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Nicolars:
Hello pls I need great and intelligent bloggers to help me out.

I want to enter into this internet world proper by creating a blog of my own.

I don't really know what it costs or the processes needed, who I will go and meet or anything about it.

I will just like you to explain the necessary things I will need to open this blog, what blogging is all about itself, the materials that I must have and the range of the capital, do I have to go to some kind of training?

Am still a young boy(teenager infact) and I know if I start this and before I get into that adult age well enough I should be making cool cash from it.

And also what is the range of years I will haav to put into before it becomes popular.


Your advice is well appreciated. Thanx

Nicolars,

Before you even think of starting a blog, I would highly suggest you first think about what you want to discuss, show, and present on it. Your blog has to have a useful purpose for others. Successful blog owners make a TON of money. LifeHacker, Mashable, and The Huffington Post all started with a goal and an idea that was useful to others. All 3 of them make nearly $1,000,000 per year or more right now. They make their income through advertising, affiliate products / services, advertorials, reviews, (probably paid back-links, though don't quote me on that), and their own product.

I'll try to give you a practical list of things to consider and do:

1. Develop a useful or entertaining concept

2. Make lots of friends and tell people about your blog

3. MAKE SURE you have a way where your readers can register to your blog (you'll need a programmer for this 90% of the time, or you'll have to buy a script - I'll be talking about this more in-depth here: http://www.epicglobalweb.com soon)

4. Make your content share-ready for social networks (when you post on Facebook, for instance, post pictures and not just text - pictures are understood by the human brain 60,000 times faster than words)

5. Get good hosting - you can start yourself off with a hostgator account for 8-10 dollars per month (cheaper by the year). Keep in mind you'll eventually have to scale larger, especially if you plan on your database to handle profile pictures and other people posting video content.

6. Become a platform, meaning, solve problems for people and for businesses. An easy way to approach this is to make do-follow links in your website so that marketers from other businesses will want to contribute to your site in hopes of a decent back-link. This is basically social book-marking. Then your readers will benefit by useful content being available to them (so long as you moderate spam properly).

There are plenty of places you can go from here to gain traffic and earn money. You'll need to plan for security risks and people trying to hack your site for extortion, etc, but a good programmer and some solid planning can solve this for you.