Whether you are a small business owner, a programmer, student or even a cook, starting a blog is one of the best investments that you can do in terms of time and resources. In this article I am going to mention top 5 Reasons For Starting Your Own Blog and putting your content for the world to read.
This article is mainly for those who want to build an online brand image, voice their opinions and build an online community in their niche. Even if you have never thought about starting a blog before, may be this post will change your mind.
1. Building An Online Brand Image
When you start writing a blog you may not see much traffic or influence on others which can sometimes be demotivating. But believe me, if you keep writing regularly for a few months you are going to be amazed how many people you are able to reach in your field. Now, writing regularly when combined with social media share can just take your content to another level.
You may not see some good amount of traffic for some time, and by some time I mean ‘may be even a year‘, but if you keep posting your articles at a regular interval then you are going to make Google Search Engine really happy. Believe me when I say that it feels really good when someone personally messages you on twitter about how much they liked you article.
From then on you can easily build an online brand. Just make sure that you choose a good name for your blog so that people can intuitively relate to whatever you write.
2. Building An Online Community
When you start to see some good amount of traffic on your blog, then you can easily reach out to others who share the same view as you. Even if someone comments something a bit negative about your article you can reach out to him. But what to say to someone like that ? You can always tell that these are just your views and you respect his or her views as well. Doing that will make you someone who takes accountability for the content you put out there while respecting others’ views.
The best thing is, after you reach out to someone in the above scenario there is a very good chance that he or she will become a regular visitor of your blog. Along with that if you start to reply and answer to comments then others will surely know that you value their opinion. That will help you build a really solid community of like-minded people with whom you can share your thoughts and even approach with you problems.
You can also visit other people’s blogs with similar content as yours and comment on their posts. By doing that for some time you can tell the readers that you also have a blog. Just make sure that you don’t spam in the comment section by just putting your blog’s address and look like someone who is trying to steal the audience of other bloggers.
3. Get Better At Writing
This one is pretty obvious. When you start writing blog posts you are bound to get better at writing. You will also get better at communicating your ideas to others.
At first, you may not feel that much confident about your writing skills. The key point here is to persist and keep posting regularly. For writing a single blog post you will have to do some background work.
May be you will have to read some articles online and collect and organize your thoughts and may be even jot down a few points on paper. The best thing you can do to improve your writing and thought process is to visit other people’s blogs. You will get a very clear idea how to put your thoughts in order before writing. Just make sure that you don’t copy the content of other bloggers.
Along with that if you do everything correctly while collecting your materials for writing that will also help you in thinking better. With time you will begin to write really high quality posts at a much faster rate.
4. Get Your Thoughts And Content Out There
When you start writing on your blog then you will be able to get your thoughts reach a much wider audience. No matter whatever your blog is about, with the advancement in today’s technology you can always find a great audience for your content.
Digital content has become a very common medium for getting people’s opinions and ideas to reach others. Almost everyone has a smartphone nowadays and any one with a smartphone can access your blog at any time.
The best part in this whole process is that you are not sharing your thoughts only with a few people but with the whole world to read. Once your blog gains traction and people start noticing your content you will feel even more empowered and compelled to put higher quality posts for others to read.
One more thing, never feel that you will not find an audience for your blog. Even if your blog is about computer hardware and building PCs, then also you will be amazed to see how many people actually follow that content. So, if you feel like sharing your thoughts with the world then go and just start writing.
5. Earn Money
I kept this point till the last as this should not be your primary motivation behind starting a blog. Then again, if you want to make a living out of blogging as a full time blogger this has to be one of the top priorities. But I am going to write from the perspective that you want to build your business or online image by blogging.
There are many ways in which you can earn money while blogging. Before getting into the earning money phase, let’s first see the prerequisites.
- First of all start a blog. (Pretty obvious)
- Start writing quality posts.
- Try to gather an audience who really want to be part of your blogging community.
- After you have got a good amount of traffic you can start thinking about monetizing your blog.
In the whole process, steps 3 and 4 are going to take the most amount of time. Now, let us see some ways in which you can earn money through your blog.
Advertising:
It is one of the most common ways to monetize your blog. You can put sponsored ads on your site to earn money. You must have seen many blogs doing this. Beware not to put too many ads on your blog which can severely affect the experience and purpose of your blog, that is to create and provide quality articles to your audience.
Affiliate Marketing
You can provide affiliated links to shopping sites like Amazon. This one is pretty common as well. Still make sure not to fill the whole blog with such links and banners.
Providing Services And Products
In my opinion this is the best way to earn money through your blog. You can put your own business products and services for people to buy and use. Your readers will start taking your blog and business a bit more seriously and by word of mouth your blog can grow a lot. This is one of the best ways because you are not giving your readers anything that you do not value yourself.
When you start to monetize your blog just make sure that the quality of your posts do not go down. That will not do you any good and you may even see a decline in your audience. So, always try to put quality on a pedestal.
Conclusion
That’s all from my side. Now its your turn to start a blog and put out some awesome content for the world to read. Just know that the niche for your blog really does not matter that much. Nowadays one can find reader for almost any topic and even excel as a blogger.
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