I found an interesting article about “How To Start Blogging” over the internet. And I think it’s a good reference since I’ve got so many questions about “What is blogging” and “How I start to blogging.” No matter what’s your blog about (personal or business) it’s always be about information. There are also could build a conversion and discussion between blogger and its reader.

So now here’s the short tips about How To Start Blogging based on that article.

Find a niche for your blog
In blogging ‘niche’ known as main theme. The best niche is about what is your most desirable thing and you feel you’re expert in it. Or maybe you can choose about what your business about if you’re would like to build a business blog.
Learning your competitor
Find blog which related to your prospective niche. It’s all about to know what your blog looks will looks like in the future. You also can learn their blog layout or the way they’re writing. But please do not make a copy of your competitor blog.
Follow the competitor blog with their feed
To know what is the latest news from your competitor you can use their feed. By subscribing their blog feed you can save your time than you have to check ‘it manually. It’s all because by subscribing their blog feed, it automatically sends their latest post to you through e-mail or feed reader such as bloglines or newsgator.

Now I think you’re already have enough description about what your blog would looks like. So let’s continue to the next chapter; build your own blog.
Choose the best platform for your blog
Blog platform is about the place where you will build your blog. There are so many blog platforms to use. Some of them are free and some of them are should be to purchase it. Basically there are no big different between each platform. All platforms now have standard feature such as commenting, category and trackback. Mostly they’re also customable so we can edit or add plug-in to your blog. To name of some famous blog platform are Wordpress (wordpress.org), TypePad (typepad.com), Movable Type (movabletype.org) and Blogspot (blogger.com)
Start writing your article
After you chose your blog platform now you can start to fill your blog with article post. Write article for one or two per day and make yourself enjoy with blogging activity. Don’t push yourself to write lots of article per day but you’re completely not comfort about it. Just keep focus on your niche and write with your own style. And please stay away to make a copy paste article from somebody blog post article.
Launching your blog and build blog network
After 2 weeks or more you start your blog now you can launch it. Just spread about your blog with any ways you like. Tell it to your friend, family and anyone. You’re also could submit your blog to search engine and some blog directories. Then you should build network for more existence of your blog. You can do it by link exchange and commenting blog post each other.