Learn the Best Steps to Starting a Successful Blog

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Are you someone who is talented in an area or maybe you have some knowledge of something that you want to share with others. I believe that one of the best ways to share this knowledge is to start a blog. Most people are online looking for information all the time. All you have to do is give them a unique place to look. So, let me show you guys how to do that very thing.

STEPS

Founding Your Niche

Like I was saying in the at the start oof this post. You have to know what you have a passion for or what you are knowledgeable about. See if you can get this part right filling your blog with great content will be easy. Believe me my friends. Do your research on your market as well my friends. know what your readers are going to want to come to your blog and see and learn.

Picking Your Platform

Once you have the first part down. What you will want to do is find a place to put your blog on. You have to find a reliable place to have your blog. Somewhere that will be easy for you to understand how to work. So, do your research on where all the best blogs are at my friends. Thats probably a good place to look.

Found a Domian

You want to pick a domain that will be easy to remember, easy to spell, and that will pop when your readers see it. Make sure it’s something that your readers can relate to as well.

Picking Your Hosting

You also have to pick yourself a reliable hosting platform as well. You want your site to be up when your readers coming looking for your blog. Now you can lose a repeat visitor if they come looking for you and your nowhere to be found.

Now you want to Setup Your Blog

You do this by finding a theme you like for your blog. Most places have free themes to pick from. You want one theme that is mobile friendly as well. Make sure you get all the plugins you will need my friends as well.

Customize Your Blog

Once you have a theme picked out, you’ll want to customize your blog. Because its free your theme is free someone else most likely will have it as well. So, you want to customize yours to stand out from the rest. Add things like a logo, change colors, and change the layout. Make sure your blog is unique from the rest out there.

Plan Out Your Content

What you should be doing is laying out when you want to post. Maybe it’s once a week, 2 times a week, or 6 times a month just get on a schedule. So, your readers will know when to come to your blog. Make sure you place a lot of focus on the value that your content will be bringing your readers.

Promote

How you should go about promoting your blog is by using all of your social media platforms. If you don’t have any now, get some at least for your blog. Start networking with the people who would be interested in your blog. Go online and find out where they are and draw them over to your blog. Or even go to the places they are. If you have a fitness blog, you need to be visiting different gym every week. Getting the word out about your blog.

Monetize

If blogging is something you think you want to do full time and not just for fun. You should think about ways to monetize your blog the best ways possible. the best way to monetize your blog is to offer Products and Services. If your niche is fitness, you can offer your readers meal plans for example. You can use advertising as well. It’s places out there that will pay you to advertise on your blog. You can do sponsored posts for brand and business and get paid for it. Lastly you can also do affiliate marketing for different products and make a commission for it.

Improve

You always want to be trying to improve your site and your content as well. Analyze what your readers are coming to your blog for and give them more of it. See what post they are engaging in the most and write more of that.

Stay Consistent

You want to stay as consistent as possible. By posting on your blog and engaging with your reads in the comments. Even if your blog is not growing as fast as you would like. Just focus on building your blog nice and slow while giving your fans what they want. Be patient it will come.

Bonus – Is Bluehost the best web hosting option?

  Hello, long time no see. Feels like it’s been a month of Sundays since our last post. But we’re back with more great information. As you can tell from the title of the post, we are talking about Bluehost. It’s a hosting company for people who want to start websites. This allows your website to be on different search engines. So, when someone looks up your site they can find it.

Bluehost

  Now is Bluehost the best website hosting option? They answer depends on who you ask. Picking a hosting company is like picking ice cream. You like what you like. It’s really coming down to your needs and wants. You know some companies don’t offer a free domain when you first sign up, but Bluehost do. Some companies don’t offer shared hosting, but Bluehost do. Often companies don’t offer free SSL, but Bluehost do. Some companies don’t offer free CDN but, Bluehost do. They got a money back guarantee policy, so you can feel secure about giving them a try. Not only that but, they’re even teaming up with WordPress stores and websites to give you up 75% off when you sign up with WordPress and use Bluehost to host your site. They even offer professional services that will build your website or store for you! That’s super useful if the whole building website thing is new to you. I know when I first started trying to make a website if was really difficult. So, I went and paid someone to build a few for me and from that I learned so much. I don’t think I would have this site if it wasn’t for that investment. That’s how you have to look at it. If you look at it as an investment, then you’ll see it’s worth it.

  So, is Bluehost the best option? Maybe, depends on what you are trying to do and what you want. So, really only you can answer that question. For myself it’s been great! I would say give it a try but, that’s not how we do here. I encourage you guys to do your own research and come to your own conclusion. Till next time.

Summary

If you follow these steps, I’m sure you guys will get what you are looking for, a successful blog. These are the very steps I’m taking right now. So, keep your head down and work hard until success finds you. Thanks for your time and the visit as well. please come again! Tell your friends about the blog. Let me know in the comments if this post helped you out in any way. Good luck out there!