Every single person who wants to start the online journey or blogging should have a common question in their mind. How to Start a Successful blog or how to create a money-making blog? My dear friend in 2023, we are so digital and always tends to gain money faster but trust me if you want to achieve something faster then you might get fooled yourself. Blogging needs passion and patience both together.
You will find your answers here, all of them. Let’s start with
How to Create a Blog?
- Choose your blog name and hosting provider.
- Register you domain name and host it.
- Set up a theme for your website and work on it as per your CMS (Content Management System).
- Install only important plugins for website.
- Create all relevant web pages that you need in your website.
- Write the content for every page. It should be attractive and genuine.
- Now publish your website online.
By following all above mentioned steps, you are ready with your very first step in the online blogging world. Don’t worry about anything, I will explain how to set up each and everything one by one.
Blog Name:
Ideally, this has nothing to do with skills. All you need to focus on your business core or your blog niche. You will automatically get an idea about your Blog name.
Profitable Blog Name Policy:
- It should be lesser than 15 characters.
- Try to contain keyword in it which has sale on daily basis. For example, if you are working on shoe blog then keep it like: www.bestshoe.com. This helps your website in Google ranking.
- Blog name should be very catchy like if someone listen it or read it then he/she must have remembered it forever. For example: www.takemoney.com
Actual problem arises when you ready with your blog name and try to register it through any hosting platform and then you find that your name is already registered online by someone else.
It’s a harsh reality but don’t loose hope here just try with another name and register it. There is another option available, if you want to buy your specific domain name that is already registered then it may be available to buy. You can directly contact the domain owner or drop mail to hosting company.
Search your Blog name here:
Hosting
When you are done with your domain name, you must register it and host it. For a newcomer, in Digital World, Hosting may be a new terminology.
What is Hosting?
In simple Lehman language – Hosting is a place where you can store your website or web pages. In technical words your website is connected to internet through hosting provider company as they gave your website a space on their server. Hosting provider normally take rent to provide you such kind of service.
I recommend HOSTINGER. For detailed hosting plan and actions please check out this page.
Website CMS and Theme
At this point, you are ready with your blog name and hosting provider. Now what next? Yes, you are in right direction, we need to build our website with help of CMS and install the theme for our website.
CMS stands for Content Management System, and it is purely designed to build your website at ease. It provides you flexibility to just install theme as per your choice and then add pages or do the customization.
Normally, WordPress is a good option to choose. There several other CMS available like WooCommerce, Joomla, and React JS. If already know how to work with these options, then go with anyone.
I recommend here WordPress for website design. I did it for my website and didn’t face any big challenges.
For detailed theme installation, please have a look on this web page.
Plugin
Plugin plays very important role in website performance. It’s a piece of software that “plugs into” your WordPress site. They can add new functionality on your site like improved Contact US Page or Compressed images on your site. This leads to reduce load time of website.
You can easily find out all the default installed Plugin in your website Dashboard. Remove or add as per your choice. Below is the Dashboard screen shot to check all Plugins.
For more details, please check this, Web Page.
Web Page Creation
What is a web page? Basically, it’s just like your notepad page in which you write content. For this web page, you can give it a name as per your category. Always think most relevant name as per your niche or business. This will lead to a good website design.
Normally, if you are a coder in web development then you are smart enough to work on this else other people can simply use WordPress functionality which involve simple drag drop facility.
Content Creation
Most important factor of the website is Content. Content is and will always be KING. Website should have a great attractive content on each page. Your visitor should get the feeling after reading your content that you are the only authentic and genuine in the online world.
Content creation is not that simple as other things of website, you must have good writing communication skills. If you are not good in this trust me, you should outsource your content creation part.
One question that always come into mind is “How to create a good content for website”?
- You should have good writing skills.
- You should have proper business or niche knowledge.
- A single image on your website is also treat as content.
- You must have good vision for future trends so that your content will be competent in later future else you need to update in timely manner.
That’ it. This is all you need to do with your website creation. Publish your website and you are on. Get connected to the online world. One important point to note here that your website ranking always matter whether it is Google or Bing, or any other search engine.
For good website rank and search engine visibility, go through Search Engine Optimization tactics.
