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Blogging 101: Blogging Tips for Beginners

Creation

1. How to come up with a blog name

Begin with the following -

  • Think about what you want to blog about
  • Think about who your audience will be
  • What is you niche and USP (what makes you unique)
  • Ask around, conduct a vote
  • Look at other similar blogs
  • Use a thesaurus
  • Use abbreviations
  • Use your own name

Great tool for coming up with names - Wordoid

2. Setting Up a blog in 5 easy steps

Setting up a blog, as easy as it gets. Here is how to do it -

3. How to come up with interesting blog topic ideas

  •  Use a keyword research tool - Keyword Tool
  • Ask your audience for ideas
  • Copy what has worked for others
  • Choose from trending topics
  • Read a lot and take notes

5. How to create great images for your blog

Adding images to your blog has three main parts to it -

  • Sourcing good images
  • Editing
  • Resizing

Sourcing:

Here are some free website from where you can get some good quality pictures, graphics and icons -

Pixabay

Morguefile

Public Domain Pictures

Pexels

Unsplash

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In case you take your own photos, here are some tricks and tips told by professional photographers.

Designing & Editing:

 

Find the list of tools here - FREE TOOLS

Promotion

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7. How to promote your blog post

Here are all the channels you can use to promote your blog post, and build an audience - 100+ Promotion Tactics

11. Headline length for social media posts

Google : 50-60 Characters

Bing : 65 Characters

Yahoo : 72 Characters

Twitter : 70 Characters

Facebook : 70-90 Characters

Google+ : 60 Characters

Monetize

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13. How to monetize your blog

  • Become an affiliate marketer
  • Integrate Google Adsense in your blog
  • Sell a banner or ad space to other brands
  • Collaborate with Brands
  • Integrate an online shop with your blog