The first thing when it comes to making a successful blog is to think about a niche that is both profitable and does not have too much competition. Your niche (what you blog about) has to be something people are interested in and willing to spend money on.At the same time, your niche must have relatively small competition to make it easier for you to get a decent ranking in the search engines.If you just start blogging about things you like, there is a chance that the competition is too high and you will never earn any money.
Here is a great video I found on YouTube showing how to choose a profitable niche:
When you have picked a profitable niche with relatively low competition, the next step is to choose a domain name for your new blog.The best place to get a domain is GoDaddy.com.It is very important to choose a domain name that is a top level domain (.com, .net or .org) and if possible a direct match.By direct match I mean a domain name that matches your best keywords and does not have any other words in it.This makes it a lot easier to rank in the search engines.
After you have your domain name, you will also need a hosting account where all your blog files will be stored.I personally use a blog hosting service called Hostgator.They allow you to host an unlimited amount of sites for less than $10 per month.Their service is great, easy to use and I especially like their online help.You can just contact them from your admin area and they will help you with setting up your blog and everything that has to do with hosting.
The nest thing when it comes to how to make a successful blog is of course your content.The content is what makes search engines index your blog and great content drives people to your blog again and again.When you write excellent content that people finds useful, they will send it to social sites and in return you will get even more traffic.
Many people think only about how to make as much money as possible.I think this is the wrong approach, we need to think how to help people solve their problems.A lot of people want to know how to do something or find a cure for something.If you can provide the information people are looking for, then you are on your way to a highly successful blog.
Another thing when it comes to make a successful blog is link building.You need to build links to your blog from other sites, search engines look at the quality of links coming to your site and use that to determine how high your blog should be ranked.How many links that point to your site is just one criteria, quality content is the most important thing.
The last thing when it comes to making a successful blog is making an income from it.Like I mentioned before, you need to think about helping people. Instead of slapping your blog full of ads to different products (too many ads makes your blog look cluttered and ugly), choose one high quality affiliate product.
Your reputation is on the line, you cannot afford to sell a crappy product.You can either choose a high quality affiliate product from Commission Junction, Share A Sale or some other site, or you can create your very own product to sell.Information sells really well online and as a vendor it is the best possible thing to sell.No need for a ware house because people can download your product directly after payment.
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