Whatever is the reason, the point is a blog can be a very powerful tool for achieving various goals.When you get so many benefits and you can create your blog with very less investment then why not create your own blog today.
You just can’t ignore it.
How to Start Your First Blog
Now you can start a blog from getting a domain name to hosting for just $60 (Rs 4000/- in India).
Here is the step by step procedure to get up and running your first ever blog.
Step 1: Choosing a Right CMS
Step 2: Selecting an Appropriate Domain Name
Step 3: Selecting Best Hosting Provide
Step 4: Designing Your Blog
step 5: Start Earning
Step 1: Choosing a Right CMS
CMS or Content Management System is basically a blogging platform like Blogspot, WordPress, Drupal, Joomla, Wix, TypePad etc where you are going to put all your files in.
Out of so many blogging platforms available out there we are going to go with blogger because of following great reasons.
- It's free.
- It's very easy to design a blog and understand its dashboard.
- blogger gives you so much flexibility to design any kind of website with the help of their 5000+ free and paid themes.
So I highly recommend you to create your blog with blogger CMS.
Step 2: Selecting an Appropriate Domain Name
Step 2 is very important because a domain name is going to reflect your blog’s niche. So you have to do justice to your blog by choosing a right domain name.
If you are planning to start a blog on Football or Cricket then choose names like CricketingWorld.in or SoccerFan.com.If you love dogs and cats then go for something like CatsnDogs.com or PetsWorld.com etc.I think you got the idea!
Following are the few things you have to keep in mind.
#1 Domain name must be in sync with the purpose of your blog. Check above video for choosing a domain.
#2 Name must be easy to remember and pronounce.
#3 Try for a .com extension. You can target worldwide with .com. If you don't find .com with your desired domain, then feel free to go with other extensions like .in, .org, .net, .info, .co etc
#4 ignore number and dash in domain.
Finalize on one of the most appropriate domain names.
Step 3: Selecting Best Hosting Provider
blogger is just a software with which you create a blog by putting all the necessary files together.But where are you going to host your blog?Well that is what you need a hosting provider for?
A hosting provider stores all your content of your blog like text files, css files, images, videos etc at one place and make it available to the world.
Step 4: Designing Your Blog
Here are some of the most important things to do after creating your blog.
1. Create a new user
You have already created an administrator account. As an administrator, you can make any changes in your blog. You can install any theme, plugins, creates posts, pages, categories and users and many other things.
Your Admin user and password must be very strong. Spammers and hackers can attack your blog with spam and malware if they are able to guess your admin username and password.
You need to do 2 things to avoid this.
- Make Admin username and password very strong.
- Don’t publish any post or pages through Admin account and don’t approve or write any comment through admin account.
You need to publish posts, pages and moderate the comments you receive on your blog from an Editor account.
You can easily create an Editor account by clicking on Users as shown in the above image.
- Click Users –> Add New
- Enter username, email, First name & Last name of a new user.
- blogger will suggest you a strong password. Click on ‘show password’ button to see your password. Copy this password and note down.
- Choose role as ‘Editor’ from the drop down.
- Click Add New User.
Now if you want to publish a post or page from Editor account, you can logout from the option on the top right and login with the Editor username and password.
Login URL for your blog is yourblogname.com/wp-admin.
2. Install a theme after starting your blog
When you install blogger for creating your blog, blogger installs a default theme in your blog.A theme is the most important part of your blog. It changes the look, design, style and layout of your blog.There are thousands of free & paid themes available for bloggers.You can use the ‘Feature Filter’ option to find more themes.
If you have budget, you can find thousands of premium themes on ThemeForest.
4. Add Your First Post
You should write detailed posts and publish at least 2-3 posts every week. Your readers should be happy and satisfied with your posts.Google will rank your posts and give traffic if you write useful posts with original ideas.Write your first 800+ words posts and publish on your blog.Take your mouse to ‘Posts’ and click ‘Add New’ to add your first blogpost.Add a title in ‘Add title’ section & copy your article in the text area. Add good image(s) to your post. And then click on Publish button to publish your first post.
Congratulation! This is your first post after starting your blog.Keep writing and publishing such Awesome posts.
Step 5: Start Earning
Blogging is becoming a very popular full time career in India and around the globe. Millions of bloggers are making $1000 to $100,000 per month from their blog.You paid almost nothing for starting your blog. But you need to work hard if your target is $2000+ per month.Your income would totally depend upon the number of visitors you bring to your blog. More the traffic you bring in, more the money you make.
There are two main areas you need to focus on to increase traffic.
- Content
- SEO (Search Engine Optimization)
Focus on writing quality content that people find educating, problem solving, entertaining and joyful to read.
A good content is not enough if it fails to reach out to a wider audience. Your blog is of no use if it can’t rank high on Google Search engine. Hence you also need to learn SEO for ranking high on Google.Once you start bringing enough traffic to your blog you can monetize it with various advertising platforms.
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