I want to brief explanation about how to start and how is going in blogging,
to blog you need ALL of these:
1. domain name
2. hosting (that will keep your website online 24/7 so that people can find it and read your blog and hopefully click on stuff or buy stuff from you to make you money)
3. a niche (topic) that... a) you think is
interesting.... b) is
profitable... c) is
evergreen.... d) is
easy
4. SEO tools to facilitate the niche & keyword research, and to help you with tracking your progress and improving / adjusting your blog's performance based on the reports
5. SEO knowledge to help you understand what the hell you are doing and how to legally take the money from your blog's readers
6. a lot of time and dedication because you're going to go through ups and downs as a blogger, so you need to be mentally and physically prepared for the shithousery when it hits your site and income
1. To register a domain name you can use Namesilo, Porkbun, Namecheap or any other domain registrar that you want from this list:
https://tldes.com/com
Tip 1: I recommend you stick to .com TLDs because they're more popular and professional than all others, but if you don't want a .com you can go with .co / .net / .io or anything else that makes sense and looks at least somewhat professional and / or makes sense for your niche
Tip 2: I also recommend that you check the renewal prices of the domains that you buy because if you're in this for the long term you're going to want to renew that domain for many years, and some domain registrars offer cheap .com domains to lure you into their company but when the domain is up for renewal in a year's time you're going to pay 2x or 3x more than what it's normally worth. So, check the registration, renewal and even the transfer prices carefully before choosing a domain registrar.
If you're unsure which registrar to pick choose one of the 3 that I've mentioned above (although I would recommend Namesilo or Porkbun).
Tip 3: never, ever, EVER choose Godaddy for ANYTHING. Like, EVER! No matter how tempting their offers are, run like hell from them if you value your business and sanity!
2. As a newbie who's just starting out, most popular hosting providers are just fine. In the 1st year no provider will try to rip you off no matter what you do (although I'm still not including Godaddy in this discussion), so choose whichever you like from Hostgator, Siteground, Bluehost, Namecheap, HostKoala, Hostinger, or the many millions of other providers. It really doesn't matter within the first year because you'll barely be able to figure out what the hell you are doing anyway, so having a top notch host is the least of your concerns in the beginning.
I am currently using HostKoala and while they might not be very popular or have all of the bells and whistles of bigger, more popular providers, they're good enough for me, and it's what I recommend that you choose, as well. Either them, or Hostgator, Namecheap, etc... all of these are good in the beginning, honestly. The cocksuckery starts with your 2nd year when they'll try to inflate your renewal cost, or prevent you from transferring sites out, or whatever. But for now all of these are good options
Tip: do not buy both the domain name and hosting account from the same company! Even if you do, nothing bad will happen 99,99% of the time. But for peace of mind try to register the domain with one company but get your hosting from a different company, just in case that something bad does happen to either your domain name or hosting account. You want to have access to at least one of these in case that things go wrong, and if you buy them both with the same company you'll obviously lose everything when / if bad things happen.
Personally, I buy all of my domains from Namesilo and host my sites with HostKoala, and so far I've not had any complaints.
3. Niches... choosing the niche for your blog is of paramount importance because this will make the difference between you making money or failing miserably... and continuously...
Unfortunately, I won't go into details on how to choose the right niche for your site because I don't know what you like and what you're good at to recommend something, and because I don't have the time or incentive to do niche research for you. So you'll have to figure out which niche / topic to go with yourself, but I can help you with a few tips / links.
Tip: pick a niche that meets the 4 important criteria that I've mentioned: interest, profitability, seasonality, ease of breaking into. You can look up how to do niche research on the forum, there are many threads that address this important step into blogging. Or you can start by reading this thread that I happen to have bookmarked:
https://www.blackhatworld.com/seo/niche-hunting-the-definitive-guide.1390428/
Finding the right niche is just half of the problem, the other half (and which is, somewhat, intermingled with finding the right niche) is finding the right keywords to rank for within that niche. Even if you are able to find a few good niches that you feel you can approach, if you don't target the right keywords that will give you the much needed boost and motivation to keep going you'll probably struggle to stay motivated and continue blogging. So, you need to find great keywords that are both profitable and easy to rank for in the beginning, and for this you can check out these guides:
https://www.blackhatworld.com/seo/method-keyword-research-for-free-in-2022.1412508/https://www.blackhatworld.com/seo/guide-how-to-find-easy-to-rank-low-competition-keywords.1407283/https://www.blackhatworld.com/seo/method-find-extremely-low-competition-keywords-for-free.1405852/https://www.blackhatworld.com/seo/m...ord-research-guides-methods-from-bhw.1381923/https://www.blackhatworld.com/seo/how-to-do-keyword-research-for-free.1380646/
I don't know how many of these are still valid after 2 years of crazy google updates, or how many of them can work for you, but it's in your best interest to at least check them out and try them out, so get busy with 'em!
4. SEO tools are needed to make your work easier, and some of these tools you will probably find mentioned in the threads that I've linked you with above, but in case that they're not mentioned then here are a few tools you might need:
Niche / Keyword research tool...
a) Ahrefs / Semrush... if you're filthy rich and can afford these tools (which are great, by the way)
b) Mangools (Keyword Finder) / Keyword Titan... if you can't afford the top tools
c) Keyword Snatcher / Keywords Everywhere / KeySearch... if you can't afford even the lesser expensive ones
d) Google Search Console if you want a free solution, albeit not as powerful as the specialized keyword tools
Rank Tracking tool... you can choose whichever one you like but SerpRobot seems to be pretty popular
Content creating tool... there are literally dozens of AI writers (content creating tools) on the market today, so I don't know which ones to recommend because there are too many and I've not even tried half of these. But some of the most popular ones are Jasper, WriteSonic, Nichesss, Hypothenuse.ai, Sensit.ai, Peppertype, Copy.ai, and millions of others that are popping up as we speak. And of course, chatGPT, how could I forget this when it's been bombarding my inbox with dozens of alerts for the last week? Everyone and their grandma discuss chatGPT, so you can try this one if you don't like the other options
Content optimization tool... this one will be very much needed in the beginning when you don't know how to make your content delicious enough for google to scoop it up in one bite. So, for such cases tools like Surfer SEO, Frase or Neuron Writer are a godsend! Or, if you don't want to use these I think some SEO plugins also have a content optimization function, so if you're going to use RankMath or Yoast as your SEO plugin for your Wordpress sites you can use those plugin's content optimization features to optimize your content for google
5. SEO knowledge... this will come with time, but you can speed it up by...
a) reading up on every SEO-related topic you can find on this forum
b) subscribing to the "black hat" and "white hat" sub-forums (or any other forum that you find interesting) to stay updated by checking up the questions / topics that are brought up
c) checking out these free resources:
https://ahrefs.com/academy/seo-training-course/lesson-0-1https://learningseo.io/
6. Time and dedication... well, this one you have to come up with yourself, so nothing much that I can say here...
And that's it for this question! Believe it or not, everything I wrote above is considered "briefing" when it comes to SEO, so buckle up because the journey is long and bumpy
Also blogging are still profitable?
if you're consistent and tick all of the checkboxes then yes, it's still profitable
I know blogging are very competitive so how to survive this field
learn, do, keep investing (time and money), adapt and adjust, rinse and repeat
