Blogging is one of the best sources of digital marketing and making money online. Here in this blog content, you will learn about how to start a blog in India. Now that we have learned the basics of affiliate marketing, you are now ready to create your blog! This will help you to quickly get a practical feel of the things we are learning in this course.
A blog may help you to promote your profession or business. Or, perhaps you could just write about something you love and have deep knowledge about that topic and share it with people. But the main thing is that you will be able to do affiliate marketing, that is put affiliate links on your blog and earn commissions by selling other people’s products.
This topic will be explained in three parts.
1-The first part will be coming up with an excellent idea.
2-Second will teach you how to make your blog useful for people.
3-Third will teach you and explain to you briefly how to start your blog in india.
PART 1: Think of a Topic for starting a blog
If you are going to start blogging, First you have to decide what you want to write about. You need to come up with an ideas, thoughts and knowledge.
The best topic would be something you love; something about which you can talk endlessly and, therefore, put into words. Here are a few recommended ideas to help you get started-
- Food & Nutrition
- Fitness/Weight Loss
- Body Building
- Education
- Skin Care/Cosmetics
- Babies
- Technology/Gadgets
If you are not decided with these topics then, ask yourself –
- What am I really good in?
- What really interests me?
- What is that topic on which I can easily grab more information?
A blog can be about anything. It can also be about business or profession and other related to the industrial works.
PART 2: How can you make your blog useful for your users?
The main thing to remember is that if your blog is useful to your visitors, you will benefit from great visibility.
When people find it useful, traffic increases. Some usefull ideas are explained to connecting with people are given below;
- Teach People Anything – Use your experience in a particular area and share your knowledge and experiences with people who would like to know more about that topics
- Provide articles and information on the Latest Trending topics and News– If you have experiences on any particular topic, then you would keep up with the news and trends related to the topic. The news that you provide should be ‘insider’ or ‘outsider’ news. This will increase the readability and users on your blog.
- Making People Laugh – Laughter is undoubtedly the best thing in today’s world. If you can get people to laugh while reading your content, then people will visit your blog. Write content creatively and funnily so that it tickles their funny bone.
- Be an Inspiration – Do you have inspiring thoughts, Ideas, cognitive thinking, and stories to share? Perhaps you recovered from a serious illness and overcame it with courage! Whatever your story, whether on the roads, workplace, or at home, share it with others and motivate them to overcome their problems.
A piece of advice here! Visit other blogs websites and posts to see what other bloggers are posting and how they are working on it. Visit to popular blogs and websites and try to identify the facts and points that make it unique and interesting. Google is your friend for this search.
So, while you are looking for ideas to increase the readership of your blog or content, remember there are a few things that you should not blog about. Do not provide your name and do not write about your workplace, or share secrets or information that can cause trouble for other people. If you are writing about your workplace and secrets or information, then you should be aware of what is and what is not permissible.
Note – You will need to avoid copying and pasting from other blog posts and pages online since that is treated as plagiarism and it would lead to your blog getting rejected by networks. The key is to take inspiration from other pages but innovate it something interesting while adding it to your blog.
You can also read through relevant books, and magazines or discuss with people who would know about the topic you have chosen.
PART 3: How to Start a Blog in India step by step
You can create a blog on Blogger.com for free.
Let’s go through the steps to create a blog on blogger.com for instant. Google owns a blog creation site, blogger.com, that is easy to use and will get you started in just a few minutes. The benefit of using Blogger.com is that you get the additional benefit of being able to use Google’s blog management tools.
You can create a free blog here!
So, let’s get started with the lesson on how to start your blog on Blogger.com.
Step 1 – Do you have a Google account? If not, the first step is to sign up for an account. Register for a Google account by clicking on the ‘Sign Up’ button that is located at the top corner on the right side.
Website Link – Click here
Step ‘2’ – Click on ‘New Blog’.
Step 3 – Choose a blog name or keywords and your blog posts and address. For this, you can select a template from the options given or see more options and change it later.
After choosing the template, select ‘Create Blog’.
Step 4 – Click on ‘Start Blogging’.
Step 5 – Enter the post title and text and finally click on Publish button.
With these steps, your blog will be ready. There are, however, a few things that you should remember.
The first of these is that your blog should always be active. This means that you should be consistent with maintaining your blog and make regular posts. Instead of trying to achieve perfection, make your blog come alive. Trying to achieve perfection will only delay things. You can create posts and edit them later if necessary.
Here are a few blogs which you can view to understand how they look-
1. http://www.vegrecipesofindia.com/*
2. http://www.indiatravelblog.net/*
The above blogs have been sourced from www.topindianblogs.com* where you can go through more blogs for inspiration. They are considered as some of the best bloggers in India.
(* the owners of mentioned blogs and www.topindianblogs.com are not related to our course in any way).
You may create more blogs and websites after your first one using your same account, but keep this one active and work to make it successful. Remember, that the key to successful blogging is interaction and consistency.
Consider this first blog as your practice blog. Get your blog going with a few initial posts. You will get better after a while. Feel free to play around, experiment and learn. You can similarly create more than one blog if you want on different topics.
If you are able to create a good blog then you don’t need a website. There are millions of people who own a blog, have ads on their blogs and earn a lot of money through their blogs. Your blog will become popular if you are able to write original content on your blog and post articles where you are giving useful information to users. For all my members I will cover website creation and help them, as that is also very important.
