1. BLOGGING
Tell a Story of your Passion
MichaelTsakporhore
Business Counselor and Website Design

2. What is Blog
• It a online dairy where you share your thoughts and passion

3. How to Set up a Blog
• There’s five main steps you need to go through in order to set up a blog. If
you follow this guide and the five steps, you’ll have your own blog set up in
30 minutes or less.

4. The 5 Simple Steps to Starting a Blog
• Choose your preferred blog platform
• Choose web hosting for your blog
• Setting up a blog on your own domain
• Designing your blog (the fun bit!)
• Useful resources for blogging

5. Step 1 – Choose your preferred blogging
platform
Choosing where you want to build blog
is pretty much the first thing you have
to do. I’m going to take a leap and
assume you’ve heard ofWordPress, and
this is the platform I advocate.
It’s massive. It’s by far one of the biggest
blogging platforms in the world, with
countless plugins and add-ons and
almost infinite ways to design and
layout your blog

6. Step 2 – Self-hosting or a free alternative?
Whoa, slow down there!This is the biggest decision you’ll have to make before we go any
further.You need to decide whether to pay for your blog or grab a free one.WordPress,Tumblr
and Blogger all offer free blogs for anyone.Awesome, right? It’s perfect for those of us who
aren’t super serious about blogging. But it does have downsides:
1) You won’t be able to get your OWN domain name
On a free blog, your blog’s web address (your URL) will be butt-ugly. Like, really ugly. In short,
create a free blog with any other the above free blog services and it’ll look like this:
yourblog.wordpress.com yourblog.blogspot.com yourblog.tumblr.com
I know, ugly right?

7. a free alternative?
2) Limits and more limits
There are some limits to free blogs.You can’t fully monetize it, and you don’t
have the possibility to upload all those videos and images you want to show
everyone – it’s all limited. Worse still, you won’t even have access to the free
themes offered byWordPress.

8. a free alternative?
3)You DON’T OWN your blog
It might sound silly at first, but you don’t actually own your blog. It’s hosted on
someone else’s web property and they can delete it if they want so.They have
done so in the past, and keep doing it in the future.Which means all your hard
work on your blog, all those countless hours of writing blog posts might be
vanished within seconds. Sad…

9. Self-hosting
On the other hand, with a self-hosted blog on your own domain name – you
are the REAL owner of your blog.You’ll be able to name your blog whatever
you want, for example “YourName.com” or “YourAwesomeBlog.com.You can
end it with .com, .co.uk, .net, .org, or virtually any other web suffix. Add to
that unlimited bandwidth for videos, images and content plus the free themes
and you have a winning combo.
So how much is hosting and a domain name? Not as much as you’re thinking,
fortunately. It usually works out to about $5 to $10 per month, depending on
your hosting provider which is less than a couple of coffees.

10. Step 3 – Start a blog on your own domain (if you
chose self-hosting and a custom domain)
I’m going to push ahead based on the premise you’ve chosen WordPress, and if you
haven’t, you should. Seriously, it’s the best.
If you’re still a little confused by what a self-hosted blog is, allow me to explain and
how you can go about setting one up for yourself.
You’ll need to come up with a domain name you like and also choose a hosting
company that can host your blog.
Domain: The domain is basically the URL of your website. Examples: google.com
(Google.com is the domain), Facebook.com (Facebook.com is the domain). See?
Simple!
Hosting: Hosting is basically the company that puts your website up on the internet
so everyone else can see it. Everything will be saved on there.Think of it as a
computer hard-drive on the internet where your blog will be saved.

11. Step 4 – Designing your WordPress blog
Now, the fun bit. Let’s make your blog look exactly how you want it to.To
choose a new theme, you can either head to Appearance >Themes and install
a freeWordPress theme or you can head to a premium theme website
likeThemeForest.net and buy a theme for around $40.
I usually choose something that looks professional and pretty easy to
customise.WordPress also has this awesome feature that allows you to
change themes with just a few clicks. So if you start getting tired of your
current blog template, you can just switch to another one without losing any
precious content or images.

12. Step 5 – Useful Resources For Beginner
Bloggers
Bloggers come to blogging arena with varying degrees of online and social
media experience, but we’ve all made more than a few newbie mistakes –
there’s always room for more learning and improvement, whether you’re a
beginner or you’ve been blogging for years.

13. Ways to GrowYour Blo
#1: Be Active in Other Communities First
This are some blogging community you can get involved with. Start with one per time
• https://medium.com/
• http://www.stackstreet.com/
• http://triberr.com/landing/bloggers
• https://stackstreet.com/
• https://www.linkedin.com/grp/
• https://plus.google.com/communities

14. Ways to grow your blog
• #2: Write About WhatYou Love
• #3: Write Insanely Great Content
• #4: Answer Questions forYourAudience
• #5: Say Something New

15. Thank you