How To Start Blogging? This is How We Do It!

When we first start to blog, we are looking for the best way to blog. We are serious about blogging, we like to build our brand, our business, reach out and make a different. So we come up with 2 things:

1. Goal - What We Try To Achieve Here?
2. Plan - How We Going To Do It?

Goal

Goal for blogging is important, whether you set up a blog to have fun, get a better job, build a business, get feedback from customer, you must at least have some idea what you are trying to achieve here. This will make your decision how to blog much easier later on.

Planning

Planning. This is the hardest plan for us. Because at that time, we are beginner, we don’t have any experience, how are we going to plan something that we don’t have experience? So we go out and read a lot of books, blog and website about blogging (check out our resources) . But what set us a part is we know what we are looking for while reading those books, blog and website.

Use Your Goal To Help You To Choose And Plan

Our goal is to compile all the information about make money online; Make it free and easy to find and access those information. We are sure you have your own blogging goal, list down your goal, and then you can make a better decision how you pick your blogging option:

Option List:

1. Your Own Web Hosting Vs Free Blog Hosting
2. Brand Domain Name Vs Keyword Optimize Domain Name
3. Powerful Blog Software Vs Quick And Easy

Our Choice

For us, we need to pick our own hosting, brand domain name and powerful blog software in order to achieve our goal. So it’s really up to you, the important things is you must pick one that most suit your goal.

Picking our own brand domain name is easy. But where to find a reliable web hosting and powerful blog software? Through reading, we know couple of popular web hosting and blog software. So we go ahead and get them. And an honest third party opinion is important here. Here are two website we use to find our web hosting and blog platform:

For Web Hosting:
http://www.webhostingunleashed.com

For Blog Software:
http://www.opensourcecms.com

And you can read more about find a web host and how to pick a domain name in our handbook guide here.

We are not new in internet, we already have couple of website running and hosted in our local web hosting company, so we go ahead to install it and test it out ourself after reading those review.

But for those who are new, you can try out the two website we recommend above, they will help you to pick a web hosting and a blog platform. Out tips here is to get a blog that doing something similar to you ( you can find it in opensourcecms.com) , and just pick that blogging platform that use in that blog.

The Result

It’s a bit tough for us to choose the blog platform since we are looking for a blog software as powerful as content management system for our compilation work. And we haven’t found any website like us using blog software to do this kind of jobs. We install couple of the blog software and really play with it. And it’s come down to 2 choices Drupal and Wordpress. Both are fantastic open source software.

In The End, We Pick Wordpress.

Both are powerful blog platform. The reasons we pick wordpress is they are quicker to learn and more beautiful theme design available. Wordpress is not as powerful as drupal, but it’s powerful enough to reach our goal.

We being using wordpress to developed Hoobin.com, and we are happy with it.

Just The Beginning

Having a goal and layout a plan is just the beginning. Picking a good domain name, choose a web hosting and get a blog software will help you to kick start your blogging project.

What really take time to work on is how you execute your plan. That is …

1. Customize Your Wordpress Blog Platform
Make it useful, make it beautiful and make it work

2. Write Your Core Content or 101 Content Articles
You must have couple of foundation articles to write so that your visitor know what your are trying to do here.

3. Promote Your Blog
How to launched your new blog and promote it is the most crucial part of your blogging success. Every good blog need an audience!

We have spend a lot of time customize our wordpress blog here. And we will share more about this in our next articles.

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