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12 Things To Learn Before You Start Blogging

Blogging may sound simple on the outside but running a successful blog requires time, knowledge, discipline, and the willingness to make mistakes, and learn from them. You see, when I started blog despite of all measures I had taken, I kept failing and failing until that time came when I got everything right. So with all that experiences I would like to share with you these 12 critical things to consider before you start blogging so that you don’t get caught off guard like I was in the beginning.

1. Reason?  Why You Want to Start Blogging.

There are thousands of bloggers out there blogging out of their own reasons. In fact you can blog for whatever reason, but you need to know the purpose of your blog after'all, because that is going to determine your actions. For personal blog, setting up a Blogger account might be an option. However, on the hand Wordpress is much power platform for those who want to make money blogging.

2. Your Blog’s Niche

Another obvious reason is selecting a blog niche. It's best to pick a niche or a topic you are an expert on, or at least to have enough passion for it to make up for your lack of knowledge. Also, if you are trying to monetize your blog, you’re going to want to use Google Trends for keyword research, which will allow you to find out how your niche is performing.

3. Time, Money, and Effort

Time, money and effort, you must be wondering why all these. Well if you are thinking on how to start a blog, you should know that you will spend countless hours -That's time consumption, nothing comes easy when sharpening your writing skills, promoting your blog on social media, and making sure you remain consistent. Furthermore it will cost you money, too, because you will have to pay for your marketing campaign, domain name, and hosting at the very least unless if you prefer going with free choice of sub-domain which somehow has an odd look to me. Blogspot provides free sub-domain while wordpess also have free domain much can be done with premium style.

4. Content- A Prominent Key

Writing prominent content requires a set of acquired skill from academic level unless you are super good without it. It’s not that easy to figure out how to write great blog content, but you should definitely start by producing content that is informative and which provides something of real value to the reader. Somehow make your content to have conversational tone not like lecturing your visitors. That will encourage them to be your regular audience, post consistently.  Also take advantage of Headline Analyzer and Plagtracker to make sure that your posts are outstanding and well-formed from a headline to conclusion.

5. Copyright Laws

Infringement can be a worst case scenario, don't even think of just copying and pasting someone's work you find out there. Author of those content take much time producing them there it worth's no stealing and before you start blogging, learn how to protect your own content, and what to do in case someone steals your work. On the other hand, while it’s OK to be inspired by someone else’s work, make sure you just don't get consumed in every detail about the content. Try and make your differnt in some sort. Also, learn when and how you can use photos you find online. Simply taking an image and crediting the author may not be enough. you can edit you own photos or use TheStocks.im which offers plenty of royalty-free stock photos for you to choose from.

6. Blog’s Design-Simple and Sleek

Most users will respond to blogs which are built around a simple and elegant design. Also, you need to make sure that your blog features responsive design, which is optimized for display on mobile devices. In both cases, navigation should be as easy as possible.

7. The Basics of HTML and SEO

Not every blogger has knowledge in HTML and SEO. This is because you can get pretty much everything done on your blog without having to know the basic HTML or CSS techniques, However learning both will allow you customize themes and plugins to your own disire, as well as changing the looks of your posts. Simple Guide to HMTL Tool will teach you all you need to know. As for SEO, you will be able to drive more visitors to your blog, because your blog will be more visible in the search engines also this beginner's guide to SEO might help. You can download the PDF of it too.

8. Image Editing

I wouldn't prefer you to freely download photos from the web or paying someone else to do it for you, instead you can learn the basics of image editing, so that you can enhance your texts with eye-popping visual content like photos, infographics, and GIFs. I would rather recommend you to creating your own original designs with Canva.

9. Using of Social Media 

Social promotion is all you need for your blog. You need to let people know about your work, and the best way to do it, is through social media. Placing ads on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter is the key to generating traffic.

10. Personal Branding 

All of the knowledge and skills above can help you establish a unique visual identity for your blog. But you shouldn’t stop there, because it is important for all of your social media accounts to reflect that same identity if possible. People respond to brands, and you need to respond to their needs. Make sure to create accounts on most widely used social media platforms, so that you are in control of brand and its name.

11. Build Connections Linking

One of the things that can launch your blog into the stratosphere is the people you know, fellow bloggers. Now, we are not suggesting that you should start sending emails every day, and then end up spamming them. But, you can share some of their stuff you liked on Twitter or Facebook, and let them know about it. Reach out to influencers and start a collaboration.

12. Learning Never Stops

You will never have any time to rest on your laurels. New blogging platforms are being introduced every day, search engines alter the way they rank websites, SEO requirements change, and so on. Everything is changing constantly, and you need to stay on top of all that if you want to succeed.


To wrap with this article today blogging is a lot more complex than people think. It requires you to be a jack of all trades, such as writing, design, marketing, coding, and master of most, the coming of this blog was inspired by blogpress and you wonder how to start you own blog and needing some extra tips, the comment below will be very useful
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How To Start a Blog – Simple Beginner’s Guide for 2017


So, you also want to start your own blog huh!, that's the dumpiest idea you have today lol, am not kidding, it's better you do chicken farming maybe, lol or something else. Well it's still a good idea if you still consider starting up a blog and by the way it's very easy. I do recommend you to start one today though.

Anyways to keep you well informed blogging has never been easy for most people around the world. I live in Tanzania and I do my blog in English ( it's trouble worth a price) since it's the only best language am somehow good at but still it's a challenge leave alone the issue with language barrier but also the response of people understanding the blogging community around here. In Tanzania we have hundreds if not tens of blogs but if you try scooping in them and to find that one blog that will suite you need is a heck of job.

In this simple tutorial I just want to show my fellow Tanzanians and other folks around on how you can START A BLOG and be at the top if you want to.



Let's highlight some few point that we're going to use.


  • Choosing A Niche/Title: You have to be very careful with what topic you are going to deal with. 1st look around and do some background checking to see what title people are much interested with. For example in Tanzania, people like reading about gossips both local and international and somehow about football too. Also you have to choose the topic of which you will be comfortable with. Don't just take any topic because people like it. 
  • Choosing Domain Name: With domain, you must consider the title of you blog. They should much to improve you google ranking and also for people easily recognize. It will be awkward if blog title is HOW TO START A BLOG then you domain has  different name. Make sure you choose a easy to remember name and it should to long.
  • Choosing Blogging Platform: There are hundreds of blogging platform and new ones are coming out year by year. All this is about the competition of the blogging market and coming up with new tools. All in all we still have the major platforms that has been on top for century. Platform such Blogspot, Wordpress and Tumblr are the most famous one. Do a review of all platform before deciding which one to use. This is to avoid future regrets.
  • Hosting Providers: Blogspot provide free hosting services all you need to do is finding a domain and customize you blog to your desire. With Wordpress the do have two options of one being free hosted account with limited hosting package and a premium hosting account of which you pay in three two different rates depend on you needs. Furthermore you can still use BLUEHOST which is much cheaper and has many offers to choose from. With BlueHost you can still install Wordpress in it.

  • Choosing Themes/Template: The most important thing is the look of your site. No matter what you do or what kind of content you have the looks of you site will help drive traffic to our blog much easily. Although Blogspot and Wordpress and Tumblr all have free template for their visitor you still need to find the best theme to suite you blog content. Only with Blogspot will be able to play with HTML coding if you have knowledge in that. So  you can down your blogger theme either it's free or premium from ESSYTHEMES and direct install to you blogger account. If you need Wordpress themes for your blog download them here at THEMESTZ.
  • Tool and Resource: Knowing the right tools use on you blog if very important. Use email widgets to collect you visitor email and have interaction with them. Showing popular post in you blog is one way of showing how active you blog content is. 
  • Monezation of Blog Content: So you have completed setting up you blog and you want to earn from it.! The best way is to monetize you blog by joining AFFIALIATE PROGRAM or Use ADSENSE OR ZHAKKAS to show ADS on your blog. You can also decide which payment method you would prefer to get paid from companies around the globe. Try PAYONEER it works fine with me.


And that’s it! and as simple as that,  I’m more than confident now that your initial blog set up should now be finished and ready to go, and all that should have been really damn easy. If you are having any problems installing WordPress In BlueHost please just get in touch and I will be glad to walk you through that.

If by some unfortunate circumstance you get stuck or have any questions for me about how to create a blog, just get in touch with me or leave a comment below. I’ll help you out with any problems.

Starting up a blog is not stupid it's just dump if you have no idea of what you are doing. Enjoy your new blog!
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