If you came to read this post then you must be curious to know how to start a blog.

Am I right?

If yes...

Then let me tell you some facts on blogging first.

You know,

In the Internet Era, blogging is one of the Best career options Nowadays?

Many people started their own Blog online and make it a Full-time profession for him.

 Over the world, lots of people quit their High Paying permanent jobs and become a full-time Blogger?

I am pretty sure now you may think why?...what was the reason(I know now your excitement level is on high)

The logic behind is quite straight forward: Blogging Make him Happy and also help him to quit their Boring 9to6 job and Give Time & Financial Freedom.

Wow!! Really Awesome

I know, you may be think Blogging is such an amazing Thing...

Yes, Absolutely...

It's really Fabulous

Literally, you enjoy a lot if you are a Blogger

So that Blogging has the potential to change your Life completely and Make you an Online Entrepreneur.

Hmm, Entrepreneur...Sounds Good Right?

But to get all these Achievements, You need to start a blog First.

And here I help you to build your own blog professionally from scratch.

Believe me, starting a Blog is just like ''Playing a Child".

Because nowadays lots of Content management system are introduced and that makes blogging super easy to start.

So in this Guide, I will describe all about "How to start a Blog in India & make money"(STEP BY STEP)

Before going to set up your Blog let's clear out some topics.

Those are...

• What is Blogging?
• Benefits and Future of Blogging.
• Blogging is Profitable or Not?

Okay, let's deeply discuss the above topics...

Before going to start a blog you need to know some basic fundamentals about blogging and if you are a beginner to the blogging industry then understanding the fundamentals is really very crucial.

So, first of all, let's know what exactly blogging is and what's the difference between a Blog & Website.

Step1: What is Blogging?

In the beginning, a blog was a little more or different than a personal diary that people shared online.

In this online diary, people started talking about their day-to-day life or things they do or interested in.

However, businesses noticed a possibility to talk to their customers in a new way. So, began running a blog, in which sharing the information about their businesses’ products or services frequently.

A blog (shortening of “weblog”) is a web journal or informational website showing statistics in the opposite chronological order, with newest posts showing first.

In a Single sentence we can say ''A Informative page which is Updates Frequently with new & fresh Information". (that's all!)

In a blog writers can review, share their opinion or expertise on a particular topic or niche.

Okay

Let's know the motive behind starting a Blog.

There are numerous motives for beginning a personal blog and only a handful of strong ones for businesses running a blog.

Blogging for commercial enterprise, initiatives, or something else that might bring you cash has a very straightforward purpose – to rank your website higher in search engines like Google, to increase your website’s online visibility.

As an enterprise, you rely on customers and hold them for buying your services and products.

As a new enterprise, you depend upon running a blog that will help you get to these consumers and seize their attention.

Without running a blog, your website could stay invisible, while running a successful blog makes you searchable.

So, the primary motive of a blog is to connect you to a significant audience. Another one is to reinforce your visitors and try converting them into potential leads to your website.

The more updated and valuable your blog posts are, the better the possibilities in your website to get found and visited by your audience. Because of this, a blog is an effective lead generation tool.

Create an excellent call to action (CTA) buttons, and it will convert your website visitors into leads.

But a blog additionally allows you to show off your authority and build a brand.

While you use your area of interest information for creating informative and tasty posts, it builds belief in your audience.

Excellent, engaging blogging makes your business appear greater, that's specifically crucial if your brand is still new and fairly unknown.

Well, now we discuss how a blog look like?

General Structure of Blog:

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→  Header

→  Body

→  Footer

The look of blogs modified over time, and nowadays blogs consist of many things in it. Every blog will be different from others.

From above you consumed information on, what is a blog, benefits to start a blog and structure of a blog.

Now we look upon a very common query.

What's the difference between a Blog & Website.

Let's jump right in...

Blogs vs Websites :

A majority of the people still get confused between a website and a blog.

Nowadays, it is being very difficult to differentiate both, because the businesses are integrating the blogs on their websites.

What is the difference between a blog and a website?

In short, we can say, blogs should be updated regularly with fresh and unique content.

 For example, entertainment blog sharing latest songs/movies/programs or any company writing about their enterprise news.

Bloggers/writers and Businesses share the latest updates and information to the readers and prospective customers in a blog.

Readers get an opportunity to communicate with writers and prospective customers with businesses via blogs.

Businesses do update and post new articles less frequently compared to bloggers.

Why is blogging so popular?

Blogging is growing day by day.

Nowadays, it is being used as a new way of sharing information to global audiences online.

As much businesses are able to keep the readers visit your website that many possibilities of increase in the value of your brand.

Also, there is a very good opportunity of converting the visitor into a potential lead as well as a customer also.

Fine!!

Let's talk about some points on Blogging as a career option.

                   And many more benefits you will get if you are doing blogging.

Okay, Now Let's Discuss some points on what will be the Future of Blogging.

Honestly speaking now Blogging is very Competitive so that many of says all Blogging Niches are Saturated and Some Big Industry Magazines publishing article like "Blogging is Dead".

So that Future of Blogging is one of the Controversial Topic.

The reason is, Different people share Different opinion on Future of blogging and No one tells what's the Actual fact is.

According to the Big Industry Influencer "Future of Blogging is super solid & blogging is the best way to generates leads and inbound traffic".

But the Competition will Increase by the Time.

If you really want to know about the Future of blogging then I want to suggest you Read one of my Article on Blogging Future.

Because before Starting Blogging you need to know more about his Future.

I am sure from the above discussion you get sufficient knowledge on benefits and Future of blogging.

Now I am going to discuss one of the crucial topics, that is "Blogging is profitable or not?"

Okay, let's dig deeper on this topic.

Step3: Blogging is Profitable or Not?

Blogging is profitable?

It is one of the first questions that appear before starting a blog.

Also, this question is pretty obvious.

Because when someone starts a blog or any kind of business, then the first thing hit to his mind is "Is this Business profitable or not?"

So it is the biggest pain point before starting a blog.

But here I am going to solve your burning problem and help you in making the right decision.

Okay, keep reading...

In my experience Blogging is one of the best profitable online business nowadays.

Because you don't need any huge amount of investment to start blogging, you can build your own blog within 50$ to 60$ by using Siteground hosting.

But scaling the blog and make it profitable is one of the time consuming & also the hardest thing.

That does not mean you can't able to make money from your blog.

You can!!

But just you need to work patience fully on a consistent basis to see the positive result because blogging takes time & serious efforts, it's not a "get rich quick method".

Believe me, it takes time to give you the results or money that you want.

Ok!! Now I am going to show you some top bloggers who earn millions online and live a laptop lifestyle.

Let's see...

You know in India lots of Blogger like Harsh Agrawal, Anil Agrawal, Kulwant Nagi, Amit Bhawani & many more are earning around $10k to $50k every single month.

And if I am talking about the average salary of an Indian employee who works for a good MNC then it will be around $10k to $15k per year.

So from the above example, you may know how much potential blogging has.

And that's the difference between working for yourself & working for others.

When you work for yourself then initially you may face lots of hurdles, but once you succeed by your efforts then all the money is yours.

But here I am not comparing Blogging with the job.

I am just showing you reality.

Now I damn sure, you don't have any doubt about "Blogging is profitable or not" & you can easily take your decision to start blogging.

Well...

Now let's begin the tutorial "How to start a blog in India" (step by step)

How to Start a Blog in India 2019(step by step tutorial)-The easy way!!

In this part of the article, we briefly discuss on below topics.

->Choosing a Blog Domain Name. (complete buying process with screenshots)

->Selecting the best web hosting. (complete buying process with screenshots)

->Install WordPress and Make your Blog Live.

"For Building a blog you need 2 things first Domain & Hosting & after purchasing it you need to choose the best cms(content management system) to make your Blog live on the Internet"".

Okay let's move to our 1st topic "How to choose & buy the domain name"

Choosing a Domain name & Hosting(Complete buying & set-up process)

Well,

Now the time to choosing the domain name for your blog.

Frankly speaking,

Choosing a domain name is not a very easy task as a newbie, you need to find out the perfect name according to your topic.

By selecting a topic-specific domain name your visitors can easily recognize what you discuss in your website. (Means what's all about your brand)

Here I am giving you a topic-specific domain name example:- startablog.in↔(from this domain you may clear "startablog.in" discuss only on blogging stuff.

From the above example, you may clarify what is Topic/Niche specific domain name and what are the benefits.

So, for your blog always try to choose your Niche specific domain name, by that people easily recognize your brand.

You can also generate domain name ideas from the domain research tool.

But before going to choose any blog name try to avoid below mistakes:-

  Now, I think you may clear how to choose a domain name for your blog.

Well,

Okay now let's discuss how to buy a domain & hosting for your blog.

Before we dig deeper, first of all, let's know what is domain & Hosting.

DOMAIN:-It actually the name of your website/Blog, by that people recognize or find you by searching your name on the search engine. Some example of the domain name is whatsapp.com, Google.com, Amazon.com, etc...So you need to buy your domain name according to your chosen name.But always buy domain name with the extensions .com, .org, .net, .edu, .us, .uk, .in(or any country-specific you can choose)

HOSTING:- A blog or a website is a collection of pages, files, documents, and data, but you ever think where those things are stored?. Those all are saved in a web server & for getting a web server you need to buy a web hosting for it...Also, you need to choose a best, secure & trusted web hosting for your Blog.

So above 2 things are mandatory to start a blog.

Now you may be thinking about where to buy a premium quality domain & hosting for your blog.

Okay, don't worry about it much.

Here I am recommending you to go with Siteground hosting or A2 hosting(You never regret latter if you choose)

I know lots of websites are recommending Bluehost hosting for starting a blog, but did you want to know the truth why they are only recommending Bluehost.

The brutal truth is higher commissions, Yes they are getting a higher commission rate for promoting Bluehost hosting.

But I am not recommending Bluehost because they are just shit!! (I get really Bad experience with Bluehost)

As per my experience, I am only recommending 1)Siteground. (personally, use)

Also, check some below screenshots of the Facebook poll. (Which Hosting is better?)

Now after checking the above screenshots, you may confirm why I am recommending Siteground to all of you.

I think now you can take your decision to build your blog through Siteground hosting.

Okay, now I will guide you with screenshots(step by step), How can you buy Siteground domain & hosting to start a blog.

Let's dive right in...

(In the above I am recommending both A2 hosting & Siteground is good to start a blog, but here i am only giving you the tutorial of how to buy a domain & hosting using Siteground because I am personally using it for may all websites.)

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STEP1:- First of all visit the Siteground pricing page & select a plan according to your Requirement.

If you are a Newbie blogger & you just want to start then go for STARTUP plan only & once your blog traffic will increase then you can move towards Growbig or Gogeek plan.

Now click on the "Get plan" Button.

After clicking on "Get plan" Button come to the 2nd step...

STEP2:- Select your Domain name.

So now enter the domain name that you want to buy..., like mine->'startablog.com'

Suppose, If your Blog name is Government job alert, then select a domain similar to your site name, like- "Govermentjobalert.com"

After selecting one Domain name click on the Proceed button.

Now come to the 3rd step.

STEP3:- Fill up Account Information.

In the Siteground page, now you can see the above Image...Right?

That one is your 1st billing page.

So fill up your all the details, that was asking on the page & by that your Siteground account will Set-up completely.

Now come to the next step.

STEP4:- Enter your Card Information.

Make sure you must have a VISA or MASTERCARD for the payment.

Now fill all the asking details of your credit or debit cards.

After that, you get another page where you can see product purchase information

The above screenshot is all about your product information & In the extra services box don't TICK for Sg Site Scanner because it cost you more 19.80$.

See, you need to pay 62.35$, approx(4,300rupee)

For confirming this purchase you need to Tick both options (According to above Image) & now click on the PAY NOW button.

Now hold on for a few seconds,,, This process takes some time. (Do Not Refresh the page until it's done)

After a few seconds check, if you get above screen on your device then Congrats "Everything is set up now"(You successfully purchased)

Also, check out your Email for some more details about your purchased products & Account setting.

Then after, you need to follow my below procedure to make your website live on the Internet.

7 Ways of Choosing the best CMS(WordPress)& Installing process(Quick tutorial)

To make your blog live on the web world you need to Install a best CMS(content management system)on your hosting.

Have you heard CMS word for the first time? don't worry I will give you a short summary on CMS.

What Is CMS?​​​​​​​​​

First of all, CMS stand for the content management system which is a software program and created for managing & designing web contents or digital contents. By the help of the CMS, you can totally control your hole website very easily without any coding skill(that's it)

In the online market, there are lots of CMS software available, but I am only recommending WordPress to Install on your hosting.

Because:-

Above are the most important reasons to use WordPress to Build your Blog.

Also, check the above pie-chart, you may see 52% of people are using WordPress and you know WordPress has more than 72 million active users till date.

So now you may know what's the benefits to Use WordPress to start your blog.

Right now I am going to giving you a step by step tutorial to Install & Set-up WordPress & make your blog lIve.

Okay, get started the Guide...

⇒Wordpress Installation process:[With Screenshots]

Here we will discuss how you can Install WordPress on your Hosting.

Let's start...

Once your buying process is done, you may be seen the below-looking Image.

Just check it out.

Now follow the below procedure...(According to the above Image)

→Click on the start a new website.

→Select the WordPress widgets(As shown on the Image)

→Now enter your account details for setting-up New WordPress account.

→Click on the Confirm button below.

After clicking on the Confirm button then you will get another Image like below.

Now Siteground automatically Installed WordPress for you. (Your Blog is almost ready!)

As shown on the above Image you need to click on the Complete set-up button.

After that, you will get one Dialog box where you have to Click on Proceed to customer area option. 

Now It will take you to your Siteground Account.

Then click on Go to admin panel option. (According to the below Image)

After clicking on the Go to admin panel option, you will get a below-looking screen on your device.

So now enter your WordPress username & Password that you make earlier in the above steps & click on the Login button.

After Clicking on the login option you will redirect to the WordPress dashboard.

Finally, your hosting account is ready to use & your WordPress blog Set-up process is                                                                                                                             successfully Done!!

Note:-Bookmark your WordPress dashboard URL & your URL look like this- yourblogname.com/wp-admin.

Okay, now let's take a quick tour of your new WordPress dashboard.

After login, your WordPress dashboard looking like below. (check once)

After all, everything is Set-up.

Now we go through the following topics:-

Okay...

Come with me,,, now i am going to deep dive on the above topic.

Installing & Customizing the WordPress theme.

Now you just finishing create a new blog.

Right?

But it's the time to customize the complete blog & make it look awesome for your visitors.

(I know your site comes with a default WordPress theme but the problem is, it's not optimized & mobile responsive) 

 Gone are the days where you just write a simple blog post is enough to get attention of visitors.

In today's date, there is over a billion blog on the Internet, so why someone visit a poor looking site.

So, now you need to take care of User experience, (it's one of the biggest SEO matrices).

Before going to Customize your WordPress blog, figure out some best mobile responsive, lightweight & SEO friendly themes.

In my Suggestion, I am recommending you to use Generatepress pro theme to customize your complete website.

Because Generatepress comes with a lightweight Interface & highly SEO optimized features, that make your Site super easy to load and also gives you ranking boost.

So always go with a paid theme because you can Customize your site as much as you can.

[Here I am not only recommending Generatepress, but you can go with some other affordable premium themes providers like Mythemeshope]

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Now let's move towards the tutorial on how to Install the Theme on WordPress.

Theme Installation process.

Go to the Appearance section that's available in the WordPress dashboard.

After that click on the Themes.

Now click on the Add new button.

For download, any free Theme Choose any one of those themes & click on the Install button & after that activate it.

For Installing premium themes, first of all, buy Generatepress or Mythemeshope theme, after buying you will get a ZIP FILE, then click on the above Upload Theme button & upload that zip file, it will automatically Installed & that after activating it. (Simple)

Now your Installed theme active on your Website.

If you want to Customize your theme well then go to the appearance section & click on Customize option.

Now you can able to Customize your theme according to your requirement.

Right now i will go through how to create Important pages for your website/blog.

Creating Important pages(About us, Contact us)

 Here In this section we discuss what are some Important pages you need to add to your website & why.

So let's start...

Especially there are 3 to 4 Important pages you need to create for your Website.

Those pages are,

You might be thinking why those pages are Important to create and add in a website.

Well, let's get the answer...

About Us page:- It is a Must needed page for Individual website owners & Organization, by the help of a about us or About me page visitors know about you & your organization.

Contact Us page:- A business or a Individual Website owners must have a Contact us/ Contact me page on their Site, It helps visitors, Advertiser or a potential Customer to contact you.

Privacy policy page:- Privacy policy page comes under legal page, it's really crucial if you are running an Online business. In privacy policy page you need to mention how you collect data from your visitors & also how you uses those data.

​Disclaimer page:- If you are making money from your Blog or Website then you need to disclose those earning ways in this page, if you are making money from advertisement then or affiliate or may be service then mention clearly.

                  Now you may be clear what's the use of above-mentioned pages & why It's Important for your Website or Blog.

Okay now let's know how you can create those pages for your Website.

First of all, go to the WordPress dashboard and then click on the page section and then add a new page.

That's it...

Now you can able to create your own pages through WordPress.

Okay, now the time to move towards our next & very much crucial topic, How to choose the best Niche/topics to Write.

How to choose the right blogging Niche/topic to write.

Niche or topic finalizing for your blog is one of the easy & also challenging work and that's also decide your success in blogging.

So how can you Choose the best Niche for your blog?

Just check it out the below points before finalizing any Niche for your blog.

                           Check Out Before Finalizing any Niche

In a nutshell "(passion+knowledge+profitability=Your perfect Niche)"

So before finalizing your blogging Niche i want to tell you one thing, don't choose a niche/topic where you haven't any interest or knowledge about that topic.

Because In blogging passion is the fuel that makes you motivated to work in the long term.

The reason is, In the initial days you can't able to make money from your Blog(It's super hard).

Without money you may be demotivated and failed to continue your writing.

So passion is the only things that keep you motivated and push you to move forward.

Thus follow the above strategy to find out your Niche for blogging.

Okay fine, Now let's discuss on some Important & must needed plugins for your WordPress Blog.

Added Some essential WordPress plugins.

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Now everything is set-up completely, so let's look on some essential plugins that you need to set up on your Website.

Before Install any plugins in your WordPress blog, My duty is to Understand you what is plugin & why you need to Install them.

Okay, come on discuss it well...

Plugin:- A plugin is a small software program which is used for add-ons some Important features In your WordPress Website...Plugins are really very essential to make your Website feature loaded and Good looking.

                       I think now you don't have any doubt on what is plugins and what are their uses.

So, now let's discuss on some Important WordPress Plugins that you need to Install on your site.

             Above listed plugins are some handpicked essential plugins, that you need to Install on your Blog or Website to add some Important features & make your blog looks professional.

Now let's look on a quick tutorial...(How to Install a Free plugin)

How to Install a Plugin.

->In your WordPress Dashboard click on Plugins and then click on add new plugins...(Now you may see a below looking screen)