How to start new Blog?

Want to start a blog? Don’t know where to start? Can you start blog for free?  How much money is it going to cost? Is it possible to create your own site and have it look good or do you have to spend a few thousand dollars to get it to look decent? How do you consistently create content that is interesting to your target audience? what is Options for new Blog?

So, You may have lots of questions and you may get so many answers. These are all good questions and they can have many answers depending upon your goals. Lets discuss it below if it could help out you.

·       First, you can start blog for free, but you can’t do things like start a real email list with one. There are several free blogging platforms available. The two free sites are  http://wordpress.com and http://blogger.com. These free blogging platforms are okay if you’re testing the waters to see if blogging is right for you. Now just keep in mind It is neither hard nor costly to start a blog.

·       You can use Travis Sago’s Blog Blueprint for Beginner’s to set up your first site Travis’ guide as it’s free, it’s easy to follow, includes every essential thing you need to do to get your first site/blog in working order

·       Cost to start a good blog: roughly $7 per month for hosting, $12 for a domain, anywhere from $29 to $300 for a good WordPress template (wordpress .org). 

·       Optin boxes for blogs are free. The mailing list service that powers them range from anywhere to free (Mailchimp up to so many subscribers) to $10 per month to start out with (www.aweber.com). Rates increase based on subscriber count. The service you choose will manage your subscriber list.

·       you can go with www.hostgator.com for now, either buying the monthly limited plan you get for $9.95 for this month or for $60(or less) for the whole year if you can afford that. Travis will walk you through exactly how to use HostGator’s Control Panel to forward your domain name to HostGator’s servers, help you install WordPress, walk you through all your plugin installations, help you get your Privacy, Contact, and regulatory pages set up, etc.

·       You can use www.elegantthems.com to pick a template that has WordPress integration, popupdomination.com for your opt-in and iContact for managing your email list and A2hosting to host your site.  A2hosting said they start at 3.99 per month, eleganthemese can give a template for $39-55 per year, popupdomination says it’s $70 (but I don’t know if that’s monthly, annually, or just a one time fee, & iContact doesn’t give prices on their website, so Please visit respective websites.

·       Most bloggers use Aweber or Mailchimp for their mailing list. iContact’s pricing seems reasonable though (http://www.icontact.com/pricing/). Depending on the plugins you use to promote your mailing list, you might want to make sure they support iContact. Most plugins (Popup Domination, Subscriber’s Magnet, etc.) will support Aweber and Mailchimp since they are used most.

·       My best suggestion is to read all given options and do some research. If you’re reading lots of blogs in your niche, you’re bound to get lots of ideas. I am sure you are going to find your way in few months.

How do I create content? that’s complicated question. To create consistent content that’s interesting to your audience can be done a few different ways…

·       Decide the subject for the blog. You can write on more than one subject but initially stick to one subject. Ask yourself Through your knowledge/experience of the subject and make a plan.

·       You can ask other peoples knowledge/experience and interviewing top experts of the subject. Follow them on social media and spend time on the same. Doing something while researching what’s best along your way. Otherwise it will waste a year or years of your time trying to figure out what’s best, when you’ll actually learn more by just doing.

·       Research your topic and see what questions and challenges people have and get involved in forums on your topic. Then create your content to help solve these issues. Just understand that blogging takes time, effort, and a never ending thirst for knowledge.

·       Keep in mind the Internet is evolving constantly and nothing is evergreen here. So upgrade yourself everyday and don’t miss the opportunities.

·       It may failure but don’t worry as I say nothing is permenant on Internet. But if you’re passionate about your topic, or business idea, and you’re willing to do the work, then there’s no doubt that you can succeed with your blog.

·       I will tell my experience. From 1 year I was getting 7 visitors on my blog. Suddenly I got 325 visitors on one day. I did some research and come to know that Facebook has published something on one famous personality. I have written something for that person that’s it and I got 325 visitors.

If you’re serious about starting a blog and have already done some research, then I would like to suggest go with own domain name uploading the wordpress.org platform through your own hosting account. Below some fast steps you can follow.

·       First step is hosting account and it cost around $6 to $10 a month (You can visit www.hostgator.com or www.bluehost.com).  So, it will cost approximately 100.00 bugs a year.

·       Second is domain Name and it cost around $6.00 to $14.00 a year (With some hosting account your main domain name is free)

·       A Wordpress theme (http://www.woothemes.com/ or other options you can find on google.com) that looks and feel nice and cost around $40.00 to $90.00 (One time fee).

·       Email opt-in list management cost is Free with www.mailchimp.com for up to 2000 subscribers, but no auto-responder. You can pay for full features through www.aweber.com for $19.00 a month. ($200.00 a year). You manage your email opt-ins through the dashboard of your email-hosting provider (Maichimp or Aweber more options find on google). This is where you can send out a weekly newsletter, set up an auto-responder, and design your opt-in box for your blog.

·       Header graphic for your wordpress theme can be done for $5.00 to $20.00 through http://Odesk.com

·       You can ask someone for help on the forum. You set up wordpress from within your hosting account, and upload your theme. You can get someone to do this from www.odesk.com for $9.00.