So we are learning the ways of earning money by monetizing our blogs or websites. We will learn the most easiest way to make a new website or blog here today. There are many free blogging services available online but we will not choose those free services, because of security and some other reasons. I would recommend to install a WordPress Blog as it’s easy to install and use, as well as good for SEO which helps in generating the traffic from search engines.
WordPress Installation:
WordPress is one of the best and free content management system which is easy to install and use. You can post news, articles, pictures, videos etc. very easily on this blogging system. You can find the themes for your blog very easily over internet, some are free themes and some premium. Thousands of free and premium plugins are available to use. Now the question is how to install it?
How to Install a WordPress:
After logging in to your hosting panel, look for the one click install or WordPress or easy to install scripts in your c-panel and click on it. If you are using HostGator go to Quick Install under Software/Services. Click at WordPress, Click Continue, Choose your domain, Insert your admin information and click Install Now. At the end of installation you will get the admin link to login to your admin section, where you can easily create new posts, categories & setup the settings of your new blog.
Changing Your WordPress Theme:
If you website is attractive and interesting so users will like it and everyone would love to visit again and will bookmark it due to its content and inspirational look. So to create the best look you need to get some themes to install on your newly installed WordPress Blog. You can find some free themes for your blogs which are available online.
But I would recommend you to buy some premium themes. There are many benefits of buying premium themes. Premium themes provider gives you the full support and these are easy to use and customize as well as you can ask your theme provider to make some changes as per your requirements. Here are some good theme providers I would recommend you to buy the themes from Theme Forest. Its a good company and i have used their themes. If you will buy from my referred link i will get some commission which helps me running this blog and helping you guys.
Theme Forest
How to install themes at your Blog:
Its quite simple in WrodPress, as I mentioned before that WordPress is very easy to use. Go to the appearance link in your dashboard > Click themes > Choose Install Theme Tab > Select Upload > Click choose file and select the zip file of your theme you got from the theme seller > click install now. After installation check live preview if its working fine, if theme is working fine without any errors, click activate button and it’s installed.
You can search free themes in install theme tab and can install free theme as well.
How to Install Plugins at your blog:
Installing a plugin is very easy like themes. You just need to go to plugins link under the appearance link in your dashboard. Click on Add New > select upload to upload the zip plugin file and click install now. Or use search to search free plugins and click install to install the plugin. After installing plugins click at activate plugin to activate the installed plugin.
Following are some plugins I would recommend you to install on your blog.
Sharing Plugin:
Most important thing after installing a good theme at your website is using some of best plugins. Sharing plugin is one of the best plugin which help your users to share your websites’ content on social media. It helps you as well in generating the traffic at your website. I would recommend you to use the share this plugin by Sharethis.com. It is the best sharing plugin I have ever used.
Cache Plugin:
WP-Super Cache plugin is one of the best cache plugins for your WordPress Blog. It helps you in creating the cache of your blog posting and pages. It converts your posts and pages into html form so it helps in reducing the load on your database and hosting server.
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