Important steps that must be done when just creating a blog until ready monetized
Creating a blog is not difficult, you can start from the first free. For example using the platform Blogger.com, WordPress.com, Medium or Tumblr. The essence of ging blog is writing, so long as you can spill your mind into writing form on a regular basis - no matter wherever the platform is, you can already be called a blogger .
But if you intend to make blogger as a profession. You need more than writing, because you have to get income from there, right? You should be able to make blogs as assets and posts as products sold to visitors. Then monetize the visitor's traffic into revenue.
The process of getting to "earn money from blogs " is very long and tortuous. Before you get there, you must know what it takes, how it works, how to start, and what to do after your first blog so.
For this reason, this article exists. To help you get a picture of what steps should be done next after the first stage, which is to make your blog have passed.
Before starting, it's good to prepare a glass of coffee first, because our discussion will be very long.
What is a Blog?
Before going into the subject, it's good we discuss a little what the blog actually.
In my last writings , I define blog as a forum for disseminating various information in the form of writing which includes opinions, journals, digital data analysis, statistics and other writings to the world wide and continuous. Unlimited content coverage, can be text, images, video or even a complicated graphical format. Published articles will be read and enjoyed by visitors so that digital information exchange is cheap and easy. Blog can be accessed from mobile using data connection. Blogs are generally free, open and cover specific topic topics to the public.
Blog Type
The choice of blog platform consists of many kinds. But some of the most frequently used are Blogger.com, WordPress.com, Tumblr, Blogs.com, Webs, Blogsome, Blogdetik, up to blogs with own domain and hosting or called hosted blog . Among bloggers , many use the WordPress engine as a paid blog interface .
Well, to start creating a blog , you can start from one of the service names above. If you are still confused how to make it, I also have given the tutorial for each platform , starting from Blogger , WordPress and Tumblr . What's next?We go into the main discussion. After my blog so, what is the next step for blogs flooded with traffic (visitors), known or read and bring in income for those who want to lead to this stage later?
First of all, remove your thoughts about money first. Because, to get there, there is a long process that not only takes energy, but also the totality of sacrifices, ranging from time, thought, and also money (at least if using private hosting ).
Focus first on short-term targets, including completing 20 of 21 advanced steps after your blog airs in cyberspace. Finish one by one, and then you can talk about monetization.
Complete Blog Navigation
Regardless of what platform you use, navigation is the most important element. Navigation consists of menus that must exist in a blog . Among other things, the blog profile page , user terms and conditions, contacts, privacy policies and categories that will contain a collection of articles with specific topics.
Why is good navigation important for blogs? There is some reasons:
Good navigation increases the duration of the visit and pushes the bounce rate . Bounce rate is a kind of benchmark what percentage of users who enter the blog and then immediately out without clicking the next link. And usually relatively within seconds.
Good navigation also helps visitors to understand the blog hierarchy , differentiate content and find what they need.
Position effects are also important, because in the Serial Position Effect approach, people just pay less attention to the body parts of a web page. Rather pay more attention to and retain information that appears at the beginning and end. Navigation will be the first destination when visitors need specific information.
Write First Articles
If in WordPress, you will find a congenital writing entitled Hello World! . When your first blog so, you should delete that post and replace it with your first post. For starters, you may introduce yourself who you are, then the blog will tell you about what, why create a blog and so forth. Although impressed trivial, believe me someday this simple writing will be very valuable to forget.
Fix View
Many novice users are stuck on the stgima that blogs should look beautiful, many features, there are sliders , lots of colors, filled with pictures, videos on the sidebar and so on. In fact, things like that do not necessarily make visitors feel comfortable. The most important thing is how to make blogs run quickly and smoothly on the user's device. Especially now that people have started moving from the desktop to mobile , the strange features as I mentioned above will not appear all in the mobile browser . If it appears, it will make page loading becomes heavy.
That's why Google is now beginning to provide better ranking to sites that have faster loading and that provide support for mobiledevices .
So, put the theme simple and responsive but still interesting to look at. Reduce unnecessary decorative elements. Focus on speed, ease of access and navigation. To check how fast your blog is, please test this link or this .
Install Plugins as necessary
If you choose to use paid domain and hosting , and cms of choice is WordPress, this step is required. The plugin I recommend, among others:
AIO SEO Plugin: Use to manipulate title tags , article descriptions, keywords , and so forth.
Google XML Sitemap: A plugin that helps create sitemap pages to be registered to Google Search Console (this is required in the next stage).
W3 Total Cache: Helps speed up blog loading .
Jetpack: Contains a collection of multi-function plugins , available for stats, social media icons, share buttons, and more.
Akismet: A plugin that helps filter spam comments .
iThemes Security: if afraid of hacker attacks , plugins can help secure the blog .
Logo and Favicon
No less important to make a logo for your blog header . Like what shape, free. I submit how the logo design looks to you, please make according to taste. If difficulties, you may also hire the services of someone who has the ability to create logos. You can pay college buddies, work or family. Or find design services on forums and social media.
Create a Custom Email
Next, create a separate email account that is separate from your personal account. What's the point for? Many. This email will be able to register a social networking account that will be the next step after this, for future advertising contacts, and others.
Create a Newsletter Form
Newsletter or mailing list can be a valuable asset in the future. In addition to being a source of loyal traffic , they can become fields to offer products or services later on.
To create a newsletter enrollment form , you can use Aweber, Mailchimp or Getresponse services.
Create a Fan Page and Social Media Account
The next step, create a Facebook fan page for your blog , then make also a Twitter account and YouTube. What function? In order for your blog more easily recognizable, more easily remembered and of course reaching a wider audience.
Is Social Signal of this kind good for SEO?
Google has confirmed that the popularity of blogs on social media is not a benchmark ranking in the eyes of search engines. But, the purpose of the existence of blogs in social media is to build branding and direct valid visitors . So, do not associate the number of like and share in social networking with your blog position in the search engine.
Submit Blog ke Google Search Console atau Webmaster Tool
Google Search Console - formerly Google Webmaster Tool is a tool, and if you intend to be a serious blogger , you should start to learn and learn about it.
From an SEO perspective, Google Search Console is both your personal bodyguard and analyst, as it provides complete information about how your site performs in Google's search engine, how many backlinks and their effects, how the security of the blog , how its reputation, the number of indexes, and others.
Search Console offers many tools that will let you thoroughly analyze your blog . From this analysis, you can focus on working on issues that make blog rankings better in search engines.
Submit Site to Google Analytic
This Google-owned service is a tool to track and record traffic on your blog , including the number of unique visits, the number of pageviews, visitor demographics, the most popular posts, and other behaviors such as how long visitors are reading your blog , how much goes out ( bounce rate ) and other indicators. This information is important because with it you can analyze problems and make editorial-related decisions and so on.
Is there an alternative than Google Analytic?
There, you can use Histats and WordPress.com plugins . For Histats, I once wrote how to use it in this article . Its function is not as complete as Google Analytic, but for me, it's more than enough.
Share Blog Links to Private Social Media and Blogs
Next, after the steps above you skip. Now, it's time to introduce blogs to friends and colleagues. Share the home page link to your social network account, or it may also be the first post link you have created in any of the above steps. The goal is that people begin to recognize the blog , in the hope that later become loyal readers.
The same way to do on fan page , Twitter account, LinkedIn and social networking your blog .
Learn Keyword Research
The next stage, learn step by step how to find topics that are popular and endure over a long period of time. Analyzing popular keywords is tantamount to figuring out what visitors need. You certainly do not want it, tired to write articles thousands of words, but it turns out that searching for only a handful of people? So that does not happen, you must know first what keywords are most searched in search engines.
Though it is certainly not impossible to write something that you are interested in without having to pay attention to what became a popular keyword. But of course to bring traffic to your blog, strategies to analyze keywords should still be done and made writing to be placed on your blog.
Learn What is SEO
This stage is very important because it will be the foundation of your understanding of Search Engine Optimization. No hurry, first learn what you think is most easily understood. For example, understanding about SEO on page . About how to keep posts friendly for search engines and not make visitors bored.
Write Second Article and so on.
After understanding how to research keywords and how SEO Friendly articles, it is time to write a second article and so on. For this matter, I do not want to burden you with writing every day. The most important thing is the quality of writing. If you want to win in competition, your article writing should offer more value than other blogger articles .
The best current recommendation for at least 1000 words with in-depth reviews. If you write one topic, then make sure you give an illustration of A to Z. Consider what, how, causes, factors, important points to how the problem solution. That way the reader will benefit from what he reads. When users get what they want, they will keep digging, clicking on other articles. That way, the auto visit duration and pageview will go up while the bounce rate drops. In the process, Google will make that indication as a sign that your blog is of good quality that will automatically boost your rankings in search engines.
Of course the process is not as easy and simple as that. There are lengthy procedures to go through and factors to be analyzed including how high the competition is in related keywords. But more or less the picture is like that.
I am constrained by time, how dong?
Do not give up quickly. Suppose you only have 2 hours a day to write. No matter why, just write as much as you can at that time. 1000 words did not have to chase a deposit a day so. The result will not be maximal. At least 1000 words must be completed for 3 days, meaning only 300 words per day, a week can be 2 posts each 1000 words it is very good. Or, one post but with twice the number of words more or more. That's okay.
If outsource, how?
That's okay. Most importantly, your writer knows the target and the topic comes from you. Make sure also the articles that are deposited are in accordance with the standards that you set. The main, it must be original, not copy and paste .
Well, how to check the original or not?
There are two options, you can use tools from SmallSEOTools or Copyscape . Both are free, but for the second option the number of checks for free accounts is limited.
Share Posts to Social Media
Like step 11, share the posts to the social networks you follow. For example, Twitter, Facebook, Stumbleupon, Path, Instagram, Pinterest, Tumblr, KasKus if possible, and others.
Sign up for Forums and Make a Signature
Now we go into several stages related to the construction of backlinks (links from other sites to our blog ). However, this stage you should do after writing in the blog is quite a lot. There are at least 10 posts published. If not, repeat step 14 until the amount is met.
To build backlinks, the simplest and classic way is to create a signature in the forum account. The forum type can be anything, but it would be great if one topic with your blog .
In order to create a signature is also non-original, you should be aware of several things:
Anchor text should be combined, not only in the form of keywords but interspersed with the brand, such as the name of the site, click here, read next , and others. This trick to avoid spam spam by Google.
Do not nyepam, for example , create a day account to 10 accounts then put the same blog url signature . In addition to being banned by forum moderators, your blog can also be in danger of a penalty by Google.
Do not create signatures in gambling forums, adult content, investment bodong, downloads, cracks and such.
Upload Video to YouTube
Backlinks from YouTube are considered strong enough to boost blog rankings . But it's best to have the video still related to the blog topic . When creating a video description, paste the blog link in it.
Upload photos to Flickr
Once the video is done, you can go to the next step, upload photos to Flickr. It feels to this stage already a lot can. Quite easy, and also free. On Flickr, you can also insert a blog link .
Become a Guest Blogger
One type of backlink which is still recommended today is g uest post or become a guest blogger . What is a guest blogger is you write articles for other blogs and insert links to your blog .
Of course you should not arbitrarily choose a blog that will be the place where your writing is published. Make sure the blog meets several criteria:
One topic, if your blog about fishing, then the blog should also be about the world of fishing angle. Do not publish writings on automotive blogs . Logically, when visitors read the article that is certainly related to the car, motor and engine. Who would be interested in clicking links with anchor text, "feed" or "worms"? I guarantee no.
Analyze the domain authority and page authority first. The higher, the better. The current domain authority (DA) and page authority (PA) are preferred to be a reference to how well a site is in the eyes of Google. No longer pagerank like two years back. Pagerank is dead! We no longer use that standard. You can use Moz Tool to check how DA and PA blog
Number of backlinks out or outbound links. How to check it also can with Moz tool above. For outbound links, the less the better.
Power backlinks, use Ahrefs . If this one, of course the more the better. But make sure there are no negative backlinks , for example from gambling blogs , adult, fraud, and others.
Evaluation
Next, re-evaluate all the elements in the blog periodically. For example three months or more. Please compare with the target traffic you want to achieve at the beginning of the month. Then make a few notes of what needs to be improved and what needs to be trimmed. If in the third month your traffic touched the number 1000 per day, then the blog is ready to 'cashed'. But if you have not touched that number, go back to the desk and write a more targeted and better quality article.
Monetization
To Monetization blog , you have several options that can be followed. I will not explain how to follow the program, because it will need a long enough explanation. I'll just give you a few options, where you can join in and earn a pretty good income from there. Program PPC (pay per click)
Google Adsense , this is Google's advertising program that opens opportunities for publishers to earn revenue sharing from advertising costs imposed on their advertisers' networks. Google Adsense has long supported the publisher Indonesia, and the payment can be cashed directly into the account.
Criteo , just like Google Adsense. Criteo also provides an opportunity for bloggers who are keen to spend their favorites in writing on condition of having a good-looking blog .
I think quite up here the discussion of the steps that must be done by a beginner blogger . In total there are 21 steps, which is actually too far away, because it has entered the stage of Monetization, which should be discussed after several months when the blog is growing and starting to mature. But, the more complete the better. I hope this can be useful and so standard every time you create a new blog .
In the world of blogging , the capital of guidance and encouragement alone is not enough. The most needed is consistency . Without consistency, as good as any matter and your ideas will gradually disappear with a sense of laziness and despair.
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