How to Go About Building a Blog

What You Need to Create a Blog

Many people ask what you need to get started in order to make a profitable blog. Well, this answer may surprise you; ’nothing’ or at least if you don’t want to spend any money and don’t care how much profit you make from them. However, if you want higher returns then you will need to invest some money to help you get started, and depending on what you want to do, you can spend up to several hundred dollars, but in the long run it is worth it.

One of the most important things you will need to get started is some form of keyword research tool or database. On the market today you can find a large selection of these types of products, ranging in price from zero dollars up to $500. The most popular tool on the market is probably ’WordTracker’, which offers a limited trial version for free, or a fully-functional version for $7.50 a day or $45 a month. This will allow you to find out which blog keywords are most profitable and have a reasonable demand/supply rating and combined site search gravity count.

Other than a key phrase tool, the answers to the, "what you need to get started" question, will usually depend on the project.

For instance, if you’re hosting a blog and you want to monetize it with Adsense, you may want to add a thumbnail generator to your, "what you need to get started" list.

A thumbnail generator will work to create codes that will help increase the click-thru rate in your blog by using related, scraped-thumbnails pictures and searches on Google images and place them next to your contextual ads.

In contrast, if you’re planning to sell your own products, you may want to add an auto-responder to your, "what you need to get started" list.

You can increase your conversion rate immensely by using an auto responder, because it will allow you to save time by not having to personally follow-up on each email, or only relying on your sales page.

Before you go out and spend a large amount of money, you should check out the tools offered on the internet that can help you get started. It may very well be, that you decide to purchase some tools to better help you with development and promotion to make you more successful in blogging. Basically you have the choice to create a good blog without putting down any money at all, or you can use some of the great resources and tools available, to better help improve your chances to make even more profit.