Want to know how to start a blog in 2020?
Good decision,
That’s the best decision I ever made in my life to start a blog,
Lets get Started;
Do you want to make passive income on autopilot through blogging, which helps you to live life like a boss? So starting a blog is the first and crucial step that leads you to success.
But, After reading this guide, you will start your blog today and make a path for your success.
Starting a blog is not complicated at all, but all you need some guidance, which helps you to start a blog in 2020.
Here are the seven easy steps to start your profitable blog without making a mistake and some bonus tips which help you to scale your new branded blog.
Let’s dive into it,
- Step 1: Choose a Niche For Your Blog
- Step 2: Choose a Good Domain For Your Blog
- Step 3: Find a Good Web Hosting Provider and Domain
- Step 4: Set Up Your WordPress Blog
- Step 5: Choose an Attention-Grabbing Theme For Your Blog
- Step 6: Some Essential Plugin For Your Blog
- Step 7: Write and Publish Your First Blog Post and Make It Live
- Bonus: Some Ways to Make Money From Your Blog
Before starting the full process for making a profitable blog,
Maybe some of you are thinking, why you should start a blog in 2020?
I always prefer to say that 2020 is the golden arena for starting a blog and grow it,
Because blogging is becoming tough day by day and if you started today, so you have more opportunities/chances, then others who will start later than you.
There are so many benefits if you start your blog and grow it, Here some Unforgettable Benefits of blogging which helps you :
- Express Yourself – Blogging is the platform that allows you to express yourself by writing the content for your audience.
- You can help others and gain fans – You can help the readers by writing the content on your blog, and by this, they will become your true fans which always there for your support.
- Make Money Online – Yes, You can make money from your blog by doing Affiliate Marketing and Running Ads.
I think you got an idea about why you started and how blogging will help you
Step 1: Choose a Right Niche for Your Blog (Crucial Step For Success)
This is the most important part, and many newbies are stuck at this point.
Did you know? That 99% of bloggers quit blogging in starting six months because they choose the niche which they don’t passionate about.
Niche is like a topic but not a simple topic because they have several topics in it.
Choosing a niche is the fastest way to lose a game in the beginning.
Are you still confused?
Let take an example about the niches –
Smart Passive Income – Patt Flynn started this blog named Smart Passive Income, where he shares strategies to grow your online business. Today Smart Passive Income is one of the most successful blogs which are making millions of dollars every day.
ShoutMeLoud: You all know ShoutMeLoud is one of the most significant websites which teaches about WordPress, SEO, Blogging, and Much more stuff related to blogging.
This is the earning report of ShoutMeLoud, and you can see that they make $400+ at the beginning of there blog. This shows that choosing a profitable and interest-based niche helps your blog to scale.
There are many other blogs that I can show, but I think you got an exact idea of how niche is so essential for making a profitable blog.
Currently, there are many profitable niches in which you can start your blog, but I don’t suggest you go with these niches because you don’t have an interest in that, and If you start a blog on that niche, so will be bored and quit blogging for sure.
So, How you can find the perfect niche that you won’t regret later
Wait, let me tell you one Fail-Proof method to find out the profitable and interested based niche for you.
You have to focus on these two factors to find out the profitable niche for your blog.
Profitability
Passionate
I think now you can find the perfect niche after seeing the above part, and if you can’t figure out, then you can do this to find an ideal niche.
- Take Paper & Pen
- Write down your interest or which you are passionate about (Add three or more) on the list
- Find the niche which you liked the most from the list
- Also, find an affiliate of that niche
- You are good to go
Step 2: Choose an awesome domain Name For Your Blog (that you won’t regret later)
Most people waste way too much time deciding a name for their blog.
Believe me, it doesn’t really matter at this point.
Your blog’s name doesn’t have to be something cool or unique or different.
Eric Barker started his blog Barking Up The Wrong Tree on the domain name bakadesuyo.com.
It’s really difficult to remember and isn’t cool in any way. But it is a very popular blog that receives millions of readers every month. Eric was also able to publish a book under the same name because he started this blog.
So, once again, the name of your blog doesn’t matter as much as starting a blog and building an audience.
If you can’t figure out a good name for your blog, here are some tips to keep in mind:
- Stop Being a perfectionist. You aren’t tasked with naming a star or a planet. STOP wasting time here. Jon Morrow changed the name of his blog BoostBlogTraffic to SmartBlogger. This blog gets more than a million visitors every year. If he can do it, you can do it too.
- Don’t try to pick a cool name. If you want to use the word Hive, use Hive rather than H1ve even if Hive isn’t available. Creative names are not only difficult to remember they also make it difficult to build a brand in the long term.
- Keep it simple and short. The shorter the better. Short and sweet is easy to remember.
- Use Keyword – You can use your main keyword in your domain, which helps you in SEO.
- Don’t Use Numbers – You can’t use numbers in your domain because it’s not easy to remember the numbers
- Always Use TLD Extension – I recommend you to use domain extension like .com because it’s for globally
Still can’t figure out a name for your blog?
Just start a blog under your own name.
Under your own name, you can write about anything you want.
A blog named John Doe will allow you to change the topic of your blog at any time in the future unlike the domain name My Photography Blog, which will limit you to photography-related topics.
Just pick a name and stop being a perfectionist.
If you are still not able to figure out the domain for your blog, then you can find brandable domain name using one tool: LeanDomainSearch
NOTE: To be Remember
Which blogging platform should you choose?
I am not going to take much time here to explain to you which platform is best,
There is a lot of blogging platform which you can use to make your blog, but I recommended you to go with WordPress.
Why?
Because in other platforms, you can’t have access to edit or customize everything, but WordPress gives you the freedom to make your blog as you can.
In WordPress, you have many plugins and themes which you can use to make your blog Awesome!
So I think you can get an idea of why WordPress is good,
Let’s dive in and let me tell you to steps create your blog.