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Step One: Choose the Niche
The most successful blogs are those that stick to one specific niche. This means that readers will be able to search the rest of your blog for information, knowing that it will be based on the same topic. The best way to utilize this for a business is to research the different niches available and find those that are the most successful financially.
Step Two: Have Some Content Ready
All blogs need content before they go live. An empty page will not attract traffic. This content needs to be well-written and well optimized for search engines. This will help with the ranking of your blog to help attract both readers and writers. There is no definite answer on the amount of content needed to start the business; just enough to help with initial ranking and to update the blog regularly during the initial months.
Step Three: Payment Options
All businesses need a way of making money and a blogging one is no different. There are different ways to make money through a blog and it is up to you to research each one and find the best option. It is also important to determine how other writers will be paid, which will also be dependent on the method used to gain the finances to keep the blog running.
Step Four: Promote the Blogging Business
To run a blog as a business, writers will be needed. The only way other writers will find out about the blog is through promotion and ranking highly in search engines. While you can help your blog rank highly in search engines, you have more power over the amount you promote the business and how the promotion happens. Marketing will also help to attract more readers.
Step Five: Learn More About SEO
SEO is important to help with the ranking of a website. This is more than just placing the right keywords into content, which means that you will need to research and learn more about it. This takes months, if not years, to learn in full and there are constant changes but it is fully worth doing to be successful.
Starting a blogging business takes time and patience but it is possible and profitable. Following the above steps will help with the initial start up. It is worth starting with just one blog on one niche and then building from there to make sure that this type of business is for you.