How to create a blog.

How to create a blog in a few minutes. Yes you can create a blog in a very few minutes. The decision to start a blog ultimately comes due to passion which will end up with good brand name and it continues generating good money in you bank account. 

Many blogs are created everyday, but only few blogs become popular. All blogs will not generate money, but only a few blogs. Why? That is because no proper guidance or people don't no were to start. Blogging will not earn money immediately, it takes time. Many blogger want to earn money immediately, because they are not earning money any taking days and months, many blogger are quiet blogging. If you started blogging to earn money from blog through Adsense, affiliate marketing or sponsorships, you will probably lose interest over long-tern. So dont't loose interest, keep hope and patience, on one unknown day you will start earning money from your blog.

why you want to start a blog? 

Option A: Just for fun - Just to promote some content online - not expecting any profits - go for free bogging platform, purchase a domain and link with your blog

Option B: You want to earn some money or utilize the blog for business purpose - go for premium blog - Purchase web hosting package and Domain - Start blogging

See the check list, Learn how to start a blog.

1. Select a perfect niche for you blog (choose a topic)

2. Choose a bogging platform ( you want to start free blog or premium blog)

3. Pick a domain name

4. Get a web hosting account

5. Select the template / theme

6. Write and publish you post

7. Promote you blog

8. Make money from you blog

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1. Select a perfect niche for you blog

What is niche? niche is a content or topic on a product you want to promote. Select the right product or topic to promote, choose something descriptive and popular. The topic may be selling a goods or service,  promoting, communicating, spread a message on a particular topic. Topic means a content. Write a content on you niche. when you customer lands on you blog on a particular content, the customer should get all the information. So focus on one niche an try to write the maximum possible content which will be very useful and not boring to your readers. 

 

Example fore niche keywords: Decide on which niche you have good command, select that niche as your blogging career. 

Fitness and sports                 Health                         Fashion

Music                                    Food                           Hobbies

Politics and society               Entertainment             Finance

Gaming                                 Family and home        Education and career

Social networks                    Relationships              Car and automobile

Technology updates           

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If you have chosen niche, research in the market how many blogs are available on same niche. So if you want to come in that competition you need to be more creative, that makes you different from others, be creative.

2. Choose a bogging platform ( Hosting: -free blog or premium blog)
To start a blog you need a blogging platform. There are many blogging platforms available (Free and paid versions). What is you plan; going for a free blog or premium blog. For premium blog you have to purchase hosting

a. Free blogging Several blogging platforms allow you to create a free blog for free. Choose the one you like, signup for new account and start blogging.

If you are not expecting to earn money from you blog and just want to promote some content  online go for free blogging platform.

The free blogging platforms like blogger,  WordPress, Joomla, weebly.com, and drupal sites. These free blogging platforms are fine for getting started but not truly a long term solution for business. If you want to start a free blog i recommend blogger for beginners. why blogger?

Blogger.com: Blogger (Blogspot) is a free blogging platform and easy to use. Blogger provides limited themes but you can buy pre-designed third party themes and install. Blogger allows you to customize color, font, and layout of theme. With blogger you can apply for adsense. You can place affiliate ads. Your blogger storage limit is your google drive storage limit. Create a blog with blogger

Create a blog with wordpress: If you are choosing WordPress, the next step is selecting the hosting Free hosting-wordpress.com
Self hosting-wordpress.org

Free hosting-wordpress.com:  Free Hosting with WordPress.com is basically, storing all the files and data of the blog and hosting them on the servers of the blogging platform without incurring any cost. It is free to start, and easy to setup with limited storage and less options to customize your blog. You will get subdomain of wordpress.com for your blog. Ads are displayed on your blog, you cannot control or removed. To add some context, Wordpress.com does not even allow you to make as revenue.You will have less control. If you want to use more options, then you have to pay to upgrade you account from free to paid plan.

If you can afford some money, go for wordpress.org. Wordpress.org has the most flexibility of any other top contenders. Initially spending some money on good hosting is the best choice instead of starting with free hosting and then migrating to paid hosting. If you go to google or youtube you will find so many options to learn wordpress.org

b. Self Hosting with WordPress.org: Wordpress.org is a open source software, it is premium bogging platform. Here the wordpress is free to use, you need to purchase hosting to install wordpress, You can purchase domain name along with hosting or separately. Self hosting is storing all the files and data of the blog on any third party server of your preferred web host. You will have full control on how to customize and monetize your blog.

If you are expecting to earn money from your blog or any other things from your blog go for the premium blog. wordpress.org is the best option if you want a professional blog and also to earn money from you blog. Many web hosting companies will provide wordpress along with the premium plans.

You can create website or blog from bluehost or dreamhost  and Siteground hosting providers. wordpress.org hosting recommends these three hosting companies.  As per you choice purchase hosting, install wordpress and start blogging. When you want to purchase hosting, compare prices of bluehost, dreamhost  and Siteground  at the time of registration and decide which one to choose. All three are top hosting companies.

Create blog with Bluehost.     See plans here

Create blog with Dreamhost.  See plans here
Create blog with SiteGround. See plans here

3. Pick a domain name: Domain name is the name of you blog, an online url address.
There are two types of domain names Subdomain and custom domain

Subdomain: If you create a blog on free blogging platform your will get subdomain for your blog. The subdomain look lengthy, and it will not create a good impression to your blog readers. It is difficult to remember, and difficult to type. It looks like this-

On Blogger.com: mygugublogger.blogspot.com
On Wordpress.com: mygurublogger.wordpress.com

You can purchase a custom domain and link with free blogging platforms. It gives professional look

Custom domain: Having a custom domain (mygurublogger.com) shows commitment and ultimately come across as more professional look. Custom domain is also called Top Level Domain (TLD). 

Before you can begin building your website, choosing your domain name is one of the most important part as this is how your audience will find you and identify with your brand. When you choose a niche for your blog, select a domain name which will reflect you niche content. You may not get the name what you are expecting. Try to select alternate name that match your blog or website content. Make sure you have alternate names. Register the domain name. You can purchase from below options.

If you want to purchase premium web hosting package, you will get one or more free domains, so  you no need to purchase domain separately. Before purchasing hosting package, check the plan if you are getting free domain or not.  If the webhosting plan not offering free domain, then purchase a domain name separately. You can link the domain name to the webhosting.

To purchase a domain name you can try Bluehost. The plans are best and affordable. 

There are several companies were you can buy a domain name: dreamhost or hostinger or Siteground .and the choice is yours. All are big hosting and domain register companies.

 Remember you domain should be short and easy to spell, easy to remember. Go for .com extension instead of .in or .org or .co.in, or .info, .net etc.  Domain name with  .com extension will have more value in google search.

In premium plans, you can buy your domain and web hosting from the same company – like Bluehost, Dreamhost and Siteground. If you take domain and hosting together it is easy to merge both and no need to maintain two accounts. 

If you want to purchase domain name and hosing separately from different companies, you need too link the name and hosting. Don't worry, it is a very simple process, You will get articles and videos on hosting companies how to link domain name with hosting.

How to register domain name: Open the website, Look for "domain" search option, type the name in the search box, if the name is available its good, other wise search for alternate, during the search process the site will suggest alternate names with price, choose from the list or search till you get your best name. Once the name is available it will show with price. Check out, signup or login and complete the payment process.

4. Get a web hosting account:

You have your domain purchased, now you’re ready to purchase a web hosting plan,  a server to host your blogs. Web hosting means buying some space on a web server to store your blog or site files, content and images and make it accessible online. Purchase good webhosting. Hosting is very affordable these days, compare two or three hosting companies and choose the best.You can go for Bluehost, Dreamhost or siteground webhosting, these are recommended by wordpress.org. So the choice is yours.

If you are planning for premium version go for Bluehost. Select the best package plan, register or signup, launch word press on your blog and start writing good content and publish. To work with wordpress.org, you need some knowledge, because it has so many options with different purposes.

 

At time of registration, compare and choose the best plan that will fit your needs, as well as one that is budget-friendly. All the companies are  top hosting companies. Premiums plans provide one or more domain names for free. Check for this free domain option available or not in the plan. You can purchase the domain name separately, its not too costly. 

If you are a new blogger starting you career in blogging, first go for basic plan. You can upgrade to higher versions if you think it is necessary. Again it is your choice depends on offers available at the time of registration. If you are getting big discounts go for higher plans.

 

In free blogging platforms you no need to purchase hosting. When you sign up on a free blogging platform, the platform will store your files for you, but if you are choosing to go for self-hosted platform, you need one good selfhosting. If you are planning for a free blog then blogger,  wordpress.com etc is good.

If you are planning to use blogger, your google drive storage limit is your blog storage limit (15 GB). Once your drive limit is over you can increase you limit by paying the amount. Wordppress.com has a very limited storage, so go for blogger.

Other blogging platforms like wordpress.com, zoomla, wix will provide very limited storage

5. Select the good theme and template: What is theme? Template is a face of your blog. If your template looks beautiful and professional, customers love to spend some time on you blog. So try to select a professional  template.

If you are going for premium blog, you will have lot of options to choose templates. In premium versions like wordpress you have lot of themes. Select the good looking theme which will attract your readers. You can purchase thirdparty (Premium)themes and install in wordpress. In wordpress you already have dozens of themes, select the best which suits your niche. If you can afford some money go for premium themes.

For free blogging platforms there will be very limited themes and templates, and you have to choose only from the available templates.

6. Write and publish you post. For any blog or website the content is the important. A blogging platform is the place were you will write and store all of your posts. Write a rich content that needs to be extremely high quality, informative and targeted to your readers. Every word on your blog should always be informative. The quality content will bring your visitors returning to your blog again and again, and that brings traffic to you blog.

Before you start writing your first blog post, you should make a plan to write a unique relevant content.

Content: Content doesn't just have to be confined to articles(only Text), it can also be photos, videos, audio. Along with the content include any of these to help you readers to understand your content. Your readers will get board or sleepy if you post only lengthy content, they may look for pictures or videos if they don't understand your content. Good images help your blog readers to understand more. Good high quality images help in promoting in social media sites as Instagram and Pinterest.

The content you create must be relevant to your niche. Your content should be interesting to keep your readers come back again. Create a post with good content. When creating blog posts , do a research on keyword that you want to place on your "post name" and "post content:. Create these pages: About me, contact us, Privacy policy, Disclaimer.

Make sure everyone can read and understand the content. Before publishing, you read first, and once you satisfied, publish with your content. If you want to help your readers to understand more add images, videos.  Your rich content  needs to establish your blog as an informative source in the market, so make sure to write a quality content. 

If you no idea of creating content, consider outsourcing content writing to a third party. If you need higher quality content and you are ready to pay good amount WriterAccess is a great solution. Try iWriter also.

 

If it is free hosting you no need any training to write and publish post. Free hosting platforms like blogger is very easy to use. Search for the options like create a page, create a post, then type the content and publish. Once you publish, immediately your content goes online.

What is wordpress: WordPress is a versatile, flexible content management system. With so many tools and features for building blogs of all kinds, WordPress makes it easy for anyone to publish and share content across the globe. And if you’re ever feeling lost or stuck, the great news is the WordPress community is large, offering a myriad of forums, support resources, and step-by-step guides for common tasks.

Install wordpress: Once you purchased hosting with WordPress hosting provider like Bluehost. Install WordPress, most hosting providers will have a one-click install option for wordpress, it will take only a few minutes and you will have wordpress installed, you’re ready to start blogging. 

Install theme: A wordpress theme provides all the design with features of a site that you see on the front end. There are thousands of themes available, so choose the best theme and install. You can customize your blog’s appearance with themes and plugins and create unlimited posts and pages, so it can help to make a list of the basic features you want on your blog site before you begin. You can change you themes later if required.

Create a page (About us) and introduce your self, write content about you, and why you created your blog, what is the purpose of your blog.  Create a "contact us" page.

7. Promote you blog: As soon as you complete writing your first post, publish you post. Bring the post online. Promoting the blog is very important. Initially no one will come to ready your blog. You have to use marketing techniques to promote. Let your blog reach so many people. Initially social media is the easiest  and most common way to promote your blog like Facebook, twitter, Instagrm and Pinterest. Create a page on facebook and link the page to your blog. 

If you want to promote affiliate products, some companies will not let you to promote their products directly on social media platforms. So if you have a blog, you can create a post, write a review on that product, and publish or link the post to social media. If your blog has a rich content, your readers will visit the blog and get engaged with your content, and end up with sales. 

Use email marketing, invite guest post.  SEO is the another best option to promote and increase search engine traffic to your blog.

Facebook ads are best and affordable to promote, and to drive traffic. Social sites have capabilities for a paid targeted advertising which also allows you to reach the audience that will find your content relevant to them. Install social media share buttons on your blog for your audience to share your content. 

Enable you readers to comment on your posts. Enable an option to share your post by your readers.

Try to link your blog to social pages like Facebook, twitter.

Convert your visitors into email subscribers. Build an Email list to promote your blog. Building an audience for your blog helps to bring traffic and sales. Enable an option to your on your blog to your readers to subscribe. With email list you can promote and sell your products to your subscribers via your blog. This will eventually lead to more traffic to your blog as well.

8. Make money from you blog

Once you blog is created you start earning money with different ways:-

a. Apply for google Adsense account - once you account is approved - you can place google

    ads on you blog and start earning

b. You can sell you own products or services by promoting on you blog

c. Affiliate marketing: Promote affiliate products on you blog, if there is any sales you will get
    commission.
With your blog you can sell products and merchandise online or place ads and receive compensation from brands by promoting their products and services

As an affiliate, your job is, to sell the products and make money. How to sell the products is depends on you. Promote the products through social media like Facebook, twitter. Promote the products through blog, write rich content on your products, if available place banners and promote the blog.

If you want to earn from blogging, you learn first, develop your skills, get knowledge (learn blogging, SEO) from top successful bloggers.