How to Start a Blog or Website
So you don’t have any ideas where to start your blog or website? Guess what neither did we. We were clueless as well. When
we started a blog few years ago, we had no idea about how to start a blog. We
could hardly spell the word HTML, then let alone build a website. But good news
is that it’s easier than you can imagine.
We’ve learned a lot during the years.
And now we are providing you a chance to learn from our pain and suffering in
order to circumvent the tedium involved in creating a successful blog or
website. Here’s we will explain how you can create a website or blog in simple
and easy to understand words.
Domain and Hosting
The
first thing we had to do was to go to InMotion Hosting and register our domain with
them. We didn’t need to set up a WordPress page. InMotion does that for you.
InMotion’s price is less than $6 a month, which usually works for 99% of people.
Then, we did simple and easy install of WordPress through InMotion and when we had
some questions we had the option to chat with the live chat folks available at InMotion for free help; they pointed us towards
the right direction and made the blog set-up very easy.
Theme
A good theme helps in providing the look and
feel you want for your own blog, allowing to design your blog in the way you
want it to look. If you are not a coder then a theme will help make the design
work a lot easier.
Tinkering
Once we had our domain, WordPress, hosting
and theme in place we spent some time tweaking the theme in order to get the
look and feel we required thus making our vision a reality. Then we spent some more
time tweaking the theme and thus arguing about it and tweaking more.
Plugins
We used only a few plugins on our site like
Google Analytics for WordPress and simple Facebook and Twitter share-button
plugins since many human beings are intrinsically wired to share the value, it
is important to make your posts very easy to share with other people. It takes
just a few seconds literally a few seconds; it is just few clicks of a button
to install once your site is set up.
Content
Lastly through WordPress we started writing
and uploading content for our pages like About Page, Start Here Page, Contact
Page, Events Page, Books Page, Archives Page and many more. Next, we designed
logo using some free images we found online and text through a regular
word-processing program.
Reasons You
Should Blog
The purpose of blogging is not just how to
start a blog. That is what all blogs about blogging seem to miss, they miss the
real purpose the why part.
Reasons You
Should NOT Blog
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Money
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Notoriety
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Traffic
Recommendations
for Your Blog
We receive many emails asking for advice on
how to start a blog. Here we have provided recommendations about your blog.
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Find Your Niche
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Define Your Ideal Readers
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Add Value
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Be Original
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Be Yourself
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Be Honest
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Transparency
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Time
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Vision
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Find Your Voice
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We Instead of You
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When to Post.
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Social Media
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Ignore any Negative
Criticism
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Research.
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Keep It Simple
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Picture
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Comments
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Live Your Life
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