If you’re currently looking into ways to make money online, perhaps due to a loss in income or other financial challenges, then blogging should certainly be an option to explore further.
Whether you are a student or pensioner, it doesn’t matter. Everyone can start a blog that can generate an income at some stage.
A blog is more than just an online journal. It can boost your online presence immensely.
If you’re still studying and looking to establish a work portfolio to demonstrate after graduating, your blog could be a great platform. If you’re a retiree looking for a new challenge or simply following up with your favourite hobby or passion, a blog can be a fantastic way to share your knowledge and expertise.
Having a blog is one thing, but what can really drive organic traffic and attract many more potential readers and customers is a blog where most of their questions are answered in a reader-friendly and SEO-friendly manner.
Most businesses and bloggers would start a blog using the popular WordPress platform due to its reliability, popularity, and flexibility. The other plus is that you can start a blog for free with WordPress and at web hosting company SeekaHost you would have access to a unique blog hosting control panel, allowing you to set up your website in 60 seconds and tracking it with analytics tools in one place.
So, where to start?
How To Get Started With A Free WordPress Blog?
The blogging experts at SeekaHost have set up and managed hundreds of WordPress blogs from scratch for just a few dollars. Even popular bloggers like The Money Saving Expert Martin Lewis started a very humble blog for £80 and within ten years this is generating millions.
That’s why SeekaHosters are working on making blogging so easy that anyone can start a blog, even without any previous knowledge and experience of blogging, WordPress or web hosting.
How Can You Set Up Your WordPress blog?
At SeekaHost you can find everything you need to start a blog, from finding the best domain name to getting it up and running.
Finding and registering the right domain for the perfect start
Anything else can be altered and modified. But a domain name and extension once chosen remains a permanent feature of your site, because everything is built on that foundation. The SeekaHost support team can help you with identifying the best extension such as .com or .net and you can find many guides about identifying the right domain name on their blog. There are also domain name generator tools like Domain Wheel to make some inspiring suggestions.
Once you have narrowed it down, quickly check its availability in the SeekaHost domain registration search bar and you’re ready to buy it. SeekaHost offers very affordable annual domain prices starting from just £6.
Providing the best value hosting and content management solution for your blog
Just like a property in the real world needs land to be built on, a website resides on a server, which can be compared to a huge hard disk. With SeekaHost you can rent space on a hard drive managed by the hosting company to ensure your blog is hosted in a safe and reliable manner with almost 100% uptime and fast loading speed.
When you register with the SeekaHost App, you can choose blog web hosting starting from as little as $1 per month. This includes much more than just hosting your domain. You will also get:
- Access to an easy-to-navigate control panel where you can manage all your domains.
- Access to tracking tools like Google Analytics and Clicky for simple SEO analysis of your websites.
- Access to a knowledgebase full of tutorials and articles offering you tips and how-to-guidance covering everything you need to know about setting up your blog.
- Access to eLearning platform SeekaHost University where you can find online courses about blogging, SEO and digital marketing to help you boost and monetize your blog.
Supporting you with growing your blog ready for monetization
Once your blog is up and running, you need to build it in a way that it will attract traffic and become noticeable on search engines and other online platforms.
This requires knowledge and understanding of WordPress blog management, digital marketing and SEO. You can find many tutorials on YouTube; however, SeekaHost University provides expert courses covering:
- How to create a WordPress blog step by step, including how to do on-page SEO, choose the right themes and plugins and publishing pages and posts in an SEO-friendly manner. This is vital knowledge to get your blog to rank for certain keywords you have identified on search engines. Then, your target audience will find your site easily and your organic traffic will grow. The Blog For Profits and Ultimate Blogging Course is best for this.
- How to write SEO-friendly web content to drive more targeted organic traffic to your website. This can make a huge difference, because once you identify what your readers want to know and read about, you can learn about ways to incorporate these search terms in a way that search engine bots will love your writing and reward it with top ranks. The SEO Content Writing Course is most suitable here.
- How to advertise your blog on Google or Facebook to use other channels for increased exposure. The difference to generating organic traffic, is that you use paid ads to reach even more readers. Even if you are on a low budget starting from $1 a day, this is a viable option that can bring in good returns. Because, if you start earning money with your blog from affiliate marketing or selling guides, books, or other digital products, you can invest part of your revenue in advertisement. The Google Ads and Facebook Remarketing Course will offer those insights.
SeekaHost Bloggers like me have trialed and tested these techniques and guarantee that your blog will grow and increase its exposure if you follow all the steps and implement them as explained in depth in the courses. Get ready to build the blog of your dreams on WordPress with the best blog hosting control panel there is. And don’t worry about your skills. SeekaHost got you covered to go from zero to hero!