How to Start a blog

Here are the 6 simple steps that will help you in starting your blog.

Choose a Blogging Platform
How to Select a Domain Name
Select Host for Your Blog
Setup Your Blog
Design Your Blog
Start Making Money with Your Blog
1. Choosing a Blogging Platform
There are a number of blogging platforms like WordPress, Blogger, TypePad, Wix, Joomla, Drupal etc. But WordPress.org is the most important blogging platform from the last few years because of many good reasons.

90% of all the blogs in the world including my blogs MoneyConnexion & SureJob uses WordPress. This itself is the reason to choose WordPress for your blog.

Let’s check more reasons why:

It’s Free
Creating a blog using WordPress is very easy.
You can design almost any type of website with the help of 5000 free and paid WordPress themes.
It offers 50,000 free plugins that make your blog very fast & efficient.
You can find help on almost any topic on WordPress Forum or other blogs.
Here I am talking about WordPress.org and not free blogging platform WordPress.com.

WordPress.org is a software and its free. You need to buy a domain and hosting for using this WordPress.org platform.

2. How to Select a Domain Name
Choose your domain name wisely. MoneyConnexion.com is the name of my domain and anyone can understand this blog is something about Money. My another blog is SureJob.in and it shows that SureJob is something related to jobs & career.

Another important thing about these domains is that they are easy to pronounce and remember.

So you choose a domain name in such a way that people can understand the topic of your blog from the name itself.

If you want to start a cooking blog, then the name must be related to cooking, if a sports blog then something related to sport, if its related to technology then some tech-related name.

Like email address, it’s challenging to get a domain name of your choice, so you need to prepare a list and then check the availability.

From the available domains, you can finalize the best.

You can find many domain extensions other than ‘.com’. Most of the other common domain extensions are .org, .net, .co.uk, .co.in, .info etc. You can check all at the time of domain booking.

3. Select Host for Your Blog
As I told you, WordPress.org is nothing but a software. You can’t create your blog using just software. You need a web hosting space where you can install WordPress software.

Just like you need space in your mobile and PC to store and see your files, images, and videos, you need web hosting to store the content of your blog, images and videos.

You need to buy a web hosting in order to use your own domain name and to make it accessible to the world.

I have created hundreds of blogs in the last 8 years, and I have used & experienced almost all the web hosting providers.

One of most reliable hosting I found is from Bluehost.

Even WordPress.org and other top bloggers recommend www.bluehost.com.

And Black Friday is the best time of the year when millions of people want to buy hosting for their blog. You can get almost 60% discount on hosting from bluehost.

You can get bluehost hosting just for $2.65 per month instead of $7.99 per month during Black Friday sale.

Not only that, you get your domain for free if you signup for 1 year or more extended period.