The best Places to Start a Blog and Make Money Online in Kenya

Making Money Online in Kenya through blogging

The thing your friend does that you could do better. The hobby of the century. Your key to boss-less freedom and your cat’s one shot at fame. So do your homework with this list and start a blog the whole world, and your friends, will love and you laugh all the way to the bank as you make money online in Kenya

WordPress.org

Browse at WordPress.org 

Setup nowadays is so easy. WordPress requires no coding knowledge and is free software – it’s the domain name and hosting you pay about-as-much-as-a-cup-of-coffee-per-month for. It gives you a website like the world’s best and teaches you all about websites, too. For countless bloggers who do this for a living, WordPress.org is the best place to blog. Click here to watch our step-by-step setup video and join the largest blogging community on the web.

WordPress.com

Browse at WordPress.com

WordPress.com is a free blog-hosting site with roughly half the features of .org. The general idea here is less maintenance for you, but less control of the blog. Get a .wordpress domain name like “wiredread.wordpress.com” or pay to use your own domain name. Need a niche? WordPress.com sees 100,000 posts published each day so you’ll surely find like-minded thinkers. Not a full company website but a loyal companion for one. Write posts, try a free theme, set up social media buttons and learn blogging at WordPress.com.

Blogger

Browse at Blogger.com

Blogger is Google’s free blog-hosting site. More popular at the turn of the millenium, Blogger still offers a great service but the designs are a bit elementary. Login and publish your first post for free with only a Gmail account. Try Adsense “monetization”, design a new layout and even edit your first piece of code.

Tumblr

Browse at Tumblr.com

At a time when WordPress and Blogger were neck-and-neck for new users, Tumblr showed up as the 3rd guy to the party. They received lots of sign-ups from users wanting a totally refreshing take on blogging, and have grown ever since. Tumblr was recently bought by Yahoo, who has interesting plans for the whole blog advertising thing and you will make money online in Kenya

Goggle for other blogging platforms


For the purpose of these article we will use blogger


Now, if your choice is blogger you will have to sign up or if you already have a google account you can choose to use it for blogger. After doing that you can now sign in and create your blog. Of course you will not just create a blog just for the sake of it; you will need to think about what you will be posting in your blog. Because you want to make money with your blog, think about a topic that you think will be searched for by internet users. This is what is known as ‘Niche’. Note that you don’t want to choose a niche that is highly searched (one that could be having tens of millions of sites competing for that niche). For selecting your niche you will need to use a keyword tool and google adword:keyword tool which is absolutely free to use is a good one.

If you get your niche, you might want to use the keywords in your url and in the Title of your blog. If you can’t on your url, your blog title will suffice. This is primarily for search engine optimization purposes.

Once you have completed your selection, you can now go and publish your first post. Just click new post and type. This should be about your blog and a welcoming message to your expected readers. Always use your keywords in your posts but not too much-you will be penalized by search engines. Ensure it is also used sensibly. After finishing, click publish and view your post.

Getting your blog indexed

This is getting listed on the search engines for search results. If you take your url with the http and do a search, you will not find any listing of your blog. So how do you get your blog indexed?

First, submit your site to search engines. Just do a search on the search engine on how to submit a site and you will get directions.

Secondly, submit your site to internet directories. Use the free option and submit to as many as possible each day. This is one of the best way get your site indexed quickly.

Bringing in traffic to your blog

This is the most important aspect of getting your blog ranked by search engines. The higher the traffic to your blog, the more importance the search engines will give to your blog.

To effectively bring in traffic, there are things that you will need to implement.

1.    Use article directories. If you write good articles and post them to article directories, chances are you might get visitors to your site or your article will be republished on other sites giving you baclinks-which are very important in ranking on search engines and you will need many to even be ranked on 1.
2.    Comment on other blogs leaving your url on the option for-your website url but don’t spam.
3.    Use social networking sites to market your blog like facebook.
4.    Put lots of content on your site but it should be unique. Search engines love fresh content.
5.    Comment on forums related to your blog.
6.    Use yahoo answers.

If you get good traffic you can monetize(but you can also monetize prior to getting traffic) your site with google adsense, amazon or other affiliate programs like Clickbank, Paydotcom or a product that you have depending on the niche you had selected. Blogger already has monetization options for google adsense and amazon associates.

That’s it for now but check out other posts to see whether you can make easy money online in Kenya with a home opportunity.

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