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How To Start A Blog Is Easier Than You Think

How To Start A Blog Can Be As Easy As Joining An Inexpensive Membership Site And Start Writing.

You’ve decided to do it, but the question remains, how to start a blog. Your not sure how to go about it. Let’s make the process quick and easy by giving you the steps and a few tips.

How to start a blog – Step 1 – Choose Your Niche

What’s your blog going to be about? What are you passionate about? What do you love to do. That’s where most people start.

If you already have a business the the blog will probably be related to the business. You may want to do a bit of keyword research here and you can also narrow the niche to one or more aspects of your current business.

For example. If your online business is about cat training. Your blog could be about positive reinforcement training, about house breaking or even about pet nutrition.

Whatever you choose, your goal should be to become a respected authority in your niche. To brand yourself as an expert.

How To Start A Blog – Step 2 – Choose Your Software

Here are a few of the options blog headlines – WordPress, Blogger, Typepad and Movable Type. But you should use WordPress because it is easy to use and the ability to customize your blog. WordPress is the industry standard and there are lots of tools available to integrate into your WordPress blog’ most of them free.

How To Start A Blog – Step 3 – Starting Your Own Blog

This is where it gets interesting. You have several alternatives

First, you could hire a professional to design and set up your site. One thing to remember is “pretty” doesn’t mean better sales and many designers are not marketers. They are going to want you to setup numerous pages, but remember you have to provide the content for those pages, so this can sidetrack you from getting started blogging.

The second alternative is to set up your blogging site yourself. You need a domain name’ a hosting site, to install WordPress on your domain, choose and install a theme (there are thousands of free ones available) and then add some plugins and adjust the settings. Now you are ready to blog add content and create some new pages. If all this sounds intimidating, it is easy to outsource to someone local or on the web. A friend has a step by step training for doing it yourself that you might want to check out.

There is a third and new alternative to getting started fast and that is to join a membership site that provides a blog for you as a basic part of the membership. The membership I use and recommend is the Empower Network. You get a blog on a high ranking domain (easy to get Your content Found) and a video training course and regular training calls. The bonus you get with this blogging system is the resale rights to Empower Network so essentially you have your own membership site and and recurring income.

How To Start A Blog – Step 4 – Start Blogging

What’s the purpose of your blog? And how often are you going to blog? If this is just a general interest or hobby blog the it is recommended that you blog at least once a week as a minimum. Less than that and you can have problems getting the searh engines picking up your content regularly.

For you professional bloggers who want a lot of eyeballs to see your site, to generate leads or sell products you should blog more often. One blog post a day is recommended.Your goal is to get your content to the first page of the search engines where it is most likely to get clicked on. This will require some additional training and understanding of keywords and basic SEO (search engine optimization). That’s another reason I recommend the Empower Network because they are laser focused in their training on getting your content to page 1 in Google.

However often you choose to blog you should decide on a schedule and stick to it and make it a habit. Remember blogs are active sites and your readers will expect frequent content updates.

How To Start A Blog – Step starting your own blog 5 – Get Eyeballs To Your Blog Site

Once you feel comfortable with your site looks and you have a number of blog posts, it’s time to drive traffic to your blog. This can include using social networking sites, social bookmarking, registries and even paid advertising methods. Empower Network covers all these and more in their advanced training.