How to Start a Successful Blog in 2022 and Make Real Money (Beginner’s Guide)

Are you looking for a solution to start a successful blog that makes passive income?

But plenty of question comes in a mind that How to start a blog? What is the blogging platform? Does the blog make money? Does creating a blog cost money? Why do people blogging?

But this guide will help you understand all of your questions about blogging.

You read 100's of blog articles about ‘how to start a blog?' but didn't find a solution. Don't worry; you came to the right place. After reading this step-by-step tutorial, you will be expertise in blogging. We helped 1000+ bloggers to start their journey and succeed. This guide will not only teach you how to start a blog? But also, you will have full knowledge of ‘What blogging is?'.

Not only read the guide but implement it.

So, let's get started now.

How to start a blog in 2022 from scratch in 7 easy steps?

This is a complete guide to start your blog in 2022 from scratch in less than 25 minutes; follow these simple and easy steps that start blogging to earn money online.

1. Find Your Niche.
2. Choose a Domain name & Hosting service.
3. Install WordPress.
4. Setup a WordPress Theme for your Blog.
5. Setup WordPress Plugins.
6. Writing the first blog.
7. Setup SEO for your blog.
8. Conclusion.

1. Find your niche.

This is the very first step when you start a blog; newbies always get confused while choosing a specific niche for a blog.

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What is the blog niche?

A blog niche is a specific topic that your blog will be about (e.g., Life blog, Travel blog, Tech blog, Food blog, Health Blog). It is essential to find a niche for your blog.

How to find a Niche?

To find your blogging niche, you need first to consider your interest.

So take a notebook and a pen (or you can use a Word document) and write all your topics of interest and hobbies.

Now do some market research and make sure that there’s a profitable and big enough market for your topic.

2. Choose a Domain name and Hosting service.

What is a domain name?

A domain name is a URL of a website which visitors will use to visit your website (e.g., conceptblogging.com). Your domain name is your Brand. So, take your time and choose a suitable domain name because you can't change your brand name often.

How to choose a good domain name?

Remember these 4 secrets while choosing a suitable domain name.

Don't use too long name while choosing a domain name, and don't use an extension like .info .net .org .me and so on because it affects SEO and ranks poorly on the search engine.

Now, Let's begin the process.

For making your blog live, you need web-hosting where you can park your domain name.

Read – Complete guide on how to buy a domain name and web-hosting.

What is web hosting?

A web hosting is a kind of hard drive where all your files and data (like images, posts, pages, and many more) of your blog are stored. A web hosting is a place (like your home) where your website will be live 24*7.

Many companies provided web-hosting services, and it is not that expensive.

I recommend bluehost.com because it offers:

And all this at just $3.95 per month.

Now, follow these instructions to purchase your domain and hosting.

Let's, Begin.

Click on Get Started button.

Choose a Basic plan if you want to make a single blog or if you are planning to makeover one blog, you can choose according to your need.

On this page, you can pick your free domain name by creating a new domain or if you have not yet decided the name of your domain, then click on I'll create my domain later at the bottom.

You need to fill up all the required information and drag it down to check your package information on this page.

Here it shows your package information.

You can change your package by adding an extra option, but I recommend only using domain privacy + protection (this will help protect your domain from spam).

The last step to finish the process by paying via credit/debit card, or you can check more payment options.

3. Install WordPress

When you finish the sign-up process, Bluehost will automatically install WordPress for you.

You just need to login to your Bluehost account and click on login to WordPress, or you can login to WordPress by visiting your URL like this “conceptbloggin.com/wp-admin/” (add your site name in place of conceptblogging.com)

Isn't it simple? That's why we recommend Bluehost to start your first journey to blogging life.

If you are using a different hosting service provider, then the WordPress installation process will differ. You can see our guide to “How to install WordPress – Beginner's Guide.”

After installation and setup, we will choose the theme for our blog.

4. Setup Theme for a Blog

This is the default theme of WordPress appearance when you first visit your site. This is the straightforward looking WordPress default theme; most people don't like the default theme design. But don't worry, there are a lot of free and paid themes available in WordPress.

This is the most exciting part when you design your blog, and it is essential too. The design of your theme depends on your taste, and it also depends on your blog's niche.

Is Design Matters? For making a blog, the look and feel of your design really matter. It showcase your Brand, so when the visitor will see a simple and cool looking and good article; it helps you earn a visitor's trust and more readers.

Keep in mind some important key aspect while choosing a theme.

• Keep it simple and clean by design.
• The most important is SEO friendly.
• Responsive design.
• Page load speed.
• Lightweight in code.

Here are the 3 most popular multipurpose theme I recommend for any kind of blog.

GeneratePress – This is a responsive, easy-to-use WordPress theme available for the free and paid version. This theme is very lightweight, less than 50 KBs in size, and it is SEO friendly. This is compatible with Gutenberg and Elementor page builder. It's one of the most highly rated themes available on WordPress.org.

Astra – This is another the most popular and highly rated theme on WordPress.org. This theme is fast, responsive design, lightweight, SEO friendly, and easy to customizable. This theme comes with many ready-made template designs and is compatible with the most popular page builders. This is also available in a free and paid version, but most of the options available in the free version as well.

Kadence – This is a super-fast, easily customizable, multi-purpose theme. It's perfect for blogs and personal portfolio sites, and most types of projects. This theme is responsive, RTL translation ready.

I used the Astra Pro theme for this blog, but you can try them all and choose one of them which suits you most.

Now let's jump to see How to install a WordPress theme on your blog.

Let's see step by step.

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1. To begin the process, first, you have to login to the WordPress admin section.

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2. The second step is to find Appearance –> Themes, and you can add any themes from here by clicking the Add New button.

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3. Search for GeneratePress and then install the theme.

4. Go to your dashboard –> Appearance –> Theme, and you will find the downloaded theme; now activate by clicking the activation button.

Congrats, your installation is completed, and now you can customize your theme design.

You can click on Appearance –> Customise for customization, and from here, you can customize your theme.

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After the customization process, you need some plugins to make your website super-fast and SEO friendly.

5. Setup WordPress Plugins

WordPress plugins are developed for expanding the functionality of it. You must need WordPress plugins for optimization of site speed and adding functionality to your website. These plugins make your work easy and automated. It comes in paid and free both.

Here is a list of some useful plugins to make your task easier and super-fast your website speed and, the most important is SEO friendly.

Elementor – This is a page builder for designing your website. This plugin makes your work super easy with its drag-and-drop functionality. You can create any website using this plugin. It is super easy to design a beautiful landing and post page. This plugin is SEO friendly, and it is very lightweight. All professional designers and blogger's used this plugin. I am using this plugin for this website.

RankMath – This is a Search Engine Optimization plugin for WordPress. This is the no. 1 plugin for SEO ranking. This helps millions of users to rank and optimize their site according to the SEO algorithm. This is a highly recommended plugin by all keyword research software websites.

WPRocket – This is one of my favorite plugins to boost website speed. Today everyone needs fast internet and every bit of seconds is essential. This is a cache plugin to make your website optimize, improve load speed, and increase SEO ranking. To boost the speed of your website like a rocket, you must try this plugin.

WPForms – Every blogger and website needs a subscription form to get in touch with visitors. This is the most popular WordPress form for mail subscription forms, online order forms, surveys, etc.

SocialSnap – Social sharing is necessary for blogging. This plugin is handy to create a social sharing icon by drag and drop. This is a very well-designed interface with excellent looking share button.

There are a lot more plugins you can use.

If you don't know how to install WordPress plugins. Check this out.

Go to the WordPress dashboard. Click On Plugins –> Add New Install plugins by searching or upload the .zip file. After installation, go to the Plugin section and click on Activate.

6. Writing a first blog post

Congrats, you have purchased a domain, set up a blog as you dreamed and now wrote your very first blog post.

So let's get started.

For writing a blog go to Dashboard –> Posts –> Add new.

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Your screen looks like this when you click on add new post. Now I will help you with how you can write your post.

Add all this information, which I highlighted in the above image.

Add title – Always do research and add some catchy title. Because the title represents your whole blog, visitors get attracted when they see your title and google search engines will know what this blog is about.

Post content – Use proper formatting when you write a post, add h1 h2 h3 h4 heading correctly, and add images according to your post. It will look catchy and beautiful. No matter how interesting or useful the actual content may be, if your page doesn’t grab attention or has a sloppy design, or lacks decent images and graphics, nobody will read your stuff.

Featured Image – Must add featured image; it represents your content and will show on your post grid. Your featured image shows at the top of your blog post, and it appears on the blog post list page.

Categories – This will group your post in different categories and sort your post accordingly. It will help visitors to find your post in particular categories.

Tags – A tag is simply a label you assign to your post. It helps in social sharing and engaging visitors.

Excerpt – Excerpt summarizes your article, which displays on the blog post list. WordPress will autogenerate a summary from the top of your article if you do not add an excerpt. But always use the manual excerpt to display what your blog is about.

Publish – The last step after setting up all click on the publish button to display your blog to the audience.

The next step is to set up SEO for your blog.

7. Setup SEO for your blog

SEO plays a vital role in getting traffic to any website. There are lots of question come in mind when someone uses word SEO.

How your site will reach millions of visitors, and you get more traffic.

I recommended using the Rank Math SEO plugin. And this is just a simple step to set up the Rank Math SEO plugin.

I have already taught you above how to install plugins, so I will not cover this again.

After installing and activate, the Rank Math registration page will come up.

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And now click on Connect Your Account button and follow the step.

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Select your preferred method to login.

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After Successful sign in, Go to Rank Math on your dashboard and setup.

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Choose an advanced option and start the wizard.

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Select the personal blog option, choose the logo and social image, and click on the save and continue button.

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If you have signed up on Google Search Console and Google Analytics, you can connect your account from here.

If you don't know how to set up Google Search Console and Google Analytics, check the link.

• Getting started with Google Search Console?
• Getting started with Google Analytics?

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Select all the options in sitemap section.

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Select all the options and click on continue.

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That's it; you have finished setup Rank Math, now click on the return to dashboard button.

Hurray, your blog is all setup.

Now, check some FAQ's.

Conclusion:

With this guide, we will teach you how to start your first blog with WordPress.

Starting a blog is easy. But making money from a blog is not that easy.

But keep your passion and write at least 100 blogs and you will see the result.

Don't just read the article. Take the action and start your journey today, because tomorrow never comes.

We have tried our best to write this guide for you, but still if you do not understand how to start your own blog. So we will make a FREE blog for you and setup everything for you. Just click on this link and follow the steps.

Best of luck for your new start!

Congratulation, your blog is live and ready.

This is not the end here.

After all setup, you need to learn more about SEO, Monetization and how to earn money from your blog.

I hope this guide will help you start your journey by creating your first blog.