Many people use blogs as a place to write their lives, or better known as online diaries. Along with the development of blog technology is used as a place to make money. From that writer intends to introduce business using blog, start from the beginning of the tips and marketing.
Blogger is a blog publication service created by Pyra Labs and acquired by Google in 2003. In general, blogs hosted by Google are under the subspect of blogspot.com. Blogger allows its users to publish their blogs on other servers, via FTP through May 1, 2010. After that date, all blogs must be stored on Google servers, even though users can use their own site address with Custom URLs.
Where to start?
Getting started with blogging is actually very easy, but most people are confused by themselves.
1. Set goals
Is the purpose of blogging important? Very important. If we do not have a goal then certainly our blog will be unclear where the destination will go, and we also become inconsistent in taking care of our blog.
Blogging takes time, energy, and mind. Do not let everything wasted because it has no clear purpose.
2. Define the topic
Choose a topic that really buddy interested in accordance with your hobby or expertise buddy. If my friend chose a topic that my friend is not so fond, then your blog will not last long.
3. Select the blogging service
Lots of services that we can use for blogging, such as Blogger.com, WordPress.com, Tumblr.com, and so on. Everything has its own advantages and disadvantages. But I think Blogger.com is the right choice for my friend. In addition to being free, blogger.com is very easy to use for beginners.
4. Start writing
If my friend already has a blog then the most important is to fill your blog with writing. Begin to write anything you want to write in accordance with the topics that have been determined buddy.
5. Beautify the blog
Things that are actually not so important to be done by beginner bloggers but there is no harm if done origin not excessive.
You can change the template or view your blog with a better, install widgets for the more beautiful look, and others. But remember! do not overdo it because most beginner blogger addictive gonta-replace templates or display that ultimately just a waste of time.
The error is often done beginner blogger
1. Too busy with the display
As I've mentioned a bit above, the mistake that almost all beginner bloggers do is too busy with the look of the blog. Matching templates, plug-off widgets, etc.
Having a cool blog look is good, but that will make your blog become big and known to many people is not because of the look, but because the content pal served on the blog.
2. Quantity rather than quality
Beginner bloggers are usually competing to fill his blog with as many posts as possible in the hope that can quickly get a lot of visitors regardless of whether the post results of writing itself or the results jiplak other bloggers.
3. Too much reading of information but minimal practice
As a beginner blogger usually his sense of curiosity is very large. Read this read until his head is full of information and confused which one should be practiced. Better bit of information but really practiced than most information but totally unused.
4. Inconsistent
In the early days very diligent updating post regularly every day, but after that suddenly disappeared somewhere. Updating blogs on a regular basis is very good, but consistency seems to me much more important.
5. Discussing too many topics
Is it a problem to discuss many topics? absolutely not. But certainly my blog will be difficult to develop, has no uniqueness, no identity, and will be difficult to get loyal readers.
6. Too obsessed with blog stats
A beginner blogger will usually be very diligent to check the number of visitors, alexa ranking, pagerank, and so forth. A day can check up to hundreds of times. Though it will not help to increase the number of visitors to your blog and will only waste time.
7. Make too many blogs
Honestly enough experienced bloggers who manage many blogs, tens and even hundreds. But especially for beginners is not recommended to make too many blogs because it will make no focus.
Although my friend is no longer a beginner I think managing a lot of blogs is not a necessity. It all depends on your intention. If you want to make a blog to be popular and long-lasting, then there is no reason to manage many blogs.
8. Too ambitious to get money quickly
Can not be denied many bloggers who start blogging because they want to earn money. They assume panning money from blogs can be done overnight, but not so. It takes time, effort and consistency.
I myself can only make money after two years of blogging. The time is long enough to remember I started really from scratch. Buddy may be faster or longer. Clearly it takes time, effort and consistency.
9. Not make the most of Google search engine
Let alone just a blog problem, any information we can find easily on google. So use Google well to learn blogging.
Make money from blogs
1. Advertising Network
The most popular way that many Indonesian bloggers use to make money from blogs is by joining advertising network programs or Advertising Networks.
By following a program like this we just need to put a script or code into our blog to display ads automatically.
We will get paid every time someone clicks the ads on our blog, or the cool language PPC aka Pay Per Click.
Here are some of the most popular Advertising Networks:
Google AdSense (Read: How to Register Google AdSense)
Media.net
Chitika
IdBlogNetwork (local)
Kliksaya (local)
and many more
2. Sell Advertising Space on Blog
In addition through Advertising Networks, we can also offer advertising space on our blog directly to anyone who is interested to advertise on our blog.
The advantages of this way is the income that we get will be more certain, because we own that will determine the price.
3. Sell Your Own Product
One way that I'm doing myself on this blog, which is selling their own products. If my friend has his own product, whether it be physical or digital products, it will be very mantab if my friend sell it through blog.
4. Selling Services
Selling services can also be another alternative to make money from blogs. If you write good friends, then can try to sell article writing services. If you are a design buddy, then it could also sell design services. And many more services that can be offered through the blog buddy.
5. Join the Affiliate Program
If you want to sell products on your own blog but do not have a product that can be sold, then you can try to follow the affiliate program.
Affiliates are programs where we help to market products belonging to others and we will earn commissions on every sale.
6. And many more ..
5 ways above is just a small part that we can do to make money from blogs. There are still many other methods that are not less good to make money from blogs.
learning to create a blog requires patience, consistency, passion and willingness. Failure is a natural thing to make failure as a motivation in developing a better blog.
Reference
https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blogger_(layanan)
http://sugeng.id/panduan-ngeblog-untuk-pemula/