How to Start Your Own Blog
Ready to start your own blog?
There are so many benefits to blogging. A properly designed blog will increase your chances of getting great search engine traffic, it will allow you to establish your expertise in your niche and to create a community to grow your business around.
But first you’ve got to get one going, right?
Well, you’ve got choices:
- Blogger
- Wordpress
- Typepad
The three blogging platforms above are three of the most popular choices for blogs.
I absolutely URGE you to choose Wordpress for your blog. I’ll go into why in another post but suffice to say after five years of blogging I believe it to be the absolute best choice for you blogging needs.
Here’s how you get that blog set up:
Step 1 – You Need Hosting with Cpanel:
Get hosting that includes Cpanel and an easy Wordpress install program such as ‘Fantastico’ or ‘Simple Scripts’. If this makes no sense to you just ask your potential host if they have either of those programs and they’ll know what you mean.
Recommended Host – Sign up for Reliable Webs Hosting and you’ll get your Blog Installed completely FREE. I’ve not seen ANY OTHER HOST to do that.
Step 2 – You Need a Domain Name:
I believe in doing it right the first time so go get yourself a domain name for $10 and set your blog up right. You can get a domain name through your host or through somewhere like GoDaddy.com.
Step 3 – Install Your Blog
Ok, you’ve got your hosting and you’ve got your domain. Now you need to install the blog. It sounds complicated but it’s really not that hard! Find a good host and they’ll help you set it up if you have any questions.
Step 4 – Customize Your Blog:
You’ll probably want to do a few things to your blog such as customize the colors a little, add a header that suits your business or topic, add links to social media such as Twitter, Facebook, etc. To do this takes a more advanced understanding of the programing language of the blog, php and css. If you don’t know these languages, you can hire us at Blog Site Mojo to customize the blog for you.
Step 5 – Fill Your Blog With Relevant, Targeted, Quality Content:
Write content that people are looking for and that is targeted to your blogs purpose. A good example is this post. It’s fill with high-quality information and serves the purpose of letting you know what you need to get your blog up and running quickly and easily. That’s what our site is all about.
Once you’re blog is set up and running your next step is to make sure that effort is put to great use.
Decide with a clear set of goals what you want to use your blog for. Will it be to draw traffic to a service? To make money through affiliate marketing? To sell your own products? Or a bit of all of the above.
Set your goals, stick to them and you’ll start to see your efforts pay off as you build a blog that people love to come back to again and again.
