How to Start a Free blog and Earn money

Have you been wondering how to start your own blog and become a pro? 

Do you know you can earn high amount of money from it? 

Welcome to Ben-Nestel's blog. Here you gonna know the anything about starting a new blog. 

How to start a free blog on blogspot platform?

Creating a blog using Blogger.com is really easy. I’ll give you few easy instructions and follow them accordingly.

 Sign up for Blogger.com

First of all, go to Blogger.com home page and sign up.

Quick note: Create a GMail account if you don’t have it yet.

Once you are logged into your Google account, you will now see “New Blog” button on the left side. Click on it to create a new blog on Blogger.

Enter a name for your blog

Type in any title that you want to name your blog in the Title box. And just enter any short domain address, if it’s already taken, you will see a yellow box. Make sure to come up with a unique name and select a template from the options provided in the same box. You can choose many more templates and customize your blog later.

And that’s it! You have successfully create a blog on blogspot in under 2 minutes. Congrats. Now we’ll walk through the next steps.

 Start creating new blog posts

Click the button “Create New Post”  on the left side to create a new blog post. Enter any title and start writing content that you want.

  Google AdSense!

Once you are started getting decent amount of visitors from search engines to your blogspot blogs, you can apply for AdSense to start making money. Don’t apply for AdSense unless and until you are bringing at least 300-400 unique visitors every single day. Otherwise, it’s really hard to getting your account approved.

Quick note: You can anytime change your blog template by clicking on the button “Template” at the left side on your blogspot dashboard.

What to do after creating your blog on blogspot?

Start creating SEO friendly content

If you want to generate more income from AdSense using your blogspot blog, you have to bring more visitors from search engines. The more search engine traffic you get the more clicks you will be able to generate and the more income you will make from AdSense.

Unfortunately, increasing search traffic to any blog or website is not easy especially if you are a beginner to SEO. You have to learn everything on your own related to SEO and start implementing the effective SEO strategies to boost your organic traffic.

The only recommendation I can give to any beginner blogger is this: start focusing on creating content that is SEO friendly. Here are few simple tips to write SEO friendly blog posts that will help you bring more traffic to your blogspot blogs.

Focus on internal linking. Whenever you write new posts, link to the previous posts. This will increase the search crawlability. The more crawling is done on your site internally, the more search visibility your blog gets.Don’t write beyond 70 characters in your blog post titles. It will not show up in search results, so make sure to use short yet descriptive headlines.Always focus on readers first, then optimize later for search engines. Don’t use the same keywords again and again as it leads to keyword stuffing and your blog may gets penalized by doing so.Don’t use flash elements on your blog as it will slow down your blog’s speed. Google gives top priority to the sites that load faster.

Focus on getting AdSense approval

Once you started creating great contents for your blog, it’s time for you to focus on getting your Google AdSense approval. This is the major reason why most bloggers start a blog on blogspot. If you are also one among them, don’t wait for a long time.

I would recommend anyone to focus their efforts on getting AdSense approval after completing 4 to 6 months. Because by that time, you will be able to get good amount of traffic from search engines.

Even if you post one post a day, that would be around 100 articles in 4 months and if they are all optimized well for search engines, you will definitely getting around 500 unique visitors  . And that’s a good start to get your AdSense approved.

Find out ways to increase your AdSense earnings

The next thing you can do once your AdSense account gets approved is you can figure out some proven ways to increase your earnings from AdSense. Although as a beginner, it might be a difficult job for you to increase your AdSense income but overtime you will understand how it works well.

You can also sign up for AdSense related blogs to enhance your knowledge and place the AdSense ads on the right places to increase clicks from your blogs.

 Essential SEO tips for blogspot blogs

Now that you got a clear idea on what to do after creating a blog on blogspot, now is the time to focus on your SEO strategies to boost your blog’s traffic from search engines.

Give top priority to on-page SEO

If you want to increase your blog traffic on blogspot, you must ensure that you are doing proper on page optimization. On page SEO includes the following factors.

Using your primary keywords on title tags, image alt tags, internal links, subheadings such as h2, h3 and overall body content. This will ensure that your content is properly optimized for specific keywords and you can increase its search engine visibility.

 Find keywords before you write anything

Keyword research is the key factor in increasing your organic traffic. Use SEO tools like Semrush to find out the best performing keywords in your niche.

Make sure always come up with long tail keywords to drive more traffic. For instance, “blogger” is a short tail keyword and it’s almost impossible to rank for that keyword because of high competition.

But you can rank for long tail keywords such as “create a free blog on blogspot”, “start a new blog on Blogger”, “how to create a free blog” etc. These are all long tail keywords that are generally are less competitive and you can easily rank for these keywords without building too many links.

 Never publish duplicate content

Most beginner bloggers publish copied content on their blogspot blogs. I observe this almost every time I see a new blogger starts a blog on blogspot platform. They do this to increase their blog traffic but what they don’t understand is Google has clever algorithms that will catch up who is posting copied contents.

And if they find you are posting duplicate content on your blog to increase your traffic, it will start penalizing your search rankings or even Google may delete your blog for doing wrong deeds. So never post duplicate content, take your time to research and craft great content for your blog readers.

5. Optimize images for search engines

A picture is worth of thousand words.

Images not only add depth to your content but helps you increase your traffic from “Google image search”. The more compelling images you use the more traffic you get from search engines.

But when using images on your blogspot blog posts, make sure to use images that are not copyrighted. Don’t use random images from Google search results as Google won’t accept your AdSense if they find copyrighted contents using freely on your blogspot blogs. You can use free sites like FreeDigitalPhotos.net or Quozio.com to make your own images.