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Tuesday, December 5, 2017

[Latest] How To Start A Blog With BlueHost In 15 Minutes

Start blogging is a combination of some steps that can be done in less than 15 minutes. Anybody from anywhere can do this easily. I have a greate experience on how to start a blog. I did it within 15 minutes just on my study table. Today, I am telling the experience of mine.
how to start a blog with bluehost
I am a Computer Engineering. So the attraction to computer always on my mind. One day, subconsciously I agreed myself to start a new blog seeing the success of the well known blogger Robin Khokhar (The owner and CEO of Tricky Enough). I thought it wouldn’t be bad for searching a better income source before finishing my education and getting a govt. or high paying private company job. So, I take my laptop and start to see some articles on blog starting process. After sometime, I got the full idea and start to execute. Yes! I made my blog within 15 minutes. And it was on the very popular platform Wordpress and popular hosting provider Bluehost. Here I am going to share my that day’s experience. And I will tell you the secret how I made blog money making. So, Let’s start from some basic idea on important tools.

Blog
Blog is just a like a continues book where you write your thinking on something important to others. Any topic can be selected for a blog. You can write on any. It should be written on a topic in where you are expert.

Wordpress
Wordpress is blogging platform, a content management system that is used by most of the bloggers. It’s vey user friendly and flexible. I personally recommend you to use this awesome tool to crate and maintain your blog.

Bluehost
Bluehost is one of the most hosting service provider in the internet space. It’s user-friendy and trusted. It provides hastle free and better hosting service to their customers. It’s a usa based company. I highly recommend you to use this because of its good service and cheap rate.


Before starting a new blog, have a look on the advantages of having a blog.
  • Huge amount of money making chance
  • Own community building chance
  • Be the followers of others
  • Be your own boss
  • No time maintenance work
  • Forign job getting chance

If you are a student then blogging is very beneficial to you. See the exact reasons about why every student should start a blog.

How To Start A Blog With BlueHost

So, you decided to start a new blog using Wordpress blogging platform on reputed hosting provider Bluehost. Let us divide the full work in some steps.

10 steps to start a new blog
  1. Sign up for Bluehost
  2. Choose domain name
  3. Basic information, Hosting package and Billing method setup
  4. Install wordpress software
  5. Launch the blog
  6. Install theme and essential plugins
  7. Write essential pages (About, Contact, Privacy policy)
  8. Write posts
  9. Money making tips
  10. Some secrets of Blogging to be successful

1. Sign up for Bluehost

The first steps to start a blog is signing up for bluehost. Bluehost charges a cheap rate comparing other hosting service providers and gives a better service than others. So it’s better to use bluehost for hosting a new blog.

First Click On Sign Up for BlueHost.

Then click on “get started now”.

Choose the “basic” plan. As a starting stage to make money, basic plan is the best choice for you. It’s charges low which is perfect for the begineers.
2. Choose domain name

Domain name is the name of your blog. This is the unique address. It’s very important to choose the best domain name for your blog. Try to choose it according to your targeted keyword. So, decide now a targeted keyword by a free tool like Google Keyword Planner, SEMRush or KWFineder. Choose the keyword that has a big amount of search volume and low competition. Main keyword in the domain name will be helpful for your website SEO.


Enter the domain name in the left blank box and choose the (.com) extension. Although it is default setup. Just check it.

3. Basic information, Hosting package and Billing method setup

Basic information
Enter your basic details like Name, Address, ZIP code, Phone no. and Country.


Hosting package
Choose the hosting package you like. If you want to buy the hosting for 36 months then choose it. You’ll see the price along with the package. So, choose one according to your ability. There are some additional services for make your blog more professional. You can use these. In this case, additional charge will be applied.


Billing method
Enter your billing details and setup the billing method. You can pay through Mastercard, Visa and PayPal.

Check the mark in the terms and conditions box. After entering all the details, click on “submit”. After submitting for purchase, you will be welcomed by Bluehost.
Then, you will be asked to choose your password for your bluehost account. Click on “Create your password”.
Choose a secure password. To make your password more secure include special signs and numbers along with the letters. Then click on “Next”.

This time you will see the login page of your bluehost account. Enter your username and password. Then click on “Submit”.

4. Install wordpress software

Click on "cpanel" from the Bluehost dashboard.
Now it’s time to install wordpress software.  Click on “Install Wordpress”.
Then click on “Install” to begin the installing process.
This time you’ll be asked to check your domain name again. Click on “Check Domain”.
A new form will be seen. Fill up the form with required informations. Then mark the terms and condition box and click on “Install Now”.
Note: Please don’t use the email as username because if you do this your email can be hacked by hackers. So use different names and letter in two places.

Your Installing process has been started. You will see the installing page like below.
After completing the installation process, click on “View Credientials”.
In this window, your site details will be seen.

5. Launch the blog

After getting site details, check the mail box again and you will receive login details. Click on the login link or type www.yourdomainname.com/wp-adminin the address bar and then go.

Login page will be appeared. Write the username and password to login to the wordpress dashboard.
This is the wordpress dashboard and your working area. Everything in your blog will be maintained from here.

6. Install theme and essential plugins

So, your land is ready and now you have to customize it to make it fartile for your seeds. You need to make your blog professional looking and beautiful designing. And you need some plugins for additional service. First, install a theme.

Theme installation
To do this, a beautiful and seo responsive theme is needed. Numerious beautiful themes are waiting for making your blog good and responsive which are totally free.  Here download 5 best wordpress themes for free. But if you want you can use the paid themes. Purchase a premium theme here on Mythemeshop for getting better result.
Download a theme from the above two link I provided. Paid theme will be the best but frees are also working enough. So, you have a theme now. The theme file for wordpress will be compressed (ZIP file). Now you are going to upload the theme for setup. Below steps follow to do this.

Go to “Appearance” and then “Themes”.

Here you’ll see many default wordpress themes which are not so professional and good looking. So, Click on “Add New”.

Click on “Upload Theme”. And choose the ZIP file of your downloaded theme. Click on “Install Now”.

Theme installing process will be started and it will end in a few seconds. Click on “Activate” to make it live instantly.

Install plugins
Wordpress is very popular for its plugins advantages. Plugins are very easy to use. Just connect it and use it. If you want to remove one, just delete it in one click. You can deactivate a plugin for temporary if you don’t want to use it for sometime. Have a look on some essential plugins which are must to install.

Akismet: A great plugin to stop spamming on your blog. Some bad minded persons are on online who leave unusual comments on blogs to make their site backlinks. This is spamming. And any kinds of spam is very harmful for a website. So, it is must to stop these works. In this case, akismet is a great plugin for stopping spam comments. Comments will be published only which you will approve. This is a very useful plugin really.

W3 Total Cache: It’s a almost all blogs using plugin which is used to increase site speed. Website speed is a great factor of website’s success. In a survey, it is seen that which blogs are load in a low speed, are losing their traffic day by day. And google also hates these site which are load slowly.

Wordfence Security: It secures wordpress blog. First safety of your blog is your secure password. But if your password is weak, wordfence keeps your blog secure. Hackers are always trying to break your site’s security to hack. So, increase security of your blog using this plugin.

Yoast SEO: The most using plugin in wordpress platform. You know SEO is the base of your audience. How better your website seo, how much traffic you’ll get. So, think about the importance of SEO in blogging. Most of the bloggers use wordpress as blogging platform only for Yoast SEO plugin. Really, it’s true. It helps to do better on site optimization and write seo optimized contents.

Shareaholic: It’s a social share plugin. Sharing is a great tool to increase visitors through social media. It helps to share contents in almost all social media sites like Facebook, Twitter and Linked In.

Now have a look on how you will install a plugin on wordpress.

First go to the “Plugins” menu from the left sidebar. Then click on “Add New”.
Type the plugin name on the search plugins blank box situated in the right. Your expected plugin will be visible if it exists. Choose the plugin and click on “Install Now”.

Then click on “Activate” to start working.

7. Write essential pages

Some pages like (About, Contact, Privacy policy etc.) are very important for a blog. Write these pages before writing contents for your blog. When you will write posts, will be easily ranked and Google adsense will be easily approved if these pages exist on the blog. Try to write these pages. Have a short description of these pages how you’ll write and how?

About Page
About page will contains the description about you, your background, it means everything about you. Write a good article describing your self in this page. You education, your hobby, what you want to do and why you start this blog, everything can be included about you.

Contact Page
Connection is very important for a blogger to be successful. Be connected with your audience. It helps to know your audience’s feedback. You will know the feelings and demands of your audience from which you can get the direction for your future updates. Here provide the email id, facebook page or id, twitter id and others social media you use.

Privacy policy
Your blog should have some privacy policy which makes your readers known about your blog law and what privacy law you use to keep your subscribers data. This is very important to get more subscribers for your blog. It’s not fair to share subscribers email  with anybody. If the readers be satisfied with your blog privacy policy, they will subscribe for your blog without any hesitation.   

8. Write posts

So, you have a land which is prepare for seeds. Articles are like seeds. Posts or articles are main element of a blog. Readers will be here on your blog just for your articles not for seeing your blog design, how’s nice your ads looking. So, make the main reason reasonable for audience to come. Write better contents which must be seo optimized and grammartically true.  Input keywords in your contents. You may know the word and see more about why content is king. To write better contents, see 5 powerful content writing techniques. As much as your blog articles will be catchy and seo optimized, your blog will be easily ranked in google.

9. Money making tips

Money making by blogging is the main goal. It’s easy to make money if a blog is ranked in Google. Audience is the heart of your blog money making capability. So, write better content and increase social media followers to get more visitors a day. When your blog will contain at least 50 post in total and have at least 200 unique visitors a day, then apply for Google Adsense.

Google Adsense is the most popular making money program through blogging. It pays high rate and easy to get the payment. It’s CTR and CPC is also high than other ads companies. Although it quite hard to get a blog approved for Google Adsense, but if you do the same I said 50 posts and 200 unique visitors daily, you must get approved. So, try to make the blog getting visitors first.

10. Some secrets of Blogging to be successful

  • Some secrets are for successful blogging in below in a row.
  • Be patience (At least for 1 years)
  • Write well (around 500 posts)
  • Do better SEO (Off and On Page SEO both)
  • Make followers on social media (As much as you can)
  • Get email subscribers (As much as you can)

    Over to you
    If you like this article, then please share it on Facebook, Twitter and Linked In account. What’s on your mind after reading this article please write in the comment box. Start a blog today, make a huge amount of money and enjoy your life. Best wishes for you!

    Wednesday, November 29, 2017

    Why Every Student Should Start A Blog

    Blogging is just not preferable for making a huge amount of money every month, rather it has many advantages. Each and every student who read in schools, colleges or universities should start a blog for their own advantage. This is the internet era. Now, almost everybody have smartphones, tabs or laptops. A blog can be run using these easy available devices. So, it’s very easy to maintain a blog for students. Creating a new blog is not a rocket science or rising up on the avarest. It’s just few steps.

    start a blog

    Starting a new blog is easy and simple process that can be done in 15 minutes. See step be step here how to start a blog in 15 minutes.

    Why every student should blog regularly

    The benefits of blogging regularly for a student is beyond doubt. Blogging is eual to writing in this article for the students. How much you write, how much you learn! Everyday blogging makes a student perfect in writing. If a student do this regularly, one day he or she becomes a great free hand writer. He becomes efficient. It becomes easy to write on something for him or her. This efficiency helps him or her a lot in exams. Have a look on the benefits of regular blogging for a student. If you are an engineering student, then it is more important to blog. See why every engineer should blog to know the secret reasons.


    #7 Benefits of regular blogging for a student

    Enhance writing quality: The first benefit of regular blogging for a student is, it makes him or her efficient in free hand writing. It helps to correct the grammartical errors. Day by day, the blog writer become advanced in writing. In higher level studies, all the subjects are in English. So, if a student writes posts in English in a blog, he will be able to write perfectly in examination.

    Chance to make money: Most of the blogs are build for the purpose of making money. A huge amount of money can be earned monthly by running a blog. Sometimes a unbelievable amount like $1000/day can be earned! It’s real. Tricky Enough is an example of $100/day earning blog that is run by an Indian student Robin Khokhar. $100/day is really big amount for a running student. If we calculate the monthly amount, it will be approximately $3000/day. This awesome amount is enough to make you happy in any stage of your life. So, start a blog and be happy!

    Grow global connection: Today, the world has become smaller beceuse of technology. So, it is not enough to know only  our native neighbors today. We have to make global relationship. We have to  be connected with people who are in developed countries to be updated with them. A blog can give you the opportunity. If your create a blog and  start writing on it, people from other countries will see it, they will comment and you’ll reply these comments. By this way, you’ll be familiar with them. You’ll get friends and followers.

    Chance to brand yourself: Today, marketing is everywhere. And this is the only term, everybody have to use to survive in the modern time. learn to brand yourself, learn to sell yourself, you’ll be successful. If you have a authority blog, you will be branded. You will be familiar in online. Here is some example who have branded their names by blogging. Robin Khokar (Tricky Enough Blog), Amit Vobani ( Amit Vobani Blog), Harsh Agarwal (ShoutMeLoud Blog) etc.

    Make yourself independent: Students have a chance to be independent running a money making blog. A student can run a blog properly along with study. Make money from your blog and be independnt before getting a job 10am-4pm job. You can do what you want to do along with blogging. Because nobody is your boss in this criteria.

    No time maintainace: Blogging don’t need to time maintainace. Write on your blog, when you get time. Nobody will tell you why you didn’t write today? You can post your articles when you will free from study. During the examination and class time, you can stop blogging. Actually, blogging don’t need huge time. Maximum 2 hours a day is enough to run a blog.

    Chance to get forign job: When you’ll familiar in online through your blog, a lot of chances will knock at the door for giving you a foreign job. Just brand yourself, rank your blog and increase followers in social media. Try to write better in your blog. Obviously, you will get offers for job from developed country clients. Here mind, clients will show your work, not your certificate.

    Over to You


    I think you have got the impotance and advantages of blogging along with studying. If you like this article, please share it on Facebook, Twitter and other social media accounts. Any feed back or question, write in the comment box. I will reply in moments. See how to start a successful blog step by step process.

    Saturday, October 21, 2017

    How to Start a Successful Blog in 2018 [in Just 5 steps]

    How to start a successful blog. This is a blogging time! Yeah, really I’m saying this is the time of blogging. You may find numerous person who take blogging as a career. Even in some cases, some of them do blogging leaving Government job. There are some reasons for this. These reasons will be shared here in below. And lastly, the right way will be seen to start a successful blog in the new year 2018.
    how to start a successful blog

    How to start a successful blog

    Some Reasons to Take Blogging as Career

    ·  Easy creation
    ·  Simple investment
    ·  Huge profit
    ·  Reluxing
    ·  Do how much
    ·  Do where wish
    ·  No boss!



    What does mean by Successful Blog?

    A blog which is earning revenue monthly like a govt. job can be addressed as a successful blog. Numerous ways to make money using a search engine ranked blog. So the first is that you have to create a blog that can be ranked. That means, your blog must have visitors to make it successful.

    So you want to see how to start a blog.

    How to become a Successful Blogger

    How to become a blogger, it is an important question for the newbies! To be a successful blogger you just have to confident and hard working. But this is not for a long process. You just started making money from your blog, then you’ll be hard working blogger automatically. So stay with the work avoiding idleness before the starting period.
    Let’s move on the topic how to start a successful blog.

    Step -1: Topic selction

    To start a successful blog, it is very mandatory task to select a valuable topic you want to write which about in the blog. Numerous topics to write. Here are some in below. Pick one and start blogging.

    Topics
    ·           SEO
    ·         Blogging
    ·         Food
    ·         Affiliate Marketing
    ·         Education
    ·         Travel
    ·         Medicine

    Step -2: Choose platform

    Choose your platform from below one.

    Platforms
    ·         Blogger
    ·         WordPress
    ·         Joomla
    ·         Weebly
    ·         Magento

    There are some well known blogging platforms what are allow us to start a blog on their platforms. Some are free but some are paid. Some of these are Blogger, Wordpress and Hubpages etc. Again wordpress has two platforms for blogging. One is wordpress.com which is free for users and the other is wordpress.org which is paid to use. As you’re going to make money from your blog, it should be professional. So the recommended platform is WordPress. This is the mostly used Content Management System (CMS) worldwide.

    Step - 3: Domain and Hosting Purchase

    Choose your blog name and hosting space and buy it. WordPress shared hosting is so cheap as you need. There are many hosting providers. Some of these are in below.

    Purchase Domain and Hosting
    ·       BlueHost
    ·         HostGator
    ·         LiquidWeb
    ·         iPage
    ·         CrucialHost
    ·         SiteGround
    ·         InMotion

    BlueHost is the best hosting service for you to launch a new blog. It’s cheap, secure, user-friendly and mostly used. So click here to buy BlueHost hosting just at 2.95$/mon. You’ll get a top level domain name free if you buy BlueHost hosting from the link I provided above.

    Step -4: Basic Settings

    Setup the necessary settings shown in below and start writing on the blog.

    Necessary settings
    ·         Upload a theme in WodPress blog
    ·          Install Wordpress Plugins
    ·         Submit a sitemap in Google Webmaster tool
    ·         Submit a sitemap in Bing Webmaster tool


    Step -5 : SEO

    Do SEO for your blog to rank in Google. SEO means Search Engine Optimization. Click on the below link to get full SEO guide and rank your blog.
    SEO

    ·         What is SEO and How to do


    How to start a blog and make money

    Think you just launched your blog and you performed a better SEO for your blog. So your blog has daily traffic. So this is the time to start making money.  If you have more visitors, huge amount of money can be earned. There is many ways to make money from a blog. Some of these are...
    • Advertisement (Google Adsense and others)
    • Affiliate Marketing (Amazon, Hosting Companies and others)

    How to start a blog and get paid


    So you’ve started making money from your blog. Now you want to get paid. This is just and additional task to setup the payment methods in the company in which company ads you are advertising or you are doing affiliate marketing.

    Conclusion

    These 5 tasks shown in the above make you successful in blogging if these can be done perfectly. So what are you waiting for? Start happy blogging.