If you are willing to start a blog and you have fallen into a rabbit hole while searching for steps, tips, pieces of advice and more to kick in your journey in blogging, this article is for you.

Let’s start with some basics: check out those stats for some website :

You can notice that its traffic started increasing by February, and that’s all after applying what is called traffic methods.

So the trick here is to get yourself an engaging audience, quality traffic that will help to spread your content around.

For you will be facing hard times if they were only silent watchers or readers, numbers won’t get your business anywhere.

Here are 4 simple steps you can consider when starting your blog:

• Get your domain and hosting and choose a good name for your domain
• Create your website and design it to suit your theme
• Focus on quality and not quantity, your content must be a quality content that is keyword optimized
• Promote to get an engaging audience to spread out your content

Starting Your Site With BlueHost

If you are starting your business with a small budget and you can’t find suitable hosting for your work, BlueHost will do the trick for you, for it is cheap and offer great performance.

We will show you how to use it

In this particular example, I’ll use BlueHost for the hosting and show you how to set it up. It’s cheap and works well.

Choosing The Right Plan And Domain

BlueHost offers free migrations for those who want to change their hosts, the remaining plans contain marketing extras. However, we will choose the basic plan :

Beginners especially can struggle quite a bit while choosing a domain name, yet you will want to think well and deeply to choose your domain name for you are not going to be able to change it once you are settled on one, you can use Flame Domain to find one that fits.

The domain name will play a huge role in attracting engaging traffic, and even give chance to your business to become brandable later, think of something different, outstanding and catchy.

Flame Domain will help you in this, just check it and start clicking, you will immediately recognize your suitable domain name.

Just after choosing your plan, BlueHost will take you to the domain section to find one, and if you have one already you can move it easily.

Check if your domain name is completely free!

Right after, you are to fill out some basic contact information and payment details :

Then, the next page will be faced with some options, you can choose the domain privacy yet you aren’t required to do it, a matter of preferences.

As simple as that, you need to follow those steps carefully and you will be having a great blog soon enough.

The process is very easy and BlueHost has cheap helpful offers and suitable for anyone who is starting with a small budget.

 

Installing WordPress And A Few Basic Settings

BlueHost will help you a lot in this step; it will install WordPress for you.

First, create a password.

Second, choose a suitable theme to your website, you will always be able to edit it out if needed.

Next, you will be facing a page that says “Start Building”, click on it and you will find yourself here:

Next, all that we have to do is to launch the website

Click on “BlueHost”, next on “Home” then “Launch”, check this image which illustrates better those steps:

Choose a name for your blog and click on “Next Step”

Perfect, you have just finished creating your first website and you are all set to start your blogging journey!

Then, you will be facing this backend:

Here, you will be allowed to have Live Chat and so many more options.

BlueHost is super helpful, especially concerning the WordPress step, for there are other hosting providers that force you to install it by yourself and it consumes a lot of time and efforts.

You are now to grow your blog and see it shine!

Getting Traffic Flowing To Your Blog

Now we will go through all the steps you need to attract engaging traffic to your blog for having traffic that is super engaged and supportive to your content is all that blogging is about and without it, you won’t make much noticeable progress.

 It’s worth mentioning that all of the following methods are completely free which is amazing.

Ranking For Small Volume Keywords

We will be tackling this first for it has been done when you are writing your articles.

It has a great role in increasing traffic and capturing your target audience attention, people tend to look out for specific keywords and mostly one main keyword.

So, you will have to choose multiple small volume keywords to get your article to appear In front pages without any backlinks.

Choose keywords that have only small search volume, around 300 in a month, and that will help you in getting your articles in the front pages easily.

Choose any of them and use them in your articles, if you only get to the front page for 5 of them and they already have around 300 searches a month, then that will add up to 1500 in only one month by one article, and that’s pretty successful.

Here is an illustration for that :

This is how you do it.

When you are about to start writing your article, pay a visit to the Google Keyword Planner, just type it on Google, you will easily find it.

You will find a section that you can search up any keywords of whatever topic you have in mind.

For example trout :

Now, all that you have to do is using those keywords in your article, and try to mention them two to three times in a way that fits the context.

Google throughout time will get your articles to the front page for the good use of all the small volume keywords.

You can’t decide when this exactly will happen but the more efforts and dedication you offer your website, the faster you will be able to see the results.

Organic traffic is always the best choice you could consider, always has been and always will be.

Niche Related Comments

Search up blogs in your domain and comment on them, it will help to add up more traffic, just Google some website that is related to your theme and engage with them.

Here’s a trick to increase traffic.

Lookup for articles that are newly posted and leave comments on them, if it ever happened and their article went viral, your comment will pop out as the top comment and you will get good traffic if it gets popular or ranks for good use of keywords.

Usually, in the comment sections, you will be able to leave your website address, write it so people can be directed to your website easily.

Be cautious from spamming, just interact naturally.

Become Active On Niche Related Forums

Lookup for forums that are related to your niche, and be engaged and interactive on them.

And once again, avoid spamming, be very casual and all-natural in those forums.

Be very active on those forums, it will get you more traffic and try to use a username that is very similar or related to your website, it will capture people’s attention and they will easily find you via Google.

Answering Niche Related Questions

This one is also one of the easiest ways to get traffic, especially at the very beginning.

Type your keywords on Quora for example and you will find people asking thousands of questions concerning your theme, go ahead and answer them.

You may even link your articles as an answer to their questions when they are in the same context, of course, explain briefly your point and link the article.

For example :

It is one of the best ways to get traffic to your blog, for there is a chance that those topics rank in Google and it becomes a source of a continuous flow of traffic.

Niche Related Guest Post

Here you will be getting a good amount of traffic, and that’s by Guest Posting, it writing articles on different websites with a link that lead the readers back to your original article on your website, you will get backlinks and traffic.

For example:

Here there is a guest post on a different website, with a link back to the original article of the author:

Look up on Google for guest posting opportunities, follow this pattern:

Mainly you will always find a section in different websites where you can engage and share your guest post, if not just contact them to have more information.

It is a worth trying method for it will indeed grow your blog and get you immense traffic.

Have you noticed a trend yet?

Everything related to your niche will get you more engaging traffic.

Use The RIGHT Social Media Platforms

Of course, social media is important in every business, but what’s the one that suits better?

You will have to choose one or two platforms that are suitable for your niche and dedicate a lot of work and efforts to them.

For example Pinch of Yum is a food teacher, once she realized that posting her niche stuff related to Pinterest, she started focusing more on that platform and it is getting her huge traffic now.

Try to be smart concerning choosing your social media platform, for it can really help in getting a huge amount of engaging traffic.

Posting On Facebook And Google+ Groups

This is a different method of the previous one, this one is about becoming more engaged and active in Groups.

Facebook is varied and mostly has groups for nearly every niche, simply search up for them on the search bar and join them, then become a rising member in them, share valued content and the more quality content you post, the easier it will become for you later to win engaging traffic once you start dropping links of your articles.

Google+ is basically the same concept with a different name, there are communities and not groups to join, just click the home button to kick off and you will face page where you can search up for communities to share your content on.

To share on those communities, prepare a good post and choose the community from the drop-down menu at the bottom of the post.

Growing An Email List

This step is a very important one.

Once you grow an email list, you will be able to send your new content to your visitors and they will share it and help in getting you more engaged traffic.

You must have an email list for you will be able to interact with your reader closely and send them newsletters to keep them aware of updates.

In order to collect email, you will have to create some popup or opt-in on your pages, you can use a plugin named Thrive Leads to create them, it is very famous and you must have come by it before.

You will be able to design stylish ones, for example:

Final Words

And here we have reached the end of our tutorial and guide through the blogging world, everyone can easily apply those methods and get his business kick in.

Being a beginner in this field doesn’t mean you will suck at it, you just have to be a hard worker and dedicate a lot of time and efforts to your website so you can see it growing in no time.

Be active here and there, whatever is related to your niche, optimize your articles by a small volume keywords or high volume ones, whatever suits you!

You have to be very patient and dedicated to building yourself an emperor and a world of your own where you share your knowledge with those who are into it.