A Beginner’s Roadmap to Launching Your Blog

By admin | Mar 2, 2010

This is a guest post by Ermel Nolan Ngo, if you wish to submit your article click here

Internet marketing can be difficult. No, strike that. Internet marketing is difficult. Not everyone who goes into this field of business is destined to succeed. A complete beginner starting on his journey to internet success may find himself lost and thus needs to follow a plan to guide his efforts. The most important thing is to get your blog or website up and running. This process can be broken down into several phases. Here’s a systematic approach to doing this:

1. Planning

This phase involves keyword research, deciding a name for your blog or website, creating an outline for the direction of your posts, and searching for potential affiliate products to promote. Depending on your timeline, this phase could take from a week to several, and ensures that you have a clear vision of what your blog is going to be.

However, do note that you should not take more than 2 weeks for this. At the end of that period you should make a firm decision about the important aspects of your blog. With the advent of Wordpress, you can make any changes to your blog as you go along. The important thing is GIOT. Get it out there! Many businesses never get off the ground and remain trapped in the planning stages.

2. Implementation

This phase involves the actual actions you take to launch your blog. This includes getting a domain name and hosting for your blog. This can be challenging to a complete beginner, but there are a lot of tutorials out there on how to get your website up and running. Do not be daunted by this, and don’t worry if your blog is not going to be perfect the first time you launch it. Let’s face it, no one will be reading anytime soon anyway. The important thing is to GET IT OUT THERE. As soon as you do this, this will provide you with a certain impetus to make sure you’re moving in the right direction.

3. Writing Content / Monetizing

This phase can be happening simultaneously along with the planning stages. You can pre-write your content prior to the actual launch of your blog. After all, you want to provide your first time visitors great content and a good reason to come back. At this stage you may also want to explore ways how to monetize your blog. Adsense is one way to do this. You can also look at affiliate programs to promote as long as they are related to your niche. Just type in “affiliate programs” in Google and you will get a lot of ideas.

Now that you have your blog up and running, you are on your way to taking your first steps in making money online. Internet marketing is hard. But once you get the ball rolling and your blog continues to grow, the results can often be rewarding.

About The Author

Ermel Nolan is a freelance writer whose other interest is internet marketing. Visit his site here at www.biznetmind.com and http://rheumapages.biznetmind.com