You have decided you want to start your own blog, but dont know where to begin. In this series I am going to teach you how to get a blog started, from the planning stages, right through to picking a good stat tracking application and announcing your blog to the world. Let’s get started!

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The first thing you need to do after deciding you want to start a blog, is ask yourself these questions:

  • What am I going to write about?
  • What is my target audience?
  • How often am I going to blog?

When answering the first question, take into consideration how much you know about certain topics, and what topics you are interested in and love. Generally the best thing/s to write about are things you really enjoy.

Your answer to the first question can highly effect your answer to the second. For an example if you are writing about emo music, your target will be teenagers and the early twenties. If you are blogging about photography, your audience widens. Personally I try and keep to four main topics, Apple, Photography, Productivity, and Blogging. Most of these go hand and hand into each other which helps me interlink posts and keep a general theme.

How often you are going to blog is a big question. You cant expect people to keep loyal to reading your blog if you blog for seven days in a row, then leave it a week before your next post, then 3 days before your next. Routine is a key. Pick a date and stick to it, weather it’s once a day, week, or month.

After you have answered all of these, then you can move on and get stuck into the next stage which we will cover in the next installment - picking your blogging platform.