Let’s start with the basics, like what a blog is. A blog is a website that usually consists of posts like text, images, or videos. As we all know overnight success is a myth. Here, after creating a blog, you have to do a lot of hard work on your blog in creating extraordinary posts, so that masses of people like them and a lot of traffic gets generated at your website. You must have patience and persistence, then only you will be able to see your blog transform into something huge.
After going through our guide, you won’t find creating your own blog as much difficult as it sounds inside your mind.
Major Steps One Should Follow to Start a Blog
1. Select The Niche of Your Blog
This is the most important step if you want to become a successful blogger. You must analyze the market trends thoroughly and only after that choose your blog’s niche(subject) that aligns with your talent. In other words, you must match your expertise with the latest trends in the market that are profitable.
2. Choose your Blog Name & Design
To gain the attention of the people, the name of the blog is a very crucial thing that must be decided after very careful consideration. One must try to use a catchy and unique blog name but that must be relevant to the matter of your blog. A large amount of people decide to go through your blog only based on our blog name. Now, coming to blog design, one must include the title, body, and comment sections in a blog to define a general arrangement.
3. Domain Name Registration
A domain name is a link that you need to click to reach to your blog website. It is generally in URL form that the user puts in the address bar and usually ends in “.com”. URL should be user-friendly so that people can remember it easily. Finding a unique domain name is quite difficult, so might have to adjust according to the availability of the URL.
4. Search for a Web Host
Apart from the domain name, one also needs a web hosting service and when it comes to blogs, people often prefer WordPress. As of now, WordPress has Bluehost as the most trusted listed web hosting services that support WordPress hosting. If you want to start a free blog, then you can choose free web hosting providers.
5. Set Up Your Blog
The way to set up your blog depends on your web hosting provider and whether you’re using the tools they offer or hiring a web developer. Some features that the WordPress hosting options provide are drag-and-drop and one-click install. After setting up your blog, some other things that should be considered like theme, font, etc.
6. Create a Personalized Email Address for Your Blog
Your custom email address should contain your blog domain in it, as it looks quite professional. It also provides authenticity to your email address. You can use this personalized email address for your blog to notify you about posts, and you can even use that to reply to questions from readers or to communicate with them personally.
7. Social Media Promotion
Promote your posts on famous social media platforms like Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, etc. For this kind of promotion, you have to make social media accounts and then keep posting your blog content regularly.
8. Install Blog Plugins
Plugins make a blogger’s life much easier, as they help your blog look and function. Blog plugins can help to prevent unsolicited mail on your blog, help readers share posts, contact the blog owner for further information about certain blog posts, and many more. There are even some plugins that can help you optimize your blog for SEO so that it can become easier to have a growing audience.
9. Agree on Blog Frequency & Length
One of the most important parts of blogging is that there should be discipline in the posts that you are posting. The length and frequency of posts must be decided before posting blogs so that a regular amount of traffic is generated.
10. Post your First Blog
As you all might have heard, the first impression is the last impression; so now you have to post your first blog and create an ever-lasting good image. You must choose your first blog according to your expertise so that people get engaged with your blog.
As you can see, we have reached our first blog posting, so at last I will conclude by saying that once your blog is started you must keep these two things in mind:-
Marketing: Good marketing is necessary to drive traffic to your website, whether it’s through word of mouth or organic traffic.
Analytics: This will help you know what’s good or bad for your blog and ultimately will be very useful to drive traffic.
