GET YOUR BLOG RUNNING IN TWO WEEKS WITH THIS PROVEN WORK SCHEDULE

Are you new to blogging or are you looking to be a blogger soon?

Are you looking for professional advice on how to get your blog up and running full traffic by two weeks?

Are you stuck wondering on how you are going to organise your schedule?

Then worry no more for you are at the right place.

In this article,you are going to learn how to plan your blogging work from experienced professionals.

We have broken the tedious process into a few easy to understand steps

Step 1:Starting

1)Background decision Decide on what your site will be about e.g. DIY tutorials, science, tech, news etc.

2)Choose a hosting website platform for your site.

What if I don't know how to code? You'd probably ask yourself.Don't worry.

There are a range of free hosting websites to choose from.They all offer the same service; site building and domain hosting all for free. There is no way of ranking them as to which one is the best.It all depends with the customisations that you are seeking.

I'll provide a short description for the first 3 platforms and list the rest other popular platforms that you could check out.

Blogger

This google powered site is among the top site builders and hosting platforms. Its's quite easy to use,thanks to it's user-friendly design and the best for you if you are looking to publish a simple site in the shortest time possible.

Wordpress

This is a huge platform that has over 76.5 million blogs and counting! It's users benefit from the large availability of customisation widgets and plugins. This is the best option for an advanced user.

 Wix

 

This platform offers very beautiful, creative as well as professional looking websites thanks to it's wide variety of ready made templates for any type of website.

Other popular platforms include:

Weebly

Squarespace

Blog

3)Choose your free domain address You'll be asked to input this once you click  'Create my website' tab in any one of the above sites.

You may choose,say; 'myfreedomain.com'

Depending on your website builder platform, your address will be changed to;

myfreedomain.blogspot.com for Blogger

myfreedomain.wordpress.com for Wordpress and so on...

Tip

When choosing your domain name, try to be as unique as possible.

Choose a name or phrase that isn't used by many sites. This will help in SEO(Search Engine Optimisation).

Now that you have your website ready to be built,let's go to step 2

Step 2: Customisation

1)Choose a website name This will be seen at the header section of your website page. It should be catchy.

2)Type at least 5 posts. Neither too short nor too short. Do not publish, at least not yet.I am going to explain this later in this article.

3)Choose a template There are a variety of templates offered by various hosting sites.Choose one convenient for the type of content you are posting

4)Customise Now go to the header section, page list, footer and edit them to look as stylish as possible.

Step 3: Buying a custom domain

If you intend to monetise your website, you will come to realise that you'll make more money when your site has a custom domain than when you are using a free domain.

The reason is simple. Both the reader and the marketing company that will pay you for the ads or any other form of product promotion needs to know that you are a serious blogger. You need to show these two parties that you are willing to make a little sacrifice to publish quality content.

A custom domain puts you at a better position in gaining traffic and getting advertisement offers than when using a free domain.

Below are the best domain registrars

1. 1and1

This is my recommended site to obtain your custom domain. It boasts having a total of 3,597,003 domains registered and it's therefore one of the largest domain registrars.

It's extremely user-friendly with a very dedicated customer care service team.

What even makes it better is that for the first year,you get a mindblowing discount of $14 which means you only pay $0.99!! A deal you won't get anywhere else.In addition to that you get a free SSL certificate.

Click here to claim this discount and get your dream custom domain!!

Other domain registrars are:

2. Godaddy

3. Namecheap

4. Hostgator

5. Name.com

TIP

You will need to first input your desired custom domain to check for availability.

Remember, Be Creative.

Setting up a third-party URL After the purchase you need to link or replace your free domain name to your newly purchased custom domain. In simpler terms, a good example would be; to change your 'myfreedomain.blogspot.com' to 'myfreedomain.com'.

Your hosting platform will provide you with the instructions on how to go about this.

Step 4: Introducing your site to the world

After choosing your website name, customising your website and having at least 5 ready to publish articles, now it's time to go public.

1)Publish the 5+ ready articles. As I mentioned earlier it's highly recommended that you do this before going public. The reason behind it is to prevent your new traffic from coming to your site and be pushed away  by a big under construction sign. These articles will give your very first audience a touch of what your site is about.

2)Market your site There are several ways of doing this;

• Social media >Create awareness through facebook,google+,twitter and other platforms to get traffic
• Building ad campaigns > These will cost you a little amount of money but they are a perfect way to gain traffic
• Traffic exchange program > What these basically do is site promotion. For every site you visit under these programs, you receive a visitor back to your link.
• Submit your website to Social Bookmarking Sites. > This will cost you a very small amount compared to the amount of traffic that you'll receive back to your site. It's very effective. To see various cheap deals for Bookmarking, visit SEOClerks.

3)Submit your site to major search engines  This is very important. It presents your site to major search engines so that if someone searches content on them and your site contains related content, it will pop up among the results. This is a Must Do. The process is usually easy since you just need to search for the search engine webmaster tool and click 'add site' and then follow the steps shown.

To submit your site to Google Search Engine. Go to Google Webmaster Tools

To submit your site to Bing Search Engine. Go to Bing Webmaster Tools

Step 5: Monetise your website

After you have published your articles and started gaining traffic, now it's time to monetise your website.

The best ways to monetise your website is through ad networks and affiliate marketing programs.

The leading ad network for websites is Google AdSense. To sign up with them, you need to have substantial content(another importance of the first +articles) and an easy to navigate website layout.

Other ad networks include:

Adbuff

Infolinks

The only requirement for these is just a user-friendly website that's easy to navigate.

And that's it.

Within less than a month from startup, following this work schedule, you should have a considerable audience and even better, you'll be earning from it.

Additional recommendations include;

• Making your site secure and rank higher in search engines by purchasing an SSL certificate from SSL.com
• Optimising your site e.g. by making it faster by installing a Cache Plugin, improving search keywords etc.
• Posting regularly to increase and maintain your audience.

Good luck!

Hope to see your website soon.

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