Every blogger must know the following 10 serious thing. This post is highly recommended if you are new to the world of blogging.

1) What is a Blog?

A blog is similar to a website where the author of the blog shares his views about a particular topic. He edits the blog, updates the content, and accepts the comments from the readers of the blog. The content of the blog can be text / images / videos. The author of the blog is called a ‘blogger’ and what he does with his blog is known as ‘Blogging’.


2) Why should I start a Blog ?

Most of the people in the internet world can be classified into two categories A & B.
People belonging to category ‘A’ spend most of their precious time in Social Networking, Chatting with friends, Watching Videos and playing games, while people belonging to category ‘B’ enjoy all the above things which people from ‘A’ do, meanwhile making huge money out of it with the help of blogging. So it’s meaningless to ignore something that is fun doing and simultaneously helps you make money

3) Selecting a Blog Niche :

Selecting an appropriate blog niche is one of the most important aspects of blogging. Identify the topic that you want to blog on. With my personal experience, I would suggest you to blog on a topic that interests you. For instance You can start a blog on “Gadgets” if you have a great affection towards it.

4) How should I start blogging ?

There are two ways you can start blogging..
 
a) The Tough way : Buy a domain, buy web space to host your blog & design a website using html / xml or get your blog designed by experts. This way costs you time & money.

b) The Easy way : If you are a newbie to blogging. I strongly suggest that you, sign up for free blogging services such as blogger.com or wordpress.com and start blogging. If you sign-up for these services then you can have blogs like “yourname.blogspot.com” or “yourname.wordpress.com”

5) Post Unique content :

Posting unique content is also one of the most important thing a blogger must remember. Unique content is something that differentiates you from the other bloggers. Unique content get indexed and ranked soon in the search engines. So you can easily get a huge organic traffic to your blog using unique content.

6) Update your Blog Regularly :

Search engines like Google, Yahoo and Bing love the blogs which get updated regularly. If you update your blog regularly there is every possibility that your webpages will get indexed soon after you add a blog post. I assure this will happen in real-time if you keep updating your blog post regularly.

7) Do some SEO for your blog :

SEO refers to “Search Engine Optimization”. It’s a fact that most of the blogs get visitors to their blog through organic traffic. To receive a huge organic traffic it’s very important that you have your blog and blogposts Search Engine Optimized. Some of the tips on SEO for your blog :

- Submit your blog to all search engines more specifically Google, Yahoo and Bing.
- Improve your incoming links by submitting links to various directories.
- Participate in forums related to your blog niche.
- Comment on fellow blogger’s blogs which have a same niche as yours.
- Do some researches on “Keywords” before posting posts in your blog.


8) Join various Ad networks to make money :

This should be done only after you start getting enough traffic to your blog. You can sign up for various ad networks such as Google Adsense / Adbrite / Clicksor / Tribal Fusion / Infolinks or Kontera. However many such network need that you drive huge traffic to your blog before getting approval.

9) Focus on Improving your blog constantly. Be creative. Always think about what your readers like. Are your readers going to like something you do? Take their opinions. Take their comments in a positive way.

10) Have patience when things don’t go your way & Remember “Never, Never, Never give up”. "Wish you a happy blogging :)"