Start a new blog today using Blogspot and start earning(beginners guide)

Blogging
is a very good way to setup your passion on the internet, you will
have your own place to share and catalog your thoughts about the
specific topic of interests. With right tools and guidance, you can
start making a living from your blog about the topics that you are
really passionate about. Yes, you can earn while blogging through ads
and affiliate marketing.

What
is a blog?

In
short, a blog is a type of website that focuses mainly on written
content, also known as blog posts. In popular culture, we most often
hear about news blogs or celebrity blog sites, but as you’ll see in
this guide, you can start a successful blog on just about any topic
imaginable.Bloggers often write from a personal perspective that
allows them to connect directly with their readers. In addition, most
blogs also have a “comments” section where readers can
correspond with the blogger. Interacting with your readers in the
comments section helps to further the connection between the blogger
and the reader.

Before
writing about how to start a blog, I want to give reason why you
should start a blog today

• Create
  a new platform for your business – Give some insights about
  the company and reaching out to the fans/customers helps increasing
  company reputation and good marketing strategy. It is also a great
  medium for announcements.
• Create
  a community – For any brand it is a very great way to create a
  loyal community or fan base.
• Earn
  money – You can monetize your blog and earn money. You can
  sell products and run affiliate program on your blog.
• Platform
  to share your opinions – In the age of information everyone’s
  ideas and opinion matters, blog is a great platform to voice your
  thoughts on relevant topics so that people will be more aware of it.
• Get
  connected to like minded people – When you have a blog about
  topics you are passionate about, you can connect with people with
  same passion and can collaborate with them and have fun
• Internet
  fame– blogging requires hard work and dedication, if you are
  persistent and move in the right direction you will have good social
  following and fame of your own. May your article get s featured in
  media.
• Career
  Choice – Blog as a carrier is a thing, if you become
  influencer you can guest post and collaborate with many notable
  names in the industry.

Here
I will write step-by-step methods to create your first blog using
blogger.

Note:
Blogger is very good for newbies who want to start blogging don’t
want to make an initial investment of funds to create a blog.

BlogSpot
allows you to create a free blog, but it does have limitations.

However,
as I mentioned above, for a beginner it is a great way to learn how
to create a blog and begin the blogging process.

1.
Choose blog topic– It’s always nice to choose a topic that you
are passionate about. It will help in the long run to create a good
audience and create a brand from your blog.

How
to choose a blog topic?

This
is always a topic of debate and requires another article by itself. I
will just break it here for your understanding

• Personal
  blog- Blog about the things related to you and write your
  opinions and create articles from your knowledge, you will always
  learn many things after starting a blog, the key is to just start.
• Niche
  topics – Choose topics that you are passionate about maybe
  tech, movie reviews, book review, food, fashion, video games,
  sports, productivity etc. Just make the articles original and
  creative as possible.
• Travel
  blog – Are you a traveler? Travel Blog is a niche in itself,
  you can travel places and still earn a lot through blog .eg:
  blogging from paradises is one of my favorite travel bloggers
  (http://ift.tt/1Rf3G9k)
• Blog
  for your product/brand/company – Always good to start a
  company blog for engaging with customers and creating a community.
  Read more about content creation and branding in http://www.copyblogger.com
  .

2.
Choose blog name – Choosing a catchy blog name is important,
try to name the blog in such a way that people can remember it. Don’t
make it too long. Also choosing blog name that is unique, and has
keywords that define your blog. Availability of domain name is also
important. So choose wisely.

3.
[Optional but
recommended]Choose Domain name-Now to buy your
domain from hosting websites or domain name provider like GoDaddy,
WordPress, Bluehost, Hostgator etc. The process is easy and you can
get domain names as cheap as $3 for a year. Its optional if you don’t
want to spend money as Blogspot provide custom domain names that end
with .blogspot.com eg: mytravelblog.blogspot.com

4.
Create blogger account – First visit http://www.blogger.com .
Creating blogger account is very easy, you can just create new
blogger account by logging through your Gmail account(Blogger is
owned by google).It is absolutely free.No hidden cost either.

After
logging in Choose your blog name, and blogger domain (you can also
add custom domain to your blogger website)

Go to http://www.blogger.com

                     

             Login
through your gmail account

             Create
a new blog as shown in the picture

Choose
your blog name and blog domain name(can be changed later also)

                        Create
new blog post

Blog
design is important , use customize button in template for advanced
option , if you know HTML,JS or CSS you can edit it.

                 Change
layout of the blog

     Add
new gadgets that are helpful for the blog , dont overdo it.

Change
template of blogs, there are some good blog themes available , dont
forget to experiment the blog design.

                      Add
custom domain here.

Write
your first blog post and share it, don’t forget to put appropriate
labels and keywords in your blog

5.Monetize
your blog – Once you have put in the effort of creating great
blog content and promoting your blog, making money from your blog is
actually the easy part.

There
are several ways you can make money blogging, from selling your own
products or services, to getting paid to write reviews of products on
your blog. But the easiest way to make money from your blog is to
sell advertising space.

There
is AdSense feature available in blogger, you can start placing ads as
soon as google accepts your website. Adsense major source of income
for many bloggers. Also, try out other monetizing methods like
affiliate marketing, paid content .

But
first I advise you to focus more on creating quality content.

I
have written about monetizing your blog in this article.

6.Don’t
forget to look in analysis part of blogger – You will get to
know about the audience like the demography of the users , the posts
they like most and you can plan future articles accordingly , also
dont stop experimenting new ideas on your blog.

7
Publicize and market your blog on social media to get a more
engaging audience to your website and to reach out a possible
audience. Share posts on twitter , facebook , pintrest , linkedin ,
instagram , reddit etc. Also share the posts to book marking website
like digg , stumbleupon . You can automate sharing using
ifttt (its actually very
helpful and saves ton load of money ).

A
major problem for anyone on internet starting a blog is that they get
overwhelmed by a number of resources available on the internet and
their blog get unnoticed and they lose their drive to keep writing
consistently. I advise you to try writing for at least half a year of
consistent writing and look where you are heading.

Learn
more about blogging:

Shoutmeloud

Copyblogger

Problogger

Design your blog

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Game of thrones season 7 , The Dragon and the Wolf : Epic finale

HBO

Season
finale unlike the previous episode goes back to its roots , nothing
much Hollywood , just betrayal , vengeance and of course nudity . The
episode is the longest one yet , delivering as promised ,nothing less
expected from the penultimate season of the franchise . There was
several plot twists , but the inevitable will not be stopped and it
will surely make us wait for the next season . Sadly the last season

The
first several minutes of the episode is some what looks dragged but
its understandable as several characters meet for the first time
(Daenerys and Cersei) ,also reunion of Hound and the Mountain ,
Tyrion and Pod etc . It picks up the pace later on for the climax of
the season with a ice dragon controlled by the Night’s King
breaching the wall in the north.

There
are several key things to look upon in the episode

• Everyone
  is afraid of the White walkers as they have seen it , but still
  Cersei goes as far as to betray the alliance(till they defeat the
  night’s King) . More over I feel she is beyond repair and she is the
  most confused of all of the characters in Game of Thrones.
• Cersei’s
  brilliant scheme is to do nothing while Jon and Daenerys try to deal
  with the zombies themselves.  There
  was the delicious reveal that Euron Greyjoy was, at Cersei’s
  behest, secretly rushing to Essos to take delivery of a mercenary
  army  .
• Finally
  Little finger dies on his own little game , Arya cuts his throat and
  Sansa showing how good she can be when it most maters . No dirty
  tricks for next season.
• Cersei
  and Daenerys will never get along.
• Cersie
  shows that she can go as far as to kill their brothers (will this be
  her biggest mistake).
  
• Finally
  Bran has someone that he can tell what he saw that maters to
  Sam . Jon snows real identity that He
  was the son of Rhaegar Targaryen and Lyanna Stark and they had loved
  one other – meaning Robert Baratheon’s rebellion against the
  Targaryens .  Jon
  is a Targaryen – first name Aegon 
  . Bran must act fast .
• Finally
  after several decades it is snowing in kings landing.
• Jon
  snow and Daenerys have
  sex not noticing Tyrion watching when they go inside the
  room(Daenerys is
  Jon’s Aunt btw) .Very weird ,but this was expected.
• Jamie’s
  future outside kings landing , confronting death twice now.
• Lot
  of smack talk this episode, much talking this episode.
• Theon
  once again stands up , for how long?
• The
  wall falls with the mighty zombie dragon attacking with ice/blue
  fire? , also leaving us spectacle of
  the future of Tormund.
•  the
  Night King and his army are sweeping into Westeros.
  

Overall
it was a good episode ,just makes us wait for final season

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I am not a writer , I am just a lazy storyteller

   

   As
long as i can remember i wanted to write stories , even when i was a
kid i used to write crazy long adventure story , where the main characters where inspired by my friends . But i might have realized
it now , i was never a good writer i never wanted to improve my
writing and my writing style was always linked how much devoted to
the story that i had to tell . That’s not the bad thing because i
would not complete any article if i don’t feel like the story is. Yet
I want to tell my stories ,only way i could so it was through writing
, verbal narratives or through videos .

  I
had discussed doing video content before but fortunately or unfortunately it never worked out . So the only way i could do it is
through writing.I know how lazy i am,yet i am ambitious of telling my
sorry . I take lot of time worrying about creating content and end up
not publishing anything . Now after a year of opening my blog (and
other unsuccessful blogs in the past ) , i think i want to dedicate
more time to improve writing, now that i know my short comings as
writer .There are may unsaid words between the lines , i hope to
make the best use of the lines that i can jot down. Well i just want
to tell some stories .

  Hope
i can write a novel / novella or short stories this year and
dedicate some time for quality articles about my opinions on various
topics including politics, movies ,coding, books ,tech and maybe
gaming . I know writing is hard but i accept the challenge .

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