Blogging is not just a medium of expression. It is a business. A business that makes tons of money for people involved in it. This is not a hidden secret, not any more. And if you are the one who got this information late then you should better hurry, before this money-making source is used to death. I am writing this step-by-step guide to help you start your own world-class blog.
This is the first thing you need to do. You should find a niche in which you can work for long, as blogging is not one-day affair. Look in stores like Amazon and ebay for niche idea. You can also search for niche idea in magazines.
Once you have found the niche in which you will operate, the next step is to do a keyword research to find keywords to target.
The next step is to find a keyword-rich domain name matching your niche. You can use Gossimer domain name tool to search and register your domain.
You need to have a reliable web hosting provider to host your blog. Do not go for a hosting account that has cap on bandwith, data transfer, database, etc. You will need unlimited bandwidth when your website grows. (Note: You can buy Gossimer’s The Ulimtate Webhosting account for $5/month and get real unlimited web hosting account).
Although there are many blogging platforms, I will suggest using WordPress as it is very extensible, and it has thousands of free plugins and themes, which makes WordPress the most powerful blogging platform.
Install a theme of your choice and all the required plugins. There are lots of free plugins to choose from.
Your world-class blog is ready. Create content and start promoting your blog. I will not suggest monetizing your blog now. Wait for a month or two before you do that.
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Surprisingly with the increasing web browsing habit among Americans during March 2010, it’s the ebay and AOL who are enjoying maximum share of the cake. Recent observation of The Nielsen Company has brought this fact in notice of all.
March 2010 witnessed 57 internet sessions during the month among the Americans, 7.6% more than 53 the previous month. Remarkably the average number of domains visited per person increased by 7.2% and the average number of web pages visited per person also sharply increased by 4.1%. Research further unveiled that average PC time per person increased by 5.9%, amount of time spent viewing average web page sharply rose by 1.2%. Most interestingly number of active internet users accelerated by 3.3%. Such growth rate in such small time span has been truly phenomenal.
In contrary to February 2010, when six of the top ten parent companies missed audience share and all lost average time spent on their websites, March 2010 brought in a gasp of all relief to all; as nine of the top ten companies witnessed major growth in both the segments.
ebay and AOL reaped in maximum benefits. The online auction retail giant ebay topped in both unique audience (5.8%) and time spent on website (12%) growth rate. ebay cherished a unique audience of 66.3 million users who spent an average of 1 hour, 26 minutes and 8 seconds on the website. It secured 8th position in terms of audience size. Fifth ranked AOL LLC followed ebay with an audience growth rate of 5.1% and 8.1 time spent on website growth, with an audience of 85.1 million users spending 2 hours, 14minutes and 38 seconds on average everyday.
Leaders ranked between first to fourth rank, enjoying the largest monthly audience and maximum times spent on the website are – Google, Microsoft, Yahoo and Facebook.
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In a study conducted for December 2009 by a market research firm comScore, Inc. it was found that Google has outperformed the global search market in year-on-year (YoY) growth. Google has recorded a YoY growth of 58% in December 2009 against December 2008, whereas, search market worldwide grew by 40%.
People used Google to make 87.8 billion searches in December 2009 as against 55.6 billion searches in December 2008. Yahoo came at distant number two position with only 9.4 billion searches in the same period. Chinese search engine was at number 3 with a total search volume of 8.5 billion searches. (See image for the complete result).
Among the search engines that outperformed the growth of search market were: Yandex with 91% growth, Microsoft sites (70% growth), eBay (58% growth), and Facebook (54% growth).
Bing (part of Microsoft sites) looked positive, but it still has a long way to go before it could match Google’s result. It would be interesting to see from here how it does in coming months.
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