When I started blogging there are many reasons why I decided to.Just like the same way other people decides to blog for the below most recommended reasons: and the most known reasons are;Sharing their experience,Looking for a passive income, traveling plans etc.

When I first started out, I thought of making a passive income as well as to share my thoughts and experiences to the world I guess that Your’s could be any of the above, or some other reasons.

In a nutshell, blogging can evidently assist you achieve your personal and commercial goals easily provided you're consistent and persistent.

Mmmmm! I boast you are getting me right. So without further ado, let's delve deeper on how you gonna learn, master the basics and easily start your own blog now.

Here's the complete steps you have to follow for you to create a blog

1: Choose your preferred Blogging platform.

Step 2: Pick what your blog is all about (niche)

Step 3: Pick a Blog name & domain name for your blog

Step 4: picking the hosting company to start the Blog

Step 5: Setup your blog

Step 6: Customize/ Design your blog

Step 7: Install WordPress Plugins

Step 8:Develop a plan concerning your content

Step 9: Writing your first Blog post

Step 10: Add important pages on your Blog

Step 11:Drive traffic easily to your blog

How To Start A Blog From Scratch And Build On Your Own In August 2022( Newbies tutorial)

This spiced article is created for ameteurs/newbies like you who are just wandering around looking for ways on how to start a blog from scratch and build it on their own successfully without hasles .

This tutorial suits people who have very little knowledge or knows nothing at all about blogging in their mindset.

I believe that after reading this great article, you will successfully create your own blog and have it running to it best level.

Step 1:Choose Your Preferred Blogging Platform.

In most cases it's hard to know where one should even start.

The exact question is where should you create your blog?

Since there are very many blogging platforms out there, most bloggers have different options and opinions about each one of them.

I personally decided to choose Blogger platform because of its familiarity with me whereas others opt to wix, square space or WordPress platform.

Blogger and WordPress are most popular in the world because of their simplicity and user friendly to beginners.

Chose your hosting company wisely and I do hope you will be ready to get something great and unique from it.

Which is the best blogging platform? Blogger or WordPress

Answer-most bloggers prefer WordPress because WordPress have ready made plugins which reduces the workload of having to code etc unlike blogger.

Step 2: What your blog is all about? (Niche)

Before you do anything else , what's more important is the niche of your blog or the topic you are going to talk about on your blog.

You ought to be very careful here as not to spoil your blog with what you aren't familiar with.

Be simple and chose one or two because I believe most people will find your blog charming when they know that niche you are talking about and that is what they are looking for.

What are the tips on how to find the topic of your blog now?

I have handy tools that will help you ignite and move on swiftly.

Try to find a topic that you are competent with. By saying so It doesn’t have to be the job you are doing recently but it could be anything you seem to have a slight grasp.

It can be very challenging but try to think and bring in the clarity of the picture about the topic that you definitely like talking about and it has to be the one that you can confidently talk for a long duration without discomfort.

The best bet is to pick a topic that you usually read about.

The topic which you read about all the time is something that interests you. Also it gives you a sense of understanding what you are going to talk about honestly to your audience.

So what can a beginner do to choose his or her own best niche?

First and foremost, with the aid of what interests you better to worse, write down all of them then couple up with a post on each one of them then try to check which suits you the best.

By the end of each article I guess that you will have gotten your niche.

That will be a good headstart because it won't be that much easy to run out of what you are talking about yet your blog is blossoming .

This is a critical step before starting a blog, as it will help you to pick a topic that you are most passionate about.

How to choose a niche of your new blog?

Single or multiple

Answer-Selecting the appropriate niche is the first and the most important step for starting a new blog.

Step 3: Pick a Blog name And domain name for your blog

What is a domain name?

Answer- it is simply the web address built on www(world wide web) your blogs name with the .com or other extensions. It is used to identify or point directly to your blog.

How can you choose the best domain name for your blog?

Choose the one that is easy to remember, we need a simple domain name which your visitors can memorize easily.

You can use your preferred web hosting company ie HostGator, Bluehost and Namecheap to check the availability of your domain. Easy to type since it is pronounced easily

Keep it easy  and simple to pronounce. Achieve that by using letters only. Avoid adding numeric at the beginning unless it is a must for you. This will allow your visitors have your web address at their fingertips. Anytime they are online they may decide to check out what you have presented them with.

A domain name is the URL of a blog which allows visitors to use as a gateway to your blog.

Let's take like www.bivymin.blogspot.com, this is a free blog because of the blogspot as the main root domain.

When I pick a domain name and it appears as www.bivymin.com, this is a premium domain which I have to pay for it by the end of one year plus web hosting which is charged monthly.

Now, there are a few guidelines which will help you to pick the best name for your new blog. Take a pen and a note it down.

There are so many extension like yourdomain.xyz, yourdomain.net etc but I suggest you to pick yourdomain.com because it's easily memorable to your visitors and more addon advantages.

Note: Your domain name should be easy to pronounce and easy to type.

You can simply know your domain availability by using HostGator doman lookup. Simply type your domain then tab on search.

It will also avail more domain name suggestion. Pick one that suits the best.

The domain name of your website is a gem and when you pick one, it should exactly or nearly match with your chosen niche.

Let's say 'Bivymin ' some guys out there know that I'm sharing my personal experience as well as what I am to bravely encounter.

Step 4: Picking the hosting to start the blog:

If you are starting on a free platform, kindly skip this step but if you wanna try premium,let us create our hosting now.

What is web hosting?

This is a server which stays online all through which your blog posts, pages, your blog design etc will be stored on this server (hosting).

Recently, web hosting is cheap irrespective of its popularity.

UpTo date, web hosting service providers have been plenty but for you to pick the best web hosting service, kindly try;

Bluehost

Namecheap

HostGator.

The above companies may provide sterling services such as.

SSL Certificates

Unlimited bandwidth

Unlimited storage

Free domain name(at a small fee)

Easy to use cPanel.

24*7 Live chat support

30 days money back guarantee.

NB:How to choose the best web hosting is how to buy it.

Select the hatchling plan if you want to start one blog or Baby plan if you want to start more than one blog.

Domain Selection (HostGator)

Claim your free domain name. Remember to adjust and pick the .com extension or the extension of your own choice.

Preferably pick the .com extension.

HostGator Plans

Pay special attention to the perfect web hosting plan. Pick the one which will let you save more money.

NB: The longer the contract period the more money you save.

Your HostGator account

At this section, kindly sign in (if you already have created an account with HostGator)or sign up (if you haven't created an account with HostGator) to proceed with HostGator

HostGator Billing Info

Your names, biling address, card number is required to effectively process the payment options.

NB: Honestly provide your correct information

HostGator Complete Package

Check SSL certificate only.

NB: Pick whichever you want wisely. The more you pick the more the money you have to pay

HostGator checkout

Under the payment information, you can pay via credit/debit card or if you want to pay via PayPal.

Immediately after you have made the payment and us processed successfully, HostGator will create your blog within minutes.

Once it has been completely checked, HostGator will automatically point the WordPress software or any other software of your own choice on your domain name.

Your happiness is when your blog is installed on the exact software that you were yearning for.

Step 5: Set up your blog

Since HostGator would have automatically install the blog for you, that doesn't mean you have already created a nice blog and that you can spend that time impressing your friends with your blog nope! Try and complete a few things like theme setting before writing your first blog post. continue reading the next step

Step 6: Customize/Design Your Blog

The design of your blog simply refers to how your blog appear to you as well as your visitors.

The aspect of themes is to render a a complete blog design and not a skeleton of a blog.

In WordPress, there are many free and premium themes out there. It stocks thousands of themes not limited to technology, finance, bakery, affiliate marketing ,news and much more.

Step 7: Install WordPress plugins

WordPress hosts thousands plugins. When I refer to 'thousands' it doesn't mean that you have to stack all of them on your blog.

However, pick the thirsty ones which quenches your blog immediately.

For your newly created blog, I suggest you to add the below plugins.

Yoast SEO

Jetpack

Spam Email Filter

Up to that stage , your blog is ready for anyone to view though it is empty.

Now let us head over to the simplest space where we are going to create an online content ie texts, pictures, pdfs, gifs, videos.

Step 8: Develop a Plan concerning your content

Before you start writing your first blog post, plan your content systematically to avoid confusion a long the highway.

First and foremost, try looking for a good text editor.

I am personally using WPS Office. There are many other text editors out there.

WPS Office render me with suffice writing space.

In most of the time, I write an article even when it's incomplete I save it then i come back to it next time when I'm prepared to complete it.

Bloggers need sufficient space for writing when offline other than when online.

This leads to a perfect and great blog post.

Step 9: Writing your first Blog post

Are you wondering how your first blog post should look like?

I know at this phase it's time to think a lot but it shouldn't be like that.

Once you have identified your niche, what else... Ignite and move on.

There are blog posts that speaks up to the third person. For tutorials just like mine, it is the first person that's why I use' you' and 'I'. You are the only single person sitting next to me.

Your blog post need pictures, gifs, videos.

Be careful not to use copyrighted content on your site. Kindly download for free from Shutterstock and pixabay.

Guidelines on how to write your first blog post

First, don't underestimate yourself or your preferred niche.

Be creative and try to figure out your inner writing skills and not limited to your potential.

W hy I'm not struggling much in writing my blog posts is that I believe Imma great writer and I have to put that into practice.

Try to be listening to people's problems and finding possible solutions to their lives problems.

Put yourself in their shoes. This will aid you to generate tutorials just like mine.

You have to be on the technical know how to solve and fix some issues, am I right?

As you write, don't be too mean let that person know and understand whatever you are rendering them with.

NB:If you find it hard kindly do a thorough research and you'll keep on improving your skills.

Step 10: Add important pages on your blog

At the very first time, it's not worthy to create this pages. Create them after sometime let's say a couple of months or so...

Here's a list of some important pages

About us page: Pertains more about you or your company and your blog.

Contact page: This is a page with your email address, phone numbers and location.

Privacy policy page: explain to the user on how safe he/she is when browsing on your site.

Disclaimer page: It protects you with your site,your visitors as well as third party. It also warrants you, your site, your visitors and the third party.

Terms and conditions: it shows the rules and the regulations of your site. What it does and what it does not.

Step 11: Driving traffic to your Blog

Now that you have created your first blog post, you need to look for visitors who are willing and able to read, comment, review, share as well as subscribe to your blog. That process is called (Driving Traffic)

Let me specialize and say we are driving organic traffic.( Traffic from search engines)

First, you have to submit your website to Google search console.

When you are first starting out, fill in the required fields with the required information.

You must have a sitemap with .xml extension to successfully submit your sitemap to Google search console.

Once you have auction your site on Google, make sure you try all your best on building SEO Optimized blog posts.

Getting new visitors on social media

Social media is the easiest marketing platform to start with if you want your blog to be known very first.

Sharing links is very easy.

Connect your blog with your friends on any social media and see your blog growing with satisfied readers.

As you advance on your writing skills consider creating a Facebook page, Instagram account, Twitter account and linkedin accounts.

Final thoughts.

I believe now that you have created your own blog successfully. May I know whether you have any questions in the comment section regarding How to Start Your Own Blog In August 2022.

If you want more tutorials just like this one just let me know in the comment section.

How can I earn money blogging?

Answer- this is another great quest article I'll be releasing soon. I'll unveil most achievable ways concentrated on the topic

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