You are have been having a sleepless night thinking about how to start blogging and also how to convert your blog traffic to earn money, we will be taking you through steps to set up your blog channels, with detailed pictorial steps and links to start.

Firstly, The two major platform used for blogging are wordpress and google bloggers

You can start your blog with WordPress or google bloggers, ( we will be discussing the cost effective later in this section).

How to setup your own blog in 5 steps.

1. Choose a niche(A niche is a topic your blog posts will be centered on that interests a specific and unique audience.) and name for your blog i.e a name e.g myblog.com, myblog.com.ng, myblog.ng ( Please note the domain extension price differs, you can check the domain name price here .com.ng is the cheapest, you can start with that.)

The first step to setting a blog business is choosing a unique/simple name for your blog. It is important to choose a name that flows with the theme or topic of your blog.

Tips to consider when choosing what to blog about;
i. Blog about something you enjoy.
ii. Blog about contents that attracts traffic to site but avoid fake news for the sake of traffic, your blog can be blacklisted on this.
iii. Lastly, ensure you select a good name that\’s easy to pronounce, a name that can thread easily.

2. Acquire a domain name and web hosting for yourself ( this is for wordpress users only, if you intend to use google blogger, you only need a domain name).

3. Select your blogging platform.

If you want to play football, you need a stadium. If you want to blog, you need a blogging platform. There are many blogging platforms to choose from e.g WordPress, Blogger Wix, and Weebly are a few.

We highly recommend WordPress is by far the most popular, however based on cost factor you can start with google blogger platform and you can easily upgrade from blogger to wordpress later when you are bouyant. wordpress is flexible, functional and has a large community of users with free themes, plugins, and resources to start with.

4. Create & launch your blog.

This step depends on which blogging platform you choose to use. If you are to use WordPress as your blogging platform, you need to know how to install WordPress on your web hosting services. Click HERE for steps on how to create blog platform using wordpress and click HERE to create blog using blogger platform

Everyone has a different idea of how they want their blog to look. One of the great things about a WordPress blog is that you can customize your blog to fit the design and purpose you want it to few.

5. Write & publish your first post.

It\’s time to share your first post, you can write a start up with your blog vision and you can start to share your blog post on different channels such as facebook, twitter, whatsapp and lot more, If you’re a bit more ambitious, you can craft a longer post with a nifty image or two.

Creating a well-designed blog and writing great content is just the start. In order to get readers to your blog, you will need to spend some time promoting it. You can get a cheap BLOG ACCOUNT at webmanz technology https://webmanz.com.ng.

HOW TO MONEYTIZE YOUR BLOG;

Once you have completely set up your blog with a considerable numbers to traffic to your site, you can earn on it using google adsense on your place, in short terms, its allow google to place third-party advert on your page and you can earn per click on ads, you most have downloaded some apps or visits some site then you will see some numbers of ads, this are mostly adsense codes.

There are different ways to earn on your blog;

1. Google adsense read about adsense here
2. Affiliate program read about affiliate here
3. Placing of advert on your site by third-party/companies: as long you have the traffic companies, organization can contact you to place there products on your sites.

Conclusively, to generate income, you need to put in lot of works, investment of time, ensure you post regularly and also we will be discussing about the SEO HERE, it will gives you more insight on how to make google search engines to show your blog online.