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Blogging business is now one major lucrative business, many internet entrepreneur practice the most. It has made a lot of people a self made billionaires. One of them is Celebrity blogger, Linda Ikeji, the owner of lindaikejisblog.com. She is also one of the female billionaires in Africa. According to Forbes, Linda worth $3 million dollars.
The question now is what is blogging?
Blogging is the act of engaging web users in conservation by posting and allowing them to respond to the post through the blog comment site.
Google, has a popular blogging site named 'Blogger', it is directed to the domain, www.blogger.com. For you to own a blog on this platform is free, your hosting service for your blog is also free.
To start a blogging business, you need this qualities as these would help fuel your passion in blogging business.
Note, this blogging business is not a quick money platform to earn because your income depends on the traffic coming to your website.
Note that as a blogger, you have started the work of journalism.
Journalism, according to Ganiyu (2004), can be defined as the job of gathering, writing and disseminating news and views about the society through the means of the mass media.
What qualification do you need to become a competent blogger or good journalist?
Certainly, you need to be educated at least get a diploma or have university degree.
Remember, we are talking on how you look professional in the field of blogging.
To survive in the field of blogging business in today's modern world of advancement in technology.
According to Ganiyu 2004, you need 8 qualities
1 Must be educated
2 Good health
3 Patience
4 Determination
5 Nose for news
6 Be hardworking
7 Taste for adventure
8 Ability to write good prose
Here is my free guide to own or start a blog
To be a successful blogger, you need to have a passion for your topic. Choose a topic that you are passionate about and you want others to benefit.
Steps:
1 Pick a blog name, custom domain that describe your niche
The name chosen for your blog must define what your blog is all about. If your blog is a news platform, give it the name like BBC News, Tolu News e.t.c It would let people know that your blog is about news.
Once you have some name for your blog, you need to buy a domain. You can buy a good main at Web4Africa. Choose a domain extension. A.com domain extension is the most preferred and it is commonly used. For instance, www.tolunews.com
2 Get your blog online
Now with blogger.com, your site or blog is already online. The good news is that no need for technical support. Google will host your blog for free. You will only need to pay #6000 per domain extension you will link to your blog. A custom domain is not free but tolunews.blogspot.com is free.
3 Customize your blog by choosing a free template
Under the administrator page, you click on layout and customize the layout and design of your blog. You can choose any template you love from the free templates available.
4 Write a blog post
Now, it is time to get your readers engaged.
At the post editor screen, enter the title of your post and add image on the post and publish it. Make sure your article is unique and original, and not a copied content from another website. When you are about to monetize it, Google adsense platform what you to at least publish 20 original articles on your to qualify for a Google Adsense account.
5 Promote your blog on social media platforms to get more people to read your content
It is time to get your contents online and available to the whole world. Social networks site like Facebook, twitter and Instagram are social media sites that allows users to connect and share your contents. Facebook is the most popular example of a social network site. Using facebook and other social media networks to share your contents will increase your traffic to your blog, that is, more money for you.
After setting up your blog, you need to monetize it to earn money from your hard work and contents.
How you can monetize your blog?
Interestingly, Google adsense is the best and easiest monetize platform to make money on internet.
Though, there are many other platforms but Google Adsense is popular platform used by blogs. You simply run google ads on your website or blog and earn from each and every click your site visitors generate on the Adsense ads.
What is Google Adsense?
Google Adsense is a program run by google to allow website or blog owners earn money by displaying targeted google ads on their websites.
The google adsense work base on the contents of your pages in your blog.
E.g. If you have a website on sports, most of the ads on your blog will be sports related only. If you have a website on news, ads related to the niche will be displayed live on the blog by google.
On the google adsense, you can earn up to 5 cents per click as google shares up to 60% of the revenue with you.
For you to qualify for Google adsense account
1 You need a blog
2 Contents that describe your niche: Remember content is king. Google adsense work with site with good contents and users will be attractive to visit your website.
3 Traffic: Traffic is very important. Imagine, having a blog with good content but no traffic, everything is useless without any traffic
4 Need to open google adsense
You will not make any money from google adsense untill you have an approved account from Google.
After your first article published on your blog, google takes 6 months for new domains to take the approval but some adsense publishers get their approval 1-2 weeks by creating a good quality blogs. Before connecting your blog to adsense make sure your website complies with Google adsense policy. Any blog that does not comply with google adsense policy, his or her application to join adsense publishers will be rejected.
With these few steps, you can easily create your own blog.
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