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Here's the top ten tasks and tips I recommend to help you set up a blog or website for yourself online:
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1. Pick a niche.


 This can be about a passion or hobby of yours, but if your hobby is something obscure then it's likely not going to attract a lot of visitors to your blog or site!
 A good tip to help in choosing a niche, is to keep on the look out while going about your day to day business, chatting to friends about what their interests are,and asking them what they are likely to go searching for online .Checking out Trends on Google  can also give you some ideas. Just type in your niche topic in one or two keywords and click search. This will give you results of most searched keywords in your chosen niche.

Bear in mind though, if you're interested yourself in the subject matter, it makes it a whole lot easier to write about!

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2. Choose and register a domain name.


The name should preferably include a word or words relating to your chosen niche, this is to make it easier for your site/blog to be found by the search engines.
For example, if you choose to write about dogs, then Allaboutdogs.com would be a good domain name.
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3. Hosting.


Hosting companies basically provide a place for you to store your files from your website,  a good hosting company will ensure your site is online and available for 99.9% of the time, so it is always advisable not to choose free hosting companies as they can disappear at anytime, and therefore so will your site.
I am using Google's Blogger.com to write this blog, it is free, and is a perfect way to hone your skills until you feel ready to invest some money into your online business.

4. Research your topic.

It is vitally important you know your subject matter, it really isn't good enough to find something online relating to your chosen  niche and then copy/pasting it onto your own site. This is plagiarism and most search engines will eventually penalise you for this by shutting down your site.

5. Outsourcing.

If you're not so good at the writing side of your business, this can be outsourced for a small fee to reliable places online like Elance.com, but sourcing articles on the cheap can be fraught with difficulties. The quality of your outsourced content  will need to be proof-read by you to make sure it is free from spelling and grammatical mistakes, and in my experience it is far more productive to write your own content.

 Practice writing about your niche regularly, and you will find that over time it becomes easier, the content will be original and fresh, and not to mention the fact that you are actually honing another skill to add to your skillset.

6. Take action.

Lots of newbies spend hours online researching  their next move. You can spend days finding newer and 'quicker' ways to make that first buck online. There are hundreds of products out there promising you riches in very short periods of time, all while taking your money, only for you to find they never really fulfill their  promise.
 There is no fast way to making money online, but nothing will happen for sure if you don't actually take any action on what you have learned.
Follow these steps, learn as you go, and don't waste any of your money on the false promises of some of these so-called gurus who promise you thousands in your first six months.

7. Stay focused.

Don't start more than one project at once. This will only divide your energies when what is required is consistency and focus for the first month to six weeks, solely on your new site, to get it established on a firm foundation.
 Add fresh original content on a regular basis to draw attention to your site from the search engine spiders, whose raison d'etre is to promote and encourage original, genuine and new content on the web.

8. Be consistent.

Don't just register your domain, get hosting, make one post on your site and then sit back. The key to success is consistency. Post some articles every three or four days, once a week to ten days if you're working full-time, just make sure you keep it regular. With patience you will see your archive (previous posts) building and this in itself can be a huge motivator. There's nothing quite like seeing your writing in print online for all to see :-).
 Use spellcheck and make sure to read over what you've written as nothing looks worse than badly written content, it screams 'I couldn't care less'  to your visitors.


9. Information overload.

This can be the number one reason why newbies fail to make a start online. The amount of information out there can be totally overwhelming resulting in confusion and procrastination. When starting out working from home or just setting up a site for yourself, a certain amount of self discipline is required to maintain your focus.
Set an allotted time for tasks such as reading your emails, checking out some online competition in your niche, researching your topic etc. If you don't do this, surfing away from the task in hand is all too easy, and next thing you know, two hours have passed with absolutely nothing concrete achieved in that time.
Set some goals on a daily basis for yourself,  it's a major confidence booster when they are achieved.  This is vital when starting out in an online business, which can be quite daunting at first, but once you begin to see your goals being met you will find it easier to keep that momentum going.

10. Be yourself.

Visitors to your blog in particular will empathise more readily with a blog which 'speaks' to them. Write as if you were actually speaking to somebody, your writing will stand out and will appeal to your readers encouraging them to return.  At the end of the day, unless you are just passing time and are not interested in eventually making some money, these visitors will become the lifeblood of your website.
The visitors you get to your site are called 'Traffic' and I will discuss  in a later post the best ways for you to increase traffic to your site.

Hope you find these tips useful,  and,  until next time,
keep dreaming the dream of working for yourself from home!



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