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Do you want to start a blog to write or make money? That's the first question you need to ask.

If you are reading this because you are a hobby blogger and need to fulfill your creative writing needs, it is admirable, but this article is not for you.

However, if you want to make real, life-changing money from your blog, read on.

Today I'm going to help you start your blog using the same tactics I used this year to grow from scratch, get out of my full-time job in 6 months, and travel the world.

HOW TO START A BLOG IN 9 SIMPLE STEPS

How to choose your blog niche correctly

Write your goals

Choose a domain name

Choose a web hosting plan and register your domain name

Install WordPress - your blogging platform

Choose the right theme

Install WordPress plugins

Set up your site's SEO and permalink structure

Creating content for your blog

1. HOW TO CHOOSE YOUR BLOG NICHE CORRECTLY.

We all know your blog needs a niche - whether it's marketing, cooking, Crossfit exercises, vegan customs, underwater parkour dancing - anything, there are countless things to blog about.

Most bloggers will tell you to start with something you're passionate about because it will help you "maintain a consistent writing schedule and overcome difficult times when things get tough."

They will also tell you to choose a niche at the intersection of passion, skill, and experience

choose your niche blogging:

However, this model is flawed because it lacks one main component: monetization.

I firmly believe that money drives passion with a blog more than passion drives money. Let's say you take this general advice and choose your blog niche based on passion, skill, and experience.

In this example, your passion is fitness, your skill is helping people lose weight, and your experience is that you're a personal trainer who focuses on high-intensity interval training (HIIT).

Then decide to start a fitness blog specifically designed to help people lose weight with HIIT.

Write 20 blog posts

Embed exercise videos

Create Instagram and YouTube channels

Create a Who I Am page and FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS to tell your story

Add Amazon affiliate links to fitness products

And build your email list with your main magnet: the 25 best HIIT workouts to lose 5 pounds in

7days.

When a user signs up for the email list, they will receive a final email offer on day 7 for free online personal training consultations, with the ultimate goal of turning them into a returning monthly customer.

This all sounds very exciting. However, I can almost certainly guarantee that this blog will fail.

Why?

Monetization was not the #1 priority when choosing this niche: they were passions, skills, and experience.

This niche will take years to monetize. And if monetization takes years, the likelihood of quitting is exponentially higher.

Because that's the myth: it takes years to make money with a blog. There's another problem with this strategy, and it comes from human nature: our desire for meaning.

Imagine writing about something you have been seriously passionate about for months and realize that you have not yet followed, traffic, and not one cent from all your efforts.

Think. Whether an artist, sculptor, graphic designer, director, producer, aspiring Instagram celebrity, or writer, we all want recognition for our work. As social creatures, we need to share the things we create with other people.

Think of a child showing a drawing to one of their parents. Or watching a movie you've already seen with a friend because you want to share it with them. Or seeing your name in the credits. Or finally getting a published book.

We are committed to meaning and purpose in our lives.

I could write about my passions, skills, and experiences for a while, but if I didn't gain readers or make money, I would have left 100% of the time. And that's why 95% of bloggers fail. They start with a passion in mind, but they don't know how to treat it like a business from day one.

They write for years, they run out when they don't see the results, and retire.

Then we'll shoot the script and launch your blog as a business from the start. To do this, we'll choose your ideal niche based on the actual primary factors: audience revenue potential, professional leverage, and keyword search.

Your true ideal niche

1. Public Revenue Potential.

When you start a new blog, the question shouldn't be: What is my niche? But who is my audience and what pain point am I trying to solve?

To offer a valuable product on your blog and make money, you need to solve a sore spot that an audience is willing to spend money on. As a blogger, you need to fully understand your audience's challenges so you can offer them exactly what they want.

And the best place to start is to look at yourself.

Ask yourself, what audience do I belong to?

You are much more likely to understand the struggles of a particular group if you have met them yourself. Take my blog, for example.

When I started this blog, I was a 31-year-old American male working in the tech industry. I was dedicating long hours, sacrificing time with my family and friends, and I was getting stressed and burned out by rat-running. So I created this blog as a means to achieve a goal - a way to earn passive income, escape my 9-5, and regain control of my time - and my life.

So my target audience was people like me:

25-45 yrs.

Working 9-5, but want to escape the rat race

Willing to push and get to work

Intelligent and tech-savvy

Earn passive income through a blog

Understanding your target audience is the first step.

The second (and equally important) step is to understand how much your audience is willing to spend to fix their weaknesses.

This is your audience's earning potential.

It's worth repeating: You need to understand your audience and how much they are willing to spend to solve their weaknesses.

Let's say you start a blog in the home design niche.

Your blog's topics can attract multiple readers, including professional interior designers, college design students, and even home moms who want the latest home decor inspiration.

To monetize a blog in this niche, let's assume That you create a sales funnel:

Write new content to attract an online audience.

Next, build a main magnet for The Home Design to get email opt-ins

Third, give affiliate links to promote home decor brands

Finally, offer a $300 online course titled 10 Experienced Interior Designers Sharing Tips for the Perfect Home.

Nothing wrong with this approach.

In fact, This tends to be a common approach adopted by most bloggers. If you spent a few years creating content and building enough of your email list, I would estimate that in 2-3 years you could start earning passive revenue.

However, if you change just one word in your potential niche, you will increase the income potential of your blog 100 fold.

All you do is change the design for the house in commercial design.

Let me explain.

By adding a B2B component to your blog, you move some of your audience from people to businesses.

Businesses have larger bank accounts and are more likely to pay you without hesitation. While a founder might be more frugal with the business's account, an agent with a budget to spend will not.

The great thing about this approach is that your blog launch and marketing funnels are almost identical for "home design" and "commercial design" niches. With the B2B niche, however, you don't just stop at a $300 rate. You can add the final component of 5-figure online consulting.

Just understanding the audience's weaknesses is not enough.

For 100x your earning potential, a portion of your audience needs to be in a profitable B2B niche and paying for a recurring monthly basis.

To recap, when choosing your niche, instead of worrying about getting thousands of passive, low-value website visitors, focus on closing 2-3 high-value customers.

With this approach, I hope you begin to understand why I truly believe you can earn 10,000 Usd/month in 90 days with a new blog. These new funds will be used to accelerate the path to passive income, but for now, we will leave it to that.

2nd Round your professional leverage.

After discovering a profitable audience to deliver value to, the next step is to discover the strategic advantages you may have over others.

Ask yourself:

What is my current work experience?

What connections do I have in my industry?

Can I leverage that experience into a profitable blog?

If I could suggest a site in the world to contribute with a guest post, who would choose me from the start?

To create a highly successful blog, you must first create influence. And to create influence, you must get out of your comfort zone and leverage your connections, your professional experience, and everything you have at your disposal like never before.

With a blog, you also do a lot of outreach to create new connections. This includes creating relationships so you can post on authoritative sites in your niche to get relevant, High Domain Authority (DA) backlinks for SEO.

And if you're just starting out, you may not have many connections or content posted there. You might say, "Why would anyone want to introduce me?"

This is where using your professional background helps tremendously.

For example, if you're a photographer, you may have a client base, contacts from local meeting groups, and even learn more about photography influencers you've met in the past. If you can leverage these contacts in the future, you can accelerate the growth of your blog.

Take advantage of all the benefits that are available to you.

3rd Round keyword search.

For me, keyword search is the most important step in choosing your blog niche.

It is very simple. Are people searching for the things you want to write about?

In fact. You need to become an expert in the keyword search and search engine optimization (SEO) so that your blog can position itself on Google.

Why? people search Google 63,000 times per second. That's 3.8 million searches per minute, 228 million searches per hour, and 5.6 billion searches per day. There are many opportunities out there - you just have to know how to find them.

Another piece of good news is that there are SEO tools to help you understand all this search data. With tools like SEMRush and Ahrefs, you can view individual keyword metrics, including:

Monthly search volume: how many times a keyword is searched in a given month.

Keyword difficulty: On a scale of 0 to 100, how difficult it is to Google for that keyword based on the competition

Average cost per click (CPC): this is what the keyword is worth if you were to create a Google PPC ad for it and pay for the click. It is a good indicator of keyword value

So what are you looking for?

You want to search keywords with high volume and low parallelism.This is how I evaluate these competitive metrics.

Monthly search volume:

0-1,000: low

1,000-5,000: Low / Medium

5.000-20.000: Average

20.000-100.000: high

100.000+: very high

Keyword difficulty:

0-20: Bass

21-50: medium

51-75: high

76+: very high

On my website, there are two main keyword types that I target for SEO: super high volume/high competition and medium volume, low competition.

1. KEY FACTORS: AVERAGE VOLUME, LOW COMPETITION, HIGH CPC KEYWORDS

The first keywords new bloggers should look for are mid-volume keywords and low competition.

For example, let's take a look at my webinar software post.

Target keyword: webinar software

Monthly search volume: 4,300

Keyword difficulty: 22

Average CPC: $25.00

4,300 is not a very high monthly search volume, but since site 1 gets over 33% of the traffic, I could expect to get 1,419 visitors/month on my blog for site one for this term.

Also, with a low keyword difficulty score of 22, this term should be relatively easy to rank for (in fact, I only made it to page 1 a few days after publishing the blog post).

Finally, with an average CPC of $25, it's a valuable and intentional search term.

A quick side note on keyword search volume: while keyword webinar software gets 4,300 searches per month, there are thousands of potential variations of this keyword, such as best webinar software, webinar tools, webinar platforms, etc. This post can also be classified for all these variations, so I usually double or even triple my volume estimates based on the main target keyword.

Pro-Tip: With Ahrefs also ranked by the report, you can find keywords that also have the highest-scoring pages for the target keyword in the top 100 search results. This way you can find less obvious keywords that you can also include in the copy and subtitle of your post.

The key to finding relevant keywords from this report to use for your blog is to search with more specific queries. For example, instead of "cooking," use "vegan recipes." Or "email marketing services" instead of "marketing."

This is how you find this type of keyword for your blog: Use an SEO tool like Ahrefs and filter the results. Set the monthly search volume filter to a minimum of 1,000 and the keyword difficulty filter to a maximum of 10.

What these keywords are for: These keywords should make up most of your posts and be the main revenue drivers for your blog. The key is to find a good set of long-tail keywords with medium volume and low competition in your niche. If these keywords are prefixed with terms like "like" and "better," you're on your way to finding a profitable niche and fixing a sore spot.

2nd Round BLOG BUILDERS: SUPER HIGH VOLUME KEYWORDS / HIGH COMPETITION.

The second type of keywords I'm targeting are very high volume terms that aren't as easy to monetize but can bring in a lot of traffic.

Take for example my post How to make money online.

Target keyword: How to make money online.

Monthly search volume: 103,000

Keyword difficulty: 55

Average CPC: $2.00

After all, with an average CPC of $25, this is a valuable and deliberate search term.

A quick note on keyword search volume: while the Keyword webinar receives 4300 search queries per month, there are thousands of potential variations of this keyword, such as best webinar software, webinar tools, webinar platforms, etc. also be ranked for all of these variations, so I'm doubling, if not tripling, my volume estimates based on the primary target keyword.

Pro tip: With Ahr efs also ranked by ratio, you can find the keywords that also have the highest-scoring pages for the target keyword in the top 100 search results. This way you can find less obvious keywords that you are also in the copy Can include and subtitle your contribution.

The key to finding relevant keywords in this report to use for your blog is to search with more specific queries. For example, instead of "cooking" use "vegan recipes". Or "Email Marketing Services" instead of "Marketing."

How to find this type of keyword for your blog: use an SEO tool like Ahrefs and filter the results; set the monthly search volume filter to at least 1000 and the keyword difficulty filter to a maximum of 10.

What these keywords are for: these keywords should make up the majority of your articles and be the main drivers of sales for your blog. The key is to find a good amount of medium volume, low competition, long-tail keywords in your niche. If these keywords are terms like "how to" and "better" that are prefixed, you are on the right track to finding a profitable niche and fixing a pain point.

2. BLOG BUILDERS: VERY HIGH VOLUME/HIGH COMPETITION KEYWORDS

The second type of keywords I target is very high volume terms that are not easy to monetize but can generate a lot of traffic.

Take, for example, my article How to make money online.

Target keyword: how to make money online

Monthly search volume: 103000

Keyword difficulty: 55

Average CPC: $2.00

First, this keyword has a volume 25 times greater than webinar software. With high volume and all possible keyword variations, ranking in the top 5 sites for this term could result in 30-65,000 visitors/month.

However, this keyword also has lower search intent than webinar software. With webinar software, we know exactly what the researcher is looking for. With how to make money online, this user could be interested in anything from starting an online business to podcasting or clipping coupons - we just don't know.

That's why its average CPC is only $2.00 - it's vague and harder to monetize.

Here's how to find this type of keyword for your blog: Use an SEO tool like Ahrefs and filter the results. Set the monthly search volume filter to a minimum of 20,000 and the keyword difficulty filter to a maximum of 75.

What these keywords are for: These keywords should be blog posts from 5-10 columns in which you devote a lot of time and effort. Although these high-volume keywords do not generate immediate revenue, they bring a lot of traffic to your blog and can increase the size of your email list.

3rd SUMMARY KEYWORD SEARCH.

A blog needs a mix of high volume/high competition keywords and average volume, low competition.

Here are some of the tools you can use to search for keywords:

Semrush

Ahrefs

Google Keyword Planner

FINALLY, CHOOSE YOUR NICHE.

After searching for keywords, discovering a profitable and planned target audience, how professional connections can be used, it's time to get to work.

Let's start planning your new blog.

Round 2 NOTE YOUR GOALS.

This definitely applies when you are starting a new blog. After you have decided on your niche, you need a way to keep track of everything - not only your activities and your ideas about content but also your goals, ideas, and motivations.

The key at this stage is not to overcomplicate things.

When I started this blog, I tracked everything in a simple Google Docs file.

It's time to think big and write down what you want to accomplish with your blog in the short and long term. These should be SMART goals: specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and timely.

YOUR BLOG PROFILE.

You need a place to track your random ideas and unique outlets to refine your messages over time.

Sections here can be:

Your unique value per proposal

Title and subtitle of your blog

What is the problem you are solving?

The "elevator pitch" of your blog - in 1-2 sentences, how would you easily explain your blog to a stranger?

Your ideal customers

What are the main categories for your blog?

Future content ideas with target keywords and search volume.

That's all. The key is to make this a living document and update it as you see fit.

To plan a blog, set some simple goals and write things down to better refine your blog message and understand who your target audience is.

3rd Round CHOOSE A DOMAIN NAME.

In the past, I have spent too much time on this step. I have been scouring GoDaddy for weeks trying to find the dot com domain name that is catchy, niche-specific, short, and memorable.

While this step is important, it's probably not as important as you think.

In the past, you could get keyword domain names that matched cuttingboards.com exactly to position yourself on Google. Today, it's much more difficult.

While the general advice is to "niche down" and choose an ultra-specific domain name, I recommend choosing a domain name that is broad enough for you to rotate as needed.

If your attention is too narrow and you suddenly lose your passion for your niche or run out of ideas on topics, you'll be stuck with your new domain. However, if you broaden your attention a bit, you can expand your content and have enough fluidity to maintain consistency and avoid quitting.

In the past, I tried to start online businesses and chose ultra-specific domain names. When I didn't find immediate success, I got discouraged and thought, "Well, maybe this niche isn't for me. I should stop and try something else. "

Here's what you should do instead: Choose a bigger domain name and worry about being specific in your posts and pages.

Here are some other things to consider before choosing a domain name.

1. DOMAIN NAME PRICE.

You will need to purchase your blog's domain name from a domain registration company. It should cost about $10 per year. If you start with Dem Bluehost web hosting, you will get a free domain name for the first year.

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That said, some high-value domains can get you as high as 10,000 to 1 MM depending on perceived value.

2. round YOUR PERSONAL NAME AS DOMAIN NAME?

Many people prefer to use their name for their blogs (like yours really here). Personal domain names are more flexible than those based on a specific niche. Many times, bloggers need to change the name of their blog based on the changing scenario of their blog niche.

However, if your name is your domain, you don't need to change it if you want to add more verticals to your niche.

3rd Round DOMAIN EXTENSIONS.

Domain names have several extensions: .com, .us, .guru, .sport, .com, etc.

.us represents the United States, .guru is used for coaching blogs, and .sports is used for sports blogs.

However, .com is the most comprehensive top-level domain and is mostly preferred by Google and other search engines.

Thus, Internet users perceive some of the top-level domains in terms of reliability on a scale of 1 to 5:

OTHER THINGS TO CONSIDER WHEN A DOMAIN NAME:

Your domain name should not be too difficult and complex. It should be easy to remember and type. Therefore, a dot com extension is an excellent option.

Do not confuse The People with a difficult spelling and therefore keep the name that is easy to pronounce and pronounce.

Avoid using numbers and hyphens in your domain as it confuses people.

Try to embed a keyword that best represents your blog if possible. It is not that important to have a keyword in your blog name, but it might help people immediately identify your blog niche. In addition, it also helps search engine spiders determine what your blog is about.

Check out the tools mentioned in this article to generate your domain - 27 Best Generator.

If your preferred domain name is not available, most of the tools mentioned in this article will give you alternative tips.

4th Place CHOOSE A WEB HOSTING COMPANY AND REGISTER YOUR DOMAIN NAME.

Every website needs a web host to store it on a server so that users can access it on the Internet. Of course, without a hosting account, your blog will not be visible on the Internet.

The performance of your blog depends greatly on your web hosting provider. An excellent hosting platform will make your blog available on the Internet 24/7 without any interruptions.

You need to choose a reliable, popular, and affordable host. In the initial stage of your blog, you don't need to purchase additional offers.

At this stage, the best option is the beginner hosting plan. But even if you plan to downsize your blog, Bluehost is an ideal option.

Therefore:

Server uptime at 99%.

The company takes excellent security measures

High-speed server

They have a great name in the industry

Easy-to-use dashboard, useful for beginners

Numerous hosting options to choose from

24/7 customer support

Free SSL certificate

Simple cPanel dashboard

Install WordPress with 1 click

Recommended by WordPress itself

Low introductory prices

Satisfied or refunded

I know it's a lot to take in!

And to say, it was just a brief review of Bluehost.

You can also go to my detailed Bluehost review below:

Bluehost: Evaluation of Low-Price Internet Website Hosting

Next, register your domain name with Bluehost and choose a web hosting plan that best suits their expectations.

Follow this step-by-step guide to register your domain name along with your web hosting plan with Bluehost:

STEP NO. 1 VISIT BLUEHOST.COM.

Click on the "Get Started" button on the home page.

How to start a blog - Bluehost

STEP #2 CHOOSE YOUR WEB HOSTING PLAN.

On the next page, you will see four shared hosting plans.

These plans include Basic, Plus, Choice Plus, and Pro.

While all of these shared hosting plans are perfect for a new blog, I would personally recommend opting for the Basic plan.

To take it a step further, the Choice Plus plan offers The Domain Privacy, which helps you protect your data and safeguard all your confidential information, including full name, email address, residence address, and phone number.

STEP NO. 3 ENTER THE DOMAIN NAME.

So, you have already selected your domain name (as indicated in the second step).

Now that you have selected your hosting plan, you will be redirected to a new page where you will be asked to enter your domain name.

To start a blog - Bluehost domain name.

If you have already selected your domain name, you can register your domain name here. The best part is that with Bluehost, you will get your domain name for free for the first year.

If you are still confused and need more time to find a more eye-catching name, you can always choose your domain later.

How to start a blog - domain name

After that, you will be prompted to create your account with Bluehost, the last step of the process.

STEP #4 ENTER YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION.

Here are the "account information" details you should enter to create your account.

How to start a blog - About Bluehost account.

Be sure to enter the correct details, including first and last name, company name, country, address, and more.

If you scroll down, you will see the "Package Information" section.

Includes choices for how long you want to sign up for the plan and how much advance you are willing to pay.

How to start a blog: About the Bluehost package.

It allows you to prepay 12, 24, 36, or 60 months and offers attractive pricing for longer prepayments.If you are sure you will be running your blog for a long time, I would say to choose the "Prime Price 36 months" to get the lowest possible price.

On the screen above you have another section called "Extra of the Package".

You can delete Codeguard Basic and SiteLock Security.

Finally, select a payment option. you can choose to pay by credit card or PayPal.

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STEP #5 YOU HAVE SUCCESSFULLY REGISTERED YOUR DOMAIN NAME AND HOSTING PLAN.

Congratulations: you have set up your hosting for the first time.

Now you are registered with Bluehost, which means you have completed an important first step.

How to start a blog - Bluehost

STEP 6 CREATE YOUR ACCOUNT AND SET A PASSWORD.

Now you need to enter your domain name and create a password for your Bluehost account. The password for your WordPress blog will come later via email.

How to start a blog - Bluehost sets a password

STEP #7 FINALLY, SIGN IN TO BLUEHOST.

Use the password you just set to sign in to your Bluehost account. You can also sign in to Google.

How to start a blog - Bluehost access

5th Place INSTALL WORDPRESS AS A BLOG CONTENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM (CMS)

After you have passed the first stage of blog planning and web hosting selection, the next step is to choose a perfect blogging platform.

On your blogging platform, which is also called a content management system (CMS), you will write, customize and post your blog posts. Of course, you need something easy to use, powerful and convenient.

Check out some of the best blogging platforms: How to start a blog: The Best Blogging Platforms

Most people run their blogs on WordPress, which results from the above statistics. Not only is it easy to use, but it is extremely powerful.

WordPress also offers more free plugins, themes, and different ways to edit your blog.

The best part is that you don't even have to have a technical bone in your body. You can practically install it in a few steps.

If you use Bluehost, it gets even better as it offers 1-click WordPress installation.

However, before you choose WordPress as your preferred CMS, you have two options: WordPress.com and WordPress.org to choose from.

WORDPRESS.COM VS. WORDPRESS.ORG - WHICH ONE SHOULD YOU CHOOSE?

Here are some of the common WordPress.com and WordPress.org:

A blog is an extension of your personal brand and needs to be something you own directly. You should not rely on a subdomain or blog site like Tumblr to host your personal blog.

WordPress.com has minimal options and does not allow you to change settings or choose a custom domain name. (Example: yoursite.wordpress.com). If you want to use a custom domain name, you will have to pay an additional amount.

It also comes with limited monetization, SEO, and analytics options. Also, with WordPress.com, you cannot upload plugins and themes outside of WordPress.

WordPress.org, on the other hand, gives you complete freedom to download plugins and themes from different platforms, customize your blog design, monetize your blog efforts, and more.

Of course, WordPress.org is suggested when it comes to starting a blog created for long-term success.

With Bluehost, you can install WordPress and run your blog in minutes.

INSTALL WORDPRESS WITH BLUEHOST'S ONE-CLICK INSTALLATION PROCESS.

Bluehost installs WordPress automatically with no effort on its part.

After you set your account password for Bluehost, you will be prompted to select some themes.

You will get many interesting free WordPress themes to choose from, including free blog themes.

However, if you want to choose the theme later, you can skip this step for now by clicking the "Skip this step" option at the bottom of the page.

How to start a blog - Bluehost WordPress

From here, you will be redirected to a new page where you need to click on the "Start building" option.

How to start a blog - WordPress

Next, choose the type of website you want to create, and WordPress can help you with that.

How to start a blog - welcome to WordPress.

Finally, enter the "site title" and the "site description".

This is how to start a blog: Start your website with WordPress

From here you will be redirected to a page where you decide on the layout of your blog.

How to start a blog - Final WordPress launch.

This doesn't even begin to cover WordPress customization capabilities. This does, however, prepare the foundation of your blog.

From here, spend some time getting familiar with all the features of your new WordPress blog. Be sure to try out all the features and play with different themes to choose the one that best suits their needs.

This brings us to the next step.

6th Place CHOOSE YOUR BLOG TOPIC.

Now that you have a fully functional blog, you need to choose your WordPress theme.

Right now, your blog will look like this:

how to start a blog - WordPress themes is the default WordPress theme and on the page, there is the menu that will help you customize the theme.

Although it is not the most elegant theme out there, it is still viable. Of course, we can make it much better.

Giving your blog an attractive look without indulging in a coding exercise is important for any new blogger.

In addition, it is important to create a look that is practical and captivating.

Of course, blogs designed to make it easier for visitors to get information to tend to get maximum traction.

Blogs and websites designed with bulky, poorly organized layouts create difficulty finding information for readers.

WordPress is integrated with numerous free and paid themes from which you can choose. You would be surprised to hear that WordPress offers more than 3,000 themes for free to its users.

So, as a new blogger, you don't necessarily need to spend more money to install a paid theme.

INSTALL A NEW THEME FOR YOUR BLOG.

Here's how to install a new theme for your WordPress blog:

First, log in to your WordPress account (admin page).

Go to the page by typing tuodominioname.com/wp-admin.

This is where you add your WordPress credentials.

The WordPress dashboard will look like this.

This is how you start a blog: WordPress Dashboard

At first glance, it may seem scary, but in the end, you will get used to it. Remember, you will spend a lot of time here.

Here you need to click on the "Appearance" option in the sidebar menu.

Next, select the "Themes" option in the "Appearance" section.

How to start a blog - theme

To look for WordPress options, click on the "Add New" button at the top of the page.

Here's how to start a blog: Adding a new theme

As you can see below, you now have access to thousands of imaginative WordPress themes that are completely free.

How to start a blog - WordPress themes

You can scroll down and preview as many themes as you like before choosing one for your blog.

You can also filter themes by three categories: "Subject", "Features" and "Layout".

Here's what the filter option looks like:

after this is how you start a blog: Filtering Topics After you apply the filters, you can narrow down the options according to your preferences.

Click on the thumbnails to get an instant preview of what your final blog will look like.

If you like a particular theme, you can click the "Install" button.

Also, if you have purchased a paid theme from another website, this will come to you as a ZIP file. All you need to do to install this theme is to click "Add New", upload the ZIP file and click Install.

Congratulations, you now have a WordPress website with a new theme installed.

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TIPS TO CHOOSE THE RIGHT THEME.

Read descriptions of different WordPress themes to get an idea of their features and functions. This will help you get an idea of whether the theme will be compatible with your niche or not.

Choose a responsive design that works well on desktop and mobile devices. This will make your blog easier to manage and allow you to get strong traffic.

WordPress also allows users to assign votes to their themes; then, be sure to check ratings and reviews to see the quality of the theme.

Before installing a theme, be sure to check its demo or preview to know how it looks in real time.

The best thing about the theme is that you can change it whenever you want without interrupting your content.

You can also install a large number of WordPress themes from other popular websites, like:

Themeforest.

Studiopress.

Thrive Themes.

Item no.

Elegant themes.

CSS Igniter.

FREE, PREMIUM, AND PERSONALIZED THEMES.

There are many free blog themes available on WordPress and other websites. However, sometimes they are not enough to meet users' needs and offer limited options.

That said, as a new blogger, you can start your blog with a free theme and switch to a more personalized option. As long as it loads quickly and allows you to publish content, there's no reason not to just get started right away and worry about your perfect design later.

Premium themes mainly come in the price range of $30 to $500.Custom themes are designed according to the design needs specifically for the website or blog owner. Therefore, these themes are expensive and can range from $500 to $2000 depending on the needs of the users.

7. CREATE PILLAR CONTENT FOR YOUR BLOG.

Once you have completed your blog framework, it's time to create content.

The world is your oyster. However, you need to keep writing content in your chosen niche, keeping your target audience in mind.

If you write great content that your target audience wants to read, they will likely keep coming back to your blog.

You need to carefully understand and write down the topics of your new blog posts and the right way or format.

Remember that blog posts with audio, video, photos, and other types of visual content as well as text content do their best.

According to statistics, global internet traffic through video will account for 82% of all consumer internet traffic by 2021.

All these additions to a blog make it more readable and help readers pay more attention to your content.

Moreover, it is important to write engaging content that will allow you to attract visitors and compel them to take appropriate actions on your blog.

Even if you create a well-structured and well-designed blog post, it won't get off the ground if your content isn't engaging and valuable to your target audience.

Before you create content for your blog, make sure you put yourself in your readers' shoes and ask

yourself these relevant questions:

What would excite and intrigue my potential readers?

What are the common challenges my reader faces and how can I address them through my blog?

What are the underlying character traits of my target audience?

What would my readers in my niche love most?

What would my readers in my niche hate the most?

Below are all the answers to the above questions. It will help you come up with great blog post ideas that will attract your audience and turn them into lasting readers.

IMPORTANT CONTENT WRITING TIPS.

Write content for your niche blog by understanding the choice of audience potential. Your blog posts should always provide value to your readers. Get a clear idea of the content (based on the above questions) and note down the points you want to deal with. Finally, structure your entire blog post based on predefined points.

Present your blog content attractively and make it easily accessible to readers. Make sure that the text and visual content in the blog is of the highest quality.

Never make your content commercially focused as it irritates readers. Blogs that are loaded with too many promotional and advertising links seem to be unattractive to most people. Your target audience will interact with your blog only if you provide them with valuable content.

A QUICK CHECKLIST TO CONSIDER YOUR BLOG POSTS BEFORE WRITING.

Make your blog post conversational so it connects with your audience

Make sure your content flows naturally

Leave out a lot of space to make it easier to see

Add bullet points to help readers browse the blog without losing anything critical

Use the appropriate H2, H3, and H4 headers

Check for typos and grammatical errors

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Bluehost: Evaluation of Low-Price Internet Website Hosting

Bluehost: evaluation of Low-price internet website hosting

There are heaps of internet website hosting corporations today, with greater or less similar functions and offerings. it's no longer clean to locate the most appropriate solution in your commercial enterprise. Among these hosts, Bluehost is one of the most famous. it's also one of the 3 hosts inside the global officially recommended via WordPress.

that is already a terrific indicator of Bluehost's credibility, if now not an absolute assurance of the quality of this host.

what's the starting place of Bluehost?

Bluehost was launched in 2003 by way of Matt Heaton and Danny Ashworth, in Provo, Utah (united states of America).

In a little extra than 15 years, the business enterprise has ended up the legit host of 2 million domain names, that is to say as many websites of all kinds (blogs, e-commerce websites, and many others.).

Bluehost become sold in 2010 via the effective conglomerate staying power worldwide group (EIG), which has for the reason that made this hosting enterprise its figurehead. That failed to stop EIG from shedding 440 Bluehost employees in 2017, extra than a third of the host's total team of workers.

What are the principle offerings available on Bluehost?

Bluehost gives a various website hosting solutions including :

a shared hosting mode ;

virtual private servers (VPS) ;

committed servers;

Optimized hosting for WordPress;

website hosting for the WooCommerce extension used under WordPress.

Bluehost shared hosting for small budgets

that is indeed the most inexpensive solution supplied through Bluehost and lets you manipulate an internet site extra effortlessly.

If the fundamental subscription will restrict you a lot in terms of functionalities (storage capability restrained to 50GB, the possibility to host simplest one website, and so forth.), the alternative subscription formulas in a shared website hosting may be worth it.

this may be thrilling if you need to switch to a greater whole hosting solution. you may haven't any limits for storage, the wide variety of sites to host, or even for the domain names to acquire.

With Bluehost shared website hosting solutions, bandwidth is always unlimited.

Bluehost's virtual private servers

A VPS gives greater flexibility and safety to internet site owners. The virtual private servers advanced with the aid of Bluehost should also assure greater stability and the most advantageous performance of your website.

that is why Bluehost VPS consist of, depending on the subscription selected :

a processor with two or 4 cores;

from four GB to sixteen GB of RAM;

1 to three TB of bandwidth;

incorporated SiteLock safety to better secure your data.

Bluehost's dedicated servers

Bluehost offers several dedicated web hosting alternatives, primarily based on OpenStack technology. those servers are nevertheless substantially extra luxurious than VPSs, however, the performance and functions are of a distinctive caliber.

in particular, with Bluehost's dedicated servers you can benefit from a four-middle processor with a frequency starting from 2.3 GHz to 3.3 GHz (premium subscription) or from 5 to 15 TB of bandwidth.

you will be able to host up to five dedicated IP addresses and additionally take benefit of a maximum of 1 TB of storage space, using a RAID hard disk (disk mirroring).

It needs to also be cited that each server is provisioned immediately and may be upgraded at any time with some clicks.

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Optimized solutions for the WordPress CMS

based on their VPS solution, Bluehost's managed WordPress website hosting ensures a brief and automatic installation of the latest model of WordPress.

that is the least you may anticipate, as well as automatic CMS updates and the capability to pick out your WordPress internet site subject matter from a pre-described choice (a function that truly comes directly from the CMS, now not from Bluehost).

you may also be capable of taking gain of the Microsoft 365 commercial enterprise fundamental tool to be able to have a professional email account bearing your domain name.

The Bluehost provider committed to WooCommerce

in case you are into e-commerce, you'll be the use of WooCommerce, the flexible and open supply solution built on WordPress. you might then want optimized hosting and that is what Bluehost gives.

with the purpose to be able to be given payments and guarantee the safety of transactions, you may have a free SSL certificate and a dedicated IP address. The storage ability is at least a hundred GB.

Domain management with Bluehost

The company obviously has a management carrier committed to domains. furthermore, by using subscribing to certainly one of Bluehost's offers, you may be capable of benefit from a free domain name for one year.

in addition to the purchase of domains, Bluehost enables domain transfers, their follow-up, and their administration in a worldwide way (automated renewal, protection towards any chance of unauthorized transfers, and so on.).

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What functions does Bluehost provide?

a few of the most critical capabilities of the host, we can mention the presence of a content delivery community, in charge of improving the availability and the loading speed of your website.

Bluehost has an entire protection and firewall system, in addition to included anti-spam solutions consisting of spam Hammer.

Bluehost additionally has an application dashboard that lets you integrate diverse offerings such as Google Apps and CloudFlare at once into the cPanel.

each account hosted on Bluehost may be subsidized up every day, weekly, or monthly. This guarantees that your site can be restored on the occasion of a major breakdown.

different functions are present on Bluehost, including the Hotlink safety that lets you block different websites wishing to apply your documents (especially pics) or the possibility to create a blacklist of unwanted IP addresses.

the way to enroll in one of the Bluehost solutions?

let's take the case of a subscription to Bluehost VPS. You need to first pick out the method you want the various three proposals (standard, enhanced, ultimate) after which define your domain name. in case you already have one, you may of course specify it. note that the choice of the domain may be performed after your subscription.

you'll then arrive at the page where you'll have to create your Bluehost account. you'll specify your whole personal details after which choose the length of the subscription.

Bluehost routinely selects a subscription with the purpose to last 36 months (three years) but you may also have the option of taking a 1 month, 3 months, 6 months, 12 months, or 24 months subscription. With a 36-month plan, the monthly payment is 50% much less than with a 1 to 6-month subscription.

you will be able to upload some paid extras to the order, consisting of CodeGuard and Bluehost search engine optimization tools services, and then you will simply pay for Bluehost's services.

If it looks like the company best accepts credit card payments, you'll be able to pay thru PayPal; simply click on "more payment alternatives".

How much do Bluehost Packages cost?

each form of hosting available on Bluehost is obtainable in one-of-a-kind packages, normally 3 in variety: basic, intermediate, and premium (and now and again professional).

The expenses will range relying on the package chosen and the period of the subscription. by means of default, the costs indicated are always for 3-12 months subscriptions.

as an instance, Bluehost's VPS website hosting can fee from €17.95/month ("standard" package) to €53.88/month ("ultimate" package deal). The dedicated website hosting solution is charged from 71.84€/month to 107.76€/month.

however, the shared web hosting model is much more accessible and will fee you only from three,55€/month to six,24€/month, relying on the selected method.

Please notice that each one of those expenses is presented without VAT.

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What are the strengths of Bluehost?

The hosting answers designed by using Bluehost each have some advantages. We could summarize them via talking about :

the presence of large storage space for all subscription applications ;

the opportunity to gain from unlimited bandwidth with sure solutions;

the appealing fees of shared web hosting;

a free domain name for the primary year.

on the other hand, Bluehost might be the most recommended host if you want to set up a WordPress website readily.

Does this website hosting platform have any shortcomings?

We ought to not only praise Bluehost but however also make some criticisms about this web hosting company. We should point out in particular :

the first-class of the speed and the reaction of their servers (a Time to first byte globally average);

their customer support is not usually as much as a scratch and is strongly criticized by many customers;

Bluehost does no longer offers free site migration, unlike a lot of its competitors.

What to think about Bluehost ultimately?

depending on your desires, Bluehost may be the proper host for you, mainly if you choose shared hosting.

The presence of additional protection options (SSL certificate, anti-spam solutions, and many others.) remains the least of it. The interfaces are pretty intuitive, specifically on the subject of configuring your WordPress website online, and the presence of some advanced capabilities is quite beneficial.

So in case you're seeking out an efficient host, authorized for 15 years by using WordPress, do not hesitate to try one among Bluehost's solutions, understanding that you can get a complete refund if you cancel within 30 days of subscription!

Get started with Bluehost

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