What are the Basic Needs to start a Blogger blog! ~ Ultimate starter guide

Hello and welcome guys! This is Nafees Khan from ngtechzone and today in this post I am going to tell you the basic needs or requirements to start a blogger blog! A Blogger blog is absolutely free and google doesn't charge a single penny for starting it.

Below is a small comparison between Wordpress and blogger for investment,technical abilities etc.

Wordpress	Blogger
Premium,Needs Hosting	Free Hosting,hosted at google
High Flexibility	Medium Flexibility
Professional Setup	Basic but can be used as Professional
A premium domain (.com/.net/.in)	Start from .blogspot.com subdomains and then premium
Highly Vulnerable	Highly Secure,Google's Security!
Hard Wordpress Management Interface (for Newbie)	Very Basic Dashboard with ease of access
Lakhs of Premium themes and free themes	1000's of Premium themes and Free themes
Lots of Plugins for enhancements like SEO	Very Few plugins which have manual installation

So lets get in the list!

1.Basic Writing skills!

For every online business or actually lets say a online kickstarter business we need a good content.Blogging this concept is entirely depended on content the more the better content is the more the success you will get.Following is some points you need to focus before content writing!

1. Good Grammar
2. Elegant Writing skills
3. Interesting Content

If you have basic writing skills which match the above then you are good to go for step one now lets navigate to step two.

2.Selecting the right Theme according to your niche.

Theme is really important aspect for starting a blogger blog although every newbie starts with a blogger default template but as time passes they come to know about custom templates.Templates should be chosen very particularly or specifically.They Should obviously attract the reader but remember they shan't distract the reader.One more thing whatever theme you choose should be 100% responsive as to get a good start mobile and traffic is very necessary.

The theme which you select should be matching according to you niche for example If you want to start an online technology magazine then the theme which you select should be magazine style and should not be to compact.For one more ex. You want to start a shopping site/e-commerce/e-market site then select a shopping style theme and if you select a magazine style theme then your content will look messed up and not well organized.

Here is a list of some theme styles to choose from according to your niche:- 

1. Art
2. Magazine
3. Portfolio
4. Personal
5. Elegant
6. Business
7. One page
8. Portal 
9. Simple
10. Unique
11. News

Some Recommended Themes:- 

Techism- A highly Responsive Tech magazine Theme!

Social Zone Theme :- Multi purpose theme

NgGameZone :- A Professional Template for Gaming

Read- How To Install A Custom Template

3.Optimizing SEO

Well yeah, this topic has been boring for newbie blogger because they see this every where,but folks SEO is very important.Lets see a example for showing SEO's importance.One day A big mobile company created a Superb phone but they didn't release it and guess what they expected high sales and tremendous response! Is is possible without releasing it? The answer is NO!.The same is with your blog you have created it but you are not revealing it to the search engines and you are expecting success.SEO is something like revealing your blog to search engines that hey! look up there is a blog with amazing content,check here!

For optimizing SEO you have to keep focus on these basic points :- 

1. Pick a good domain
2. Create Value added content
3. The topics of link is important 
4. Updating your blog atleast twice a week
5. Use webmaster tools like google,bing and yahoo
6. Define Keywords
7. Use the keyword in post title
8. Use keywords in heading (H2 tags in the post)
9. Publish post with 300+ words
10. Put internal links 
11. Optimize Robots.txt file
12. Use a relevant and attractive title

We have an amazing guide for SEO especially written for newbies. Click here to read the guide.

For more amazing SEO tips,tricks and pro tactics you can visit our SEO directory and read topics one by one. Click here for Our SEO directory.

4. Creating Social media Presence 

Yes,Social media is very important for Getting high quality traffic because the traffic which comes from social medias like twitter, facebook and Google plus are higher in value than direct traffic.

Some tips for sharing your blog to get traffic through social media:- 

1. Share to almost every friend.
2. Join some Groups and Share your URL's.
3. Create a Page for your blog.
4. Invite everyone in your list for reading your post.
5. Implementing Social plugins on your blog.etc.

That's all! 

So guys that's all for today.These were the ultimate points to start a blogger blog or to kickstart a blogger blog.Feel free to share your opinions sown in the comment section right below the post. 

This Post Was written By Our Author Nafees Khan