The 6 Steps To Build A Profitable Blog From Scratch
Is it that blogging is something difficult for you? I don’t think so if you are willing to learn. Most of you who are reading this right now, I believe that you already have your own blog. And you know that blog is a great and a MUST (in my opinion) have internet marketing tool that you can leverage on. If you want to earn money online, but you don’t know how to build a website, then blog is the best tool for you. Many people are earning money online with blogs nowadays. I believe you’ve heard about this as well.
If you are reading this right now, only means that you are eager to be successful, you want to make more money, you want to be financially free, you want to achieve great success in your life. If these are your reasons, then I strongly recommend you to start your own blog, NOW!

So is blogging difficult? Not really, once you know how it works, it will be easy for you. Here, I’ve listed some of the blogging steps that you must take to build a successful blog. I hope that you can benefit from this article.
1. Identify your interest and narrow down your niche. You have to do this, you have to blog about something that you love, or else, you are going to lose the interest and you will give up faster than you can imagine. Narrow down your niche, the competitions are great out there, always go for more targeted market, so that you can fully conquer your market.
2. Set up your blog with your own domain name and hosting. I myself made this mistake, I did not purchase for my own domain and hosting, and I blog for almost half years. After I’ve learned the lesson, I bought this domain, www.themillionairesecrets.net and I’m using my own paid hosting to host this blog. Remember, without your own domain and hosting, you are building business for others, people can shut down your business anytime.
3. Keep on providing great information for your readers. Now, once you’ve identified where your interest and you’ve set up your own blog, you need to post for at least 15 to 20 articles before you can finally see any results from your blog. Don’t forget this, ‘Content is King’, it is the only reason that people visit your blog, so keep on posting something useful, something that your visitors are looking for, and you will earn the credibility.
4. Run marketing campaign for your blog. This is the same as driving traffic to your blog. No matter what business you are in, you are in marketing business. The same goes for internet business, you have to do the marketing to generate traffic to your blog. Without traffic, nobody will visit your blog, because you did not tell them about your blog’s existent. That is why most bloggers give up, they got no traffic to their blog. So don’t make this mistake, learn how to generate traffic to your blog such as using forum marketing, article marketing, etc.
5. Search engine optimization, SEO. You also need to do SEO for your blog. Many people don’t know what is SEO and most of them think that SEO is something difficult. I’m here to say, it is easy, just that it is going to take times for your blog to come up in the top spot in search engine. That is why you have to learn and apply SEO in your blog from the start. Blogging is not a short-term business, you are going to blog for at least 3 years, so try to learn and do SEO for your blog.
6. The last thing to do is to monetize your blog. Remember your goals? To earn money online, to be an internet millionaire. So it will be fine to monetize from your blog. However, you must make sure that monetization from your blog is the last step to take, because you have to develop your blog first, then only earn money from it. If you focus in earning money from your blog, your readers will know, they can smell it. That is why you have to build up your blog first, create relation and credibility, once you’ve did so, you can then enjoy your hard work. This is the rule of the game.
Just follow the steps given above, and focus in creating value in your blog for your readers. The more value you create, the more money you can make from your blog. Blogging is an on-going process, you must always be ready to learn something new every single day. Remember this, if you want to earn money online from your blog, then you have to keep on learning, and then apply what you’ve learned. Learning without actions are not going to create any results, you know this very well.
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Hi Shawn,
Very usable tips. Appreciate you sharing them. Key number 6 is absolutely crucial.
Ya, although monetization is one of our goals, but without a properly built blog, it is impossible that our blog can make money from it.
So we have to build a solid and profitable blog first, then money will follow automatically.