Shared hosting

The least expensive choice is shared hosting. It’s ideal if you just launched a new blog or website and you aren’t getting many visitors yet.

Virtual private servers

Increases the power and control you have over the configuration of your hosting account. This is an excellent option if your website is beginning to gain a bit of popularity and is seeing an increase in traffic.

Dedicated web hosting

The strongest choice is dedicated hosting. Compared to the other two types, the cost will be higher. Large websites with hundreds or even millions of monthly visitors usually use dedicated servers.

The best website builder is WordPress

It’s time to get your website built after you choose the ideal hosting plan for your business requirements. This can be accomplished in a wide range of methods, such as web design software, ready made designs, or even hand coding each page. While each choice has its benefits, WordPress is considered as the greatest website builder for a lot of users. Adding new pages to your website, publishing posts or quickly updating the design are all made simple with WordPress.

How to launch a WordPress website in 4 easy steps

Selecting the ideal web host is important, but it’s just the first step towards putting your new website live. To start your website, there are a few things you must take.

• Get a domain name

Getting a domain name is the most important step. Choose a good domain name because it’s the identity of your website and cannot be changed after the purchase. Select a domain name that is simple for your visitors to remember. Dashes are not recommended, and the shorter the better. If people hears you say your domain name, it should be simple for them to figure out what it is.

You can purchase your domain through registrars such as GoDaddy or Name.com, But if you choose the appropriate hosting company you can get your domain name for free. For example, all hosting plans offered by Bluehost.com including the basic shared hosting come with a free domain.

• Install WordPress

Installing WordPress is now possible after you have linked your domain name to your hosting account. You can install WordPress by downloading it from WordPress.org. But this is not recommended for you if you’re not familiar with editing configuration files, changing settings or uploading files. Instead, look for a hosting company that provides an automated WordPress install. For example, all of Bluehost’s hosting packages come with an easy to use WordPress website builder that does all of the technical work for you.

• Choose a theme for your website

The simplicity with which you can modify the appearance of your website is one advantage of using WordPress. WordPress has a theme system that allows you to easily modify the visual appearance of your website with a few clicks. There are many theme options available in WordPress theme directory. A good number of paid themes are available as well which gives your website even more capability. When putting your website together, don’t be scared to try different themes. Most themes have thumbnail images in the directory however testing it on your website will give you a better idea of how it looks.

• Install plugins

Similar to themes, WordPress provides several kinds of plugins that enable you to improve your website’s functionality. Nearly 60,000 plugins may be found in the WordPress directory and hundreds more can be found elsewhere. With the help of plugins, you can do a lot of things like protect your website against hackers, improve load times, monitor website traffic, automate social media marketing, automatically backup your website, convert it into an online store (WooCommerce), and much more…

Additional tools to consider when creating your website

After your website is working, you should think about using a few additional tools. These are simple to integrate with WordPress, all you need to do is install new plugins to your website.

Google analytics: with Google Analytics you can easily monitor the number of visitors to your website, where they come from and what they do once they visit your website. If you sell goods or services, it can also monitor sales conversions.

CDN: A content delivery network (CDN) such as Cloudflare minimizes the risk of downtime, speeds up website loading times and secures against data theft. When you first set up your site, a content delivery network (CDN) usually isn’t necessary, but once you start receiving some traffic, you should consider using one.

Customer Support for your hosting provider

Make sure you carefully review the quality of customer support that each hosting service offers when comparing them. If something goes wrong and your website goes down, you could lose your business if you don’t get the issue resolved right away. Seek out a web host that provides phone, chat, and email assistance. Make sure the customer service staff is open around the clock as well. After all, your website doesn’t take nights or weekends off. 

Setting up a website doesn’t have to be difficult if you follow this guide. Your website is the face of your company, it must be fast and reliable. And if you want that kind of websites make sure to choose a good hosting company.

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Acquire quality backlinks: The most easy, effective, and successful strategy for gaining backlinks naturally is guest blogging, which has grown in popularity since Google’s Penguin and Panda updates cracked down on fraudulent link building methods.

Make connections with other companies and experts in your industry: You can build relationships with successful people in your niche that may result in partnerships and collaborations by creating guest posts for other websites that are related to yours and accepting guest posts from experts in your niche.

Increase website traffic: A few guest blog posted on various well known blogs or websites in your industry can triple or even quadruple the amount of traffic that goes to both your main website and your company’s blog. If you sell things directly through the latter, this will result in more sales.

Make the content widely shared: Great content might lie dormant on your blog and never reach its full potential without exposure, especially if the website is new and you haven’t had enough time to develop a following. The best way for you to gain a lot of exposure quickly is to guest blog.

Become recognized as an expert in your industry: These days, it’s a lot easier to prove to users of the web that you are an authority in a particular niche. The best approach to do this is by using content marketing to provide them with free high quality guidance and ideas. One of the best ways to reach the right audience for the content you create is by guest blogging.

Find fresh opportunities for business: By responding to reader comments and exchanging emails with the owners or administrators of websites where your guest blog articles are featured, you can build important relationships and expand your network.

Sell an eBook: One of the best ways to sell an eBook to readers who aren’t your own is by guest blogging. Most blogs will allow you to do this as long as you only include links to the author’s section and offer helpful content.

Get the additional traffic required for a special event or new product launch: Blowing the trumpet on an upcoming product or special occasion on popular blogs can result in a huge increase in traffic, which will add significance to the launch event and draw in additional customers.

Make a useful purpose for any content that has been excluded from your site: Sometimes content you’ve created previously becomes unsuitable for blogging because of sudden changes to strategy or goals. Instead of erasing it or keeping it forever on your hard drive, you could try to have it posted on other blogs.

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Advertising services

When many people start a blog, they usually have a niche market that they are targeting. This means that all posts made by them will be targeted towards a certain audience. There are many topics that people may blog about. Some of them include weight loss, health and fitness or internet marketing.

When you get to have a lot of traffic directed to your blog, this makes your blog a good investment source for advertisers. This means that you can make money by placing direct advertisements like banner ads, to earn money from direct advertising, you need to sign up with a service like BuySellAds. It allows you to sell space on your blog which will direct ads to it. The amount of money earned depends on the average number of visitors each month.

Videos

Video blogs are difficult to make but they are totally worth it. If you want to make a successful video blogging business you need to continuously upload new engaging videos to attract more people to your channel and grow your number of followers. As a video maker, the one way you can earn money is to join YouTube’s partner program. It is known to be a popular source of monetization. The program works by inserting ads and displaying them to users every time they start playing the video. You can earn money when a user clicks or views the ad.

Affiliate marketing

Affiliate marketing is a performance based system where an affiliate (in this case, the blogger) promotes products of a particular company with the goal of earning a commission. The program works like this: bloggers apply to an affiliate network and once they get approved, they can start recommending products on their posts. When an online user clicks on the link and buys a product, the company will credit the affiliate with a commission. One great example of an affiliate program is Amazon Associates. A commission of 4% to 8.5% can be earned depending on the category of the product sold.

Adsense

Google adsense is one of the best display advertising networks. its easy to integrate and free to use. The advertisers pick a few keywords or a topic they would like to advertise about. Once you have installed Adsense on your blog, Google will display text and image ads which are related to the topics found on your blog posts. For example, if your blog is about weight loss, the ads displayed will be related to weight loss programs or healthy products. When a visitor clicks on an ad, Google will credit your Adsense account. This system is called pay per click. Your earnings usually depend on the number of page views your blog gets and the click through rate of the ad.

eBooks

Nowadays, eBooks can be easily written. eBooks are known to show the author experience on a particular topic, therefore they help to increase engagement with readers and increasing your income. Due to improvement of technology, smartphones and tablets have become popular around the world which means more people are accessing content online. The percentage of readers has risen dramatically. Selling your eBook can assure you a steady income from your blog. You can also sell your eBook via platforms like Amazon Kindle, PayLoadz and Lulu.

Finally, You need to remember that blogging is not a get rich quick scheme. Therefore, to earn money through it you need to put a good strategy and work so hard to attract the right audience.

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Choose a platform

Many websites use WordPress as it’s good for starters who are creating their first website. This CMS works pretty well with low and medium traffic. Other two options that you can choose besides WordPress are Joomla and Drupal.

WordPress is easy to install and has a strong community online in case you will face any kind of issues. It’s an open source platform and used by a lot of people. It’s also ideal for anyone who is not technologically advanced. You will have access to a lot of free themes and plugins that will make the work even easier for you.

Why WordPress?

• It’s free, you will only need a domain name and web hosting.

• Community forums are very helpful.

• It offers more than 50,000 free plugins to help you get started.

• There are more than 10,000 free and paid WordPress themes available.

Buy a domain name

Before you download WordPress, we would recommend that you first choose a domain name.

Why the domain name is important?

• It affects your ranking in search engines.

• It defines your brand.

• It’s the first impression your visitors will face.

How can I choose a suitable domain name?

Choose a domain name that is unique and stands out from your competitors. Choose something that is witty and memorable. Keep your domain name short. According to a research, top 100 websites have approximately 6 characters in their domain name. Choose something that is easy to pronounce and type. Having a domain name that comprises of too many vowels will lead to mistypes. Choose something that many people will be able to pronounce with no difficulties. Simply put, choose a name that is short, brandable, memorable, catchy, easy to type, includes keywords, and niche related.

Sign up with webhosting and install WordPress

Web hosting is a service that stores all your files, images, and content that your blog will contain and displays to visitors. It’s a service that keeps your blog content accessible online. You will not be able to set up blog nor use your own domain name when you do not have a web hosting.

There are many web hosting services available, some of them are cheap, others costlier. Choose a hosting service that is reliable, secure, and easy to manage. From my experience, I think Bluehost is considered to be among the best webhosting companies.

How can I set up my blog on BlueHost?

1- Go to Bluehost.com

2- Choose a hosting plan. We would recommend that you start with basic package as it offers plenty of speed, storage, performance, and functionality to your first website. You can always upgrade your hosting plan as your website grows.

3- Next, choose a domain name. Remember to double check your name to avoid any mistake.

4- Enter your personal information and credit card details and finally complete payment.

5- Click create password and choose a password for your hosting account.

And that’s it! You will get WordPress automatically installed on your website. You can log in by visiting the link on the WordPress hosting tab from your Bluehost account panel. You can customize your website appearance from the settings at the sidebar.

Setting up your own blog is very simple and easy. Once you follow the provided instructions, you will take less than 30 minutes. However, for those who have not yet decided on domain name, it may take longer.

So, just how much time does blogging take? Well, depending on your writing skills, creating quality content that your visitors will want to read can take a lot of time and work. It will depend on what topic you choose to write about, do you prefer to write longer or shorter articles, Are you planning to include images or videos. etc..

Theses questions will determine how long you will spend blogging. Overall, it’s up to you to figure out the type of content you want.

Does Blogging cost any money? The great thing about this type of business is that you can start for free or with few charges. So how do you decide? As mentioned earlier, it will depend on you and your business plan. Free blogs are available but they come with limitations. We would recommend that you pay for couple of things such as:

• Domain name: This will cost you approximately $10/year.

• Web hosting: This usually costs approximately $4-$15/month.

Will blogging make you money? The short answer is yes, there are a lot of successful bloggers that make more than $50,000 per month. Blogging provides you with a lot of ways to earn money. Some people use their blogs to sell items, review products and make a commission from affiliate sales. However, you can also set up your own blog just as a hobby.

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