What You Need to Know Before You Start Your Blog

I have noticed from my personal experience that having a strategy and being prepared ensures that I am more successful with that venture. I believe that blogging is no different. You can either just dive into it and go along with the flow where ever the road takes you. Or you can be strategic about it and plan ahead. I put together a list of articles to read along with some things that I feel that you need to know that will put you in a better position to have a more successful blog.

Education and Research

My biggest issue when it came to making money online was that old saying. “There are things we don’t know, and then there are things we don’t know that we don’t know.”  After I realized what I need to know the hard part was over with and then I started focusing on education and research. Please be aware that when you decide to blog that you are stepping into a whole new filed of study and that it requires education. My advice would be that you take notes as you read this article along with the articles mentioned in this post. I truly believe that if  you where to dedicate a few hours for researching and taking notes you would gather enough information to start your blog off on the right foot and increase your chances of making money from your blog.

Your blogging Niche and How to Find it.

Finding your blogging niche is one of the most crucial elements when it comes to blogging. You have a lot of blogs out there that have several different niches on them. The best way to go about is to pick one niche based on your interest and knowledge.  The following articles talk about how to pick a niche.

List of 100+ Niches and How to Pick One

How to Find a Profitable Niche

How to Set up a Blog.

How to use the dashboard of the blogging platform of your choice is really important.  The following articles focus mostly on WordPress since I feel is the best  one out there. But here are some tips on how to set up your blog.

Easy WordPress set up

40 Practical Tips on How to Set up Your Blog

How to Write Effective and Professional Articles.

Writing unique and effective articles from day one will save you some time in the future where you wont have to go back and rewrite them as I did.  I had to go back in my archives and rewrite some older posts once I got better. Including this one. The following articles talk about how to write truly unique articles that Google and other search engines love..

How to Write Great Articles From Your Own Unique Perspective

How to write Truly Unique Articles

Things You Should Know About T0day’s SEO.

I threw the word “today’s’ in there since some of the old methods either don’t work anymore or can go as far as harming you. Rest assure that the following articles give tips about what SEO is as of 2013 and what to take in consideration.

SEO Best Practices in 2013

SEO in 2013: 7 Surprisingly Simple Factors That Will Take The Lead

Creating a Business Strategy.

Here is the fun part. Creating strategies for yourself.  These don’t have to be professional since you are not presenting them to anybody. Just having a clear understanding of  your goals and how to get there is enough. The following articles talk about what steps and precautions to take to ensure that your blog is launched on the right foot.  If you have a good business strategy who knows what can happen, you can get traffic from day one, you might even make money. It all depends on your blogging business strategy. Let me give you an idea of what I mean. If you have a product in relation to your niche that you put up as soon as the blog is launched you can make money the same day. Assuming that you have made your blog highly anticipated before its even launched. This is possible, its just up to you to come up with the strategy.  Bellow are a few articles that give some insight on the topic.

First Time Bloggers Business Plan

How to Launch a Brand New Website

Step by Step Blog Launch Plan

Finding Your Target Audience.

Here is one that I thought of recently. I have never taken this consideration for myself before and realized this as writing this post. Who do you write for? Something I need to be asking myself. Experienced bloggers or rookie bloggers? My blog contains both but honestly I don’t get to many rookie bloggers unless I send them to my blog myself and want to give them advice. Asking yourself who you are writing for is important. Bellow are a few articles on how to find your target audience. More so directed if you already have a blog, but you can still get some juicy info out of them.

Define Your Blog Audience

How to Define Your Blog Target Audience

Things to avoid.

We went over majority of the things you should do but none of the things you shouldn’t bellow you will find some articles on the things you should avoid when it comes to blogging.

10 Rookie Mistakes

Additional tips.

I’m sure that this post might have left some things out so I went ahead and added some articles that share a different perspective.  Bellow you can find additional advice on what to do before you start your blog that may not have been mentioned here.

9 Important Things You Should Know Before You Start Your Blog.

Blogging Tips for Beginners

 Summary

Some of the things that I feel like a blogger has to know before they create their first, or next blog has been outlined in this post. Here is a quick overview.

Figure out your niche.

Learn how to use the dashboard and set up your blog effectively.

Learn how to write effective articles.

Learn todays SEO.

Create a business plan.

Find your audience.

Things to avoid.

The a hardest part for me was not knowing what I need to know so therefore I went ahead and put together a list of things that I believe you should know before you start your first blog and keep you from making the same mistakes I have.  But this resource list is not just for new bloggers, some more experienced bloggers might be considering starting a new blog in a different niche. If you are experienced its true that you might skip some things in this post but there also might be some information that you might find useful.

This concludes my resource list of the things you need to know in order to give your blog a good start. Be sure to check out my other posts on how to get some free content in order to be even more prepared.

How to Get Free Useful Content Without Getting Penalized by Google

Now its time to hear from you. What is some of your advice that you think I might have left out and what are some of your experiences? Let me know in the comment section.

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