You will probably ask yourself : why I'm going to create a blog ? Can a blog really make me rich ?
maybe you even think that a blog is a waste of time.When I speak of blogging, I'm not telling you to write a personal journal.

I'm talking about writing high quality articles that interest people and resolve their problems. This is the type of blog that will make you money.Any person is afraid when he starts a new and important thing, but you have nothing to worry about, in this article and for the first time on Steemit I will guide you step by step to set up your blog, I'm going to show you how to publish articles, effective methods to drive traffic to your blog and all the techniques of monetizing a blog.

A Bit Of Statistics

Currently :

42% of the world population is connected to the internet, either 3.025 billion internet users.
70% of internet users are daily users
8 new users every second

You had included, a blog done well will enable you to build a wide audience and therefore a lot of traffic then you are going to convert it to money. Now to motivate you, I'll give you a real example of a blogger who has made $162.247 in September 2016.

This is John Lee Dumas, one of the most successful entrepreneurs on the internet.

This young man from the United States began its course in blogging in September 2012, after having worked with several companies he has fallen in love with entrepreneurial podcasts.
He has noticed that there is no other platform on the internet that publish podcasts regularly. This is why he created a web site (Entrepreneur On Fire), which features podcasts of entrepreneurs. his website also features a blog section through which he publishes reports on its revenues.
the full report of The income of the month September 2016 http://www.eofire.com/income37/.

Find Your Niche

The secret of success of any blog is the niche, for this reason take all your time to choose it.You must take 3 considerations when identifying your niche :First, ask yourself if this niche is quite popular and with a wide selection of products and services that will always keep the demand high.

a good example of a niche with endless opportunities is the weight loss products; people will always want to lose weight. It is best to also find a niche less competitive, as John Lee Dumas.Second, the niche must have more than one opportunity of monetization and the most paid offers. You're not going to do all this great work for only a few dollars per conversion.

May be that you haven't understood these last lines, but I want to say here by the paid offers, affiliate programs that will allow you to promote services or products of a company on your blog and earn a commission (based on the value of the product or service) each time one of your visitors buys the product or service on the merchant's website.

Third, you must be super interested in this niche and have enough information. Can you imagine yourself spending hours each day to write on a niche that you don't feel passionate about ? Of course not.Finally, I suggest you read a lot about your niche, that's how you will have a head full of information and you will surely write very useful articles , this way you will build an audience that regularly visits your blog.

Build Your Blog

Many people think that to create their own Web sites must learn the web programming languages such as HTML, CSS, PHP, JavaScript.

This is not true because there are what are called content Management Systems (CMS), theses softwares will simplify your life because you're going to be able to write and publish articles, change the design or the theme, manage comments and add other features to your blog with one click.All this without writing any line of code.

this is awesome!Why the majority of bloggers use a CMS instead of coding their blog from scratch ?Quite simply, because the people who want to monetize their sites do not have the time to code and design the pages even if they have bases in web programming, they focus only on the content and the marketing and not the programming side.

WordPress

Without any doubt, WordPress is the most important CMS. this is what you must choose to run your blog, there are other CMS like Joomla and Drupal but they have never been able to cope with WordPress.A Few Statistics :

74, 652, 825 sites are made by WordPress
48 blogs among the top 100 in the world are made by WordPress
WordPress is translated into over 60 languages
22% of all domains newly registered in the United States are using WordPress
There are more than 43, 143 WordPress plugins

In addition, WordPress is easy to handle ,regardless of your level you will become familiar with it quickly.WordPress is Open-Source, you don't have to pay a single cent to have it, the only investment is to have a web server for your site to be online 24/7.

Your web host will install WordPress on the server. Once you have your blog hosted you directly start to create the content.Finally, the great advantage of WordPress is that it is optimized for search engines. its an essential point to monetize your blog.
the More your site is visible on search engines like Google, Yahoo and Bing, the more you have more traffic on it .

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