Create your own website or use free to use blogging platforms?

You don’t have to create your website in order to start blogging. Most bloggers use platforms like Medium, Quora and LinkedIn to reach big audiences without going through the hassle of setting up their own website. Free platforms can be great to build your audience and drive traffic to your original website, although if you want to drive sales or promote your brand, creating your website is a must.

If you want to start posting blogs as a hobby, free platforms like LinkedIn, Quora and Medium will be suitable for you. As a beginner, we would suggest you use free blogging platforms like LinkedIn, Quora and Medium. These platforms are highly professional and readers on these platforms truly value quality content.

• Quora  is a community-driven platform, where users interact with each other by giving thoughtful responses to each other's questions. On Quora, you can select the areas of your interest and be a part of the rich community.
• Medium  is a niche driven platform where writers create high-quality content for the medium community. It has 100 million+ monthly active users that are eager to engage and interact with your content. Other than being free to use you can share your experiences and interact with your audience in real-time. Views and click through rates are amazing but nothing beats seeing Likes, comments and Badges and their reactions.
•  LinkedIn  is a profession driven platform, you can become part of communities that you find interesting. It is an ideal platform to build your personal brand, most of the freelancers in the content writing domain are quite active and gaining thousands of followers each week.
  It is a unique platform because it segregates people according to their profession which is a feature that is not available on other platforms. You can find the right people to connect with. You can write about things that you find interesting and build an audience around them 
• Yoo.rs - Yoors is a human to human platform where people from all parts of the world can share their stories and get paid for it. Yoors is a unique social media platform where content creators are rewarded for creating quality content by the Yoors community. A lot of content creators are making upto 350$ per month on this platform by blogging about things that they find interesting. 

How much money can you earn by blogging?

Bloggers earn by placing ads on their website via Google. They are paid by the number of impressions made on the blogs. In short, the more people read your blogs the more a blogger will earn.

Applying for Google Ads is easier than it sounds, you just have to sign in to Google AdWords with your Gmail account and apply for approval. The approval process usually takes a few weeks after which you’ll have your own AdWords account. Google AdWords gives you features to customize your ads. You can select the sections where you want your blog to appear.