How to Start a Blog

Why Start a Blog?

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• You can make money. Lots of people make full-time salaries from their blogs and have built lucrative businesses that make 6,7, and sometimes 8 figure salaries a year. With relatively low costs to run and maintain a blog, the return on investment has the potential to be a lot
• It can be a journal for yourself
• It provides a stage to reach lots of people.
• You can write about things you are passionate about. A blog is the perfect way to let people know how you feel about your topic.
• It’s fun.

There are plenty of other reasons, but these seem to be the most popular. If you can combine these together, your blog can turn into something really special.

Setting up your blog

We set up our blog on bluehost and installed wordpress to the site. We recommend that you do the same.

The first thing you will need to do is to check for a domain name. This will be what you want your website to be called. There are a number of ways to check if a domain name is available. WordPress’ site is simple to use.

Or Google’s

Once you have found a domain name, you’ll want to register that name. Bluehost is the way to go. Bluehost offers web hosting, which is “a service that allows organizations and individuals to post a website or web page onto the Internet“. Click on this link, which will give you a discount with bluehost and a FREE domain and site builders. The best part about bluehost is that they give you a 30 day money back guarantee. They also have 24/7 support if the need ever arises.

The basic plan should cover most of your blogging needs. This plan is only $2.75 a month if you use our link. This includes the free domain as long as you sign up for 12 months or longer.

From there, it will ask you to pick how long you want to host for. Depending on how long you choose to host for, the price will vary. The minimum option is for 12 months ( remember you can always cancel within 30 days). It will ask if you want some security options as well.

The next step would be to install wordpress. This has been made really easy by bluehost. All you need to do is click on the “Start Building” button and it will give you the option to install.

Configure your blog

Your blog is now set up! From the wordpress dashboard, you can configure it to how you like. The default themes that wordpress give you aren’t all that great, so you’ll probably want to go in and pick your own.

Once you have a theme picked out, you’ll want to make your site “live”. You’ll do this by going to the settings tab and general. From there you should see this: You’ll want to have this off.

To wrap up, here’s a quick recap:

1. Find a domain name
2. Set up web hosting through bluehost
3. Install wordpress
4. Configure your blog
5. Start posting!

You are now ready to start posting! If you have any questions about this process, you can always give us an email or go to bluehost support. We are happy to help with anything we can! Happy blogging!