Where is the best place to start a blog? Three best ways to start a blog for a beginner.

Welcome to the blog! I am very glad to see you!

When I decided to start my online business on the Internet, I spent a long time searching online for articles on the request: “How to create a blog yourself for free - step-by-step instructions.”

Below you will find a list of 8 instructional articles (PART 1 - PART 8). After following the instructions in a couple of days, you will receive your blog or information site!

So, in this and other articles in the “” section, I tell you how to create a blog for free yourself, what difficulties I encountered when creating a blog, what questions I had, what technical actions I performed at the initial stage and at the stages of filling, promotion and monetization site. How much money and what did I still have to spend on different stages building my blog.

My goal is to show everyone who is still hesitant to start their own online business that creating a blog or website is easy. Even if you don't have technical knowledge and there is not a lot of money for this endeavor. That is why I run this blog, or rather the part of it dedicated to technical and theoretical issues of creating a website or blog, in the format of a reality show.

When the decision is made, it is important to quickly start blogging on the Internet (or website)!

You are of course interested in the question, how long will it take to complete this instruction? If you look for information on the Internet, you can spend a week completing each step of the step-by-step instructions. But if you just follow the instructions, you can complete this work in a couple of days, for example, weekends.

Informational: a website (blog) begins to earn money only a few months after its creation. How many? From 30,000 rubles. An advanced site earns from 100 - 150 thousand rubles. per month. It all depends on the scale and quality of the project. Also, a working 2 or 3 year old website with high traffic can be sold. Cost is 20 times monthly passive income. A site earning 30,000 rubles is sold for 600,000 rubles or more.

How to create your website for free and quickly yourself - step-by-step instructions:

• Part 1. Selecting a topic (we’ll look at it in this article):
• How did I decide to start blogging on the Internet?
• Blog or information site? Blogging Philosophy
• Choosing a topic (niche) for your project
• Choosing hosting and domain name for the site
• Choosing an engine for a blog or website
• How to log into the site admin area?
• Installing WordPress and robot.txt on a blog (site)
• Choosing a blog (site) template design and installing it
• Setting up the site after installing the template. Widgets.
• Setting up the site after installing the template. Plugins.
• Setting up the site after installing the template. Categories
• Setting up the site after installing the template. Menu.
• Creation correct address articles. Rus-to-lat plugin
• Setting up comments on a website (blog).
• Installing social buttons on a website (blog).
• Creation page navigation on a blog or website.

PART 1. Selecting a topic.

If you come across some unfamiliar words in this regard, don't worry. In fact, all these concepts will seem very simple and understandable to you after you make the settings yourself using the instructions. Moreover, you will need to perform most of the described actions only once – when setting up your website.

Instructions contain detailed information with screenshots and videos. The information is intended for beginners. So anyone can do this job. And if not everything is clear, then ask questions in the comments to the publications. No one will be left unanswered!

Still doubt your abilities? Then I will additionally publish a motivating article and video, which, I hope, will finally convince you to take action! Start your own blog or information site. And as a result, gain creative freedom and financial independence! Hurry up! While you are thinking, hundreds of other, more daring people are entering a query on the Internet every day: “How to create a blog yourself for free - step-by-step instructions.”

Motivational video from the famous blogger Alexander Borisov “How to make money on the Internet on a blog from one hundred thousand.” Over time I recommend that you buy it complete guide on blogging Video course CYBER BLOGGER. You can start with free courses on website building from well-known gurus, a link to them can be found on the page .

How did I decide to start blogging on the Internet?

A couple of years ago I just started thinking about changing my life. At that time I was still working in a bank, but I began to think that life could be different, more measured. It’s time to come up with your own business that will allow you to spend more time on yourself and your family. Many foreigners worked on my project and I noticed that some of them could afford a six-month vacation and go on a long trip.

You've probably heard that Europe and America are overwhelmed by the idea of ​​downshifting and slowlife (I will definitely write an article about these new concepts of life). I think these ideas arose because for too long the principle that you have to work hard to earn a lot has been imposed. But over time, smart people began to wonder why money is needed if, due to work, there is absolutely no time to spend it.

I had approximately the same thoughts. I decided that even if I earn less, I won’t always be in a hurry and nervous. And I will do what I like - write articles on topics that I like.

A blog was ideal for this purpose. I view blogging not only as a means of earning money. I run it for the soul and at the same time make money from it.

Blog or information site? Blogging Philosophy

This important question. You must answer this before starting work on creating your online project. In order not to dwell on this issue for a long time, I will only say about the main advantage of a blog over an information site.

You know how many sites there are on the Internet dedicated to various topics. Health, children, education, beauty, fashion, science, technology, sports, etc. All these sites are similar to each other and the user, by and large, does not care on which of them he finds the information he is interested in. That is, information sites, as a rule, do not have a permanent audience.

If we talk about blogs, then, as a rule, they have a permanent audience. People don't read a blog because they like the information. But because they like the author himself and his writing style. No matter how many websites and blogs there are on your topic, you can always find “your audience.” Find people who are close to your style and your views on life. The only important thing is not to try to please everyone, but to be yourself.

But the choice, of course, is yours. To be fair, I’ll say one thing undeniable advantage information site versus blog. A well-promoted and earning website is your liquid asset. You can always sell it if necessary. It’s more difficult to sell a blog, because... Readers get used to the author’s style of presenting the blog topic.

Choosing a topic (niche) for a blog (site)

For me, the question of choosing a topic for a blog has never arisen. I immediately knew what I wanted to write about. If you haven't decided yet, that is simple ways, how to do it.

How to choose a theme for a blog or website?

• You must like the niche
• The niche must be in demand
• The niche must be effective for contextual advertising
• There should be enough affiliate programs in the niche
• There should be enough direct advertisers in the niche

You should like the niche. The first option is to choose a topic in which you have accumulated knowledge and experience. But it often happens that you are not interested in writing about what you have thoroughly studied.

Based on this, the second option is to choose a new direction, new topic, which is interesting and which you want to understand. This is exactly my option. I immersed myself in the topic of Internet marketing. This is a new and interesting topic for me.

The niche must be in demand. What does this mean and how to determine it? There is information on the Internet about the ratings of top, popular sites. This information can be found at these resources: top.ucoz.ru, top.mail.ru, liveinternet.ru. They show top sites by category.

Let's say you are interested in the topic Sports (or Cars). In the Sports category, you can familiarize yourself with the most popular sites (blogs) in this topic to evaluate competitors and understand whether you really like this topic.

Also, with the help of these ratings, you will see the demand for certain topics - the number of visitors to top sites per day. You also need to check the demand for queries on a certain topic using the wordstat.yandex.ru service.

How to do it? In the field for entering phrases, you need to one by one enter words that surround your niche (see screenshot below). Yandex Wordstat will show you how many times a month users searched for these words and phrases in search engines Oh. Here's an example. Users typed the word “salads” into search bar 2,941,198 times per month:

You can learn more about the methodology for choosing a niche in this video (prepared by one of the famous website building experts, Alexander Kozlov):

The niche must be effective for contextual advertising. How to determine this? Very simple:

Don’t worry, we discuss the topic of making money on affiliate programs, as well as the topic of contextual advertising, in detail in the Types of Earning Money on a Blog section.

So, the niche has been chosen. The long term has come this moment, when you can start directly creating your brainchild - an information site or blog. Do not pause under any circumstances, and immediately after choosing a niche, start setting up your resource in one go.

See you soon!

I wish everyone self-confidence!

Enjoy life and be optimistic!

P.S. Don’t be lazy to “click” on social buttons to tell your friends that creating a blog for free yourself (or a website) and making money on it is easy and interesting!

Write in the comments what difficulties you encountered - let's share our knowledge and experience with each other in the comments.

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Today blogs are gaining popularity. Many celebrities create them. And there is nothing surprising here, because the Internet is a great opportunity to communicate with a large number of people at the same time, and create a blog, means to realize this opportunity.

Officials, popular artists, and athletes have blogs. In general, almost everyone does. Do you have it?

If not, and you don’t know where to start, then below I will introduce you step by step instructions to create your own diary. After reading it to the end, you will imagine how you can create a blog for yourself in a short time.

Step 1 – Domain and Hosting

Domain and hosting are integral attributes of any blog. Without them, in principle, its functioning is impossible. First, we need to choose hosting. Hosting is a service for hosting a resource on a web server, or providing the service of hosting someone else’s web server on one’s own “site.” Website hosting is in greatest demand, since hosting someone else's web server is necessary only for large websites. There are two types of hosting – free and paid.

If you don’t know where it’s best to create a blog, then first I advise you to create it on free hosting. You will not pay money for it, but you will simply experience certain restrictions. This could be an advertisement that will subsequently be displayed in your online diary. In addition, you are completely dependent on the administration of the free blog service (hosting), because they can ban your diary at any time and all your work will go to waste.

This was once the case with my first diary, which I created on LiveJournal (livejournal.com). But still, for beginners who don’t know where it’s best to create a blog, I would advise you to start paid hosting(blog service). You just practice, learn about some promotion features (seo, smo, etc.), see if you can write posts and whether you like this process.

I'll describe some free blog Services.

Livejournal.com is a great platform. LiveJournal has a large audience, so create personal blog This blog service, in my opinion, is promising. There is a lot of functionality here: the ability to add friends, the ability to earn money by placing contextual advertising Google AdSense and many other possibilities. Only, as you can see, active promotion blogging on LiveJournal is punishable by a ban, so you should act very carefully. You can read in detail about LiveJournal blogs in my post

Blog.ru– in fact, I myself once started with it. As far as I know, blog.ru has now blocked all outgoing links from blogs posted on their blog service from being indexed by search engines. This suggests that there are no prospects for making money from various types of selling links, so the service can be chosen solely for training

Ucoz.ru– also suitable for a novice website builder. There is no need to install any modules or engine here. The interface is intuitive. No support for PHP and MySQL databases

Narod.ru– free hosting from Yandex. Probably the most popular. Anyone wishing to create a blog is provided with unlimited space for personal diary. The hosting does not support scripts and PHP. In general, there are incredible free blog hosting services. a large number of. You can always find them by entering in the Yandex search line or Google request « Free hosting" It will give you a lot of results.

By the way, the popularity of such services according to Yandex can be viewed at blogs.yandex.ru. If you already have some knowledge and are confident that you will not abandon your blog, then it is better to create it immediately on paid hosting. The advantage is that there will not be annoying advertising, but there will be a large number of different functions.

Below is a list of some paid hosting services:

majordomo.ru– good hosting. But it's paid. There are quite a lot on the search engine (forum.searchengines.ru) positive feedback O this hosting. The service is gradually gaining momentum and I think it has excellent prospects. Support works quickly, many functions are implemented. By the way, this service is one of the five largest hosting providers in Russia. They currently have four tariffs in total. The price per month today ranges from 99 to 450 rubles per month. My blog once also huddled on this hosting. By the way, for everyone who registers using my referral, a bonus will be awarded when registering on hosting

Best-Hoster.ru– another good paid hosting. They have a total of 4 tariffs to choose from. The only difference is the amount provided disk space. True, there have been cases of hosting failure.

When creating a blog, you need to consider some more nuances:

Paid hosting provides the ability to receive an unlimited amount of traffic (this is in general)

• All paid hosting supports PHP and MySQL databases
• Using paid hosting, you get the opportunity to create a subdomain for your blog

Many paid hosting providers provide their clients with ready-made technical solutions. It can be various scripts etc., improving the work of the created blog and its functionality

You can find paid hosting services in the same way as searching for free ones. Just enter the query “paid hosting” in the Yandex or Google search bar. Let's say you like some hosting. Don't rush to order a service from them. Be sure to check if there are reviews about this service. Go to at least the same service and in the forum search bar type the name of the hoster you are interested in. You will definitely be given some topic where the work of this hoster will be discussed.

The only exceptions can be hosting providers operating not in Russia, but somewhere in America or Canada. Such hostings can also be used, just know that they will work somewhat slower than ours, since we need to make allowances for distance.

Now that you have finally decided where it is best to create a blog, let’s register for hosting. After this, you will be provided with passwords and data from the panel to your FTP account. Be sure to save this data. Preferably on removable media. In general, this is where the choice of hosting ends.

Domain for a personal diary

Now that we already have hosting, all that remains is to choose a domain. If you are going to work for a Russian audience, then it is better to purchase Domain name in zone.ru. You can also consider the option of .com and .net zones. I don’t recommend the rest for the Russian-language segment of the Internet. Most hosting providers provide the opportunity to register a domain through them.

Or you can register it with a third-party registrar, which specializes only in providing domain registration services. Choosing a website domain name is a simple procedure. The main thing is to come up with a name for it in advance.

Today, to register a domain in zone.ru, you will need to provide the registrar with your passport information and also indicate your place of residence. In addition, the newly created domain will need to be assigned DNS servers your hosting. You will find this data in your hosting control panel.

DNS (Domain Name System) – domain system names It is designed to convert domain names to IP addresses. Or maybe vice versa - it is intended to convert IP addresses into domain names. DNS are designed for domain delegation. Once you register the domain and you have assigned the DNS servers, you will need to park the domain to your hosting.

Depending on the hoster, the name of this service may vary slightly, but usually in the control panel there is a “domains” tab, where there is an option to “park a domain”. Here you need to enter our registered domain in the appropriate field, and then wait. By the way, in more detail about domains is described in the article. That's it, this step is finished. Now the next step in creating a blog is installing the WordPress engine.

Step 2 – Select an engine

Now it's time to choose an engine for the blog we created. As with hosting, you can create a personal blog using either a free or a paid engine (CMS).

One of the popular engines is DataLife Engine. This is a paid engine. If you don’t know where is the best place to create a blog, then simply evaluate the capabilities of paid engines and draw conclusions. Many additional modules have been created for this engine, so you can build almost any website on this CMS.

Installing this engine is not difficult. For this we need a file Total manager Commander. We upload files from the archive with our engine to the server via FTP, and then run the installation file. This is usually done by typing in address bar URLs like _http://your website/install.php. Nothing further is required from you except follow the instructions provided. When installing the CMS, you will need to create a MySql database. You can do this through your hosting control panel.

In principle, every archive with the engine should always have installation instructions, so you can’t go wrong. After installing the engine, go to the settings. True, I will not describe this, since this is a separate topic for discussion. You will need to install a theme, plugins, etc.

The next popular engine is WordPress. I recommend this CMS to all beginners. This is perhaps the best blog engine. WordPress is a free blogging engine. You can download the distribution kit on the website mywordpress.ru, or the Russian-language and modified version from Lecactus (lecactus.ru). Installing the engine comes down to the fact that we need to upload files via FTP to the server, fill MySql data database into the “wp-config-sample” file, and then run the installation.

This can also be done by typing the address _http://your site/install.php into the address bar of your browser. In general, the archive with the engine must contain installation instructions, so you’ll figure it out. The engine is intuitive. I myself started with it once, when I knew nothing at all, but gradually I figured it out.

And the last popular engine that webmasters use is Joomla. This engine weighs slightly less than WordPress. This CMS is installed like DataLife Engine. As for functionality, Joomla does not shine at all, but despite this, many webmasters like it. This concludes the second step of creating your blog.

Step 3 – Fill the created blog with content and carry out internal optimization

The first two steps are very important. But this does not mean that they are the main points. Creating a personal blog is one thing. It’s something completely different to promote it. One of the most important components of promotion is filling it with unique content. Content refers to all the material on a website – pictures, texts, videos, etc.

It is very important to maintain the uniqueness of the content. That is, all the material you post on your blog should not have exact copies on other sites. Material can be obtained by rewriting or copyrighting. I wrote about what this is in the article.

A rewritten text is, of course, also good, because it is unique. But such content is mainly filled with those online diaries that are intended primarily for earning money. If you want to create a high-quality author’s project, then, of course, it would be better to write texts that have not been published anywhere before. It is the uniqueness of information that attracts people. It is important to understand simply the fact that if the text is unique to search engines, this does not mean that it is unique to people. If the idea is not new, then your blog is unlikely to gain much popularity.

Previously, as an experiment, I created one of my first diaries on the blog service blog.ru, and then, out of ignorance, I simply took and copied materials from other sites. Therefore, it is not at all surprising that after some time my blog was banned by Yandex and Google. Hence the conclusion: there is no need to steal content, this can lead to a ban in search engines or a lower ranking in search results.

Now about internal optimization. Creating a personal blog is not difficult, but after that you simply must delve into the basics of search engine promotion and optimization.

Below I will give some tips for on-page optimization:

• The first thing you need to do is select the keywords under which you will promote your resource.

After you decide on your queries, you need to select the most relevant pages for each query.

You should not optimize one page for many requests at once. 1-3 is enough

• Keywords must be written in the page title and in its description

The main thing is not to overdo it with quantity. keywords in the text. If you make a text densely stuffed with keywords in such a way that the readability of the text is lost, then search engines will quickly determine this and the page will fall under the “You are spam” filter.

• Keywords can be highlighted with tags And
• IN alt tags images also need to include keywords

At the end of each article, include a list of similar articles. This will increase the coherence of the text material and also increase the number of page views

• It is advisable to indicate the most popular articles in a prominent place in the sidebar

Navigating the site should be simple and convenient. All blog pages should be accessible in 2-3 clicks from the main page

It is advisable to provide each article with icons of social networks so that visitors can add those materials that they like to social bookmarks or other social services

• Be sure to do separate page with your contact details

Step 4 – Promotion and monetization

If you think that you already know perfectly well how to create a blog, then you are mistaken. Let's assume you created it, filled it with content, conducted internal optimization. But what next? Do you think that visitors will immediately flock to you? Not at all. Promotion is perhaps the most difficult process in this whole business.