how to star blog

Ready to create your blog today? Let’s get started…

Here’s how to start a blog:

1. Choose your blogging platform
2. Choose a domain name and host
3. Customize and edit your blog
4. Write posts and add pages
5. Get traffic and make it successful

(Don’t worry, I’ll walk you through each one below in-depth)

Step 1: Getting Started – Choose your Blogging Platform (WordPress)

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Before you can even start worrying about how your blog will look like, you’ll need to choose your blogging platform.
There’s a lot to choose from. You are able to create a blog with many different blogging platforms, such as WordPress, Tumblr, Blogger and more…
However, given that there are over 72 million active users using WordPress today, it’s clear which platform is the boss. Even my own blogs and sites are built with WordPress blogging platform. Here’s why:

• It’s FREE for everyone to use (including themes, layouts and add-ons that many other blogging platforms don’t provide).

• It’s super easy to set up.

• It’s secure; WordPress is always updating their software and keeping everything sound and secure, so there’s rarely a worry of having your blog come under hacking attacks. No wonder Sony, NASA and even university blogs are using WordPress.

• It’s HIGHLY customizable. There are hundreds of free themes and plugins that add more functionality to your blog, from contact and subscribe boxes to plugins that improve blog performance and more.