DO’S AND DON’TS WHEN STARTING YOUR OWN BLOG
My dear readers, today I am going to talk to you about a subject that has been a little bit hard and difficult to assimilate for me. I am not sure if any of you probably have been before in the same situation… If so, please let me know down in the comments I will be more than happy to read you, such as I am about to tell you about mine. About all the do’s and don’ts when starting your own blog.
In 2016, I made my first backpacking traveling to South East Asia and my whole idea was to start a Traveling Blog for all my travels and adventures, like a diary for everything that happened to me during my trips. Until that point, the idea was just awesome but definitely I did not wanted to be carrying the lap-top in my backpack all the time because I will be traveling for almost 3-4 months. My decision was to take with me a small tablet and thought that will be enough for what I needed to write.
In this post I will give you my list of my Do’s and Dont’s when starting a blog. If you will like to start yours the subject of the blog does not matter at all it can be traveling, food, pets, innovation whatever you are interested to write about. But,it is important that you take this into consideration:
THESE WERE MY THREE BIG MISTAKES WHEN STARTING MY TRAVEL BLOG
- Selecting the best working tool Lap-Top vs Tablet: I did not take with me to Asia my lap-top… this was a really big learning on the road, and I wish that this never happens to you. The tablet I took with me, which was way more lighter, was never enough for all the work writing a blog represented.
In that moment I did never realized until I was already in Thailand trying to write an article and really needed and missed my laptop. The only thing I had left to do was to take the photos, videos, and document my travel so that later, back in Mexico I will be able to write all my adventures.
- Choosing correct platform for blogging: if you blog is only a hobby is OK if you decide not to pay for a good hosting and domain. In my case I thought that it would not make a difference, so just started using a free blogging domain some of you maybe already know roadtripscarbax.wordpress.com, this is my Travel Blog, considering that maybe later I will pay for it and make it more professional later. I kept writing there for a long time all these last 4 years, and guess what…?
Now that after all these 4 years I have been writing there, including all my travels from Mexico, and I DO want to make it in a professional way, considering I will like to add my own advertisement, affiliation links and personalized it… I need to change platforms from wordpress.com to wordpress.org which is a lot more easier and customizable.
When I first started blogging I wasn’t aware of the implications of using one platform instead of the other, one has a free bloggers domain, the other needs domain and hosting. I recommend that you chose wise which platform to use when starting your blog, here in this link you can find really useful information on it: Difference between wordpress.com and wordpress.org, and if you need any other platform comparisons you can find them here.
- Considering SEO in post writing: this is an important consideration when you want your blog to be prioritized in browsers like Yahoo, or google. So when starting your blog you should always consider this important step SEO on your content when writing your tittles an the content in your posts. That is something now I needed to study and learn how to use it now on in all my writing. Here in Yoast SEO you will fin some good insights about SEO and if you want to have a professional and later on monetize it take it in real consideration hehe.
If you would like to know some other recommendations about Do’s and Don’ts when starting your own blog, this other blog from a blogger I like a lot called Guide Your Travel has amazing content, advises and tips for blogging that have been really helpful and amazing for me in my road to discover more about how to become a good and professional blogger. It has been a long journey for me reading, understanding and studding a lot on the subject, specially on technical matters so that way I can avoid repeating the same mistakes. Takes a lot of time, practice, and mistakes to become an expert on how to have an excellent blog with SEO, that it is easy to read and attractive to followers.
Hope you liked my article, and if you had had some similar stories or situations, please let me know your story on the comments, I will be glad to read them!