How to start your blog? let us help you with the basic and essential steps involved in the creation process to make it successful. This entire article is actually a step-by-step guide to starting your own website or blog.
Let’s start with your first blog, your first success and your first online presence.
Are you ready? Ready to experience the opportunity and ready to get the most reward for your writing and internet presence. The internet is the biggest industry of the time and we are in the age of information and communication technology where it is necessary to be online in any form. Some stranger said, “today, if your business isn’t online, you don’t have a business at all.” People who sense the opportunities around them will be rewarded with maximum benefits.
Let’s see how you can get the most out of your time, how you can start your blog or write on the walls of the Internet so that you get rewarded for your work and people get what they want. If you try to solve other people’s problems, they will compensate you, and this is the main idea. Let me tell you that blogging is the biggest industry on the internet and bloggers, real bloggers make hundreds and thousands of dollars every month. Let me help you if you want to be a successful blogger and want to start right now.
Why blog?
Being successful on the internet means getting the most regular traffic. When you succeed at this, you are successful.
There is an old Pushto saying that “if you don’t know about a question, it’s better to ask someone who does.” We don’t need to reinvent the wheel. we just have to follow in the footsteps of successful geeks.
There are billions of internet users. Millions of users surf the internet every day and there are three main reasons behind it.
• They want answers they don’t know.
• They want to have fun or social networks,
• and they want to increase their knowledge of the world.
If your website or blog answers their questions and fulfills their needs, there is no doubt that you will be successful in the online world.
Step by step process to start your blog, your own blog
1. Find a purpose for your blog.
This is very important to ask yourself. In the first step, try to understand your purpose, visualize your goal and prepare yourself to face challenges because there is no free lunch in this world. Ask yourself what, why and how. Do you need a blog just to share your thoughts, or do you want to make it your bread and butter? You should answer these questions before starting your blog
2. Choose the most suitable niche for your blog.
This is very important and important to understand the importance of niche for your blog. in other words, choose your blog topic or field wisely. This is where your success will begin, so take your time, search the internet, ask relevant stakeholders and most importantly find your passion. I would advise you to go for what you are best at and related to your professional or personal goals.
Currently, niches like health and fitness, personal finance management, lifestyle, travel, technology and gaming are very popular and bloggers earn very well from these fields. My point here would be to start with something unique but most demanding. Try to be seen as a problem solver and choose your blog niche wisely.
My recommended niches will be:
- Technology and Games,
- Travels and undiscovered places,
- Personal finance management,
- Animals and related learnings etc. etc.
3. Select and purchase a domain name for your blog.
There are so many TLDs (Top Level Domains) on the Internet. You can register your domain name with a .com, .org or even.net extension, but I would recommend you to go with the .com extension as this is the most popular and in-demand TLD in the world.
There are many online sites that can help you choose and buy a domain name for your blog. The most popular are www.godaddy.com and www.bluehost.com.
With just a few clicks and spending $10-$15, you can get the domain name of your choice. if you really want to start your blog, you need to spend some dollars because there is no free lunch in the world.
4. Choose your blog hosting on the internet.
Typically, companies that sell domain names also provide online hosting. This will be the online storage of your content or blog. After purchasing a domain name and hosting, the company will provide you with a username and password. It’s as simple as using your Gmail or Hotmail email account.
You can easily buy both a domain name and hosting for just a few dollars a year.
5. Choose a Software/Content Management System (CMS) for your blog.
After you have completed your hosting and domain name purchase, you now need a technology or CMS to manage your blog online. There are many ways to do this, but I will recommend you to install the world’s best blogging software, WordPress.
WordPress is the best among all other blogging software because it is easy to use and manage. You can easily download and install WordPress for free from the official website www.WordPress.org
You can even ask your hosting company to install and make this software available directly on your blog. You can master WordPress with YouTube videos. Believe me, this is not rocket science. You don’t need any additional IT or computer degrees to use WordPress, but an underestimation of the Internet is enough.
6. Wow! you did it……… Start writing your 1St blog
You are a professional blogger after being here, congratulations! start writing your first blog.
Share your thoughts with the world. Try to solve other people’s problems with your writing or by providing them with the information they want. Your main goal is to influence readers and attract the attention of internet search engines. Don’t worry, your journey is off to a successful, slow start, and you’ll gradually gain the attention of search engines like Google and Bing.
Now your job is to write your blog content, nothing else. Once you start sharing content consistently, your blog will get rich and soon you will be getting traffic from online resources.
7. Promote your blog through social media platforms.
Never miss this point. When you start writing content, you need more motivation to write. You can fulfill this desire by marketing your blog through social media platforms and sharing the content with your friends and acquaintances.
Create your blog’s official pages on social media platforms like Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. You can create your official blog channels on YouTube for free. Search the internet for this purpose, you will hardly get the relevant material easily. Share your content with your family, friends and colleagues to get feedback and learn from your mistakes.
Here are some important steps to make your blog more successful with the help of Search Engine Optimization (SEO) tools.
8. Getting Google AdSense and/or Affiliate Marketing for your blog.
Before moving on to this point, I would recommend that you have been writing and sharing your content for at least six months. Once your blog has enough content and readers, then you can consider getting financial rewards from online resources like Google AdSense and affiliate marketing.
If you don’t know much about these facilities, try searching the internet for relevant knowledge.
Here are some tips and tricks to get your blog approved for Google Adsence:
- Don’t rush to approve your blog. Try to write at least 20-30 articles before applying for approval.
- Always use an HTTPS or Secure socket Layer (SSL) certificate for your website, this will add extra security to your website/blog and make it more legitimate.
- Try adding a “Disclaimer and Copy” page to your blog.
- Must include a Contact Us page on your blog.
- Don’t copy-paste content from other pages/blogs trying to create what you can, but it must be original and legal.
- Try to use a simple and attractive theme for your web page/blog.
Remember, if you are honest and dedicated, no one can stop you from being successful. Good luck!