Many people want to start blogging as a profession. In this
article I will describe to you how to start a WordPress blog and consider blogging
as a profession.
Let’s jump into the deep.
Why You Should Choose
WordPress for Start Blogging
WordPress is the most user-friendly CMS platform. You can
easily customize your WordPress theme. You don’t need to be a web developer to customize or design and
develop a WordPress blog. In 2020, 35% of the total blogs are using WordPress CMS. WordPress
blogs are easy to do search engine optimization than any other CMS platforms or
JS websites.
What
Is a Fully Responsive Website? Responsive website design means that
the site is programmed to detect what type of device is being used and to
respond accordingly. The technology behind
it is dazzling. Using a fluid grid design, programmers size the elements in
relative units rather than absolute measures. Web design encompasses
many different skills and disciplines in the production and maintenance
of websites. The different areas of web design include web
graphic design; interface design; authoring, including
standardized code and proprietary software; user experience design; and search engine optimization.
Often many individuals will work in teams covering different aspects of the design process, although some designers will cover them all The term “web
design” is normally used to describe the design process relating to the
front-end (client-side) design of a website including writing markup. Web design partially overlaps web engineering in the broader scope of web development. Web designers are expected to have an
awareness of usability and if their role
involves creating markup then they are also expected to be up to date
with web accessibility guidelines.
Web
designers use a variety of different tools depending on what part of the
production process they are involved in. These tools are updated over time by
newer standards and software but the principles behind them remain the same.
Web designers use both vector and raster graphics editors to create web-formatted
imagery or design prototypes. Technologies used to create websites include W3C
standards like HTML and CSS, which can be hand-coded or generated by WYSIWYG editing software. Other tools web designers might
use include mark up validators.
Web
designers also use premium WordPress themes and temples such as whmcs theme for design and develop a responsive
website.
How to Start a Blog
Many people start a blog but very few are successful. After
one year 60% of blogs are becoming expired. It is only because many of us do
not know how to start a blog that will be successful. Below are the steps you
can follow for starting a blog:
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First set your mind how you want to generate
money from your blog
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As per your earning plan, find a niche
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Buy a domain that reflects the niche
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Buy hosting and setup WordPress
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Setup theme into WordPress
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Setup plugins into WordPress
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Customize theme and plugins to make a beautiful
blog
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Now start publishing your articles to your blog
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Do social sharing of the blog as much as you can
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Do search engine optimization of your blog
How You Want to Generate
Money from Your Blog
Before starting a blog, you must think about earning money from the blog. Because without earning money, your blog will not be successful.
You have to plan and work according to the money generation technique. There are
many ways to earn money from a blog. Here are some examples:
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Affiliate commission
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Product review
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AdSense
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Sponsored articles
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Service selling
Find a Niche as per Your
Earning Plan
Niche choosing is the most important part of starting a
successful blog. Your niche should be low competitive and the highest return.
Example:
If you want to earn money from affiliate programs, you have
to find out a niche that is offering the highest commission and lowest competition.
In affiliate marketing business all the different products and services offered
different types of affiliate commission.
There are many blogs that are earning from products or
services reviews. You can also earn in the same way. In the review blogs, all
reviews can’t earn some money. Some products such as smartphones, cars review
are very high in demand and highly paid.
AdSense is also a very good earning source of blogs. You can
earn $0.01 to $55.00 CPC from AdSense. CPC rate depends on the niche. So, when you
want to earn from AdSense, your niche should be high CPC and low in
competition.
Some blogs earn money from sponsored articles. You can also
earn money from sponsored articles. In this case, the general niche is good.
Service selling blogs are also good to earn money. In this
case, a niche is also a big factor. You have to choose a niche that is low in competition
and high demand.
Buy a Domain That Reflects
the Niche
Now time to buy a domain. Your domain name should reflect
the niche. It will be helpful for getting target traffic to your blog.
Example:
If your blog is about a car, the domain name should contain the “car” word. When your blog is about flooring ideas, it should contain “flooring
ideas” words.
Buy Hosting and Setup
WordPress
There are many famous brands in hosting businesses such as
NameCheap, Bluehost, HostGator, etc. All the hosting providers are offering
very competitive packages. You can go to any of them for buying hosting. As you
are new in the blogging business, you should go to a shared hosting package with
cPanel.
In the cPanel, you can easily install WordPress by following
cPanel guideline. If you can’t install WordPress, you can ask for help from the
hosting provider. They are ready to serve you 24x7.
Setup and Customize
WordPress Theme
Once you have completed the WordPress setup, now time to develop
your blog. You should install a theme to develop a blog. There are thousands of
themes available in the market free and paid both. In the paid theme you will
get some extra facilities that free themes can’t provide. You can find themes
in all niches such as travel theme, fashion and lifestyle theme, beauty care
theme, general theme, business theme, etc. You should choose a theme that
matches your niche.
Install Plugins
Plugins are very important for improving your website
performance, UI, and UX. You can use page builder plugins, forms, pop up, SEO,
social sharing, email subscription, etc. plugins for improving website
performance.
Customize Theme and Plugins
Now time to customize the theme and plugins as you have
installed theme and plugins. You can customize your theme with a page builder as
per your required layout or design. If you use premium themes and plugins, then
you can do more customization, user-friendly UI and UX whatever you want.
Article Publishing
You have already developed your blog. Now time to publish
articles. It is the best practice if you write articles by yourself. When
you are unable to write quality articles, you can hire a ghostwriter. They will
write to you and you will publish the article. Now in the updated WordPress
5.5 Gutenberg, you don’t need to use plugins for article publishing as the
Gutenberg is offering a lot of facilities. Though if you want to use a plugin for
article publishing, you can do.
Quality of Articles
Your articles should be unique and never published before,
grammatical-error-free, and informative. The article's length should be as much
as you can.
Use related image, infographic, video and audio content into
your article.
Do Social Sharing of Your
Blog
Nowadays social media platforms are the best place to
generate traffic. As you are just starting a new blog, you don’t have ranking
keywords as well as organic traffic. In this circumstance, social media can help
you to get the maximum number of traffic. So, start social media bookmarking of
your blogs on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest, etc.
Search Engine Optimization
of Your Blog
All blogs need organic traffic and SEO (search engine optimization) is the one and only way to get organic traffic. SEO can increase your
blog’s trustworthiness and brand value. SEO enjoys the highest sales conversion
rate comparing to other digital marketing strategies. So, it is very important
to do SEO of your blog to earn money from your blog.
You can hire an SEO
expert to optimize your blog or you can do by yourself.
Things to do to Optimize Your Blog
Here are the tricks to optimize your blog:
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Keywords Research
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Quality Articles
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Optimize URLs
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Optimize Meta Description
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Image optimization
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Create Robots.txt file
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Create XML sitemap and submit to Google Search
Console
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Load speed optimization
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Link Building into the High Authority and High
Traffic Sites
End Words
The above steps are all for starting a WordPress blog. You
can also start your own WordPress blog and earn money from the blog.
