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Do you want to learn how to create a successful blog but don’t have a lot of time to spend messing around with various software, settings, and ideas? Then read on-we’ll tell you everything you need to start a successful blog in just one weekend.
Friday Night: Get The Ball Rolling
A successful blog needs a domain name, but it can take up to 48 hours-two days-for a new domain name to propagate to all of the Internet Service Providers around the world.
That means you have to buy your domain name and point it to your server by midnight Friday in order for your website to be fully functional Monday morning.
Let’s go through these two steps individually so you can learn how to create a successful blog:
Choosing Blog Hosting
Before you choose a blog hosting provider, you need to choose your blog platform. To keep things simple, just use WordPress. It’s the most popular blog platform and it will work for any blog topic.
Now you need to find blog hosting which supports WordPress. There are thousands of top hosting companies to choose from, but I suggest that you choose one of the larger companies. Most of them offer a free trial, so go sign up immediately for one which offers a good rate, free software installation, and a free trial.
If you’re not happy with the service, you can copy your whole blog over to a new service before your free trial ends.
Choosing A Domain Name
The best domain name will include your blog’s primary keyword. (We’ll discuss keywords later in this article.) But don’t stress over the domain name-you can always buy another domain name later on and move your content over to it with just a few clicks.
But there are several things you should NOT do:
1. Create an offensive domain name (unless you think you can create a successful blog out of an offensive topic).
2. Choose a hard-to-remember or hard-to-say domain name or you’ll make it hard for your readers to tell other people about your site.
3. Choose a domain name based on a pun-anyone who doesn’t get the pun will discount your website.
After you decide which domain name to buy, you need to buy it. You can use any major registrar; they’ll all provide DNS hosting for your domain at no extra charge-just use the tools they provide to associate your new domain with the IP address provided by the blog hosting company you selected earlier.
How To Create A Successful Blog On Saturday
Now that you have a domain and hosting, you need to actually build your blog. Start by choosing a main topic for your blog. Almost any topic can be turned into a successful blog, but it has to be a topic you’re willing to write about for a year or more, so make it something which holds your interest.
Next you need to distill your topic into your core keyword phrase-this is the same keyword phrase you tried to work into your domain name. Your keyword phrase should be three words or less, and it should be something people use in search queries.
You’ll use this keyword phrase in your initial blog posts to establish your blog as an authority on your core topic. You can then use your status as an authority to attract incoming links and to make money from your blog.
Choosing A Business Model
This post is about how to create a successful blog, but what does success mean to you? For most people reading this article, I think it means a blog which makes money. If money isn’t your thing, figure out what you want your blog to do and how it will do that.
For making money, there are three main methods to make money from your blog:
1. Advertising: this is simple-you sign up for an account on an advertisement platform, they give you some HTML code to insert into your website template, and then they pay you when people view or click on advertisements on your site. But the ease of this method corresponds to its relative unprofitability for small sites.
2. Affiliate sales: you recommend products to your readers and get a cut when they buy them. Depending on what you recommend, you can make a lot of money from just a few sales, so you don’t need many visitors. But attracting readers willing to spend money on products can be challenging.
3. Opt-in marketing: you get visitors to your website to opt-in to a mailing list and then you use the mailing list to sell them products-either your own products or someone else’s products on commission. (You can also rent your mailing list to an advertiser.) This can be the most profitable business type, but it can also take years to establish.
Knowing how you’ll make money will help you with the next step:
How To Create A Successful Blog Layout
Now that you know your topic and your business model, you can design your site. WordPress has hundreds of free site designs to choose from, but since you can change designs at any time, I suggest you choose either the default layout or a simple layout.
Don’t spend much time modifying your site design to fit your needs, but instead choose a site design which works for you from the start. (The only exception to this advice is for people writing blogs about website design who need to prove their skill.)
In general, I recommend a website layout that is simple with only one or two columns. Advertisements should appear between paragraphs of text-not shuffled off to the side. Calls to action for a mailing list or affiliate sale should appear within the article text or immediately after the article.
But, again, don’t spend too much time designing your site-you still have a lot of work to do.
Write Articles All Sunday
The second-to-last step in how to create a successful blog is to write your initial set of blog posts.
Why do you need to launch your site with several blog posts? Because anyone who likes your site needs to see other information before they consider you an authority.
You also need to convince search engines that you’re an authority, but search engines are smart enough to know that one article does not make you an authority.
So your goal Sunday is to write as many blog posts as possible. Order a pizza and just keep writing until you’re ready to pass out-then hang in a bit longer and edit all of the articles you just wrote. Finally, publish them to your blog and go to sleep.
The Final Step
Now that you know how to create a successful blog, there’s just one more step-you need to market your new blog. You have several articles, you have a business model, you have everything else you need. Now you just need to tell other bloggers in your niche about your blog.
I’ve written about marketing your blog several times before, so see my previous posts about guest posting, link building, and other techniques to finish learning how to create a successful blog. You can also grab my free ebook from my authors bio. This will help you customize your site to gain the most benefits from the search engines.
Hi, very nice blogpost. And fresh too, it is hard to write something like this and to tell something new in the area of “successful blogging”, you know what I mean. You did a great job! Thanks you. this topic is still up to date for me, I’m testing and trying new and new strategies in blog promotion and the posts like you published are always a great help!
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Thanks Evan. Glad you enjoyed the article.
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Well that explains the best way to Invest a Weekend. I guess Directory Submissions, Backlinking etc should also be done in the Scheduled Weekend.
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Yes not everyone wants to work on a weekend and do all that. but it is worth it in the end!
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Great examples and advice you have here. Just did something similar a few months ago but definitely going to use the blog layout section to help conversions!
Thanks!
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We are looking to expand our current website and get some new revenue streams. I like the idea of affiliate marketing and will look in to that more.
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Write Articles All Sunday? How did you do that? Everybody want to have “sunday as my lazy day”, so, please show me the right way to Write Articles All Sunday. Thanks.
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It depends what you WANT from life…Working a few Sundays will not kill you. There are some things you have to sacrafice now to get freedom in the future…that is the way I look at it..
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Well this shows how to plan your weekend…. Promoting your blog then, would be a Monday to Friday Affair
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Ha ha yes it will take every Monday and Friday from then on…:)
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Good one Mitz,
People forget that the most important thing is to SHOW UP.
That strange feeling that you may have is coming from the fact that you know you should do something but you won’t.
I think it’s the employee mind set.
It’s very difficult to go from the worker to the boss.
Maybe it’s just me?
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Yes the worker mentality is showing through here in the comments. I had no idea that people would not want to give up a weekend to create a blog.
I am a full time blogger and I work any time any day…or not..
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Hmm. Great informative post for beginner and people who are just starting.
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Hi Mitz,
Great article again. Just wondering, do you know of any GREAT Hosting companies that provide Unique IP’s. I have been doing research, but the ones most talked about have tons of complaints.
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No I haven’t really looked into that. I have dedicated hosting and I am sure it has an option to create a unique IP but I have never used it.
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Hey Mitz, thanks for sharing yet another interesting and much useful post. Although my blog is about 6 months old, still I waste several hours each day in decorating it. I’m still unsatisfied from my blog design (it is on Blogger so I designs are limited). As current design is my own, so I’ve decided to go stay with it
Your ideas will work for me in creating another blog if I decide to do so. Thank you again. Keep sharing.
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Yes I know what you mean by the designs being limited on blogger! They really should have something done about that!
A few years ago I made a few blogger designs in Artisteer..A cool theme making program..I made my blogger site look like a wordpress blog in minutes.. It was great! But nothing beats WordPress!!!
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For what it’s worth, I have the hardest time posting on comluv.com. I submit and get an error ,I submit and get warnings that I’m duplicate posting (when I’m not), I submit and I get warnings that I’m a robot (I didn’t know!).
Sometimes the Twitter box is there, sometimes it’s not. (Right now it’s gone again, last reload it was there.)
I don’t really know what’s going on, but it’s frustrating and has been that way for months.
Well, we’ll see if the post goes through this time!
Here’s what I was trying to say:
I know it sound arcane to many, but I find the Biblical prescription to rest on Sunday is good not only for work in general, but for blogging businesses specifically.
Taking a day each week to “rest from our labors” helps to free the mind for more creative work, just like resting between weight sets.Very good article. Thank you.
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Yes it is good to rest and rejuvenate but any day is fine for me.. But this post isn’t really about that. It is just stating a path to build a blog. You can do this on a weekday if you like…
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Good article for beginners. Absolutly agree. It doesn’t take more that an week end to create a blog. Not even more than 5 minutes but it will take much more time to promote it.
Do you have a linkbuiling strategy ?
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Yes you are right about making a blog being easy. Even better if you lay the right foundations in the first place.
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These tips are helpful, but it is still unreasonable to expect to see much of an impact in just one weekend. A successful blog will take several months to become established in its niche, irrespective how hard you worked the first weekend. Having said that, I do agree with these tips and think they are useful for newbie bloggers.
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Haha , very interactive and intresting post it was. Really some great simple and to the point tips and methods. thumbs up. (y)
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Ha ha thanks. glad you liked the post. The simple ways always work!
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that is also my new year resolution. now i’m focusing on my bog everyday.
I personally find it quite difficult to blog on weekdays…My strategy is to blog on weekends, creating 3-4 blog posts on Saturday and Sunday…This article really cleared my perspective on weekend blogging..Thanks for sharing.Cheers
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Great tips. The past few blogs I have created I have been slow at getting the site up and running with articles. I am constantly being sidetracked by school work. I’m going to finally focus on writing all day tomorrow and see how much work I can actually pack into a single day.
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Well school work would get in the way I am sure! Good on you for starting young!
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the article is very useful for bigginer SEO proffesional .so i think useful for directory summition.
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hello mitz
nice post. creating a blog is not a tough task and it does not take much time but writing the articles,applying SEO and building relationships does. and yes marketing the blog is the crucial step, we should share out posts on social networks and be engaged with others
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Yes it all sounds like a lot of work..
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Yes Prabhat Agree with you, creating a blog is not a big deal but maintainance and getting traffic with this is really a big task.
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Again content is crucial for creating any good blog. You can’t ignore the importance of good and informative content.
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that article is useful so many reader gain the informaton.
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Creating a successful blog over a single weekend?
Haha, I understand the point in this article though Mitz
Work hard, and make it happen!
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Yes that is one point.. but the other point is doable too! I have built sites in a weekend and left them alone only to come back to see they have potential that cannot be ignored. so this method has paid off for my many times.
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Thanks for this information, you have greatly motivated me!
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You make it sound so easy! I run a blog on audiobooks and been putting in quality content on a daily basis. It’s been live since last year but get very few visitors. Will read your outher articles on how to market you blog.
great post because it is action, action, action and really doable.. only one thing is missing and that’s researching the topic of your blog.. before we end up with a blog which is boring, has no audience or which is just bad to earn some cash..
I know passion before money, but in the end a lot of people start blogging because they want to earn money..
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Yes researching counts but hopefully you have that in hand before jumping in.
But if you make a mistake on the niche just go for what your audience wants. You don’t need to start another site, just steer towards the right content being supplied.
Here is an example site where I changed my niche from a tight small niche to a larger tech niche. (http://smallusbflashdrive.com/)
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I Just loved your article. Its really awesome one. WordPress is really too good for blogging. I,m using WP. But the people who don’t want to spend money on hosting, i would really recommend them to use blogger, Free At All. But always keep your Blog simple.
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With the kinds of resources available today, starting a blog takes only minutes, and can cost nothing. The challenge is finding a theme or a topic that can keep you and your readers engaged for the long run. Almost every blog runs out of steam within it’s first few months because they run out of content. Chose a topic that is broad, allowing you to cover many subjects, keeping things fresh and interesting, both for you and your readers. There are virtually no barriers to entry into the blogging world. The challenge is coming up with an idea with staying power.
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well i did it and working hard for that learning from my past experience and fellow bloggers this time i am focusing on niche content
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Your article is helpful specially for newbie. Its help them to find a right guideline to make a blog. Thanks. Keep it up.
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Getting a blog started is easy. It’s keeping it afloat that’s hard! If you can break down the work to fit in a single weekend, more power to you.
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nice tips just make sure that u really dont spam ur blog will rank lower just do things normally from experience
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Content is still the king and so writing and publish a unique, fresh and interesting information that your readers really want to know about is a big help to get notice online. If they find you useful, it pretty sure they will come back for more.
Hey Mitz
Nice idea for the newbie bloggers. As I am also quite fresh in this field. But on this year I started 5 blogs with my team.
I hope it will work for me
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Sounds great! Looks like you took action! good luck to you!
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A must post for those who are serious about blogging and want success fast.
Thanks for the share.
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My last year resolution was something similar to yours, mine was creating a blog. My blog is now 1 month 1 week old. My goal is that my blog must be having traffic of 1000 page views per day by the end of may 2013.
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Very informative, especially for beginners. It doesn’t take more that an week end to create a blog. Not even more than 5 minutes but it will take much more time to promote it. Thanks for sharing.
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What business model you will prefer for the blogs that are very new and want to get some revenue from it in the early stage?
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it is an extraordinary article. it helps freshers in SEO blogging. thanks for sharing nice article.
keep sharing.
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Layout I find is the most important. A good layout = readers will stay, a bad layout = clicking on the back button.
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HELLO MITZ
great post i must say.i am a newbie and i guess choosing a domain name is the crucial step because we should include keyword in that. other points are also valid.thanks
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