How to Start a WordPress Blog

 

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:

·         First set your mind how you want to generate money from your blog

·         As per your earning plan, find a niche

·         Buy a domain that reflects the niche

·         Buy hosting and setup WordPress

·         Setup theme into WordPress

·         Setup plugins into WordPress

·         Customize theme and plugins to make a beautiful blog

·         Now start publishing your articles to your blog

·         Do social sharing of the blog as much as you can

·         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:

·         Affiliate commission

·         Product review

·         AdSense

·         Sponsored articles

·         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:

·         Keywords Research

·         Quality Articles

·         Optimize URLs

·         Optimize Meta Description

·         Image optimization

·         Create Robots.txt file

·         Create XML sitemap and submit to Google Search Console

·         Load speed optimization

·         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.