What You Need To Start A Blog

How to Go About Building 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. Now, if you want higher returns and if you have the money to spend, the answer to "what you need to get started" might be several hundred dollars, in order to invest in tools that could make your climb to the top faster and smoother.

One of the most important things you will need to get started is some form of keyword research tool or database. Currently, there are dozens of these products on the market, which range in price from free to around $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. Using a blog keyword research tool will allow you to find out which words are the most commonly used and have a cumulative profit rating associated with them.

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.

However, if you will be marketing your own product, then you will need to add an auto responder to your, "what you need to get started" list.

An auto responder will allow you to greatly improve your conversion rate by allowing you to put all follow-up emails on autopilot, rather than you having to do them personally or by strictly using 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. Then later you will be able to determine if you want to purchase any software products to further your blog business and increase your profits. So basically you have a few choices, you can create a profitable blog without paying a cent, but if you want to take advantage of automating tools to further improve your profitability and efficiency, you will have to purchase at least a few tools.