Before we start discussing, How to set up a blog or Why You Need Content On Your Blog it is important to know what a business blog is and why you need a blog for your startup. The 21st century dominated by Google search engine algorithms and people searching data online. People have gotten a lot of exposure from this technology and almost everyone old and young alike, is using the Internet.
One easy way to get found and keep up to date content on your site is through blogging. Blogging can also be easily considered one of the newest and hottest trends across the Internet. It’s fun to read and easy to write. Anybody can set up their own blog and write about whatever they feel like sharing with the world. Your blog can be personal, business, or something generic; it helps you build an interesting relationship with the blog readers. If your blogs are engaging and informative, you will have your audience eagerly waiting for your next post.
As much fun as blogging sounds, it is equally easy to setup your own business blog. You just simply need to follow a few steps and you have your own personalized blog.
Time To Get Your Own Blog
Now to start off with your blog, you need to get a domain name for yourself. Don’t think of it as something complicated, because it’s not! A domain name is basically a web address via which people/audience can reach you. Domain names are dirt-cheap, so don’t fret about the cost, it’s usually less than $10. ‘GoDaddy’ is a great suggestion to get your domain name from.
Next step is to choose a hosting company, meaning you need to host your business blog on the Internet. There are numerous kinds of services provided that maintain and host your blog efficiently, but it is recommended that you only choose cPannel hosting. I personally like NetHosting. NetHosting has a startup program that helps young entrepreneurs like yourself.
Once you’ve got your host, you need to build a list. It is not necessary to build a list online, contrary to what you might have heard. You only need to understand how to capture emails and put in certain plugins that will add capture pages to your blog. Furthermore, you will also need an auto-responder in order to grasp your customer information.
Now, you’re just left with a few steps in order to start your own blog. The next step in line is to install your WordPress blog (or the one which you want). There is no need to feel anxious about it; it’s really not that tough. Installing a WordPress blog is as easy as learning how to start up a PC. You just need to log into your cPannel, where you’ll find a script called ‘Fantastico’. This script will help you install WordPress blog easily. Just keep clicking, first on ‘Fantastico’, script on cPannel, and then click onto ‘WordPress’ and lastly on ‘New Installation’. By simply following this series of steps, you’ll have WordPress installed in no time.
Design Your Blog
The final step brings out the artist in you, or just makes you call your most artistic friend to help you with it. This step involves getting a theme design. Themes are vital as they will attract your audience and keep them hooked. You can let your creative juices flow and design a crazy, sober, classy, or outrageous theme, whatever your taste or blog is about. You can get your hands on a lot of free or paid theme designs, but paid theme designs are more reliable so it is suggested that you get one of those. You can instruct them to design your theme according to your blog and make it catchy and interesting for your audiences. There are also numerous WordPress theme designs that are really great and can be found free of cost but for that you would have to do a lot of research on Google.
Once you have your blog set up, all you need now is traffic generation and keywords. Traffic generation is basically driving traffic to your blog. You need to master this technique in order to get your audience and followers. This is the most important part of getting your blog online; you need to let people know by different means of communication and start building links to your blog. Keywords also help in driving traffic to your blog. You need to learn how to use keywords in your blog or encompass your blog around the keywords. Writing blogs is just the beginning, making it popular and followed is your final target.
Setting up blogs and getting those running may take some time and at the start you may not be able to give due attention to intricate details but with time and knowledge you’ll master the art of writing a blog and realize how simple it is.