Blog Tutorial WordPress

In this tutorial, you will learn how to start a WordPress blog. A step-by-step method explained by my best working knowledge for 2 years now. After following this guide, you will have a wonderful blog that you can share with the rest of the world.

This is a basic guide or tutorial to understand Blogging. How to start and grow with your blog and creating content.

I am going to help you create a wonderful blog showing you a step-by-step guide to follow. In case you are stuck or have any questions regarding the WordPress blog then do comment below and I will surely get back to you with my best answer.

What is blogging anyway?

A blog could be personal or professional. It could be a home-based business or a company, and moreover Blogging is the self-publication related to content writing, about any form of media on the internet. Blogging began as a way for people to create content related to their personal lifestyle by getting attention and growing their fans/followers – but it has subsequently been integrated into many direct businesses’ websites as well. Blogging is a way and opportunity through which readers can join and make conversions.

The concept of blogging or the blog and why it is getting so popular and how we should get started with it to build our own business for income. We need to understand a few basics. This term “Blog” is the short form of “Weblog” During the early days these weblogs are being used to record their days in diary-style posts. People use to go through these diary-style posts and become their followers, making them popular.

TYPES OF BLOG

Blogs could be personal or a proffesional ones. It could be directly related to home buisness or a proffesional blog or could be a creative blog or even a social media/news channel blog

Also, It could be a journal related to your hobbies or talent. Or it could be a brand expressing a buisness blog

Blog could be completely eduaction guide to various students online. Or it could be a completely entertaning blog.

In order to get paid online, I use my blog by creating original content in order to teach or guide people the knowledge that I have, or sometimes I sell items. In other words, I use affiliate links to generate income online.

Topics listed below, are going to be covered in this post.

• Choose a name of your blog related to the Niche? Or create a persoanl one.
• Buy a Hosting and get started with a blog
• Choose a theme of your blog and make it unique
• Create your first post/content for your blog and then publish it.
• Self Promote your blog or pay to promote to reach out more peoples.
• Monetize your blog or put affiliate links to earn something.

Is it a good idea to start a blog?

People are often misunderstood by the concept of blogging which means someone has to be an excellent writer in order to start up with blogging, which is not true. A casual conversational tone is the trademark of your simplicity and a good informer, a problem solver, or say a good educator. People read the posts to get some information they are looking for and if that could be solved by you then you are a successful blogger I must say.

"To be a blogger you dont have to be a good writer" 

People when creating a blog which will choose a range of things that they’ll start writing on a straightforward content created by a blogger within the right way which sounds clear and great is that the one that folks like or wanted to return back again and browse on.

Visitors to a cooking blog, as an example, don’t desire to read a textbook written by a food scientist; they need to listen to someone’s real-life cooking experiences, faults, and all.

Blogging actually is something much more than you could even think. It is all about sharing your passion with the world. The topics that you yourself care about and you wanted to write about more and more.

In short, if you are passionate about something and wanted to share something original and unique, it’s going to be a great and successful blog that visitors would like to follow and check back again.

Advantages of blogging ~

Once you get to share your personal Articles/stories and get heard by the viewers. You can then spread your knowledge by sharing worldwide and get a chance to grow your fans and followers to build awareness and also make conversions through that.

Once your business brand Get Recognized, you start to make money. By constantly creating content and promoting your blog you simply create awareness and reach out to a wide range of audiences. Slowly you start to build your followers and you reach some potential customers or clients to buy your services whether it is related to education or any other home business opportunities and you get paid.

Another good part of blogging is that once you have created a piece of article, it stays there even if you are not creating any new content every other day. Your post stays there and visitors should be able to see that piece of content through search and you still can earn some passive income stream coming through it, without doing anything. So it doesn’t matter how frequently you are creating and publishing your content.

Via blogging and joining the other groups of bloggers and communities related to your specific niche you get a chance to make new friends and participate in other groups and activities to grow your business.

Step-by Step guide to start a blog in 2022

STEP 1: The first step is to come up with a topic and a name for your blog.

Preferably focus on a specific thing once you plan to create a blog whether it is related to food, lifestyle, Story writing, or anything that you yourself like to read and share. So in other words, if you target a specific Niche, it has a higher chance to reach out to more audiences and get success in less time.

Select a Subject

Try to choose the subject that you have the most interest in and are passionate about. Or choose that you have knowledge about and could create quality content that can help many lives, providing them free education/services.

Ascertain Market Demand

Do some research before choosing the subject or a niche for your blog. Look into forums and other social platforms and their audience potential and then decide what you would do once you choose the topic.

Tips to pick a name for your Blog?

Once you sort out a few names related to your blog topic make sure it sounds unique and easy to pronounce.

Consider a few things while you choose the topic of your blog. Such as, Why are you creating this blog? What is your aim? What audience did you want to reach by creating this blog? etc Once your concept is clear it’s easy to start and create content every other day 🙂

STEP 2: Locate an Appropriate Blogging Platform
What’s the best way to get started with a blog?

In this given topic I would like to discuss with you the difference between A self-Hosted Blog vs. Free Blog.

If you wanted to just get started with something for free then you may choose a free self-hosted blog but keep in mind that it has limited revenue, customization, and traffic source. Also, you will have little or almost no control over it. Moreover, you have to pay for self-hosting in between if you want.

The following are some of the reasons why self-hosted WordPress is likely your best option:

It’s completely free to use (open-source)
It’s incredibly adaptable, with hundreds of free (and paid) blog themes to choose from.
It has a large developer community that is constantly updated and upgraded.
Your blog will be completely under your control.

STEP 3: Create a Web Hosting Account for Your Blog (and Register Domain Name)
You’ll need to purchase a domain name and WordPress web hosting to get started with a self-hosted WordPress blog.

You will receive the following services from Bluehost:

You’ll need to purchase a domain name and WordPress web hosting to get started with a self-hosted WordPress blog.

Bluehost is the best choice for new websites after I have analyzed all major web hosting platforms based on pricing, dependability, performance, features, and security.

Your own personalized domain name with an SSL certificate (free for the first year) (for security).
Website hosting (starting at $2.75 per month)
Free email accounts (e.g., yourname@yourblogname.com) are available with a simple one-click install for WordPress.

Step 4 – Set up wordpress theme ~ Create and Personalize Your Blog.

How to get traffic to your website

There are many ways to draw in more visitors to your website— but below are the few that I would like to specify which could help immediately to appear your posts to the search engine and rank in google.

• Search engine optimization (SEO)
• Advertizing
• Backlinking
• Sharing on other Social media platforms
• Guest post
  

How To Optimize your SEO setting

Once you are done with buying and setting up your website, next, comes the step to creating a post and publishing it. Before you publish check your Readability and SEO analysis settings to make it green. It’s the best practice if you can create your content according to the recommended SEO settings. I will tell you exactly the way you can do it in very simple steps.

1)Readability ~

When you write your content make sure to include the “Focus Keyphrase” that is the main topic of your post should be included a minimum of 3 times in the post. Especially at the beginning of the header content. Then it should include in the second header content of your post, then continued to the 3 or the 4th content header of the blog post. To make the readability green you need to constantly check and write the article so that as soon as it goes down to red you can fix it immediately and move on.

Say for example the readability is showing red which means it’s difficult to understand. You need to click on the section below where you see the settings for readability as shown in the image below. Click on it and it will automatically show you what exactly you need to fix in your content and to turn it green.

In the image above as you see that shows passive voice in my content is 15.5% which is more than the recommended. so I need to fix that by decreasing the use of passive voice. You need to re-edit fewer words and sentences to correct these.

The second shows that the sentence length contains more than 20 words which are more than the recommended i.e 25%. So fixing that will make it perfect and readability will turn green.

2)SEO Settings ~

• For example, say if the topic of your blog post is “WordPress Tutorial” so your Focus Keyphrase should be the same.
• The SEO Title should include the “focus keyphrase” exactly the same and matching to it. The green line automatically comes up once the words are correct match the topic.
• The Slug area automatically fills in with the same focus keyphrase, so you can keep it untouched.
• The Meta Description area you need to fill in with a longer sentence/words which should also start with the same focus keyphrase.
• Along with these 4 main settings you need to put some outbound and internal links in between your post content in order to make the SEO turn green.
• The next step is to make sure to save the settings and then Publish your Post.

Advertising

The next step is to Advertise your blog. In other words, Promote your blog. Promoting your blog through Google advertising makes sense once you have created a huge marketplace for selling your goods online. It surely requires some expenses but it’s worth it because you get a good amount of conversions. Well, just in the beginning promoting your blog through backlinking or allowing guest post, or sharing content yourself to other social media platforms make sense.

BACKLINKING

You may simply backlink your post to other pages that you have created from one another to get more views.

Or

A backlink simply implies that the blog you linked to also will post a link (automatically) to your blog. This implies that anyone reading the opposite person’s blog post will see the link to your blog, and hopefully click thereon to go to your site.