Often, when people here about blogging their mind goes to making money without considering the fundamentals.
Though you must make money, to stay in business but you need to have basic knowledge of what you are doing.
Not all bloggers know the basics of blogging; and they fall apart when they couldn’t cope with the challenges and competition.
There are a lot to blogging which beginners must know.

WHAT IS BLOGGING?

Blogging is process of writing article or interesting post to engage website visitors.
Blog is mini website or small portion on website created to educate website visitors about your site. When too many activities are going on, site visitors may find it very difficult to understand the site.
Visitors may also get confuse; what exactly is the right place to click if the site is complex. Website like CNN, BBC, NY Times, SHOPIFY and the likes.

WHY DO PEOPLE BLOG?

People blog because of passion, money, news about website, information and education.
Now, many people start their businesses through blogging since you can stay anywhere globally to run your internet business without getting interrupted.
Because blogging is lucrative; you see Tom Dick and Harry want to blog.
Some back out after discovering the challenges.
Not everybody blog for money, though many do to make a living out of it. Article and news bloggers who are copywriters do it as passion others to inform their audience about new product.
Hence, there’re thousand and one reasons people delve into this lucrative skill set.


CATEGORY OF BLOG

Personal blog
Business blog
Tropical blog
Research blog

TYPES OF BLOGGING

Photography
Travel
News
Lifestyle
Tourism
Entertainment
Health
Sport
Fashion
10.Music
11.Technology
12.E-commerce and more


BLOG CONNECTS AUDIENCE TO BUSINESS

Blogging creates a platform for customers, clients and business owners engagement which provides easy interaction on both party.

However, it makes clients know more about what they buy or what service about to get. Since internet has created interactive platform for people to communicate freely.


We have about “150+ Million active Blogs including Individual and Business category” or more because thousands if not millions of blogs are created monthly, globally.

It makes audience get personal contact with sellers and adequate knowledge about product.


Also, they get constant update about a product.

HOW TO START A BLOG

This part is very important for beginners and newbies who want to start their blogging career.
My advice is, find a less dominated niche or field unless you want start with what your passionate about.
Niches like; digital marketing, health, tourism, affiliate marketing, news, lifestyle and music etc.

Then you create a responsive blog site or pay for designer to build one.


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QUALITIES A BLOGGER SHOULD POSSESS

Must have internet knowledge
Must know how to copy write or have little copywriter skill.
Must be a content creator or hire someone
Know the niche you want to blog
Read a lot about your niche
Join blogging forum
Good communicator to interact with audience and reply comment
Blogger must know a little about SEO and Search Engine Ranking


MONETIZATION AND PROFIT

Blogging is big business which can generate up to $100,000 monthly or as low as $1000 or less if you know what’s up.
There is competition in blogging, only smart and experience bloggers makes huge profit.
Moreover, big brands in blogging like Linda Ikeji(Nigerian) , Neil Patel, Greg Narayan, Seth Godin and Gary Vaynerchuks and the rest.
Monetization often takes a long time to achieve because you need large audience or blog follower ship.


EXCEPTIONAL DUTIES OF BLOGGER

Quality content surfing and creation
Consistence posting
Good number of daily visitors
Google and other search engine ranking
Guest posting on authority sites
Quality back link creation
Quality traffic
Ready to invest on your blog business


HOW TO MONETIZE YOUR BLOG


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Happy reading!