Many people want start blogging as a profession. In this article, I will describe to you how to start a WordPress blog and consider blogging as a profession.
Let’s jump into the deep.
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WordPress is the most user-friendly CMS platform. You can easily customize your WordPress theme. You don’t need to be a web developer to customize or design and develop a WordPress blog. In 2020, 35% of the total blogs are using WordPress CMS. WordPress blogs are easy to do search engine optimization than any other CMS platforms or JS website.
Many people start a blog but very few are successful. After one year 60% of blogs are becoming expired. It is only because many of us do not know how to start a blog that will be successful. Below are the steps you can follow for starting a blog:
Before starting a blog, you must think about earning money from the blog. Because without earning money, your blog will not be successful. You have to plan and work according to the money generation technique. There are many ways to earn money from a blog. Here are some examples:
Niche choosing is the most important part of starting a successful blog. Your niche should be low competitive and the highest return.
Example:
If you want to earn money from affiliate programs, you have to find out a niche that is offering highest commission and lowest competition. In affiliate marketing business all the different products and services offer different types of affiliate commission.
There are many blogs that are earning from products or services review. You can also earn in the same way. In the review blogs, all reviews can’t earn the same money. Some products such as smartphones, cars review are very high in demand and highly paid.
AdSense is also a very good earning source of blogs. You can earn $0.01 to $55.00 CPC from AdSense. CPC rate depends on the niche. So, when you want to earn from AdSense, your niche should be high CPC and low in competition.
Some blogs earn money from sponsored articles. You can also earn money from sponsored articles. In this case general niche is good.
Service selling blogs are also good for earn money. In this case niche is also a big factor. You have to choose a niche that is low in competition and high demand.
Now time to buy a domain. Your domain name should reflect the niche. It will be helpful for getting target traffic to your blog.
Example:
If your blog is about a car, the domain name should contain a “car” word. When your blog is about flooring ideas, it should contain “flooring ideas” words.
There are many famous brands in hosting businesses such as Namecheap, Bluehost, Hostgator, etc. All the hosting providers are offering very competitive packages. You can go to any of them for buying hosting. As you are new in the blogging business, you should go to shared hosting package with cPanel.
In the cPanel, you can easily install WordPress by following the cPanel guidelines. If you can’t install WordPress, you can ask for help from the hosting provider. They are ready to serve you 24×7.
Once you have completed the WordPress setup, now time to develop your blog. You should install a theme to develop a blog. There are thousands of themes available in the market free and paid both. In the paid theme you will get some extra facilities that free themes can’t provide. You can find themes in all niches such as travel theme, fashion and lifestyle theme, beauty care theme, general theme, business theme, etc. You should choose a theme that matches your niche.
Plugins are very important for improving your website performance, UI, and UX. You can use page builder plugins, forms, pop up, SEO, social sharing, email subscription, etc. plugins for improving website performance.
Now time to customize the theme and plugins as you have installed theme and plugins. You can customize your theme with a page builder as per your required layout or design. If you use premium themes and plugins, then you can do more customization, user-friendly UI, and UX whatever you want.
You have already developed your blog. Now time to publish articles. It is the best practice if you write articles by yourself. When you are unable to write quality articles, you can hire a ghost writer. They will write to you and you will publish the article. Now in the updated WordPress 5.5 Gutenberg, you don’t need to use plugins for article publishing as the Gutenberg is offering a lot of facilities. Though if you want to use a plugin for article publishing, you can do.
Your articles should be unique and never published before, grammatical error-free, and informative. The article’s length should be as much as you can.
Use related image, infographic, video and audio content into your article.
Nowadays social media platforms are the best place to generate traffic. As you are just starting a new blog, you don’t have ranking keywords as well as organic traffic. In this circumstance social media can help you to get the maximum number of traffic. So, start social media bookmarking of your blogs at Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest, etc.
All blogs need organic traffic and SEO (search engine optimization) is the one and only way to get organic traffic. SEO can increase your blog’s trustworthy and brand value. SEO enjoys the highest sales conversion rate comparing to other digital marketing strategies. So, it is very important to do SEO of your blog to earn money from your blog.
You can hire an SEO expert for optimize your blog or you can do by yourself.
Here are the tricks to optimize your blog:
The above steps are all for starting a WordPress blog. You can also start your own WordPress blog and earn money from the blog.
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