Blogging: about blogs, reasons, and mistakes

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Hello friend, maybe many do not know about blogging and also the benefits of making a blog. Previously the blog itself is  short for web log, which contains writings that you have written and can be consumed or seen by all internet users. Now many people have benefited from blogging, they can further develop their business, they can also benefit personally, professionally, even financially. For those of you who also have a hobby of writing, this is a fun opportunity for you.

For those of you who are still hesitant and hesitant to start creating a blog, we will let you know !!
Why do you have to create a blog ??? 

1. The making is relatively easy . Well, those of you who want to be in the world of blogs, you just need to choose a hosting plan, specify a domain, and also use application features. If you have already installed wordpress then you will already have your own blog, not only that you can also choose a blog for free. However, for those of you who want to get money from your blog, then you have to set up your own domain and hosting too ...
2. To create a blog, you don't have to have technical skills . So, to make this blog not complicated, even those of you who don't have technical skills can start flapping your wings as bloggers. As long as you follow the guidelines in creating a blog, you will definitely succeed, because making it is easy.
3. Attract the audience. So here, the blog that you create will also make people more active using the internet. Not only that, if your blog is interesting and contains important and impressive values, and even provides useful information, then your blog will slowly begin to be known to many people. These audiences, over time, will also become your business customers, and can even become your work partners.
4. Build an authority. Share content that is relevant to the audience, then makes you have authority in that space. In 2000, the blog also became a feature of professionalism.
5. Wherever you can blogging. So you don't need to be complicated, you can do it in a cafe or when you're on vacation. Especially if your blog theme is traveling, it will also be more varied.
6. Improve your writing skills and ability. If you are not very good at writing then don't be pessimistic yet, because with this blogging you will be trained and even without you knowing that over time you will also become great writers. Well even though there are also bloggers who already have qualified writing skills.
7. Sharing knowledge knowledge with others. If you might have experience or knowledge about something, then you can share it with others easily and certainly will be useful to the audience. For example, you have knowledge about an electronic item, so you can also make a review of the advantages or disadvantages of an electronic item.
8. Increase your sales. Well, for those of you who are also business people, this is also a good way to increase your brand and also trust in your business. This blog can increase traffic because other sites can share links to social media.
9. Starting a writing career. If in the past, to become a writer must have a degree first, now for those of you who have the talent to write can easily publish it and can be enjoyed by many people. You can prove and show your writing skills to everyone.
10. Bring up the opportunity for you. Blogging also allows other people to know your skills, even if you already have a good name as a blogger you can be invited by other people to become a speaker, motivator or others because this blogging can also identify expertise.
11. Find ideas and start learning. Conscious or not, this blogging forces you to come up with new ideas and if you don't know something you will be required to find out and learn about it. Indirectly, your knowledge and knowledge will increase.
12. Make yourself more visible . Not many people are active in creating content, in fact around 99% are just readers, and this means it's your chance to introduce you and your skills.
13. Make money. Now for those of you who need extra money, blogging is also one of the right ways because logging can be done anytime and without having to be complicated. Of course the more the audience, the more you have the opportunity to earn money. In blogging, to get money also depends on the time allocation you give.

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Before you start to create a blog, you need to know about the following:

• What are the free platforms that can be easily used ?? Broadly speaking there are 3 platforms that are world-famous, namely the first is wordpress which is the largest platform, then followed by bloggers, and then there is Tumblr which is a combination of blogs and social media.
• What is Domain? Well, the domain here can be said as the URL or address of your website. For example, google.com Facebook.com
• What is hosting? Hosting is a company which will put or display your website to the internet so that it can be seen by many people.
• Why do I have to have my own domain or hosting?This is not a necessity, but for those of you who really want to seriously dive into the world of blogs and get financial benefits there, having your own hosting and domain might be a better choice. Because when you use a free platform, then in fact you don't have your own blog because it's connected to the platform's domain, they can easily delete your blog. Not only that, your website's name also becomes less attractive because there are rules for each platform's name. For example, namaBlogmu.wordpress.com, namaBlogmu.Blogspot.com, namablogmu.tumblr.com, and vice versa if you use your own domain and hosting then you can set the name as you like, such as yourname.com, and even you can also change the ending can with .com, .co.uk, .net ,. org and others. However, for those of you who want to use an existing platform, that's fine, if you can also choose the design that suits you best

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What mistakes do beginners usually do ??

• Start music automatically . Of course the use of music automatically will also affect your bandwidth, isn't it frustrating if we become an audience which opens a blog with a very long loading, surely we will also think of leaving the blog even before the blog is really open, not only that, what if the cellphone volume of the audience is high, wouldn't it surprise them and even upset them.
• Choosing a dark background with bright writing. Reading online will be more difficult than reading a paper letter, and what about reading brightly in the dark then it will also become unreadable and even make people lazy to read it. Using the word "click here" but not has a link in it. Of course this will confuse the audience, when they have focused on the direction to click, but he did not find a link nearby.
• Using a blog name that is less interesting or even excessive. Of course you have to choose a name that is also flexible. Like the case if you initially want to discuss about pregnancy and then you name your blog cekhamil.com, if you are sure you will continue to choose pregnancy content then that might be good, but make sure first in 2-3 years you will remain on the content. And not only that, so that there is continuity and synchronization then your blog name should match your domain or URL. Just like if you use the title power ranger and then give your domain name or URL with naruto.blogspot.com then it will be very contrasting.

Well, for the next time you can read about how or steps to create a blog on our website. Hopefully useful ...

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