Are you interested in starting a blog? Starting a blog can be little problematic who are not geeky. But if you have passion its not a big thing.We have helped thousands of people to start their blog and now they are successfully running it..
Before starting a blog the question arise why you want to start blog? What is the advantage of make blog. How to earn money using blog etc.. We will explain you all things here.
why you want to start blog?
One of the misconceptions about starting a blog is that you need to be a great writer to be successful. But its not true. You don’t need to be expert in your niche to make successful blog.To become a successful bloggers.you should have passion for writing. Blogging is about share your knowledge or experience with world.You can choose any topic for writing which you are passionate.As long as you write about topic your passion will shine through and readers will enjoy to read..
There is few reasons for starting blog
Make Money – Lots of people making full time income through blogging. Making money through blogging is little hard. But if you put continue efforts. Good money can be make.
Share your story – You can share your story or experience with entire world. You can share your daily experience or thoughts about any topic. Solution about any problem etc.
Here is the step by step instructions for setting a blog.
Decide blog niche
Blogging platform
Choose domain name
Hosting
Install WordPress
Design & use your blog!
Decide blog niche
Deciding a blog topic is not a big deal. If you are running a business, company or part of a organization. You can choose the topic related to your company or business. Like if you are running a web development company you can write on web development or you have travel company you can write on travel etc..
You should write a blog about which have lots of rooms for discussion. Because blog need lots of contents.
Blogging Platform
There is many platforms for start a blog or website. One of the most popular blogging platform is WordPress. I am also using WordPress for blogging. There is two options.
Hosted WordPress blogs are often referred to as “WordPress.com blogs.
Self-hosted WordPress blogs are often referred to as “WordPress.org blogs.
Hosted WordPress blog means when you use free platform for creating blog.Its true its free but it will provide you very limited functionality or access and the address will be your blog like name.wordpress.org etc.
Here is the few limitations of using free hosted blog.As your blog is hosted on free platform. So if you violate their terms or conditions they can shut down your blog any time.You can’t do all customizations on your blog like plugin customization, custom design etc.
I will suggest to use self hosted wordpress platform. It gives you more control or flexibility on site. Self hosted platform you need domain name, host etc and you will manage your site yourself. But it will be less expensive.
Main benefit of using it you can do unlimited customization through plugins, themes, coding etc.Community support are available even hosting company will also provide you support whenever you needed.You have fully control on your website which hosted wordpress blogs don’t provide.
Choose domain name
The first things is to choose a domain name.You can take any extension like .com, .org, .net etc..
Hosting
I will recommend to use bluehost(https://www.bluehost.com/) or bigrock for getting hosting. They are less expensive and have very good support. Here is the step by step instructions for setup blog on bluehost.
When you open the blue host you will see get start now button.Click on it.
On the next screen you will see plans.Choose any plan.
After it you will get next screen for enter domain name.After fill domain name. You will see next screen for packages. You can choose any package according to your budget.After completed you will get email regarding hosting logins etc.
WordPress Installation on Server
You can manually upload wordpress on your site. For it you first download wordpress from https://wordpress.org. Hosting company also offers a tool like Fantastico, you can upload WordPress directly from your hosting account with a few simple clicks and connect it to the domain name with a few more clicks.Here is the complete process for setup blog hosting company tool.
After login on control panel you will see the option for install wordpress.
After click on install wordpress. You will see next screen for choosing the domain name. In which you want to install the wordpress.After that, you need to enter your Site Name, username, and a password for your site. You also need to check all the checkboxes and then click Install.It will install the wordpress.