You will need to work hard as a blogger before you think of monetizing your blog . Most AdNetwork don't easily accept publishers they have to do some review on your blog to analysis your traffic,pageviews,contents and so on.

4. How Do I Get People To View My Blog ?

Well , there are countless number of ways to publicize your blog but I will be sharing just three (3) with you;

i.SEO - Search Engine Optimization Never underestimate the power of Google,Bing,Baidu etc you can submit your site to Google search , Bing and other search engines so that when some one search for something that is on your blog ,your site appears as a result this is one of the most effective way to get people to view your blog.

ii. Social Media - Social Media like Facebook , twitter , Google+ are very good platform for one who wants to publicize his blog to join .

iii. Other Blogs and Forum - As a blogger you should learn to comment on other peoples blog , join blogging communities,join big forums and platforms with huge traffic . these are they three basic ways for one to publicize his blog as a beginner.

I hope This Help clear your doubt and also boost your morale to become a blogger like me and host of many others out there.

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