This blog is a couple days old and I am impressed with comments, feedback, and traffic I have received from the blogosphere. It would be nice to share my tips how to start it like a Pro although I am not a guru and pro yet. 
Is it an article linking to bunch of hosting, themes, and products? No worries, it’s not a sales pitch and no advertising and affiliate links here.
Your Niche
Every blog has a purpose and is in a niche. I was reading many blogs about Make Money Online, Entrepreneurs, Blogging Tips, and designing your own life style. It’s a niche and highly demanding, but very competitive.
Finding one that you have passion with and you won’t run out of ideas down in the road. Write great content around it to build your readership. Your niche defines what kind of readers you would have attracted.
Your branding
Once you clear define your niche, do Domain Search and find one that is available and create your branding around it. Your name and the domain name is the brand that you go promote and market.
Web Hosting
All the pros use reliable ones and promote theirs as affiliates. Do your search and host with one. A web hosting is required. It hosts your blog and files on the web server. I don’t prefer using WordPress.com and Blogspot.com services as you don’t have much control as hosting on your own.
WordPress
WordPress is the most popular blogging platform among bloggers. It’s open-source and you could download and install on your host. Some people call it CMS (Content Management System). It comes with great features like Widgets, Categories, and Tags. The Administrative UI is user-friendly as using your own web email system.
I think the best part is the open-community plugins system. There are tons free ones available and it lets you extend your blog features. . As a pro, there are some setups that you should know. We will go over that in the near future.
Blog Layout and Theme
Your blog look and feel is kind of like your clothing. When WordPress is installed, it comes with the default one. Probably you would like to have an unique one representing your style and your public image.
There are tons of free or paid premium themes out there to choose. Finding one and customize on your own need. When your blog grows big enough, you may consider hiring a designer customizing and designing an unique one for your branding purpose.
I like DIY and bought a premium theme and doing customization by myself for now. I gonna write one about how to customize your own blog theme. Please stay tuned for the update.
Writing King Content
After all blogging setup and installation, it’s time to write great content. People follow and read your blog because of your branding and what you say / blog. Focus on this prospective and keep your content fresh, interesting, and useful to your readers. They will miss your blog like a Pro.
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Summary
In conclusion, starting a blog is not that hard. It involves some planning and time to setup and execute. If you are new in blogging, like a pro, you are on the way to be a Pro blogger.
Discussion
Do you have Pro tips to share here? Do I miss anything that you’d like to enhance here?
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You have got almost all of them covered, great list. Anything extra…..well, I have made a list of mine (CommentLuv link) about the things which needs to be avoided to take the first step to become a pro.
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Sourav, thanks for dropping by and letting me know your post. Some of these are kind of funny. I am on the your post commenting
Hey Kent,
These are excellent tips to start with. You pretty much laid a really solid foundation here with these nice tips. Keep up the nice work and helpful tips!
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Baker, I really like your clean layout on your blog and inspiring king content. It keeps me inspired as IM.
Hi Kent,
You have laid out a good foundation when becoming a blogger. It however is not that easy to make your visitors stick as you have to make your content as attractive as well. Welcome to the blogging world. I’m actually just over 2 months blogging now.
Louis
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Hi Louis, thanks for your feedback. Very true that making attractive content is important to make visitors stick and come back. I am still working on it. I am very impressed by your blog traffic and being Alex’s student.
For me, I consider a BRAND the way how the blogger share or deliver his information regarding some topic he may cover on his blog.
Because as I noticed when I read and follow some blogs, I found out that their are two types of blogger that blogosphere have – the reporters and experts. I learned this thing from Yaro Starak. And for me, the way he shared is information, it is really easy to understand.
And I consider it as his brand. But anyway, thanks for this post.
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Felix, you do have strong brand on your blog. I agree that Yaro’s one is very informative and easy to digest. I am his followers and his brand is very outstanding.
Those points are all important. But it all starts out with going with WordPress. Most people are discouraged even before trying so I suggest to begin using wordpress first and then start worrying about the others later
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Melvin, thanks for dropping by and providing this valuable feedback. I agree that learning curve of WordPress is steep. It takes time to master it and build up the blog and traffic.
Start building your mailing list! It’s something I regret not doing sooner!
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Bojan, thanks for dropping by. I find you have a lot of great productivity tips on your blog. Keep up your great week. It helps other Internet Markets too.
I know building a list is critical which is in my to-do list.
I need to write a free ebook or report building up a list.