How to Start Blogging and Earn Money Online

Blogging is a great way of sharing your knowledge and skills with the world. In recent years, there has been a major rise in number blogs and bloggers. But there are still many people who don’t know what is blogging and what is the use of it. One of the powerful thing in blogging is that you can earn money online just by monetizing your blog. So, I thought to write a post about starting a blog and earning money online from it. This post is recommended for newbies and it contains only basic details about blogging.

What is a blog and Why you should  start blogging?

A blog is basically a website where an user or a group of users express their knowledge and information on a regular basis. It may also defined as an informative website where a person shares his experience and knowledge about a particular topic. It is easy to know what is a blog when you start blogging. Actually there are more than 70 million blogs in the whole internet world.

Blogging is primarily a hobby and it is also a great source to earn money online. The main reason why you should start a blog is that you can earn lots of money online easily from it. It also improves your knowledge as you’ll have to write a post on a regular basis. By blogging you are also improving an another person’s knowledge. It enables you to show your skills to the world and get something in return.

How to start blogging?

The best way to start blogging is to sign up for an account at blogger.com for free! Blogger.com is a free service by Google that will let you to start blogging for free with a sub-domain. Just sign up for an account and choose a sub-domain then you can start blogging for free. For better monetization I suggest you to use a premium domain name with WordPress. WordPress is more recommended by professionals than blogger because it has more level of customization and SEO features.

Must Read: Best Ways to Promote your Blog.

How to Earn Money Online by Blogging?

Blogging has become popular because of  the “Earn Money Online” feature. The best known and trusted advertising program in the blogging world is AdSense. Again, Adsense is a free service by google in which you can earn money by placing the ad codes on your website. Everyday thousands of people earn lots of money from AdSense and it is a true fact! But there are a few requirements like your blog must have quality posts and shouldn’t contain anything illegal (You can read their terms and conditions here). Not only advertising, there are many other ways in which you can earn money from your blog.  By selling ad spaces, links in your blog(website) you can also earn money online from you blog. Once you start blogging you might get frustrated as it requires lots of patience. I recommend you to stay calm and build your blog slowly and improve daily. After you set up a blog with quality posts and good ranking, you can apply for AdSense and earn money in lakhs! So, earning money online is a great use of blogging.

But blogging is not only about earning money, it is a hobby as I said earlier. You can use blogging both as a hobby and a source to earn money online.It is purely left to you. If you have anything to ask about blogging then feel free to comment below.