How To Add Affiliate Link To First Blog In Blogger.com

Starting a blog is one of best idea to share your knowledge over the internet. This has turned out to be financially rewarding for the bloggers, who have something unique to share with others.

You can have your own reason(s) behind starting a blog, and that's fine, as long as you are passionate about sharing your knowledge, you are better placed at monetizing as well.

People search for information like crazy on the internet and that is something won't come crashing down any time soon. That is where a blogger comes in to picture; sharing all the relevant information on any particular topic or subject.

Starting your blog in any given subject is the best thing you would do in your blogging journey. Mixing up various interest fields will only portray you as "Jack of all, Master of none."

Single subject focus will keep you above the rest, will create more ardent fan following for your blog, and establish you as an expert in your field.

How to Select your Blog Niche?

You might be having expert level knowledge in few of the trades, but it's recommended to find the one which you think will give you better scope in a long run. So, as to say, choose a niche which you have in-depth knowledge of and can keep writing about day in and day out.

When you are addressing various topics in your blog, you will have varied response from readers, and that will confuse them as well.

When you have finalized your blog niche, let's now start with the basic components you will require to start your blog.

Components Required for Setting Up a Blog

2022 is a good time to start a blog, as number of internet users is always growing, and people searching for information/recommendations is also on a upsurge.

First thing that you should have handy is the domain name of your blog. Domain name or Uniform Resource Locator (URL), like ours is www.middayblogger.com , is the unique website address for your blog.

Fortunately, these days most of the web hosting services provide free domain registration with their plans.

Select a Platform for your Blog

Depending upon your knowledge of blogging, you must be aware, that you need to select Content Management System (CMS) to start the blog. If not, here is what you need to do.

In our case, we are using blogger.com and that's free to use. We only have to purchase the domain and redirect our blog to that domain address.

For beginners, we recommend WordPress CMS platform for starting their blog. Are you also thinking, why WordPress?

It is one of the easiest platform to manage content and comes with lots of plug-and-play features, that makes your work really simple in the beginning of your journey.

Around 455 Million websites are powered by WordPress and that makes an impressive community to help you out if you get stuck at any point.

Buy Hosting Services

Undoubtedly, BlueHost is most used hosting service with WordPress blogs and websites. With BlueHost hosting you get a free domain for a year, which you can renew yearly.

Alongside all the features, BlueHost plans are comparatively cheaper, and starts at $2.65/month. We assume, currently you need hosting for one website and hence, recommend you to buy the Basic Plan.

Suppose, you have multiple websites to host, you can pick one from Plus or Choice Plus Plans, which gives you permission for unlimited website hosting.

Once you are done buying hosting and domain name, BlueHost installs WordPress on your domain automatically. So, you don't have to know everything about WordPress and its installation process to start the blog.

Things to do Next

After purchasing the basic resources that you need for starting your blog, here comes the important part, that is customizing your blog. Below are main elements that you should consider customizing to enhance design of your blog.

Selecting a Theme:

You need to install a attractive theme in WordPress to ensure look and feel of your blog, the way you want it to look like.

For beginners, we recommend using WordPress theme library, and as you grow, you always have option to purchase premium themes for your blog.

To be honest, themes in WordPress theme library is as good as it gets, but somehow it's our tendency that we doubt freebies, though we love them also. But, again for beginners, we want them to learn things first before investing on everything.

So, select a theme and install it. Installing a theme from WordPress library is pretty easy and the process is self-explanatory, so you won't have any issue there.

Picking Your Plugins

This part is most amazing takeaway of using WordPress. You can install plugins, set it up and enhance the design of your blog. Apart from design, plugins eases the works like signing up and managing subscribers, social sharing, setting up ads, managing SEO and so many more features.

Now, this leaves you to decide the best plugins you need for your blog. We are surely coming up with an article on WordPress Plugins that all new blogger needs. Subscribe our blog for upcoming updates.

Content Planning and Writing

Well done, if you have reached upto this step, you are now ready to plan your content and start writing. Content planning is important as it helps you keep writing in an organized manner.

The old adage, "Consistency is the key", is quite apt in case of blogging. Inconsistent writing will distract your readers, and it won't serve your purchase of having the blog at the first place.

Make sure to do little research, brainstorm ideas and then make a content calendar and follow it. This is how, most successful bloggers operate and you don't have to do anything differently in this regard.

As a beginner, you can start maintaining a excel sheet for creating your content planner.

Hurrah! You are technically ready now to take off with writing your first blog.

Adding other Important Pages

Any blog is ideally must contain few pages. In that, Disclaimer Page, Privacy Policy, Disclosure and Terms & Conditions are important.

In case you have advertisement tool kit, you must add a page containing all the information, which is commonly known as Media-Kit Page.

Similarly, about us page is most sought after page containing information of your blog, it's origin, your progress over time, etc.

You must include a contact page, furnishing details like your phone no, email address, or a contact form, which users can use to contact you.

For a good start, that should be enough. If you want to add more pages, plan and add as and when needed.

Bring Traffic to Your Blog

This is actually the most challenging part of blogging. Having good traffic is a dream of every professional blogger. In blogging world, higher targeted organic traffic is directly proportional to your earning potential.

The journey of getting traffic starts with writing good quality content, which are optimized for search engines. Search engine optimized articles are very likely to get crawled and indexed in search engines, ensuring better visibility.

Elements like writing attractive headlines, structuring article and its flow, adding media files, etc, have a good say in the quality and quantity of the traffic.

You must work on SEO of your blog. On-page SEO, off-page SEO, link building profile, social sharing, etc are some of the effective tactics to get traffic on your blog.

Must Read: 10 Ways to Promote your Blog for Free in 2022

Monetization of Blog

When you have achieved tick in all the sections we have mentioned about, it's time now to start monetizing your blog. Again there are different ways of monetizing a blog, and you can always opt for the ways you want to focus on. Below are few ways of monetizing blog that are relevant for 2022 and will remain at top over the next decade or more.

We shall reveal some of them here and shall bring out a detailed articles for each in coming weeks. Ad network platforms, affiliate marketing, placeholder ad placements; header or sidebars, selling digital products, selling online courses, etc are some popular ways of making money from blog.

We have covered all basics of creating a blog, and 2022 is the best time to start a blog. Why? Simple answer is it's already late, we are nearing 2022 and it's always good to start something fresh at the beginning of the year.

Also Read: 6 Ways to Monetize your YouTube Channel

If you have other queries on this topic, do comment below.