- If you want to get rid of 8 to 5 job and live boss free life - financial freedom.
- If you want to earn a passive income. Passive income is a money which you earn despite not working on daily basis or in other words an income which requires very little effort to maintain.
- If you want to work from anywhere without any location, time or travel restriction.
- If you want recognition and fame.
WordPress is the most popular content management system, a robust free-tool to create and manage websites and blogs. According to an estimate 38% to 40% websites on the internet are powered by WordPress.
- Choose A Blogging Niche
- Choose A Blogging Platform - Why WordPress?
- What Is Domain & Web Hosting
- How To Buy Domain & Web Hosting
- How To Install WordPress
- How To Install WordPress Theme
- How To Create Your First Blog Post
- How To Write An Ideal Blog Post
- How To Grow Blog Traffic
- How To Earn Money From Blog / Blog Monetization
- How Long It Takes To Get Traffic & Earn An Income - Timeline
- Important & Helpful WordPress Tutorials
01. Choose A Blogging Niche
- Your blog is ranked higher in search engines(Google, Bing, etc).
- You get a uniform traffic relevant to your niche.
- It builds trust among your blog visitors that you have got a command and knowledge over your content.
- People are inclined to buy the products or services that you recommend because of the trust that it builds, which ultimately results in making more money.
02. Choose A Blogging Platform
- There are thousands of themes and plugins for any type of website i.e personal, eCommerce, News & Magazine, blog, portfolio, etc.
- WordPress is free and open source means you can customize anything in WordPress like code, functions, themes & plugins, according to your requirements.
03. What Is Domain & Web Hosting
How to Choose a Domain?
Choosing a right domain name is very important for your blog. Often people get confused when it comes to choosing a domain name. So for your help, here are some recommendations to how to choose a right domain name:- It should be easy to pronounce.
- It should be easy to remember.
- It should be easy to type.
- It should be brandable.
- It shouldn't be too long.
- Choose the popular domain extensions like ".com", ".net", ".org".
- Avoid hyphens and numbers.
- Consider using a keyword that reflects your website.
- If you want to create a personal blog you can use your own name as well.
Web Hosting
04. How To Buy Domain & Web Hosting
- Go to official website of HostGator.
- Choose your hosting plan by clicking the "Buy now".
- Enter the name of your desired domain and choose an extension like ".com", ".net", ".online", ".site", ".store", ".tech", ".space", ".club", ".info", ".org", ".co", ".me", etc.
- Every extension owns a different price, some extension worth less whereas some extensions worth high.
- If your desired domain is already taken by someone it will suggest you relevant domains with different extensions. Here we have entered "smithglasses.com" which is available and free for 1 year with the ".com" extension.
- Tick you desired domain and scroll down.
- Untick the "Domain Privacy Protection" because it is adding the cost of ($14.95 per year). Though it is not necessary, but if you wish you can add this.
- The purpose of Domain Privacy Protection is to protect your personal data in the Whois records from unauthorized people.
- Choose your Billing Cycle.
- Choose 12 months or more. You can also see that for long billing-cycle periods it is offering more discounts. The 12 months mean you will pay once in a year, 24 months mean you will pay once in 2 years, and 36 months mean you will pay once in 3 years. With some annual billing cycles you get domain for free.
- Enter your Email and a secure Password to create your HostGator account.
- Enter a 4 digit "Security PIN". The Security PIN identifies you as the owner of your account.
- Tip: Save this information i.e Email, Password & PIN in a Notepad file, in case you forget you can find there.
- Enter your Billing Info like your First Name, Last Name, Phone Number, Address, Country.
- Choose your Payment Type, Credit Card or PayPal.
- Choose your City, State, Province, etc.
- Enter the Zip Code of your City. You can find Zip Code on Google.
- Fields with red stars are compulsory means you can't leave them empty.
- Here you can see some additional optional features. If you add them they will add cost to your package. The cost of every additional service is mentioned.
- It is up to you whether you want to add these features or not, but we highly recommend to add "SiteLock Essentials". It protects your site from malware and malicious attacks and also build visitor's trust on your website.
- Here you can preview your order before the Checkout.
- Enter our coupon code BRANDAPR23 and click "Validated". You can see the Discount of $108.95 for this order.
- Once you complete your order and successfully purchase hosting package you will get Welcome Email containing the information relevant to your new hosting package.
- Tip: Copy your email information into a Notepad file and save in your computer. Once your save this information delete this email because it contains important credentials.
- The "Your Control Panel:" is the URL to access your cPanel. The cPanel is the place from which you control and manage your website and email accounts.
- The cPanel URL will be similar to this: "https://gator1111.hostgator.com:2083".
- The "Username" is your cPanel username.
- The "Password" is your cPanel password.
- This information will be used in the next step.
05. How To Install WordPress
- Open your cPanel using your cPanel URL as provided in your welcome email. It will be similar to this: https://gator1111.hostgator.com:2083.
- Enter your cPanel Username.
- Enter your cPanel Password.
- Click "Log in" button.
- Scroll-down to "SOFTWARE" section.
- Click "Softaculous Apps Installer".
- Softaculous is an auto installer that helps to install commercial and open source web applications like WordPress, Joomla, Magento etc, on your web hosting account.
- Click "Install" to start the installation process.
- Click the "Install" button. It will install a fresh copy of WordPress.
Now you have to fill some information here:
- In "Choose the version you want to install" select the latest WordPress version. By default the latest version of WordPress is selected.
- In the "Choose Installation URL" settings select "https://" in "Choose Protocol" and select your domain in "Choose Domain". Leave the "In Directory" field empty. If "wp" is already written in this field, remove it.
- In the "Site Settings" enter your website name in the "Site Name" and enter the website description in the "Site Description". The Site Description tells visitors what your website is all about, so write a meaningful description.
- In the "Admin Username" enter a username.
- In the "Admin Password" enter a secure password.
- In the "Admin Email" enter you email.
- This is the information that you will use to login into your website's admin section.
- In the "Select Language" choose your desired language.
- Leave these sections i.e "Select Plugin(S)", "Advanced Options" & "Select Theme" as it is.
- If you want to choose a free WordPress theme you can choose one here, it will be installed with WordPress, but if you want to install a professional WordPress theme follow the "How To Install WordPress Theme" after this section.
- Click the "Install" button at the bottom.
- The installation process will be started...
- Once the WordPress is installed successfully you will get a Congratulations message.
- It will also show you the admin section link(Administrative URL) of your website. It will be similar to "https://www.example.com/wp-admin/". The "example.com" will be replaced with your domain.
- Your WordPress admin section will be similar to this. You can publish posts, You can change settings, You can change/install themes, You can install/uninstall plugins, etc.
- To update the basic settings of your website click "Settings".
- Click "General".
- In the "Site Title" enter the name of your website or something relevant to your website. This information is displayed on two places (1) Top of your browser beside favicon (2) Google search results.
- In the "Tagline" provide a brief description about your website.
- In the "WordPress Address (URL)" enter your domain address like "https://example.com".
- In the "Site Address (URL)" enter your domain address again.
- In the "Administration Email Address" enter your email address. You can use either your private email address or your public email address such as Gmail's, Yahoo's, etc. Private email address is the one with your domain address such as "info@jacksmith.com", "admin@jacksmith.com", etc. Learn: How To Create Email Account With Domain Name - Business Email
- It also asks you for Site Language, Timezone, Date Format, City etc. Once you are done, click "Save Changes" at bottom.
06. How To Install WordPress Theme
- Go to official website of ThemeForest and search for your desired WordPress theme.
- Watch live preview of your WordPress theme, explore its features, read reviews, and purchase it.
- Once you purchase a blog theme you will get your download link within seconds.
- Go to official website of CodeCanyon and search for your desired plugin.
07. How To Create Your First WordPress Blog Post
- Login to your WordPress Admin.
- Click "Post".
- Click "Add New".
- In the "Add title" enter your post title.
- In "Start writing or type / to choose a block" you can write your content and add media, as we have shown below.
- Here you can see that we have added Title and some text.
- At your right side there is a Settings section.
- Here you can see the "Permalink". Permalink is the permanent URL of your post. WordPress automatically creates this URL from your post Title.
- You can modify this URL in "URL Slug" box. You can preview your URL under the "View Post". Use hyphen(-) after every word.
- You can see a "Block" tab along with "Post". Block tab contains HTML elements that you use in your blog post such as paragraph, image, headings etc.
- When you edit or write a post in your WordPress Editor you will see a quick toolbar which contains different editing options such as element styles, text alignment, bold, italic, link, etc.
- Click the three vertical dots to open options such as copy, move to, duplicate, remove, etc.
- Click the blue "+" icon at your top left corner. When you click it will turn black and there will appear a sidebar.
- It will list plenty of HTML elements, media, design, widgets, embeds, etc. When you hover over an icon you will see a demo at your right side.
- You can also find directly from the Search bar.
- To close the sidebar click the "+" icon again.
- In order to switch from Visual Editor to Code Editor click the three three vertical dots at top right corner.
- Click "Code Editor". Code Editor shows you the HTML code of your post.
- Categories and Tags are two primary ways to group content on your blog. Categories are general labels whereas Tags are specific label. Tags describe your posts in more detail.
- They help to organize your articles and also have a significant role in post's SEO.
- Expand "Categories" & "Tags" from the sidebar to link your article to different categories and tags.
- For example your blog is about writing media reviews, your possible categories could be Books, Film, etc. Let's say you are writing an article on action film "Mission Impossible" your possible tags could be action film, Tom Cruise, David Ellison, Christopher McQuarrie, etc.
- Click "Excerpt" from the sidebar to add a short summary or snippet of your blog post.
- Click "Discussions" to choose whether you want to allow "Comments" and "Pingbacks & Trackbacks" on your post.
- The "Pingbacks & Trackbacks" are a special type of comment created when you link to another blog post. The pingback tells you and other blog visitors: “Hey! Someone put a link to your post on their website”.
- Some SEO experts suggest not to allow "Pingbacks & Trackbacks". Only allow if you are sure to use them.
- So it was just an overview of WordPress Advance Editor, you can explore lot of other things.
08. How To Write An Ideal Blog Post
Since you have learned how to create your WordPress blog post now it is time to learn how to write an ideal blog post.
If you follow these guidelines from the day one of your blogging career you will be able to bring good organic traffic i.e the traffic from the search engines(Google, Bing, etc).
The art of writing an ideal blog post is simple, write to impress the readers by keeping the SEO guidelines in your mind, as we have discussed in this section. Your blog posts should be so good & solution-oriented that people would love to stay on your blog and visit again.
The majority of SEO experts are of the opinion that blog post length should be around 1000 words to 25000 words. In general lengthy articles are ranked better in Google.
Don't write irrelevant and repetitive content just to make your article lengthy. If you do then always remember that Google algorithms are AI & semantic based, they identify such articles and never allow to rank in Google.
The title of your blog is always very important, should not be too long. Always write the main keywords in the title. When you write your post content don't go too far from the title, remain within the scope of your post title. You can use the Google Keyword Planner to check the search volume for a keyword.
When you write a blog post always keep smartphones in your mind because majority of people use smartphones as compare to computers, and that's why while indexing & ranking Google gives more priority to those posts and blogs which are mobile-friendly.
Your paragraphs should not be more than 2 to 4 lines. If you write lengthy paragraphs that will be too large for smartphone readers.
First two paragraphs of your post are always very important because you can capture the attention and trust of readers.
- Be short and direct. Ask a question or two like "Do you want to know how to create your first blog post? Here are 10 tips".
- Share a shocking or interesting relevant fact or statistics like "Do you know that 40% websites on internet are powered by WordPress?".
- Share something personal.
- Start with a reader's a question like "Do you have tips for creating your first blog post? I have... ".
- You can share a relevant quote.
- Briefly summarize the solution or what readers are going to expect in the detail post.
Always format your post content. Use heading tags H1, H2, H3, bullets, numbering, spacing etc, to properly format your blog post. There should be only one H1 in your blog post.
The Text color should not be vague, standard color is black. Font-size should be at least 16px. The Font-family should be simple and easily readable.
Make your posts more attractive by using relevant images, video or audio. Don't use unnecessary images as they increase the loading time of a page. Your post content should be more than images.
Write a good conclusion at bottom of the post, if necessary.
Always use optimized images means before you upload images reduce their size. Don't upload poor quality and large size images. Give every image a meaningful name. Don't name your images like image 1, image 2 etc. Image name should be relevant to your post title.
09. How To Grow Blog Traffic
Most of the bloggers give up on blogging after doing for a month or two when they see very little traffic coming into their blog. Always remember that it takes time for new blogs to bring traffic.
If you consistently create blog posts around your niche by keeping the guidelines in you mind, as we suggested in the above section "How to write an ideal blog post", nothing can stop your blog to bring traffic from different sources such as Google, Social Media, Backlinks, Forums etc.
Always remember that consistency is the key to success in blogging. It helps you to identify your mistakes and blunders. As the time will pass solutions will come naturally to you, and you will learn what ranks and what doesn't.
Try to publish one article per day or at least 3 to 4 articles per week. Google gives priority to those blogs which consistently publish new posts. Your blog posts will be indexed on Google faster when you consistently write content.
Soon after creating your WordPress blog submit your blog to Google Search Console, create Sitemap.xml, connect your blog to Google Analytics and Bing Webmaster Tools. We have provided the tutorial links and detail in the last section "Important and Helpful WordPress Tutorials".
- You can share your blog post links on relevant YouTube video comments.
- You can share your blog post links on comments section of different blog articles.
- You can join different forums, Facebook groups etc, where you can answer queries by suggesting your relevant blog posts.
- By doing the collaboration with other web publishers. John will ask Smith to promote his blog and articles in Smith's blog and Smith will ask John to promote his blog and article in John's blog.
- The best way to create backlinks is by creating quality content, as we have discussed earlier how to create quality content. If you create quality and solution oriented content other websites will recommend your website and articles on their website and articles. You can get decent amount of traffic.
10. How To Earn Money From Blog
- Google AdSense
- Affiliate Marketing
- Paid Content
- Selling Your Own Product.
Most of the new bloggers always make this mistake like after writing 2 or 3 posts they start applying for Google AdSense or other affiliate programs.
Create these 4 important pages soon after your blog is ready:
- Privacy Policy page
- Disclaimer page
- About Us page
- Contact Us page
Google AdSense
Google AdSense is one of the most popular online earning program to monetize your blog. It pays you certain amount of money for every genuine click depending on the location and CPC(Cost-Per-Click) of keywords.In order to learn about Google AdSense like "How to increase your Google AdSense Revenue" & different AdSense terms like RPM, CTR & CPC, read this article:
Affiliate Marketing
Affiliate Marketing is the process of earning certain amount of commission by selling a product or service of someone or a company via your affiliate links.Let's say you join an affiliate program of a mobile brand. You put the banner on your blog. A visitor comes to your blog, clicks the banner. He will be redirected to the product page of that mobile from where he can purchase. If he purchases a mobile your earn a certain amount of commission.
There are thousands of affiliate programs available on internet for every niche. In order to become their affiliate partner you have to submit an application where you provide information about yourself & your blog.
You can find plenty of blog posts on different affiliate programs on Meer's World. Click Here.
If you want to know which one is better between Google AdSense & Affiliate Marketing, means from whom you can earn more money or which one is more suitable to your blog, read this article:
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