Things to know before starting a blog

September 2nd, 2008 by Lax

This is my first post on TechZoomIn blog!

After looking into so many blogs on the web, i realized that so many things need to be done before starting a blog.what are those things to be done before start a blog successfully on your own.

Check your intrest towords blogging:

I saw people starting blogs and leaving them alone after some time.This is all happens normally and expected as people might be busy with some other works or might loose intrest after some time blogging.For this reason i suggest all my readers to start blogging on a free service like Blogger or wordpress to test their intrest towords blogging and finding things online.Follow this trick for some time around a month or couple and if you find yourself intrested and comfortable working with blogs still then you are all set and fit to start a blog on your own.

Check your ability to maintain the blog:

Yes to maintain a blog you need to have the ability to attract the readers to your blog, for this you need to fill your blog with the content which is upto date and also something different from other blogs.

  • What is this ability?
  • How to post different content?
  • Where can i get the source content?
  • Can i copy content from others blogs? 

All these questions will fire in minds of new bloggers.No problem here i decided to guide my readers to over come this.

Start reading/inspecting the blogs on the net which are having the content similar to your blog.Read content from news sites,company sites,press releases to get knowledge on the topic which you planned to write on your blog.After getting enough knowledge/stuff on the topic start writing it into your blog in your own way and make sure to write differently from others and targetting your readers.

In spite of doing all this people will think of copying content/stuff from other blogs on the net.Actually you shouldn’t Do that unless you have proper permissions from the author of that blog, Even by just copying content you can’t run your blog successfully and even you can’t attract readers other than readers coming from search engines.

Conclusion:

So after knowing all these things what do you say the qualities to become a good & successful blogger.

  • Should be intrested in long run blogging
  • Should be able to spend time
  • Should be able to extract the content from web
  • Should have a different writing style to attract the readers
  • Shouldn’t copy from other blogs
  • Should be innovative in all the aspects
  • Should be able to creat a communication circle over the internet

These are all the general and simple qualities to become a successful blogger.

Did i missed anything? or Got something to say? Comment here

  Happy Blogging…

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17 Responses to “Things to know before starting a blog”

  • Mike labi says:

    Lax,

    Your first post is very good yar….

    Hope to see more in this space.

  • Admin says:

    Thanks mike,
    you are the first commentor in my blog..

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  • zuke says:

    Good discussion yar…….

    First post itself is ultimate.

    i think you are following diff strategy to maintain the blog.good..

    Zuke.

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  • very interesting article. on most issues I agree with the author:)

  • interest article. i agreed with author. thanks

  • There are many times that I almost quit blogging upon starting my first few blogs before.

    I also tried different niches which I think I could continue my blogging activities. After I awhile I started creating my current blog and I found out that I am a blog addict.

    I mean, I feel so anxious whenever I don’t see my blog. Pretty strange right? but that’s the truth.

    I think it’s just the happiness I feel when I love doing things I Do.

    Wherever I go I just keep thinking of my blog and also capture some good ideas and tips that I was excited to share…

    • akira07 says:

      Why you’re tried different niche oftenly in the first? Let me guess, i’m sure you Do a mistake which newbie usually do. And the mistake is :
      Create “money-making purposed blog”, right?

      And i’m sure, the process of blogging itself which bring you to aware that there is more important things inside blogging activity, and it’s all about build community, right? And in the end, sometime we didn’t notice that we’re already fall in love on blogging.

  • Ruchi says:

    I also find sometime difficult to manage so many things at one go, but now i have started enjoying blogging and i found it very easy. I agree with Earn from money its all about happiness.

  • akira07 says:

    The most important things is #1 : Should be interested in long run blogging

    In other word, it’s called by passion :D
    Without passion, blogging activity become burden for you. If you have passion, blogging can be a hobby and interesting things.

    I believe, if you have passion, all problem facing after you starting blog will definitely solved because you’re not easy to give up and stop blogging. With passion, i’m sure, you’ll automatically learn more about blogging, writing skill, and more fall in love to what’s called as “BLOGGING” (which mean, time by time, you’ll get yourself completing the point #2-#7 listed on this article)

  • Een Rockstar says:

    I found your 1st post LAX..Each blog I visited, I’ll check out its post to see how it started..Nice intro anyway

  • Anish K.S says:

    Too late to find your first post, Lax you have successed in blogging. Keep rocking.

    • akira07 says:

      Not late :D
      Even me find this post on 9 october 2009.
      Reading old post from Lax is interesting, but be careful because some info on content already expired. Right, Lax?

      But this article is not expired 4ever :D

  • Wow! Even your first post is awesome! You really are something lax!

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