How to Easily Create a Wordpress Blog with Hostgator
Here’s a post on how to create a Wordpress blog with hostgator hosting, easily. I wanted to show how simple and easy it really is to have your very own professional looking blog in a short amount of time. I had just setup another blog the other day, which only took me a few minutes, and I was thinking about how intimidated and confused I was when I first tried making my own blog. Most beginners don’t realize how simple and quick it really is to setup your very own blog or website using hostgator and wordpress.
Why Not use a FREE hosted blog?
Yes, there are several places to create a FREE hosted blog, but there are several disadvantages of not having your very own “self hosted blog” on your own domain name. With a FREE Hosted blog you are sharing their hosting and domain name. That means they can have complete control over your blog, so making money from it will be tough, or not even allowed. You won’t have a control panel for you to have complete access over your sites or be able to see all your stats. It’s very unprofessional and many won’t take your website seriously. Make sure you consider these things if you are planning on creating a online business, or making real money from your blog down the road. Also, having your own “self hosted blog” will make you more serious, committed and motivated on reaching success online. A FREE hosted blog url will be look like this, let’s say I’m using blogspot, then my domain name for this blog would be: mathewday.blogspot.com instead of www.mathewday.com.
Why use Wordpress (WP)?
Wordpress is the simplest and fastest way for anyone to create professional looking blogs or websites with the least amount of effort. There are two different wordpress sites. Wordpress.com is a place to create a “FREE hosted blog” and then there is Wordpress.org which is for “self hosted blogs” and you will need your own hosting and domain. Wordpress is the #1 blogging platform used by newbies and the Top Professional Bloggers. You don’t need to know any coding, programming or be a designer to have a awesome looking blog. WP uses plugins, which allow you to add just about anything to your blog with just a few clicks. Changing your theme or layout is easily done with the click of the mouse. Oh yeah, Wordpress is 100% FREE, all you need is your own hosting.
Why Hostgator (HG)?
Hostgator is the #1 hosting company with millions of domains being hosted. They’ve received numerous awards and is the most dependable company I’ve ever used. You can host unlimited websites on one hosting account. Wordpress can be installed with just a few clicks using HG, and this is the hosting I use as well. I changed over to Host gator a few years ago when I started having problems with my old hosting company and I couldn’t ever get in touch with their customer service. Everyone was telling me to changeover to hostgator, especially for WP blogs. Their customer service is intelligent and the BEST I’ve ever dealt with. They have 24/7 live support, or you can contact them by email and phone. They make everything very easy for beginners with all their tutorials, forum and their easy to use Cpanel- it’s where you’ll be able to have full control over your websites or blogs. Very inexpensive pricing and features that can’t be beat. With prices starting at only $5 dollars a month, but I’ve got some coupon codes and discounts for you to use below.
Here are the basic steps below to Create your Wordpress blog with hostgator……….
First off, if you don’t have your own hosting or want to transfer from your old host to HostGator then Click Here first and get a HG account. You’ll have to choose a domain name for your hosting account if this is your first one with them. Choose a domain name that either will be the name for your blog, brand name for your business or you can choose to just use your own name, like I did for this blog. One of my hosting accounts with HG is under this domain name “mathewday.com” but I have like 20 other domain names under this one hosting account. I suggest you get at least the Baby Plan which allows you to add unlimited websites or domains, plus all the other extras like, free transfers, FREE templates, site builder and much more. Choose whatever plan that best suits your needs.
I know of 2 Legit Hostgator discounts or coupon codes that still work currently. The first one is a 20% off your hosting purchase. This will be deducted automatically when you total everything up at checkout. This is a nice discount they give to new HG customers only. You’ll only get the 20% off one time, so you might want to pay for more than 1 month. The other discount is pay only 1 cent for your first month and you need to add coupon code wordpress if that no longer is working then enter hgc25 at the checkout and pay only 1 cent for your first month.
Now, for those of you who just opened a new account with HG it’s going to take a little time for your domain name servers (dns) to propagate properly before you can see your site/blog online. Also, you’ll get a email with details on how to get into your Cpanel (control panel). This shouldn’t take to long and if you have any questions about it just talk to your HG support and they’ll let you know the status.
How to install Wordpress on hostgator
Once you have access, log into your cpanel for your HG hosting, scroll down and click on the Fantistico De Luxe icon in the software/services section.
Now, once your in, look on the left hand side and you’ll see all the different scripts you can install onto your domain. Click the wordpress link, then click on the new installation link and now choose what domain name you want to install wordpress onto. Fill out “Admin access data”, this is what you’ll need to access your WP dashboard, so remember this name and password. Fill out the “Base configuration” with the name you want shown for your posts that you write, email address and your website’s domain name for your blog. Click install if everything looks correct and then enter a email for them to send this information so you’ll have it just in case you need it in the future. Now you’re done and just installed WP on your new domain.
After you’ve installed Wordpress onto your domain name, enter the domain name into your address bar and checkout your new Wordpress blog. Now look for the “Meta” section on the right sidebar and “login” to your WP blog. This is where you’ll be able to get into your WP dashboard and add content, change things around and change your theme/template with just a few clicks. Enter the admin nickname and password you previously created when you were installing wordpress onto this domain.
Once you are in your WP dashboard scroll down and look on the left for the section that says appearance. Now just click on “add new themes” and you’ll be able to find new themes or layouts and install them with a few clicks.
How to install Wordpress if you already have hostgator hosting, but added another domain
This is the same steps you would take if you already had hostgator hosting and just added a domain to your hosting account. If you purchase another domain name with hostgator, remember to first change the dns for the domain to your hostgator servers after purchasing, and do a addon domain in your cpanel. After you do those two things, then you can add wordpress onto it just like above.
Now all you need to do is add content, SEO, and work on getting traffic to your blog. I know you’ll be happy with hostgator hosting and with wordpress. Honestly I barely have made any money online with my FREE hosted blogs, but once I got my own domains and used wordpress, I’ve created a real online business and do this full time now. I hope my tutorial on how to create a wordpress blog with hostgator was helpful and not to hard to follow. Let me know if you have any questions or leave me a comment.
Make Money Blogging – FREE Guide to Blogging Success
Have you read the Make Money Blogging Ebook from Daniel Scocco yet? I just recently had the chance to read his FREE blogging guide, and here’s my review on it.
Here’s a little info first, about Daniel Scocco. He is the creator of “Daily Blog Tips“, one of the Most Authoritative Blogs on the internet about blogging, which I’ve been a daily reader for a good while now. His blog has fresh new content daily, which is always high quality and very valuable to people who are new to blogging and even for the very experienced.
I’ll be honest with you, even though I’ve been a loyal reader to his blog “Daily Blog Tips” for a good while, I never read his ebook before. I really never thought I would get much out of it since I already have a little experience in blogging, so I finally read it one day, since it’s FREE anyways and I wouldn’t be losing anything from reading it.
I was pleasantly surprised on how thorough and helpful the Make Money Blogging guide was to me. I had gotten some new tips and learned more about a few things that I was unsure of. For instance, many of the ways of getting traffic and exposure to your new or already existing blog was very helpful. Also, some of his tips on what to write about were just awesome and gave me the insight on how the Expert bloggers come up with some of their brilliant posts.
A lot of the information is coming from his own experience, I could just tell, so you don’t have to second guess on what to do or what’s the best thing to do. I am already implementing many of the new things I’ve learned from the Make Money Blogging ebook and already having good results.
The Make Money Blogging ebook is a 100% FREE instant download. All you have to do is sign-up for his newsletter, which is always packed with great original content that truly has helped me in my quest to become a better blogger.
The Make Money Blogging guide contains over 50 pages of valuable information and is broken up into 5 chapters. It covers everything from starting your blog off with the right foundation and structure. To tips and methods on how to make your blog successful online. You’ll learn the best ways to create a blog, what to write about, how to get traffic, networking, and how/when to monetize your blog. He even teaches you common mistakes you should avoid when starting your blog.
One of the things I did notice, and appreciate, was the Make Money Blogging content only contained High Quality Information with no affiliate links spread throughout, unlike most of all the other FREE ebooks available from the other Guru’s.
I highly recommend the Make Money Blogging Ebook, whether you are a beginner or a experienced blogger. It contains no fluff or nonsense, only straight to the point information that is very easy for anyone to follow and increase their blogging skills. Don’t waste your money or time on other blogging programs, ebooks and experimenting, until you read this straight forward guide to Make Money Blogging, first. I wanted to share my review for anyone out there who was looking for a good blogging ebook or just need some helpful information to improve their own blog. Any comments, or testimonials please do share.
WhyDoWork – Cool Adsense Plugin for Wordpress
I just recently heard about the Why-Do-Work Adsense Plugin for Wordpress. It’s not a new WP plugin by any means, it’s been out for a good while now. I had found out about the WhyDoWork WP plugin because several established bloggers I know have been trying it out lately, and have reported they have Greatly Increased their Adsense Revenue with it. There are many cool features that aren’t available on many of the other Adsense plugins, so I changed over to this one as well. This is a totally FREE plugin by the way.
What I like about the WhyDoWork Plugin
With this plugin, you can add Adsense adds on your WP blog with just a few clicks, without having to modify your template. Big Deal right, that’s what they all do. Here’s where it starts getting better. You can pick and choose where you Don’t want your adds to show up too, just enter the post ID or just use their no-adsense tag.
It’s gets even better, choose X amount of days you want adds to show up on certain posts. Choose 15 days and your adsense adds will only show up on your posts that are at least 15 days old, only. A ton of different variations are available through this feature. The best part of this option allows you to not directly affect any of your loyal readers with the adds, but will show the adds to traffic coming to your older posts, great for search engine traffic.
The Why-Do-Work Adsense Plugin took little time to set-up, and I’ve seen no problems with it so far. I’ve already seen a little increase of clicks with my adds, and it should definitely help me make more money with adsense as soon as I am more established, and get more search traffic. I was just content with my regular adsense plugin, but this one just has some really cool features. It’s totally FREE, so why not give it a try.
4 Key Ways to Become a Successful Blogger
I am a self taught Internet Marketer for nearly 2 years now, who started blogging a little over half a year ago. There are many reasons why I chose to and why you should start a blog if you haven’t already, but I’m not going to get into that in this post. Through trial and error, research and observation. I now know there are only “4 key ways to become a successful blogger” or make a blog successful. Especially now, with the new flood of wannabe Pro Bloggers and people who want their share of the cash cow that blogging has created.
4 Ways to Have a Successful Blog
1. Valuable Content – Your blog contains content that is helpful, unique, has value and over delivers with information about the topics you write about. It could also have really great and valuable videos or pictures.
It took a little while for me to finally catch on to this concept. You see, when I first started blogging I use to spread news and blog about things all the Big Blogs were blogging about as it happened. If you’re new to blogging and have a new blog, you’re not going to be able to compete with the accomplished blogs with huge lists of followers and authority.
Why would people come to my blog if I’m writing about the same things other people are or even if I’m changing it up a little with my own opinions? There still no reason for them to recommend or ever come back to my blog. You gotta give people something different, original, informational, helpful and eye popping content that is different than everyone else.
2. Awesome SEO – Your blog is successful because you get huge amounts of traffic from the SERP’S or search engines like Google, Yahoo and Bing.
I keep track of many different groups of keywords, but one of my main groups of keywords I watch carefully is the “Make Money Online” keywords. Many times I checkout the sites and blogs that are on the front pages of Google for Mega Keywords like “make money” which is searched in the millions per mth. Think of the traffic you would get if you had a blog on the front page of some keywords like that. Yeah, I know it would be nice.
Anyways, some of the blogs that are on the front pages for mega keywords are some of the cheesiest sites that I’ve ever seen. Even the design, functionality and content of their blogs suck. After reading a few posts I can tell right off the bat that they really have no clue on what they are talking about. So how did they get on the front page of Google then? They have hired a SEO team or they used proper seo techniques and gotten themselves on the front of the serp’s probably over a long period of time.
3. Big Name or Big Brand – It’s pretty simple, you already are a Huge well known Brand Name or you are already a well known famous person and you start a blog.
The chances are it’s not going to take you to long to get traffic to your blog and become successful. Many people who have a huge audience and authority in another field start blogging because they know or hope that they can expand their already big name or business into the blogging world.
Many of the Big Time Bloggers like “Problogger” have worked their butts off and used their skills, experience and intelligence to create a Huge Brand Name. It’s pretty safe to say, anything “Problogger” touches or endorses will be successful.
4. Tons of Exposure – I’ve seen other groups of blogs that do well and primarily are successful because they are forever promoting and marketing the heck out of their blog and name. Any chance they get they promote. Whether it be blog commenting, to putting their name out on articles and on other sites. They promote all the time for more exposure.
I don’t know about you but the type of blogs I like reading have original and unique content that helps me become a better blogger and person. All the three other reasons I listed have really no affect on me as in returning to their blog other than for networking purposes. I now know that’s what I need to do with my blogs in order for me to reach my goals and to get the exposure that I want to get.
If you want to actually be a successful blogger and I’m talking like “six figures a year” then you better be doing one or all of the 4 ways of becoming a successful blogger above…. or you just have Mad Skills that not even I can comprehend. What are your thoughts on this post or does anyone have anything to add?
Make Money Online Without Selling Anything
I’ve had this idea for a long time actually for creating websites and blogs aimed at people who don’t or can’t make purchases online. You probably know who I’m talking about, the very conservative who still don’t trust putting their credit card number into any computer, the seniors who think there’s no use for the internet (let alone make a purchase online) and of course you can’t forget about the kids. Now what kind of site or blog am I talking about?
I am talking about sites or blogs specifically made for making money online from CPA – click per acquisition or action, CPC – click per click, CPM – click per Mille, or 1,000 impressions and you make money by amount of impressions. They won’t have to make any purchases and it’s a great demographic for making money online just from clicks and impressions.
I know this isn’t a new concept or anything, but the whole reason I started thinking of creating sites for this was because I have a ton of family members/friends and I spend a lot of time with kids. I have a daughter, a ton of neices, nephews…..so I’ve seen there uses and skills on the computer, they blow me away sometimes.
In fact, some of them are constantly on their little netbooks and clicking on adds all day and night. One night I was thinking to myself, wow the sites aimed at youngsters make a killing from ads getting clicked on because a lot of it has to do with there age and knowledge. Older and more computer savvy adults click adds a lot less than a youngster who sees, let’s say Google Adsense adds all over.
Now we have the groups of seniors who still think the internet is useless to them or “evil”, but their age group is immensely growing every year for being online and the adults who still don’t trust purchasing anything online. Now these type of sites mentioned above work well for them as well for making money on the internet because they don’t mind clicking on helpful adds. Here was a interesting read about seniors online habits I read on Mashable.
Here are the three types of ad networks that work well for sites made for making some extra money from these demographics I’ve been talking about in this post.
CPA – click per acquisition or action, usually you need to just give the company a lead and they handle the rest and you make money.
CPC – click per click, Here’s some of the popular one’s you might want to checkout to make money from clicks.
CPM – cost per milli or 1000 impressions, make money from impressions.
A training program that you may be interested in that I am going to be joining very soon just so I can use the tools they provide is Blog Success. I was reading a section in their program the other day that actually taught you how to make blogs similar to this just spending minutes a day aimed at these type of demographics using some of their exclusive tools such as Utility Poster.
My suggestions for making a site or blog aimed at these demographics: children, seniors and adults who don’t make purchases online is to think like them, ask them what kind of sites they like and look at examples online for these kind of sites. For instance for kids, think games, cartoons etc…. Also think of things they look up online whether for information or entertainment. Always remember to blend your adds and experiment. UGRKV75VJWG4
Awesome Resources: 1. Ways to make money online with website
2. Top 10 advertising networks
