Its use to be beautiful to be a Blogger especially while you are a student.
Blogging is incredibly popular. You may have being wishing of becoming a blogger before gaining admission into higher institution like I'm a blogger before gaining admission
{know more about me} or be looking to start one while you study, or probably looking for a ready made blog to buy at cheeper price, but perhaps you're being disturbed by your mind about how to get it done and how to shrink your time managing it.
Starting a blog and maintaining it is very easy as I will show you how, to put mind your at peace.
I defined a blog as an online jornal where you share your thoughts with the world. There are many types of blog over the internet with different niches. Niche means the keyword focused by a blog. I.e what the blog is all about. Naijaloaded.com choosed news, music and lifestyle as his niche while ogbongeblog.com focuses blogging tutorials and so on.
Reasons for you to become a student blogger
* to improve in initiative
* to improve your writing skills
* ability to explore new ideas
* gives you courage of meeting people
* to make reading your hobby
* to familirize with research
To start a blog from scratch while you are studying you need to look out for the followings as I will surely explain them one after the other :-
Start a Successful blog before this year runs out
1. Pick your niche
2. Get a custom domain
3. Choose a preferable blogging platform
4. Create your blog
5. Choose your blog design
6. Creat pages and write your first post
7. Get your audiences
8. Make money from your blog
Now lets take them one after the other.
1. PICK YOUR NICHE
Like I said earlier, niche is liKe a simple keyword you target to blog around. To make it understandable, it is like a subject with different topics. Mathematics as a subject has topics like Matrices, Construction, Permutation, Differenciation, Calculus and so on... Post on blogger is like topics in a subjest.
How to choose the best niche
Choosing the best niche is very simple and easy. It start like a marketing strategy by meeting people asking them what they will love to read on the internet, you can even design a questionnaire for the students. Gather the information and choose from the one that has highest potential.
Another way of choosing the best niche is that - we students love anything like entertainment, lifestyle, music 🎶, and even beauty for ladies. In every higher institution there use to music club where students who choose music as their hobby show their talents. You can choose MUSIC as your niche targeting your fellow students. Understand what they will love to read and choose as your NICHE.
Blog on what you know
Another way of picking a niche to blog about as a student, you have lots of things upstairs like a student of Economics and Finance. Its sure that you have known something about business, money, management, even youve known something about government. Why don't you start a blog and move with lecturers, seniors and best students in the department to learn new things.
Being a blogger as a student will help your academics because it will always challenge you to learn more.
2. GET A CUSTOM DOMAIN
When a baby mama gives birth to a bouncing kid, she gives him/her a name tag. Isn't so?
Domain is the name you give to your blog which users will type in the browser. Pranktech.tk is the name I gave to this blog.
Now I understand what domain is... What custom domain?
When you created a blog using any platform, you wil be provided with a subdomain that goes like this like www.blogname.bloggingplatform.com]. Im on blogger and I was provided with www.pranktech.blogspot.com if its wordpress you will be provided with www.confirmloaded.wordpress.com or on wapka www.360soft.wapka.mobi, those are subdomains.
NOW Custom domain is when you feels like taking your blog to the upper level when you will remove the platform name and stand alone. You have to pay some pennies to the domain registrar for getting you such domain like www.pranktech.com or confirmloaded.com or apkprank.tk
I've created a blog where can I buy a custom domain.
There are many domain registrar that provide services like this. The services were provided based on different kinds of plan choosed with vary prices which payment can be done with credit cards.
You can still manage a blog with this subdomains but its good to get a custom domain on time because everything is about competition. That domain in your mind might be in another persons mind so the faster person will have it. 😕😕I fall in the hands of myself becuause i never get a custom domain too 😢😢 don't mind me.
Below are some domain registrar.
www.dot.tk
Domainking.com
Whogohost.com
Hostgator.com
Major Challenges face by bloggers
3. CHOOSE A PREFERABLE BLOGGING PLATFORM
Blogging platforms are the websites that allow user to create blogs and upload your contents for the world. These platforms do host blogger's blogs by providing blogs with free disk space where the contents will be stored for retrieving, editing, reviewing, deleting an the likes. Blogging platforms also provide a free domain [ like www.blogname.bloggingplatform.com] which may later be changed to a custom domain like www.blogname.com
Below are some popular blogging platforms I knew.
Choose a preferred
#1 Blogger.com
#2 Wordpress.com
#3 Tumblr.com
#4 Wix.com
#5 Ghost.org
#6 Medium.com
#7 Squarespace.com
#8 Typepd.com
#9. Wapka.mobi
#10. Gawker.com
#11. Drupal.com
5 Blogging platform reviewed
Choossing best blogging platform
I have compiled a post for you here where I reviwed 6 blogging platforms [their specs.] read through and choose any that suits you... But I used blogger and wordpress though, what suits you might not suit me just 💋 read.
4. CREATE YOUR BLOG
Creating blogs is very easy, simple and fast. On blogger.com with just three steps your blog is ready and live. Get a google account (gmail). Goto www.blogger.com . sign in . hit creat blog. And thats all. Next to choose template (design) from the countless of blogger template.
Same thing happens WordPress.com sign up and verify your account and your blog is live.
5. CHOOSE YOUR BLOG DESIGN
Choosing a blog design is the aspect that beauty your blog. It contain html formated with css ( for blogger) including links to your pages. At times blog design contain php codes plus css (for WordPress). Blog loading time is determined by the design of your blog.
Selecting a good blog template
There are different designs to choose from free version or upgraded version which requires you to purchase to have full control on the source codes.
Things to look for in choosing a blog theme
You need to consider the loading time of the template.
Some blog theme does not come with something like share button, related posts which can keep your readers more on your blog. Hence, you will have to play arround the codes area to add a thirdpary codes.
You need to consider the gadget or plugins on a theme before choosing because it determined the loading speed of your blog.
The layout also matter as far as a blog is concerned. Some themes come with three or or four columns. Although you can control the column in blogger and wordpress either position or the width.
I recommend just two columns blog theme for people.
Where to find free blog theme
Blogger
Bteplates.com
themexpose.com
cssauthor.com
cssauthor.com
gooyaabitemplates.com
dcrazed.com
gooyaabitemplates.com
WordPress
fabthemes.com
creativebloq.com
themegrill.com
themeforest.net
codeinwp.com
themeisle.com
justfreethemes.com
accesspressthemes.com
6. CREATE YOUR PAGES AND START YOUR POSTING CONTENTS ON YOUR BLOG
Having get all the aboves inplace the next step to take your blog is to create pages like Contact page, About, Privacy Policy and at time you might want to create a page like Write for us and Advertise with us ...
It is important to creat about page which show your readers how they can get in touch with you and direct them to your social media pages.
A blog without pages like contact or about or Privacy policy page do not sometimes allow to register for adense programe.
Creating a good content
This is where some blogs or bloggers failed.
A blog with good content is sucess determined, it doesn't matter how fast your blog is or the number of visit you have or how beautiful your blog is or how much post you have on your blog once the content creation idea 💡 is poor you might loose all your traffic. Look for what your readers will love to read, write for to the love 💘 of your readers so that they can come back and even come back for more.
The way you present the matter, the way you addressed the topic you are writing about, give examples, carry them along with the idea of what you are writing on.
Running a successful blog while studying
7. GET YOUR AUDIENCES
Now that you have set up your blog and know the basics, it’s time to make your blog successful. Audience building determines if a blog is to succeed or fail Many beginners struggle at that point, thus, a pro blogger have put together a handful of guides to get you going easier.
How to build a good Audience for your Blog
1. Let your family, friends and colleagues know. Get your social circle to read, comment on and share your blog posts.
2. Social media. As a student, you gonna belong in a group or social media like facebook or instagram or twitter or even a whatsapp group. Let the soial media be a market place for you where you share links to your fellow students.
3. Have as many follow on Twitter and Instagram and many friends on facebook. The more friends you have is the more chances to have more clicks on the link you share. Now if you have 3000+ friends on facebook you stand a chance to have at least... 1000 clicks.
4. Get a blog buddy . Having trouble getting motivated? Find someone else who’s also blogging and meet with each other regularly to help each other get feedback and brainstorm topics.
7. Join a community. This helps when you interact th fellow bloggers, you share ideas 💡, you ask questions, you provide solutions ro problems other bogger are facing by sharing links of your posts. You can join bloggers community on facebook
Bloggers Helping Bloggers, https://facebook.com/groups/1524893201126598?refid=27
Blogging Networker https://facebook.com/groups/170139453515011?refid=27
Blogging and promotion https://facebook.com/groups/685477098322986?refid=27
Bloggers funda https://facebook.com/groups/963015300480158?refid=27
https://facebook.com/groups/517883595061680?refid=27
Blogger Spots
https://facebook.com/groups/273825093084175?refid=27
8. MAKE MONET FROM YOUR BLOG
There are several ways to make money from your blog but it depends on how serious and hardwork you are. The best and the most popular way to make money from blogging is through google adsense and through some other ad network or through affiliate programmes.
Making money from blog is very nice but it should not be what you will be curious of.
Before you can make money from blogging through adsense, there are some criterials your blog should met.
Bloggers also make money through affiliate programs which you refer a friend of yours to purchase a product or join the network through your flink called affiliate link and you get your commission.
This is how you can become a student blogger like me. If you blog as a student you will be informed, initiated, educted and on. Focus on giving readers fresh and new update to turn them to your organic traffic and when the money start comming in you will amazed.
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