HOW TO START A BLOG WITH WORDPRESS IN 2021
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Have you ever wanted to know how to start a blog, but didn’t know how to start a blog. I’m sure all the stuff you found on starting a blog was about, how to make money with a blog, or how to get better rankings, but never how to set it up. I have good news!
Now you can, and I will help you, step by step. This is a beginner’s guide to starting your own blog/website. I will give you detailed step by step on how to set it up in its entirety. You can start blogging today.
Let me just say, if you are looking to get into blogging, you have two choices, free or paid. The Free source, are blogging networks, like Blogger, Squidoo, TypePad, WordPress, etc. The Paid source, is having your own domain name, web hosting and being completely yours, without limitations. Nothing against the free blogging networks, but if you want to be taken seriously, you have to have your own blog. There is no reason why you can have your own blog, it will only cost about $10. That’s it, $10!
Table of Contents:
1. Pick a Niche/Blog Topic2. Domain Name3. Web Hosting4. Changing Nameservers5. Blog Software6. Install WordPress7. Customize WordPress8. Start Posting9. Blog Pages10. Blog SEO11. Earn with Blog12. Conclusion
How to start a blog?
1. Pick a Niche / Blog Topic
What is your blog going to be about? You need to pour a foundation, before you can build a house. In this case, you need to decide what topic/niche your blog is going to be about and it’s purpose. Is your blog going to be about pets, perhaps, weight loss or cooking? Whatever, topic you decide to blog about it, you need to do keyword research.
Keyword research is vital to the success of your new blog. If you want to make a serious presence, then you need to know what keywords your visitors will be using. Let’s say your blog is about “cooking”, you just don’t want to use “cooking”, that is too generic and too competitive, you will never rank well. You need go after long tail keywords and variations, such as, “how to saute”. Maybe not my best example, but, I think you get the point. Google’s Adwords Keyword Tool is great way to do this kind of research.
Below are the some most profitable blog niches you can choose one of them for your 1st blog.
Entertainment Niches
- Gaming Niche
- Movie Review Niche
Health Niches
- Baby Niche
- Fitness Niche
- Health Niche (generally)
Hobby Niches
- Crochet Niche
- Quilting Niche
- Sewing Niche
- Photography Niche
Lifestyle Niches
- Beauty Niche
- DIY Niche
- Fashion Niche
Mommy Blog Niches
- Parenting Niche
Pet Niches
Religion Niches
Content Curation Blog
- Food Niche
- Travel Niche
- Wedding Niche
- Camping Niche
Misc. Niches
- News sites
Money
- Budgeting Niche
- Personal Finance
- Business Niche
- Careers Niche
- Marketing Niches
- SEO Niche
- Celebrity Net Worth
- The Interviewer Niche
Product-Centric
- Kitchen Gadgets Niche
- Sneaker Niche
- Product Review Niche
- Car Reviews
Sports
- Sports Niches
- Baseball Niche
- Running Niche
Technology
- Tech Niches
2. Domain Name
After you have done figuring out what you’re going to blog about, it’s time to select a domain name. Getting a domain name is tricky, if you don’t know what you are doing. I am going to help you with that, and what to do and not to do.
First thing is, NEVER, buy a domain name through a hosting provider, and become a domain hostage. You should, ALWAYS, buy your domain names through a registrar like Godaddy, Namecheap, Ionos, etc.
Now it’s time to select a domain name, but let’s go over a few very important things first. The domain name you select, will be yours, and you can’t change it, unless you buy another. Domain names are like real estate, all the good ones are taken or at a premium rate.
While you are brainstorming for domain name ideas, keep in mind, blog topic, and not to use hyphens.
You should have your blog topic in your domain name, for seo purposes. If your blog is about pets, you should have word “pet” or “pets” in your domain name, such as ILovePets.com.
You should also stay away from hyphenated domain names, they are considered spammy. Most hyphenated blogs don’t rank well, and if they do, it takes a lot more SEO effort to do so. Plus, try telling a friend your domain name that has hyphens in it, such as, I-LovePets.com. You’ll spend more time trying to explain it to your friend, and it would be a lot easier not to have them.
Choose the right extension, .com, .net, .org, .us, etc. Believe it or not, this can hurt you, if you don’t choose the right one. Visitors are psychologically prone to always use .com, as a extension. If I tell you to go to eBay, or Bing, you will assume it is eBay.com, or Bing.com. Visitors, think in this same way. If you tell people to go to ILovePets.net, and your domain name is, ILovePets.net, they’re not going to hear the “.net”. They will automatically assume it’s a “.com”. If you choose a “.org”, you may be able to get away with it, but people forget the extension and always go to “.com”. Make sense? I hope so. Plus, .com and .org rank better over the rest of the publically available extensions.
So, be patient and brainstorm several domain names. Good domain names are hard to come by, so take your time.
Some most popular domain registrar
2.1. Godaddy
2.2. Namecheap
2.3. Ionos
2.4. Name
3. Web Hosting
After you have got your domain name, it’s time to find a web hosting provider. Choosing the wrong web hosting company can cripple your blog, in so many ways. There are so many different types of hosting, but I don’t want to confuse you with the jargon. I have written many articles regarding the different types of web hosting.
Since this is probably your first blog, and on a limit budget, I would recommend shared hosting. Shared hosting is good when you’re first starting out and have a limited cash flow. If for some reason you need to switch to another provider or type of hosting, you can and that is fairly easy.
When looking for a web hosting company, their hosting plan should have at the bare minimum:
- 24×7 Support
- 99.9% Up-time Guarantee
- Free / Instant Setup
- FTP Access
- MySQL Databases
- PHP 4+
- phpMyAdmin
- Java
Most web hosting plans have those, at minimum anyways, but just be sure to check. I would recommend Hostgator, starting at $3.96 a month. Hostgator is one of the largest and most popular web hosting providers out there. You could yourself the time and effort, and just use Hostgator.
There are some most popular web hosting providers with 100% satisfaction and 99.9% up-time guarantee.
3.1: 1. Hostinger3.2: 2. Bluehost
3.3: 3. ipage
3.4: 4. Fatcow
3.5: 5. Justhost
3.6: 6. Namecheap
3.7: 7. Godaddy
3.8: 8. Ionos
3.9: 9. Hostblast
4. Changing Nameservers
After you have purchased your hosting plan, you will receive an email with the details to change your nameservers. You have to set your nameservers to point to the web hosting providers nameservers, or your blog will not show up.
To change the namesevers, just go to your domain registrar, where you bought your domain name from, if it was Godaddy, then you would go to GoDaddy. Login in your account, select your domain name, and you will be able see where you can set your nameservers. Put in the nameserver information that the hosting provider has provided you, then save.
After you have set your nameservers, be sure to keep in mind that it can take up to 48 hours to take effect. Usually, it only takes a couple hours, at most, in rare occurrences, it can take up to 48 hours.
5. Blog Software
When it comes to FREE blog software, you have 3 choices, WordPress, Joomla and Drupal. WordPress is the most popular, that is what I am going to recommend and cover in the set up. I have not personally used Joomla or Drupal, I’m sure they are good, I just never used them and I would rather use WordPress.
6. Install WordPress
I just love WordPress, there is nothing you can’t do with it. There are so many great WordPress themes, plugins and you can customize it to do just about anything you want. It is an open source, meaning, developers and programmers can add to it. It is written in PHP, updated all the time and very secure.
Instructions to Install WordPress from cPanel
Cpanel is a well known programming utilized by many web facilitating organizations. It furnishes site proprietors with a basic online interface to deal with their facilitating account.
It is a one-stop utility included auto-installer scripts that assist you with introducing WordPress.
Facilitating organizations select which auto-installer script they need to utilize. By and large, Softaculous, QuickInstall, and Fantastico are the most well known alternatives.
We will tell you the best way to introduce WordPress utilizing every one of the three auto-installers. You can adhere to the guidelines, in light of the installer you see on your cPanel dashboard.
Instructions to Install WordPress Utilizing Softaculous
Softaculous is a famous auto-installer script. It permits you to handily introduce famous web applications like WordPress with only a couple clicks. Facilitating organizations like Hostgator, Hostinger, Hostblast, SiteGround and InMotion Hosting use Softaculous in their control panel.
Essentially login to your cPanel record and search for Softaculous or WordPress installer symbol. You will discover them under Auto Installers area.
Tapping on any of these symbols will dispatch Softaculous auto-installer for WordPress. To start with, you will see an outline of WordPress. You need to tap on the Install tab to proceed.
Softaculous will presently ask you where you need to introduce WordPress.
You need to pick http://or http://www. as convention.
Assuming your site has SSL and HTTPS,
you can choose https://or https://www. as convention.
From that point forward, you need to pick the area name where you need to introduce WordPress. Most clients need to introduce WordPress in their space's root registry, as example.com. All things considered, you need to ensure that the 'In Directory' field is clear.
Look down a bit, and you will see the site settings area.
Under this segment, first you need to give a title and portrayal to your WordPress site. Try not to stress you can undoubtedly transform them from your WordPress administrator region after establishment.
Then, you need to pick an administrator username, secret word, and email address. Softaculous will consequently fill in the username and secret word fields for you. It will utilize a non-word reference word for username and a solid secret phrase.
You can transform them assuming you need so they are not difficult to recollect for you. Be that as it may, we firmly ask you to consistently utilize a solid secret key. See our aide on the most ideal approach to oversee passwords for WordPress fledglings to figure out how you can oversee solid passwords without any problem.
Ensure that you enter right email address in the administrator email field. This is the place where WordPress will send notices and secret phrase reset connect in the event that you at any point failed to remember your secret word.
Rest of the choices on the screen are discretionary. You would now be able to tap on the introduce catch to run the installer.
Softaculous will run the installer utilizing the settings you gave. You will see an improvement bar with establishment status. It will several minutes. Try not to close the window until the advancement bar arrives at 100% something else, this may influence your WordPress establishment.
You will see a triumph message after the establishment is done. It will likewise show you connects to your site and to your WordPress administrator region.
If you not understand 'how to install WordPress' you can see the step by step guide to install the WordPress from different hosting provider cPanel, click the link below.
Install WordPress from HostGator, BlueHost, SiteGround, WP Engine, cPanel, Softacolous, Fantastisco, Auto Installer
HOW TO INSTALL WORDPRESS - STEP BY STEP GUIDE
7. Customize WordPress
Now it’s time to configure your WordPress.
Since you have effectively introduced WordPress, here are a couple of things to begin with your new WordPress site.
7.1. Picking a Theme
The visual appearance of your WordPress fueled site is constrained by Themes. There are a huge number of WordPress subjects accessible for you to browse. With so numerous decisions, it can turn into somewhat irritating for amateurs. This is the reason we have assembled an aide on choosing the ideal topic for WordPress.
We routinely distribute arrangements of WordPress subjects that we like in our Showcase segment. Following are a portion of our famous subject features.
Best free WordPress blog topics
Best WordPress Business topics
Best moderate WordPress topics for authors
Best WordPress topics for picture takers
7.2. Introducing and Using WordPress Plugins
The genuine force of WordPress comes from the monstrous assortment of modules. They resemble applications for your WordPress site, permitting you to expand usefulness and add new highlights to your site.
There are in excess of 58,000 free modules accessible in the WordPress module catalog alone. More modules are accessible from outsider sites as paid modules.
Assuming you are pondering which modules to introduce, investigate our master pick of the fundamental WordPress modules for all sites. You may likewise need to look at the modules we are utilizing on this site by taking a gander at our WP Beginner's outline.
7.3. Create a headline and tagline
This is very important to keep new visitors on your blog. The visitors read your blog description first so it’s best to use perfect description, that describes in which topic your blog is.
When you customize your blog it’s important to believe the users experience.
7.4. Create Pages And Posts
Pages are important for your blog. More like what you would see on a normal website. the posts are organized by categories, dates, archives ant tags.
7.5. Create a menu
Every theme display menus in different places. Some themes have one menu option but some have a many options. Themes exist to assist users navigate your site.
You can add pages on your menu. Pages are static, categories will show an inventory of all the blog posts within the category.
Pages and categories can produce other pages and categories underneath them to form your menus look a touch less cluttered while making your site easier to navigate.
Easier for users what they are looking for. The users spend more time on your blog, which means you’ll make more money.
8. Start Posting
Now your blog is ready and start writing articles or start writing posts, better and unique content for your visitors.
Compose a post, click on the New Posts » Add New menu in WordPress dashboard.
You will see a proofreader region where you can compose your first blog entry.
Composing a blog entry in WordPress
WordPress utilizes a square based proofreader where every component is a square. This permits you to make delightful substance designs for your blog entries.
To acquaint yourself with the proofreader, see our WordPress block supervisor instructional exercise.
When composition is done, Click on the Publish button on the top right corner of the screen to make your blog entry openly accessible.
Distribute blog entry
On the posts screen, you will see a few different segments like Categories and Tags. You can arrange blog entries into segment. We have an incredible write up on the distinction between classes versus labels, which we energetically suggest that you read.
To use every one of the highlights on the posts screen, you should peruse our article on the most proficient method to add another post in WordPress (video included).
Frequently fledglings are confounded among posts and pages menu in the WordPress dashboard. That is the reason we have likewise composed a total aide on the contrast between posts versus pages in WordPress.
9. Add Some Important Pages To Your Blog
9.1. About us page
9.2. Contact us page
CLICK HERE
9.3. Privacy Policy page
CLICK HERE
9.4. Terms & Conditions page
CLICK HERE
9.5. Disclaimer page
CLICK HERE
9.6. Affiliate Discloser
9.7. Sitemap
CLICK HERE FOR XML
CLICK HERE FOR HTML
10. Optimize Your Blog For SEO
AIOSEO
More WordPress Plugins and Customization
Reinforcement
Security
Execution
Plan and Customization
Traffic and Subscribers
Email Marketing
11. Turn Your Blog into Money Making Machine
11.1. Google AdSense
11.2. Affiliate Marketing
11.3. Online Store
That’s it!
You are done!
