How to start a blog and How to promote your blog

What is blogging

    This platform is used to post all kinds of information on the internet. The information can be of any kind of interest.  Your interest can be helpful for other readers on the Internet. Nearly 50% of the world population is using the Internet and different people are searching for different articles and your article may helpful for any other readers. 

How blogging help you financially

    When someone putting effort into anything they will expect some financial return from it. Blogging offers you some income with it.

    There are multiple ways to earn using blogging below are some ways

1. Displaying advertisements - There are many advertising networks that work as a mediator between advertisers and publishers. Once your site got approved you can display their advertisements and earn using that
2. Affiliate links -  Most top companies offer affiliate links. The affiliate link is nothing but you are promoting their product if any of your followers buy a product with your link you will earn a commission from that product amount.
3. Direct Ads - If any advertiser is willing to display their ads on your site they will pay some amount for you
4. Selling own products - If you had any own products like books or dresses or online courses, you can promote those products with your site. So, you can sell those products and make a profit with it
5. Sponsored posts - Once your blog got some attention some other bloggers will ask you to post their content in your blog. They will pay for these type of posts

How much time required for bloggers to start earning

    The right answer is you definitely need to wait more time if you don't have any followers on any other social media. For an initial period, you need to promote your posts using social media. If you already have some followers on youtube or Facebook or Twitter or any other platform it will be easy for you in terms of promotion. If you don't have any of these followers you will struggle at the initial time. For some bloggers, it extends from nearly 6 months to 1 year.

How to start blogging

    There are many platforms that provide facilities to do blogging. Some famous platforms are WordPress, Blogspot, Wiz, etc,. These platforms are mostly free to use but you need to pay a monthly subscription to buy any custom domains(.in,.com). This is used to host your blog online. Below are the steps to start your blog

1. Finalize your platform in which you are going to start blogging
2. I took Blogspot in this example. Select a theme for your blog
   
   
   
3. Create pages that are necessary. Pages are Disclaimer, About us, Contact us, and privacy policy. These pages will help the visitors to know about your background. 
   
   
   
4. Click create a new post at the top left corner and start your first post.

7 Keypoints in blogging

1. Don't copy and paste other article contents. Use your unique style of posting
2. Dont's place too much of Ads on the same page
3. Try to make the audience read the whole article.
4. Put a catchy title for your posts
5. Write posts without grammar mistake
6. Add subheadings to help the audience to understand your article
7. Separate the whole article into short pieces. It will help readers to read all paragraphs.

How to promote my blog

It will take more time to get organic search traffic in blogging, you need to get some social traffic till you get organic traffic

    If you have followers on social media's share your blog post link to social media. or else create new social media followers and it will take time to create new followers. 

    If someone posted some content of your post comment your post link on their blog comments section

    Put your link in platforms like quora as an apt answer. Peoplw who search about the topic in quora will find your link.

All the best!!