How to Start a Blog in November ‘2019 — Easy Guide to create a Blog Step by Step for Beginner’s
By: Technical Pankaj Verma
Tags: Make Money Online, Blogging, How To Start Blogging, Passive Income, Money

How to Start a Blog in November ‘2019 — Easy Guide to create a Blog Step by Step for Beginner’s Technical Pankaj Verma Nov 20, 2019·11 min read

Would you like to start a blog and get paid through blogging? Do you want to make handsome money every month from it? Yeah! It’s possible to do both at the same time!

It’s better than anything that following your passion and making passive income along. It’s a great way to starting to build your online career which would help you to reach the new heights in life and career as well.

AskPankajVerma has taught many users around the globe about blogging and we would also publish monthly income reports to assist you to start a blog and live a boss free life.

Many of these could be the reason to start your blog:

or any other reason which has not been listed above.

Here are some of the questions, you should ask to start a blog for a beginning:

Where should you start a blog? (Blogging Platform)

What niche you should pick? (Blog Subject or Topic)

What should be your domain name?

How to buy the domain name?

Where should you host your blog?

How to buy Hosting for your domain name?

How to install your blog on the domain name?

Design of your blog

Essential plugins to make your blog shine

How to write the first blog post

In this tutorial guide, you will find answers of all these questions and will be able to start a blog like expert.

So, Just relax and take a long breathe, you are going to enter in new journey.

Please find below the steps to start a blog:

Step 1: Picking the blog topic Step 2: Select the blogging platform Step 3: Pick a domain name & hosting for your blog Step 4: Install WordPress on the blog Step 5: Setup the design of the blog Step 6: Install the best WordPress plugins Step 7: Write your first post on your blog Step 8: Share your write-up with the world Step 9: Monetize your blog Step 10: Drive traffic and gain more exposure

To make action simpler for you, I am only proposing those options in terms of platform, hosting that work for everyone.

This blog creation guide is designed for users like you who just starting and know about blogging a little or nothing.

Within the next few minutes, you will have your blog up and running.

What your blog is about? (Niche)

The very first thing you need to do is find the niche of your blog. By niche, I mean finding a topic that your blog is going to be about.

I hope you don’t plan to blog about every random thing and make money. This doesn’t work in 2019 and your chances of success are better when you blog on a single topic.

You might be a jack of all trades, and want to start a blog on multiple topics, but it will not be fruitful, as people like to subscribe to a blog, which is an authority on a particular topic.

Moreover, Google which is the biggest search engine prefers a website which is built on a single topic. For example, AskPankajVerma topic is “blogging,” and that’s how you found us.

Now, the big question is

how to find the topic of your blog?

Here are a few tips that will help you to get started:

Find a topic that you know better than anyone else. It doesn’t have to be the job you are doing, and it could be anything. Try to think about the topic that you most like to talk about, and you can comfortably talk about it for hours.

The good idea is to pick a topic that you usually read about. The topic which you read about all the time is something that interests you.

Also, make sure you have a keen interest in a particular topic, and you can add values with your own insight.

For newbies, I always recommend to take the help of pen-paper and write down the topics in different columns that you like. For ex: Motivation, Fashion, Technology, Finance, Photography, Scientific research, Babycare, health care and so on. Now, try to write 5 post ideas for those different columns. When you are writing the post title, think about what you can write without taking reference. By the end of the 5th article, it will help you to find the topic (Niche) that you like the most.

This is a critical step before starting a blog, as it will help you to pick a topic that you are most passionate about.

This will ensure that you will not burn out when your blog goes live.

If you are picking a topic that you like to talk about and write about, it will ensure that your burn out period will never come. So, I assume you have selected the niche for your blog which can make some money for you.

Conclusion- selecting the appropriate niche is the first and the most important step for starting a new blog.

Pick a Blog name & domain name for your Blog

Domain Name:

Just remember these 3 secrets when you pick a domain name for your blog.

Your blog’s name is the most important component for success. A domain name is a blog’s URL used by a visitor to open a blog.

For example: www.AskPankajVerma.com

Now, there are few rules that will assist you to select your new blog’s best name. Here are some of my experience’s advice:

Prefer .com domain name above everything else.

Your domain name should be easy to pronounce and easy to type.

Make sure your domain name should not be confusing to the listener.

You can use domain availability feature of Siteground to check if your domain name is available or not. Simply enter any word that you have picked for your blog and it will also show you available domain name suggestions.

My suggestion is to be creative and to follow the three rules that I have already shared. Here are some things you shouldn’t do when choosing your new blog’s domain name:

Don’t use a too long domain name. Try to keep it lower than 15 characters. Ex: AskPankajVerma

Don’t use domain extension like .info, .net and so on, because they tend to rank bad in Search engines. I always prefer and suggest to use a domain name extension like .com or .org.

Picking the hosting to start the blog:

Now, let’s build your blog on a hosting.

Web-hosting is where WordPress will be installed. This is a server which stays online 24*7 and all your future blog images, your blog design and everything will be stored on this server / hosting.

That’s how it’s going to run your website 24 * 7.

The good thing is, hostings are cheap.

There are many of hosting service providers but for your blog:

Siteground is the best choice as it offers everything you need to create a blog. Benefits like:

Full SSD storage (Improve web-hosting performance by 3X)

Free SSL Certificate

Support up to PHP 7.3

SuperCacher for great speed. Works with WordPress & Drupal

WP-CLI enabled (Good for developers)

Staging for WordPress & Joomla Websites (Only on GoGeek plan)

Daily backups

Live chat support

30 days money back guarantee

Apart from these, they have prompt responsive & friendly technical customer support. I have experienced it personally. For a growing website, they also offer Cloud hosting & dedicated hosting. And the best part, it only cost $3.95/month

Click on the link to Buy SiteGround Hosting.

If you want to know detail information then click on How to Buy Hosting Plan.

Once you have made the payment to buy hosting, SiteGround will also create your blog in next 10 minutes. This will be done automatically and saves a lot of hassles for beginners who just want a ready-made blog. SiteGround will ask for this option once you have made payment & got confirmation over your registered email address.

If you skip this option you can manage your blog on your own, I will share step by step process here to setup your blog by yourself.

Now you can start creating your blog.

Here you can directly go to your WordPress blog dashboard by clicking on your SiteGround account by clicking on this link www.siteground.com

Your SiteGround account dashboard looks like this-

Now we will see next important part of starting your blog.

Design Your Blog

You need to do some of the most important things immediately after creating your blog.

1. Complete WHOIS verification

If you chosen a new domain in step 2 ‘Type Your Domain Name’ above, then you will receive a WHOIS Verification email. Open your email and click on “Verify Your Email” link to activate your domain.

Then log in to WordPress account by clicking on “Log in to WordPress” from your SitGround account.

Refer below images to do other things related to your blog setup.

2. Create a new user with Administrator Role

This is the first thing to do after starting a blog. When SiteGround installs WordPress on your hosting, it provides you with the default username ‘admin’ which is not good. Spammers and hackers can attack your blog with spam and malware.

You need to change this with strong username and password.

There is no provision to change the username in WordPress. You need to create a new user and delete the default user ‘admin’.

Enter the details of the new user. Username, Email, First & Last Name.

Click on ‘Show password’ to see the password of your WordPress blog. If you want, you can change.

Choose Role as ‘Administrator’.

Click on ‘Users’ as shown in the image and then ‘Add New’.

Find here the details of your WordPress blog account.

WordPress Login URL: https://YourDomain.com/wp-admin (replace YourDomain with your domain name)

Username & Password will be as given in the above steps.

Now logout of your WordPress account and login again with new username & password using the above login URL link.

Again go to ‘Users->All Users’.

Select ‘admin’ user and delete this or change the role to ‘Subscriber’.

3. Install a theme after starting your blog

You need to install or change your theme when you start a blog. There are thousands of free & paid themes provided by thousands of developers. A theme will change the overall design, style, and layout of your blog.

You can click on ‘Appearance -> Themes -> WordPress.org Themes’ to find free themes provided by WordPress.

Do some experiments with the free themes and check which one you like the most. Chose a responsive theme so that it will be compatible with the smartphone.

There are hundreds of premium themes outside WordPress provided by different companies. My favorite theme is Generate Press. Premium themes have more features and easy to customize.

4. Install Important plugins

WordPress plugins are like apps that allow you to add new features and functionality to your WordPress blog. You must install some essential plugins for creating your blog.

Click on ‘’Plugins -> Add New’ and search for these plugins to install and activate.

1. Yoast SEO: One of the best plugin for on-page SEO and other things like creating a sitemap.

2. JetPack Plugin: Already installed by SiteGround. You click on JetPack plugin and then click on Setup button to setup this plugin. It’s is a multipurpose plugin where you can add things like contact form, share buttons, site stats and many other things.

3. WP Smush: Images are the great way to enhance the quality of your posts, but images take lots of storage space and at the same time slow down your blog. This plugin optimizes and compresses your image without reducing the quality of your images. It results in less storage and faster speed.

There are other plugins that you can add like ‘Contact Form 7’, Google Analytics, Add to Any Share Button, WordFrence Security etc.

5. Change the permalink

Permalink is a great way to create a clean & SEO friendly URL. Just click on Settings -> Permalink to change your settings. Just select the ‘Custom Structure’ and enter /%postname%/ in the text box and click the “Save Changes”.

6. Add your first post

It’s time to add your first blog post. You must write at least 1000 word blog post on your favorite topic based on your blog. Images make your content more attractive so add quality images in your post.

You can find the images on sites like Pixabay, Canva, Unsplash to use on your blog.

Click on ‘Posts -> Add New’ to add your first post.

Add your title and content with images and click on “Publish” button to publish the post.

Congratulation! You have published your first post after starting your blog.

Start Making Money with Your Blog

Different people have different purpose of starting a blog. Someone may use this as a hobby or personal blog. Someone may use this as a business blog. Alternatively, someone wants to become a professional blogger like me.

However, making money with a blog is one of the most common goals to start a blog.

Here are the steps if you want to make money after creating your blog.

1. Write on Regular Basis

You must write on a regular basis after starting your blog. Your posts should have excellent research and original ideas where people can get something new. People like and share such content.

More quality content you like, more the traffic you can get.

2. Promote your blog

This is the most important step to get the traffic on your blog. Making money without traffic is difficult. It takes time to get traffic on your blog.

Learn SEO and implement on-page & off-page SEO techniques on your blog. This way you can get good traffic from Google. Share your content on social sites like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram, Pinterest etc. Write comments and guest posts on other blogs. Create videos and upload on YouTube and other video sharing sites

There are many things you can do to get traffic on your blog.

3. Monetize your blog

This is the ultimate aim of every blogger after starting a blog. There are number of ways to make money from a blog but I won’t recommend many.

I will keep it simple and suggest you just 2 ways as a beginner.

You can make money with Google AdSense and Amazon.

Sign up with AdSense (try only after you receive some traffic on your blog). Google displays ads on your blog similar to you see on this blog. When a visitor clicks on any ads, Google pays you.

Another excellent way is making money as Amazon associate.

Just signup with Amazon Associate India or your country (available in all major countries). Login to your associate account and get an affiliate link for any product you want to promote through your blog.

Whenever someone goes to Amazon by clicking on the affiliate link on your blog and buy something, you get 4% to 12% of the ordered amount from Amazon.

Don’t look for any other ways right now as you will get confused and focus more on making money rather than making your blog successful. I prefer AdSense and affiliate marketing to earn from my blogs.

I hope this guide is useful and it helped you to start your first blog. If you have any query, then you can ask through the comment or contact us, and I will help you to start your blog and make it successful.

Originally published at https://www.askpankajverma.com.