Easy way to launch blog

When you want to take your business online first and simple step is to register a domain, purchase a hosting account, install a software and launch the website Being a blogger myself starting with blogspot I've come across ton lots of software used for website creation. In early 2008 my tendency towards website development was that the person should be adept at Java programming. After little research I thought html, csv knowledge may be sufficient for simple website. However, my vision on my business was bigger than that. Now comes the era of CMS (Content Management System). The first thing that I did try was Joomla. In my opinion this software needs some extra time with configuration for creating and posting simple blogpost Now comes the divine angel wordpress. Wordpress wasn't way too popular then the way it is now. I still remember using a software by name pagebuilder to build my first website with my early days hosting account Fatcow After lots of analysis, research, learning, failures, success with website launch, blogging here is my final recommendation what software, hosting account, domain registrar to make use of Domain Registrar - There are ton lots of search results in google. I've made use of domain registrar siteground. Here is something you should be aware of while registering a domain Most registrars offer domain for free if you choose to purchase hosting account with them. However, not all domain registrar are equally good If you want to separate the hosting provider from domain registrar look for some reasonable deals. Look for standard, long lasting domain registrar that has been offering professional service for the past few years - If you consider from this angle siteground has some fantastic deals. With service providers like siteground first year domain registration is FREE, next year the domain renewal fees comes around $15 Hosting Service Provider - There are ton lots to choose from. I want to give details on the ones that I'm using personally Siteground - After 10 years of hopping around I've finally settled here. There not even a single reason for me to say goodbye to this hosting provider. There are 3 shared hosting options to choose from Blogging Software - Easy and best thing would be wordpress. It can be installed at the click of a mouse. Most hosting providers have 100% automated this. Ton lot of themes come for free. Premium themes are offered at very reasonable price. As a longtime user of wordpress for many of my own blogs, I've recommended most of my friends to use wordpress and they have had fantastic success on using this. Here are some common mistakes that I did before few years, that could have been avoided had I known before. I wanted my readers to be fully conversant about this and here are the list of plugins that can be installed after installing wordpress in hosting account, pointing website/domains 1) Wordpress JETPACK PLUGIN - Important!! Important!! Very Very Important!! This lets you configure social media publishing automated and makes this 100% automatic. Download and install this absolutely free. All you need is an account from wordpress 2) Install SEO Yoast Plugin - This is a popular wordpress SEO plugin. I'll teach you more on SEO yoast in forthcoming posts.I've been using yoast the most popular SEO plugin for past few months. As a simple step when we create post with appropriate title, meta description and posts with some words, hit update button, the SEO status of our post immediately does pop-up. This can be 1) Bad SEO 2) OK SEO 3) Good SEO Initially I didn't think this is going to improve my post quality and writing pattern. However, these days I observe that unless otherwise my posts are able to get Good Rank in yoast SEO I don't feel like publishing it. Surprisingly that has had indirect impact on my site's alexa ranking, traffic and rest follows All I can say is as a beginner in blogging space as well as if you happen to be experienced blogger, you can beautifully toast your post with yoast plugin. This is the plain psychological pattern that a school kid has. We always aim to be on good grades with better rankings and this is no way different Also, validating the SEO quality gives guarantee about quality of content and Yoast SEO is definitely day 1 plugin As a simple test you can start your wordpress blog/website, post 10 good quality posts and in less than a week definitely see some alexa ranking improvement 3) Install Advertisement Management Plugin - This lets you add advertisements like google Adsense ads, affiliate banners in the following positions - below post, below page, below page title, below post title to name a few. Placement of advertisement code becomes easy with this. I've used free plugins like WP QUADS in some of my websites as well 4) Install Askimet - This protects from spam content. Comment is an SEO metric that many recommend to moderate. If you dont want to open your website for comments, simply uncheck all the boxes in discussion page in wordpress 5) Date Exclusion Plugin - It would be better to remove date from posts. While we configure wordpress we typically choose permalinks to remove date from title link. For date exclusion from posts this can be used. IF you know how to tweak theme to remove date field do so 6) Google Sitemap XML - This is heart and soul of SEO. Download this, properly configure it, create sitemap, submit to webmasters like Google, Bing etc