How to start a Blog

By Ayo Akinfolarin / May 28, 2018

Yes, you can start a blog in 5-15 minutes. Blogging is one of the easiest and fastest businesses you can start. Blogging is a business that can make anybody who is hardworking very rich.

If you can afford to buy airtime or data bundle, you can also start a blog that may turn your life around positively. I earn good money from my blog monthly. You do not need to have huge traffic. You also do not need to use Google Adsense before you make good money on your blog.

A2 Hosting will enable you to start a blog at a very cheap rate. The money you will pay for hosting your blog on A2 Hosting cannot be more than the money you use to buy airtime and internet bundle on your mobile phone.

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Host Your Domain Now

A2 Hosting is one of the leading web hosting companies in the world. The speed of A2 Hosting is a big advantage for your SEO and visitors’ retention on your site, i strongly recommend this hosting company. You can host your blog or website with A2 Hosting for as low as $3.92 per month. Isn’t this extremely cheap?

Even if you are not a blogger, choosing A2 Hosting as your web host provider can bring a lot of value to your brand or business.

You should never use free domains like blogspot for your blog. I have never seen any blog that makes good money with blogspot and other free domains. Brandability of your domain is key.

If you are a freelancer and you want to showcase your work on a website or blog, A2 Hosting is there to make your dream come true.

Some of the reasons you should buy and host your domain/website/blog with Namecheap are:

A2 Hosting is affordable and very cheap considering the fact that you can host more than one website or blog on its web hosting package
A2 Hosting provides free wordpress access when you pay for hosting
The customer support of A2 Hosting is great. The company has a live chatbox
Your blog can be self hosted and look professional not like blogspot
You can host more than one website/blog on even the cheapest hosting package

See why i avoid hosting my websites with Nigerian website hosts here.

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How to start a blog on wordpress

Register a domain name

The first thing you need to do when you want to start a blog is to buy or register a domain name. You can buy your domain name directly from A2 Hosting. If you already have a domain name, you will need to transfer it from the domain registrar to A2 Hosting for hosting.

After registering your domain name with A2 Hosting, you will need to host the domain with A2 Hosting also.

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Buy a hosting plan for your blog

After registering your domain, you will need to host it on A2 Hosting. A2 Hosting has one of the cheapest website hosting plans you can think of. To start a blog, you need the most affordable plans. A2 Hosting’s shared hosting plans are the most affordable plans for starters.

You can buy A2 Hosting’s hosting plan with your Mastercard/Visa Card/ATM card, you may need to contact your bank to activate international payments on your card. You can also pay using Paypal. Paypal is easy to set up, just go to www.paypal.com and sign up for an account.

The cheapest of A2 Hosting’s shared hosting plan is the Lite plan which is $3.92 per month. With the Lite plan, you will get the following:

Unlimited storage
Unmetered bandwidth
Unlimited transfer
Free SSL etc

For better plans under the shared hosting package, you can consider the Swift and Turbo plans.

You can contact me on ayo.akinfolarin@30billion.com.ng if you have any problems with your web hosting or domain registration.

Link your domain to your hosting

It is always better to register your domain name with A2 Hosting. You will not need to link your domain name to your host if you have a A2 Hosting domain.

If your domain name was registered with another registrar other than A2 Hosting, you will need to change your nameservers on the registrar’s platform and point the domain to A2 Hosting’s server.

You can contact me for assistance if you need.

Install wordpress

To install wordpress, you will need to go to your control panel to download and install it.

Once, you have installed wordpress, you will be able to create posts

You will need to pick a theme. There are a lot of free wordpress theme plugins. You can also buy beautiful and high converting theme like Thrives Theme

You will need to create basic pages on your blog like the home page, blog page, about and contact etc.

It is a good idea to send newsletter or your blog posts to your subscribers frequently. You will need an email marketing platform to do this. I strongly recommend GetResponse, you can get GetResponse here.