When starting a blog, many people don’t seem to understand
the costs and what do they need to pay to get their blog running. People that
have the money, they like to spend in anything that they could think of to make
their blog at its best. People that don’t have the money cannot do this. They have
to think carefully on what they should invest in.
I don’t encourage you buy everything to build your blog. You
still can save money and still have your blog running. Don’t build a blog if
you wake up today and thinking about blogging. Do a lot of research before you
can start one. If you jump in the water with both feet, you will regret it
later.
Before starting my blog including this free blogspot blog, I
also do some research but it takes me too long to do so. It takes me about five
years before I started to blog seriously. During those five years, I have many
blogs but none still exist now. It was an experiment even though I regret
shutting a few of them down.
You don’t have to get that far to start a blog. A few months
are just enough. I had to ‘think’ for five years because of the costs. I was so
scared that I will lose money if I invest on the wrong thing. I guest everyone
who don’t have a fat paycheck also thinks like me but you are lucky that I share
it here so you don’t have to wait a few years to start a blog.
Okay, on this post I want to share with you on how to build
a blog the cheapest and effective way. If you are really a newbie and you don’t
know anything about blogging, you can read my ideas below. Here is my step by
step in starting a blog the cheapest way:
Step 1: Learn simple HTML
Blogging is like building a website from scratch. Even
though you buy the template but you still have to learn a few HTML basics. You don’t
have to be a pro but you have to know a few things. See this post as example.
How learning HTML is going to save you money.
It does save you a lot of money. If you don’t know a thing
or two about HTML, you will have to ask someone else to do it for you. Website designers
are not cheap. You can check it out at Freelancer.com. I don’t know about you
but I hate to waste money on something small like this.
But there are also other choices. If you have any friends or
family member that knows about HTML, you can ask them to help you. This also
can save your burning pocket.
Step 2: Buy blogging books
Go to a book store near you or you can click the below image
to buy from Amazon the books about blogging. I love reading and I also hope you
love it too. Blogging is not about just writing, it’s about reading too. If you
hate to read, you can’t blog. You have no point to start a blog.
How buying blogging books help you save money
When you ask successful blogger, they will advise you to
have a mentor. A mentor can be someone you know or someone you pay to train
you. This kind of people is not cheap. They charge you according to how many
hours they train you. However, the results are the best.
Like step no. 1, there is exception if you have friends and
family member that can help you. One by one training creates the best result. Don’t
feel so down if you can’t have a mentor. It’s not up to them that make you
successful. It all depends on your own hard work.
Step 3: Learn or buy a book about internet marketing
Internet marketing is the most important element in
blogging. Even if you don’t plan to make money out of your blog, you will still
have to market your blog. No one starts a blog with zero readers. This is why I
love blogging. Blogging is a way for me to communicate with other people about
the topic I love.
Step 4: Do research for the topic that you want to blog
When I read other blogging gurus’ article about doing a
research about the blog topic, it’s quite hard for me to understand why I have
to do that. At first I thought blogging is about writing on a topic about what I
like and that’s it. Then I realize that I need to have readers for my blog. That
is why research is important.
By doing research for your blog topic, it is including topic
searches and keywords. If you manage to keep up with both, you are in the right
track. If there are nobody is searching for your topic, what’s the point to
write about it?
How doing topic research is going to save you money
It doesn’t save you money but it saves you a lot of time and
energy. Don’t waste your time and energy to build a business that no one wants
to know about or no interest in.
Step 5: Learn about search engine optimization (SEO) and keywords
This part you can learn from the internet. I also have this
topic in this blog. You can read about SEO here and keywords here. You will
learn the basics but the important part is when your blog is already running. You
will see how visitors come to your blog using search engines by looking at your
blog analytics.
How learning SEO and keywords are going to save you money
When your blog is up and running, you will see the visitors’
flow by looking at your Google Analytics. This can be a frustration for some
people because it can take a lot of time to see your search result at the
search engine. Some people will start to hire SEO experts to optimize their
blog and you can guess it, it’s not cheap.
Step 6: Choosing a template
This is a tricky part for some people and also for me. My eyes
are sparkling when I go shopping for my template. There are a lot of choices
and also different price selection. Most of the place I check ask you to become
its member and you have to pay monthly to use their template.
It is okay if you are a professional in blogging but for
newbie like us, I don’t recommend you to pay monthly for a template because you
don’t know when you are going to need some extra cash.
For newbie, I recommend you to buy your template from
Themeforest. They sell their template ala’ carte style. You only pay for the template
you buy only once and the template is yours forever.
How is choosing the right template going to save you money
Need I to explain? I guess you already know by reading the
paragraph above. Template also can be customized by website designers. If you
don’t know yet, customized also means custom money.
Step 7: Register you domain name and hosting account
I guess you can’t save a lot of money here. The price is
almost the same. However, I give you these choices of well-known web hosting and
domain company that you can register to.
Webhosting:
Hostgator.com – write down ‘albertheywood9433’ at the coupon
code to get 25% discount. Discount is usually 20%. This discount doesn’t apply
to domain name registration.
0 comments:
Post a Comment