Starting a Blog in 2021
Since the awareness of blogging is increasing day by day, everybody knows the importance of a blog and use this as a long time career and motivate themselves to do so. But the important thing is to sum up their knowledge and implement it in a proper and systematic way so that their blog will be a valuable material for others.
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This is the article I write for those who are keen to know the question of how to start a blogging career in 2021 but are unable to understand from where and how to start it. So you can learn it from here in this article.
How to start a blog?
Every beginner has a question of how to start their blogging journey. As a starter, first you should have to decide a niche on which you are willing to create your blog. A niche is basically a subject on which your blog is about. This is the most important step for a blogger. Niche selection is a crucial one. It needs a lot of study and research to decide a desirable and profitable niche otherwise stick with a blog will be the waste of time.
First of all one have to do a thorough research on the most searched topic on the internet.
Second, increase your knowledge on that specific topic so that you will become an able to write a beautiful and a worthy article so that it can add the values to others life
Third, you will have to buy a custom domain and a suitable host to create your blogging website. It is discussed in detail below to let you understand completely.
Ways of creating a blog
Unpaid Ways
There are many websites that offer you to create a blog at free of cost on their website namely Blogger, Wix, Weebly, Joomla, Hubpages and many more are in the line. Among these, Blogger is a recommended one because it provides you a top class blogging experience use this and yes for a beginner this is what you want to put your fingers on and gain as much experience as this blogging journey needs you to grow.
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Paid Ways
If you are capable of investing then it is recommended to buy custom domain and host and create your own website to perform well. Having your own website lets you do a number of things and create it as you want it to be. On the other hand create a blog on the free platform have many restrictions and for that reason you will not be able to create it as much likely as you want. Having own website has one more noticeable benefit, it let you to create it as much user friendly, as much Search engine Optimization (SEO) as it requires to be near perfect and use many creative tools.
Steps to start a blog
• Buy a Domain
To start your website you must have to buy a custom domain. There are many domain providers who provide you a domain such as Godaddy, Hostinger, Bluehost, Network and many more that provide you your desired domain.
Before buying any domain few things must have to be known to you i.e.
Don’t use any trademark word in your domain. It means that you don’t use any word which contains any company’s name.
Before buying always check domain’s history if it was clean or had any legal issues with any search engine and was penalized before.
Always pick a reputable and trustworthy domain registrar.
By remebering above simple steps before purchasing so you will never land on any trouble
• Buy a Host
After buying domain, you will have to buy a host that provides you the desired speed to access your website. There are many providers namely Bluehost, Dreamhost, Hostinger, HostGator and many more.
Some information on hosting: Many people did not understand the use and purpose of hosting. It is important as buying only a domain does not fulfill your requirement, there is a need of host that allows your website to be active and live on the internet. Web hosting is nothing but it is a space that you buy on a server to store your files so when anyone wants to enter on your website they can enter your domain name on any browser and get directed to your website. Basically a web host charges for their back services which includes server maintenance and repair etc. but that doesn’t mean that you may lose control of your website you are the owner of it and have full-fledged control over it and can change or update anything you want.
Install Templates
Install Wordpress
After having your own website name and a hosting server you need to buy the tools that will set up your website as you desire. There are many developers that will provide you a ready-made project that they do before according to your criteria and you can also hire someone to do so. But nowadays everything is so easy to understand and create that for a blog website everyone can make their desired one by themselves. There are many tools available to do your job but many prefer Wordpress over any other tool as it has many efficient plugin to enhance your website’s performance and obviously the best thing is that it is free of cost.
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Install Plugins
The best thing of wordpress is that it will provide you desirable plugins to boost your websites performance in a much efficient manner and in easiest way. There are many plugins for SEO, decorating content, fast loading page and much more available to grow your business.
Summary
So after reading this article, I hope that you understand how to start a blog in 2021. I will also write the article on the guide to write a blog on my upcoming post. So let's start to do so for becoming successful one have to start as soon as possible and to implement as much as possible. Wishing you become a successful blogger.
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