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    Blogging Essentials

    How to start a niche blog – Step-by-Step for Beginners Who Want to Post ‘Something’

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    If you’ve been thinking about starting a niche blog, stop Googling “how to start” and follow this simple guide. I’ve stripped it down to the essentials so you can have your blog up and your first post live in a weekend — without getting stuck in ‘research’ or ‘do-it-yourself’ mode for six months. Step 1: Pick Your Niche in One Sitting Don’t spend weeks (or months or years) agonising over this. Pick a topic you can write about and iterate on at least 20 times without getting stuck = that’s your niche. Commit to it, and move on. Quick way…

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    Blogging Essentials

    Beginner guide to blogging platforms 2025

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    When you think “blog,” you might imagine a website full of conversational posts. Or if it’s a content site then you’d imagine a website filled with informative articles. But in 2025, blogging (publishing online with a specific point of view) has evolved to include written, visual, and spoken content — and the platforms you choose will shape what you can create, how you share it, and who owns it (a detail that lots of aspiring publishers are not aware of). This guide breaks down the main blogging platforms available to beginner niche bloggers, separated into categories to compare which ones…