Requirements for your Blogging Career

In my last post, i have mentioned how can you start your career as blogger. Now you must have question. How you can start it. What are the requirements for building blog.

Here are following steps you need to proceed.
1- Require Domain Name
2- Hosting
3- Wordpress for your blog
4- implement template
5- Post

1- How to Get Your Own Domain Name
Before starting how can you get your own domain name, i would like to mention here what is domain name. It is address of your Blog address. Now you must have question why we need our own domain if there is other options available like blogger.com, wordpress.org for making your sub-domain for free.
It is required if you would like to show your blog as more professional and can sell later if your blog works fine.

Here is following steps to search for your domain name which relate to your niche
- keyword search tool (using wordtracker.com) freekeywords.wordtracker.com
- brainstorm all possible names
- decide on the best possible domain

2- Once you have your domain name, you have to select Hosting for your blog, as i have recommend you wordpress for your blog so you have to choose Linux, Unix based hosting with MYSQL database.

For more details how to find good web hosting, you can review http://www.gadgetinmyview.com/2009/07/how-to-find-a-good-web-host/

3- As wordpress will be your tool for blog, so you have to install plugin those require to secure your blog along with SEO and Ad management plugins. There is another important you have to register with wordpress.org as with some SEO plugin you need wordpress activation key.

4- Once your blog will be ready for online, now you need to have custom logo with design/Template of blog based on your niche.

5- After installing wordpress and implementation of template, you are ready to place your first post.

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