Did you know that most bloggers do not immediately know what they want to blog about?

If you want to start a successful blog, it’s important that you find a niche. Keeping your blog in a niche makes it easier for you to stay on task and it makes it easier for readers to connect with you.

Once you have a niche to blog about, you’ll have direction and focus for your blog, making it easier for you and your visitors to easily define and understand the purpose of your blog.

Here's how to find your niche market to blog about.

The easiest way to discover a profitable niche is to ask yourself, what is it that you're really passionate about, knowledgeable or well trained and then go from there...

For instance, can you help people by doing what you love to do? Maybe you’ve learnt how to take care those people having dementia. As a trained caregiver, you really want to help people with dementia and also educate families how to take care of dementia patients at home.

Maybe you have taken a catering course since you have the passion for cooking. You have known how to cook many recipes. Do you want to help other people to learn how to cook?

Suppose you have a passion for buying, renovating and selling houses. You've been buying and renovating houses to sell and in the process, you've learned a lot.

There are people who will love to learn what you know. You can start a blog and use it to help others by sharing your experience and expertise. So, how do you go about selecting a niche to blog about?

The second step you need to do is to choose a blogging platform.

But keep in mind that...

The most important step on how to start a blog and make money blogging is to find a profitable niche you'll be comfortable to blog about, unless of course you want to blog for fun!

A blogging platform is a content management system that manages your blog. Many blogs fail because they choose the wrong blogging platform despite the fact that they're in a profitable niche market.

You need to choose a blogging platform like WordPress.org.

Why WordPress.org?

Many bloggers love using WordPress.org

Compare 15 of the best blogging platforms.

WordPress blogging platform allows bloggers to customize their blogs by installing all the plugins  and their favorite theme that make the blog look the way they want, be user-friendly and interactive.

With WordPress.org, you can literally do anything you want to do with your blog.

In this step, you’re going to learn how to register a domain name for your blog.

Unlike a a free domain name, the right domain name will brand your blog.

Let the name you choose for your blog create the right impression what your blog is all about.

Let's again use the example we had used in step one - cooking as your passion.

Now that you have identified your passion is cooking, you should use a keyword tool to find a keyword that is profitable. The keyword should be related to your passion (cooking).

The keyword should not be too broad or too narrow. If you find that ‘Healthy Cooking Recipes’ is a keyword that is profitable, then you should choose a domain name that include part of or all of that phrase. Read more about 11 tips on how to purchase a domain name for your blog.

Notice that the keyword contains the word ‘Cooking’ which describes your passion. People will know that if they visit your blog, they’ll are going to learn how to cook healthy recipes.

You’ll need to host your WordPress blog.

There are many web hosting companies that provide WordPress hosting service.

Choosing the right hosting provider and plan for your WordPress blog can be intimidating.

The good folks at WordPress recommend Bluehost web hosting company.

A good web hosting company not only stores your blog and its content on their servers, but also makes sure that your blog is available and accessible to the world 99.999% of the time.

One common web hosting mistake you want to avoid is to choose a free hosted WordPress blog service as opposed to a paid web hosting service for a business blog.

If your intention is to turn your blog into a profitable online business...

It's important to make sure you choose the best web hosting service because your business depends on good hosting services. Before you decide on the webhost for your website,

Make sure they provide fast, secure and good customer support.

WordPress is free and open source software. You can download and begin using it immediately.

Thankfully there are two relatively simple ways that you can go about it.

This method is for intermediate to advanced users. You will need a web host provider with cPanel access for loading WordPress and creating a database.

Experienced users and those who have the time to learn prefer to install WordPress. However if you don't have time to perform these steps, then you may want to...

The biggest advantage of working with a specialist is that they will be able to install WordPress and have your site up and running within the shortest possible timeframe.

They can develop themes that incorporate your company branding, and they can also install the right plugins that will add value and functionality to your website.

Most importantly, a professional developer will be able to install security solutions that protect your site from hackers and rogue software.

Over a decade ago, Matt Mullenweg and Mile Little created and released WordPress.

Since that time, WordPress has developed into one of the most highly-respected and popular CMS. To date, approximately 74 million websites are dependent on WordPress.

If you want to harness the power of WordPress...

First, choose a WordPress theme to spiffy up its aesthetics.

You want a beauteous blog, a professional blog that is user-friendly.

Then, add plugins to enhance your blog’s capabilities. Pick a theme with colors, design and layout, which appeals to your senses and brands your blog.

In today's world of innovation and technological advancements, most WordPress themes that are currently available are easy to setup, load extremely fast, and have a Responsive Design. The theme you choose could mean the difference between a successful website and a failed website.

The ability to install plugins that change the performance and function of your website, is just one of the reasons why WordPress is the most popular CMS.

However, because of the sheer number of seemingly, limitless list of plugins available for download, it can be difficult to find and choose the right plugin for your blog. For starters, the general rule of thumb is to obtain an overview of user feedback by reading the reviews and ratings of the available plugins.

Remember, you don’t need to install all the WordPress plugins available for download.

Just install the ones that will add value to your blog.

Start with the highest rated reviews, but don't ignore the ones with low ratings. Plugins that are more popular will generally have more community support compared to plugins without a strong user base.

Choosing the best WordPress plugin for your blog is much easier if you know exactly what to look out for, and what to avoid. To help you out, we've put together a list of the top WordPress plugins that every serious bloggers ought to install on their WordPress blog in order to harness the power of WordPress.

Once you've started your blog, installed your favorite theme and plugins...

You should start blogging by writing and publishing informative, entertaining and shareable content.

Adding and publishing content to your blog is easy.

The most challenging part is how to blog effectively and get the right people to visit your blog and read your content. The good news for you is that there are many online copy-writing courses that will train you all you need to know about writing great content online.

The golden rule for publishing great content is to...

Always write something that is useful to your readers. If you stick to writing and publishing content that is useful and interesting to read, your blog audience will catch the fun syndrome and keep coming back to your blog to read more content.

No matter what niche you’re in, it is essential to not only have interesting and informative content, but persuasive content as well.

Once you start a blog, attracting readers to your new blog can be intimidating.

It’s not easy for the beginning blogger to attract a large volume of traffic.

Don’t entertain the false belief that if “you build it they will come.” Hardly people know your blog exists. It takes time to build your brand. Learn more on how to promote your blog and get new subscribers.

With a little upfront effort, you’ll make 'friends' and influence your target market.

There are hundreds of ways to promote your blog and drive traffic. To get started, you can use social media traffic, advertisement and guest blogging.

Social media sites contain 100% real human traffic. Be strategic using social media sites to promote your blog and remember that social media traffic is not for free.

Guest blogging offers you the opportunity to network with other bloggers.

When you guest blog, you're also optimizing your blog in the search engines. Write content for other bloggers to publish on their blogs in exchange of them linking back to your blog. Just know that search engine optimization strategies takes time to work.

The quickest way to send targeted traffic to your blog and also to boost your conversions is to use paid traffic sources.  It will cost you money. Make sure you know your ROI.

Each time you log into the internet,

You see advertisements and stories about how regular, ordinary folks just like you, who were either homeless, jobless, working part time hours or struggling with bills and barely scraping by suddenly...

Discovered an online business opportunity that took a dire situation and transformed it into a life-changing, monumental event that resulted in high levels of financial success.

By now, you have probably even dabbled a bit with these so-called-opportunities such as "paid to read email, surveys, and, perhaps, MLM or an affiliate marketing program".

If you are reading this, I can almost guarantee that those opportunities did not transform your life or your money situation. In fact, you probably have invested your hard earned money and you're YET to actually see one red cent from those "money making opportunities" right?

Dear Fellow Entrepreneur,

Would you like to discover advanced strategies about how to start a successful blog the right way and build a successful online business that will not only allow you to earn money but, will allow you to, eventually, quit that job, pay your bills and actually have additional money left over to enjoy?

Here are 10 legitimate ways to make money online that actually works!

Because a blog is a type of informational site or a discussion site...

It has to be always regularly-updated.

An essential component of your new blog and online business is keeping abreast with useful resources for blogging. You have to keep learning on how to become a better blogger.

Stay informed about breaking trends and new opportunities relevant to your niche.

Honing  your skills and knowledge gives you a competitive edge.

You’ll either work hard or work smart. We prefer working smart.

This means don’t sign up for every informational source you come across. Be proactive by not buying everything that comes your way promising to turn you to a pro-blogger.

A succulence blog will allow you to accomplish numerous tasks.

Not only does a blog allow you to expound and grow in a personal manner, it allows you to grow in a professional manner! Advance in personal growth, move up in your career, expressing opinions, facts, figures and improve your financial situation!

Start a blog today to enjoy many successful tomorrows!