5 things you should consider before starting a Blog

5 things you should consider before starting a Blog

Some basic Considerations you should make before starting a Blog

Today we will discuss some things which a Blogger should consider before starting a Blog. Many people get failures in their Blogging careers because they haven’t had made important considerations before starting a Blog. Making some plans before getting involve into a new thing will help you to work in new dimensions too because you know what is your target.

So here are some basic considerations a Blogger should made before starting a Blog.

Selecting a Niche

Before starting your Blog you must know that in which field your Blog will work? Or I should say on what topic your Blog will publish articles. The success rate of niche specific blogs is more than the blogs who haven’t have a specific niche. So as a Blogger you must first choose your niche but make sure that your niche is profitable and you are an expert in it or no one will read your Blog.

If you want to conduct your Blog articles about a specific niche and you don’t know much about it then first read and watch tutorials about your specific niche.

For Example if you want to write about SEO and you don’t know much about it, So first follow some top SEO copyrighting Blogs and then combine the information in your article which you got from all of them.

Selecting a niche before starting a Blog will help you to choose your content because you know what is your Blog about and what should you publish on it. People who have blogs who are not targeting specific niches even don’t know that what should they write and what should they not. So, if you have select a niche your before starting your Blog then you will be knowing that in what threshold your content should travel. I am not saying that you cannot write about other topics, Obviously you can write about other topics but majority of your content will be targeting a specific niche which will earn you some authority because people will believe that your Blog or you are an specialist in that particular field you have chosen for your Blog

Once you have selected your niche and you believe that you are able to write about it then you have done just a thing on your part. Now you need to do some other things which are given below

Selecting the right Domain name

After choosing your niche you will need a suitable domain name which describes your Blog’s niche and which has a keyword of your niche in it. For Example if you are writing about “baseball” then you must use baseball in your domain name. But I know that probably there will be no domains available for many specific keywords. If you are unable to buy your desired domain name, lets say baseball .com then you can use some variations to get a domain which has both relevancy to your blog and your niche’s keyword. For instance you can buy a domain name like this playbaseball .com.

As you can see that your keyword “baseball” is present in your domain and your domain is also reflecting your blog’s niche.

Selecting the right Platform

Once you have bought a domain, you need to choose a platform on which your Blog will be hosted. There are many platforms for Blog hosting some are free and some are expensive. But the most popular hosting programs for Blogging are Blogger and WordPress. Blogger is a completely free platform with unlimited amount of disk space and with high bandwidth. It is a tool provided by Google and all the blogspot blogs are hosted on it. However, it has many limitations.

I personally recommend WordPress because of its dynamics, You can choose any gorgeous theme for free. Some are premium themes but there are still a lot of free themes which will look great. WordPress has a ton of Plugins that will help you to give a professional look to your Blog.

You can also use free SEO plugins which will help you to get a better ranking in Search Engines and WordPress is completely SEO friendly.

You can read my tutorial about WordPress to get a better understanding of it.

Selecting a Good Hosting Plan

If you have chosen WordPress for your Blog then the next thing you will need is a hosting plan on which you can install WordPress. There are many hosting companies some are cheap and good and some are expensive and average. LOL, The most popular Hosting companies in the internet world are Hostgator, BlueHost and Godaddy. Thrice of these platforms will give you an ultimate support to build your Website or your Blog. They have 24/7 live support team which will guide you on every step but most people recommend that Hostgator has the best support team.

BlueHost is yet another great company with a new technology that increases your WordPress Blog speed. WordPress authorities recommend BlueHost for wordpress hosting themselves.

You can read my in-depth article about Blue Host here.

Choosing your Audience

Before starting a Blog you must make sure that which people will be your audience. For Example if you are starting a Blog about Cricket Coaching then you must first make sure that what type of cricket lovers will be your audience. Some people love bowling, some love batting and some need fitness tips. So which field will you cover? Bowling, Batting, Fielding or Fitness? Definitely, if you are a Cricket coach your self then you must not be expert in every single field. You would be a professional batsman or bowler and you cannot give coaching for every single field of the game. So lets say you are a good batsman and you can coach Batting tips to your audience then you must target people who love batting instead of those who love bowling.

However, if you are willing to coach everything which is related to cricket or any other field then you must hire a professional team for your help. In case of a Cricket Blog you must hire a professional bowling coach, a professional fielding coach and you are a good batting coach yourself.

Again the keyword shows its importance again. Be very accurate and efficient in choosing your niche’s keyword. If you want to write about “Batting” only then your keyword should be a combination of “Cricket” and “Batting”. So your domain could be like this cricketforbatsman .com. Sounds good HANN?

But I am not asking anyone of you to just write about cricket. It was just an example to let you that how to identify your audience. In case you want to start a Blog which is related to cricketnews then your keyword should be according to the niche. Lets say “newsofcricket. com”

Again your audience is different, Not the people who want to get cricket coaching but the people who want cricket news.

Once you have chosen your audience smartly. Try to promote your upcoming Blog on forums, blogs and websites which are related to your niche.

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Hasnain Haider Abbas is a 25 years old web entrepreneur and founder of Articlesteller.com. In the early stage of his life, he fell in love with technology, His expertise is in SEO, Content writing, Social Media, Affiliate Marketing, Web development, and Business promotion.

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