How to start a Blog on WordPress?

Today, WordPress is not unique to anyone. All of us are well aware of it, its functions, its features, etc. And thus, if you are wishing to start a blog in any niche like travel, food, tech, or anything else, then WordPress is the best platform to start with. And, this tutorial is specially made for you so that you can learn how to start a blog on WordPress. So, let’s start!

1.      First, signup with a web hosting platform like BlueHost, SiteGround, HostGator, etc. I would recommend BlueHost to you all as it highly simplifies the WordPress installation process.

2.      From BlueHost, choose any one hosting plan of your choice. If you’re a fresher with no experience, go with the Basic plan as it's less complicated and sufficient for beginners.

3.      After hosting, it’s the right time to register with a domain name. BlueHost provides domain name free for the initial 1^st year and then, just pay $2.95 a month.

4.      Now, now follow the subsequent instructions with care to complete your registration process.

5.      As stated above, with BlueHost, you get the one-click installation of WordPress. So, do it to have WordPress installed on your system.

6.      Lastly, log into your WordPress account, install necessary themes, plugins, and you are good to go with your first WordPress blog!

I just want to know, why do you want to do blogging? For entertainment or as a hobby or for making some money out of it? I know, many of you will go with the 3^rd one, that is to learn money! But, let me tell you, you may not be able to make any if you’re not able to generate traffic on your blog. So, now I would teach you how to generate traffic on your blog!

1.      Know the audience for whom you’re writing. This helps you in getting a better understanding of their needs, their interests, etc.

2.      Do proper keyword research to plan your content strategy as better will be your keywords, the higher you will be ranked on search engines.

3.      Remember, Content is the King! So, develop a comprehensive and useful content that can prove beneficial to the readers.

4.      Make your content highly readable by underlining smaller sentences and paragraphs, including relevant images and visuals, using cool and lighter themes, etc.

5.      Apply the SEO basics to your website to make it more search engine friendly. You don’t have to be an SEO expert to do this. Just, use plugins like Yoast SEO. It will do all the tasks related to SEO on its own.

6.      The first thing that will grab the reader's attention is your blog headline. So, spend time to make it catchy and interactive. For example, use modifiers like best, easy, etc. for doing so.

7.      Along with getting direct readers to your website, get some from other websites too with the aid of backlinks! Getting a backlink is not easy but a simple way of getting one is via guest blogging on other sites.

8.      Always add at least one video on in your article as people spend more time on articles with images than on those where only text and images are present.

So, that’s all for this article! I believe that I must have solved your query on How to Start a Successful Blog and how to get traffic on that blog. So, get started from today only as every day, millions of websites get registered on BlueHost only. So, think of an appropriate domain name and register yourself too, with BlueHost. Also, use the above-mentioned tactics for getting more and more web traffic.