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It has been almost three weeks when I started problogging and wrote some tips and ideas on how to start a blog, how to set up a blog, and how to promote a blog. Let me make a summary guide to what I have written for the past three weeks.
Before I started problogging, I said I did not have any plan but I realized that I actually have some unwritten plans. I just did not have a detailed written plan but only unwritten ones. Those plans were the ideas at the back of my head which encourage me to start problogging.

If you also have those unwritten plans at the back your head, why don’t you start problogging too? Why don’t you start planning and implementing what you have planned so far? Why don’t you map our your plan, and make it a reality?

Ten (10) Points to guide you to Starting and Implementing a Blog

1. Plan and Start a Blog

Planning and Starting a Blog. There are requirements when starting a blog. If you start planning and starting a blog, it is not just about planning and starting a blog, it is also about choosing a topic or niche, about defining your niche.

You can either start a blog with a certain topic or a niche or write just about anything you would like to discuss. But if you are good at something, it is better to concentrate on your defined subjects and later on just inject once in a while writing about yourself and your hobbies for a little variety.

2. Have your own Domain Name

Domain Name or Free Subdomain Name. There are advantages and disadvantages of having your own domain name or having a free subdomain name. But if you are serious about your problogging venture, having your own domain name is a better option.

3. Choose a good Domain Name

Choosing a good Domain Name. Making a choice is critical when you decide to have your own domain name. What top-level domain name is better? What second-level domain name is good? The “com” top-level domain name is always better unless if you have no more option but to go for the “net”, but think about it a couple of times first.

4. Register your Domain Name

Registering a Domain Name. Why is it better to register your own domain name instead of availing the free domain registration provided by the web host if ever you decide to have a self-hosted blog rather than having a free-hosted blog? It is the freedom and the control you will have over your own domain name.

5. Have a Web Host

Choosing a Web Host. There are different requirements in choosing a web host. There are a lot of features a web host can offer. What you think do you need among the good features they have? Even if you are new to the idea of having a paid web host, you can experiment with your control panel until you will be able to know how it works. Having a paid web host gives you more freedom to do whatever you like with your blog. Just do not abuse it if you have unlimited storage and bandwidth.

6. Set up a Blog

Setting Up a Blog. Setting up a blog is an investment. Investing money in something would give you a reason to do problogging seriously. When setting up a blog, what are the possible pages that you can create for your blog, and before you even start writing content for your blog?

7. Write Content for your Blog

Start Writing Content for your Blog. Contents are important for your blog, so start writing content for your blog. How are you supposed to know if you will be successful in problogging if you will not give it a try? How are you supposed to know if you will make money problogging, if you will not invest some of your time, effort and energy in writing content? How are you supposed to know if you will earn money online if you do not have any contents in your blog? If you will not start writing content for your blog, then people have nothing to read. But how do you start writing content for your blog when you think that there is nothing you can think of to write about?

8. Remember your Niche and Market

Things to remember when Writing Content for a Blog. Think of your niche when you are writing content for your blog. Always remember your niche and market, your target readers, so as not to digress from the topic that you are supposed to discuss. List the possible subtopics or specific topics under your main topics. Watch a television, read a phrase in a book, and start expounding on what you saw and read.

9. Promote your Blog

Ways on Promoting a Blog. There are several ways on promoting your blog, from search engines to social media like the social networking sites, social bookmarking sites, blog networks, and all the other possibilities that you can think of on how to promote your blog.

10. Know your Web Statistics, Blog Traffic and Site Visitors

How to know your Web Statistics, Blog Traffic and Site Visitors? How would you know if you indeed have visitors in your blog. For you to know the details is for you to have a website statistics tracking tool or web monitoring tool for your blog. Google Analytics is one example of a web statistics analyzer that I have recommended. With web analytics you will know which pages are often visited and what keywords brought your visitors to your blog.

That’s it. Everything has been set up. It is time to move on to earning money problogging. It is time to explore making money online.