Welcome!
Chances are, you found this page wanting to learn how to start a blog. If so, you’ve come to the right place! Here we will teach you exactly how to start your own blog, from the starting stages of hosting to the finishing touch of posts and plugins.
Whether you are an absolute beginner or a pro blogger, we want to help you achieve your blogging dreams and desires. We make sure that all instructions are simple to read, easy to follow, and quick to implement.
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We know not everyone will want to go through the process of learning how to start a blog. Some of us just want to have an awesome blog up and running, ready to attract thousands of viewers and make us some money.
If thats you, no worries – we will create and install your personalized and customized blog for you, for free.
The Basics
What is involved with starting a blog anyway? We can think of 4 major parts, all of which are critical for the success and monetizing of a blog:
1) Hosting and Domain
The Host
The very root of any website is the virtual real estate it sits on, called a hosting account. Much like the house you live in or the building you work at, the “location” of a website is the computer server its hosted on.
We don’t need to get into the technical details of how this works, but think of your own computer. It has files, movies, pictures, and documents, right? If you wanted your friend to have access to those files, you would “share” them, letting anybody on your internet network access them.
This is exactly how a website works. A bunch of files, images, movies, and documents sit on a computer, and that computer gives anyone on its network access. Unfortunately, we can’t do this with our own computers – we have to use servers. To start a blog, we must “rent” a spot on a server so we can let everyone see our website – not just us!
The Domain
Once you own your little space on the internet, you need to call it something! All your future readers and fans will need to know how to find your blog, right? They will do this by searching for your “domain name” – also known as your website’s url.
If you still aren’t sure what a domain name is, here are some examples: Google.com, YourBlog.org, Amazon.com.
You can choose any domain name you want, so long as it isn’t taken already. It is typically a good idea to choose your first and last name to be your website url, since it will likely still be available.
For your blog to technically exist, you must both have hosting and a domain name; one can’t exist without the other.
2) Blogging System
The next key ingredient for a blog is the system it uses. There are many platforms out there for blogging, but there are only a few you should pay attention to – with only one that should be seriously considered: Wordpress.
Wordpress is the single biggest and best blogging platform in existence, and their service doesn’t cost a dime. Installing the system isn’t the simplest of tasks for someone new to website building, but creating posts and using your blog couldn’t get any easier.
All the content you will write with your new blog is done with a tool that largely resembles Microsoft Word, so creating posts couldn’t get more simple. You will be able to create pages, publish posts, organize information by categories and tags, and much, much more.
Visitors can leave comments on posts, participate in polls, donate through buttons, and much, much more. If you like seeing the statistics of your blog, you can see the number of visitors you receive, where they came from to get to your site, what links they clicked on, what posts they liked and read the most, and other sorts of data.
While some other systems like Tumblr offer similar features, Wordpress dominates the blogging world and is something you can quickly and simply become accustomed to using.
3) Content
The next-to-last building block on how to start a blog is the content you will create. Once you own your hosting and domain and have Wordpress installed on your website, it is time to fill it with posts and pages.
Whether you are blogging for money or just for fun, meaningful and relevant content is always appreciated by your blog’s visitors. Write something interesting and unique, be a little crazy or fun – maybe just be extremely informative and wise. Let your personality shine in your writing and really portray your message to your readers, either to have them buy your products or support your cause.
Thankfully writing content is a breeze with Wordpress, so there won’t be anything technically difficult about writing content. Each day (or however often you want), type your post, fill it with images or movies, and hit the publish button. It couldn’t be any easier!
4) Traffic and Marketing
The last step on starting your own blog is making it known to the world. Now that you filled it with some interesting, informative, or silly posts, you need to go out and find readers to enjoy it! This can be done a number of ways, but the absolute best is social media.
The term “social media” used here means Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and such. By finding people on these site’s who you think could benefit from the posts you wrote, you will soon begin to grow your readership. By forming relationships with like-minded people and getting to know the key players related to your niche, huge amounts of traffic and opportunities open up to you.
Not to mention, social media doesn’t cost a penny to use. The only downside to this amazing source of traffic is learning the key steps to follow, and avoiding the common pitfalls most new website owners fall into.
Not to Worry!
Thankfully, there is no need to fret. Not only will we create a fully-customized and branded Wordpress blog for you, but we will teach you how to make your first $1 in social media with your new website. As if that isn’t amazing enough, all of this will be done for free.
Yes, you read correctly… FREE.
We will have your free blog up and running within 2-3 days, ready for you to start making money and building your following.
To explain it a little more and to get started, we have a short video you can watch if you are curious - you are curious, aren’t you? If you want a blog, you should be!
Click here to get your free, fully-customized Wordpress blog.
