How To Start A Blog: 2 Most Important Ingredients You Need To Have

By Amillson On September 6, 2009 Under Blogging, Blogging Tips

There are thousands of weblog (blog) entering the World Wide Web every day. People blog about anything and everything – about a particular product, services, hobbies, sports, events, animals, cars, ideas and so many more.

You, too, can start your own weblog. Choose a niche of a particular topic and write articles related to that niche and post them on the Internet. Thanks to the evolutions of digital media, the Internet, because now even a real newbie or a “not so computer literate” person can start a blog and share ideas with the rest of the world. Easily.

Blogging is not as complicated as you think it is. Of course there are certain things you need to learn before you can really blog away. There are 2 most important ingredients that you need to have prior to starting any blog.

1) You need a BLOG HOSTING provider

You need to have a blog foundation, a base, where you can leave and operate your blog from. There are a few types of blog hosting provider to choose from depending on what you want to do. Whether you want to blog just for the sake of blogging: you want to blog because you feel like it or you just want to share about something. Or you want to blog for profit: your aim here is to gain online revenue or income. Creating a blog to make profit, in one way or another is by far the most popular.

So, after deciding on the type of blogging you want to do, then you can choose the blog hosting provider properly. There are two types of blog hosting:

a) Free Blogs: Blogger.com, for example, is one of the free blog hosting provider a.k.a free blogs. Meaning it is free to use. All you need to do is to create an account, choose a domain name (the name of your blog) and choose a template (a few setting here and there) and then wolla… you are good to go. This kind of platform is good when you first want to get use to blogging or to get the feel of being in the blogosphere – the blogging world. That’s the advantages of this free blogs.

There are a few disadvantages of using free blogs though. First of all, the blog “doesn’t” belong to you; NOT entirely. First of all, the owner of the server can close (shut down) your blog account anytime without even asking you and for reasons normally they keep to themselves (the administrator). Second, the themes and plugins are limited. So you’ll have to survive with what they have.

b) Hosted Blogs: You have the option to host your own blog or you can pay a web hosting provider to host your weblog (or website). The blogger-owned or hosted blog is popular among experienced blogger because they are the 100% owner and they manage the whole site. I strongly recommend you to have a hosted blog (site) as your online business platform because from here you can grow your online income.

The fee is very reasonable to get your hosted blog. Check out and compare the package prices for the many web hosting providers you could find on the net. Spend some time because there are many web hosting out there to choose from.

2) Choose a NICHE: a blog topic

This 2nd “ingredient” is most probably the most important aspect you need to consider thoroughly prior to starting you own weblog. You need to have a niche that you want to blog about for the rest of your blogging life. Find a topic and concentrate on a smaller niche of that topic if possible. Put your efforts in it and you will reap the fruits of your work – some day you will understand what I mean!

For example, www.abaragus.com is a blog about scuba diving and blogging where the creator publishes new articles on regular basis. The blog is concentrating or discussing scuba diving as a passion or as a hobby. The creator talks about blogging too; which is sensible enough because all bloggers get to learn many tips and tricks about blogging along the way. So why not we share them with friends and family or anyone interested.

Blog niche (topic) choosing considerations:

a) Make sure that you know the “inside-out” of that particular niche (topic),

b) Ensure that you can write many articles on regular basis: new ideas blooming with very little research,

c) Preferably, you are (or have been) directly involved in that particular niche,

d) You can write for hours knowing you will not get paid for producing such articles (hahahah this one away because it’s a fact).

There are of course many more considerations that you need to make before starting any blog of your own. Take your time and choose wisely. Concentrate on smaller niche of a particular topic and stay focus so that you can pull, hopefully, many loyal readers or followers to your blog. Thats about it.

To conclude: The 2 most important ingredients or elements you need will be a blog hosting provider: free or paid and of the most important factor is to choose the right niche for your blog.

To your blogging journey… all the best.