An Easy Step-By-Step Beginner’s Guide To Learn How To Start A Blog In 2020 Under 10 Minutes

Do you want to learn how to start a blog in 2020? Well you are on the right place. I know many people want to own and start a blog of their own. This is quite a good thing to do because, you can share information including your life style and make money.

In this post I will show you the very Best Beginner’s Guide to learn how to start a blog in 2020 under 10 minutes.

Blogging is now a trending online business everywhere in the world. A blog can serve many purposes, depending on an individual’s perspective. Most people want to start blogging but don’t know how to start a blog, so I will start by explaining a blog.

What Is A Blog?

A blog is a type of website that focuses on written content, videos, photographs provided by the writer.

What is the reason you want to start a blog? Find out your why (reason).

There are so many reasons to start a blog, but here are few that I know.

Most people want to own a blog because other people or friends do. They want to become famous with it. Some do so, in other to promote their business and products.

Also, most people start a blog because they want the world to hear their voice and story. And finally the major reason why most people want to own a blog is to make money.

Let me give you a great tip. Most of these reasons may be great depending on you. But if you really want to become very successful with blogging, you have to create value. You can do this by solving people’s problems with your blog or website.

Your why will keep you consistent for the long run because, it will be your source of energy.

Here are the 8 Best Step by Step Beginner’s Guide to Learn How to Start a Blog in 2020.

1. Select a good niche
2. Choose a blogging platform
3. Pick and Buy a Domain name
4. Get a web hosting platform
5. Starting a blog on WordPress
6. Select a theme to design your blog
7. Write contents and promote your blog
8. Make money from your blog

Step 1: Select A Good Niche:

Getting a good niche for your blogging career is the number one criteria on how to start a blog or website. A niche is category or topic which you have enough knowledge to write about. Examples: Education, Health, Fitness, News.

You need to plan and know the suitable niche for you. Although you can write contents on multiple niches, make sure you have enough information on them.

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Step 2: Choose A Blogging Platform:

There are two best content management platforms to create a blog. They are; Blogger/Blogspot and WordPress.

Blogger or BlogSpot:

This is a content management platform that is being powered by Google. This is a very simple platform to start and manage your blog. It doesn’t require you knowing any coding on HTML/ JavaScript.

Everything on blogspot is free. Starting with the hosting to the domain name, although you can buy a custom domain.

All you have to do is just sign up with a Gmail account and create a blog. There are free templates and themes to design your blog but it is limited to certain extent.

Blogspot platform is good to start a blog and learn for free. But if you want to take your blogging career to the next level, then you must be using WordPress instead.

WordPress:

This is the very best content management platform to manage your blog with. But this requires a paid web hosting unlike blogger. Here, you’ll be in control of everything happening in your blog.

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It comes with it great themes your can fully customize to look the way you wish, before implementing. If you are good in web design, you can create your own themes too.

There are so many plugins you can use to make your blogging quite easy and enthusiastic. Search engine optimization is easy to do with WordPress than Blogger because there are plugins for that. Before you use WordPress, you need to buy hosting and then install WordPress application.

Decide on the blogging platform you’ll use for blogging. But for this post, I’ll show you how to start a blog on WordPress.

Step 3: Pick And Buy A Domain Name:

You need a domain name for your blog. What is a Domain name? This is the name your blog will answer, may be your name, company or business name etc. Example: infoleading is the name of this blog. Pick the name you intend your blog to answer, you can use the niche of your blog. For instance; assuming your niche is in fitness, you can use fitnessgoals as your domain name.

Then go and buy a domain extensions. What is a Domain extension? Domain extensions, also known as Top Level Domains or TLDs, are the suffixes or the last part of a domain name. The letters that come after the dot to the right of any domain name. Example: .net, .com, .org, .edu, .info etc.

There are free domain extensions too, Examples: .tk, .ml,. ga,. co.za etc.

If you want to find any free domain name in your niche, use Leandomainsearch to do the search.

After successfully finding the domain name of your choice, then follow these steps to purchase your domain name.

Note: Buying only domain name is for those intending to use blogspot platform for blogging. If you intend using WordPress, skip this step and go over to Web Hosting.

1. Go to Godaddy.com and create an account
2. Sign in with your created account
3. Enter the domain name you want to register
4. Go to your checkout
5. Fill in your payment method
6. Use coupon code to buy domain for one year at $0.99.
7. Go to Godaddy Coupon code and select the one you need, paste it as in the image below.
8. After that, your domain is successfully purchase.

Step 4: Get A Web Hosting:

What is web hosting? Web hosting is a service that allows individuals to post a blog or web page onto the Internet. A web host is service provider, that provides the technologies and services needed for the website or web page to be viewed in the Internet.

In short, web hosting is like buying a land where you will build a house. The land is the server while the house is the blog.

Like I said above on Domain name, if you intend using WordPress just read web hosting. If you already have a domain name, you intend using on WordPress, is okay too.

But if you don’t have, don’t border purchasing because, you’ll get a free domain name once you buy web hosting. So let’s get started here.

There are various web hosting companies like Bluehost, HostGator, Godaddy etc. that you can use. Blue host offers good hosting with good discounts using coupon codes. This is what most bloggers use but am going to show you the one I use.

I use Godaddy web hosting because that is where I purchased my first domain.

Below are the steps to get your web hosting and a free domain name on Godaddy.

1.) Create a Godaddy account and sign in as shown below.

2.) Go to Godaddy web hosting and select the economy hosting.

The economy hosting manages 1 domain name at a time. At is has storage capacity of 100GB which is okay to start a blog.

But later, if you have more than 1 blog to manage, then you’ll upgrade to deluxe.

3.) This will give you the opportunity to get a free domain name once you have selected a web hosting.

Type in the domain name you got from leandomainseacrch and submit.

4.) This will take you to the checkout where you will enter your payment details.

You can use a credit card or PayPal account to purchase your web hosting. There are coupon codes to get 80% off the price.

Paste coupon code and apply. Then finally, purchase your web hosting with a free domain name as well.

Step 5: Starting A Blog on WordPress 

Below are the steps to start a blog on WordPress :

1.) After successfully purchasing web hosting and domain name. Go to your Godaddy web hosting as below.

2.) Click on manage web hosting. This will take you to your Cpanel as shown below.

3.) Click on installatron. This will login you into your Cpanel.

Note: Once you’ve purchase web hosting and click on manage, Godaddy will automatically install WordPress. 

4.) Click on the WordPress icon as shown in the image above. This will take you to the page below.

5.) Click on install this application. Then finally, you’re done installing your WordPress on your web hosting.

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Step 6: Select A Theme

Login to your WordPress blog and Select a theme to customize your blog with. There are thousands of free WordPress blog themes to select for your blog.

1.) Go to appearance and click on themes as above.

2.) Click on add new and you will see so many themes to select from.

3.) You can search for any theme using the search box in the theme’s section.

4.) Select and install the theme of your choice.

5.) Go back to appearance and click on customize. Here you can add and edit how your blog will look like.

Step 7: Write Contents And Promote Your Blog

After you are done with customizing your blog, you can now write your very first blog post.

Go to posts and click on add new. Start writing your blog post and when you are done, you publish it to the world.

You also need to promote your blog contents in other to get visitors to your contents. Creating a well designed blog and writing contents is not where your blogging ends.

For you to get readers especially when you first start blogging, you can use social media. You can use Facebook, Twitter, Instagram etc. to share your blog post with friends.

And they can also share them with multiple friends too. This will help you get people to view your blog.

For you to get new visitors and make them to return to your blog, you’ll need email marketing. This is getting your new visitors to subscribe to your blog by collecting their emails and notify them when there’s a new post.

This will also create a good relationship between you and your blog visitors. It will help get more and more readers over time and keep them returning.

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Step 8: Make Money From Your Blog

After you’ve created a good blog post and promoting your blog, making money from your blog follows suite.

Actually making money from your blog is quite easy. Once your blog  is getting enough traffic advertisers will be looking for advertising space on your blog.

A very easy way to get them is through Google AdSense. This is an advertising network that helps advertisers to display their ads.

It is quite difficult to get Google AdSense Account Approval in recent times because of changes in policy.

But I have explained the best genuine way to get Google AdSense Account Approval in 2020. The above link will show you things your blog needs, in other to qualify for running Ads from Google AdSense.

You can also make money from your blog by selling your products or some else’s.

Read our post on ways to make money from your blog without AdSense.

Conclusion

I have given you the very best 8 steps to learn how to start a blog in 2020 under 10 minutes. It is not a hard thing to start a blog as you can see, but to maintain and keep it consistent is where hard work is required.

Don’t procrastinate after reading this post. Make sure you start immediately because time waits for no one.

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