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About the Author Ravi Singh is the owner of Blog Ravisinghblog.in Ravisinghblog, launched in 2012, is technology blogs on the web with the focus on personal and information technology including web tools, gadgets, blogging tips, SEO, social issue and inspirational stories. My aim is to make the life of our readers better and easier with the help of technology. I love to write about Blogging, SEO, Earning money tips and similar niche. 4
Chapter 1 Why Blogging? People often ask me why I started blogging. What are the tangible and intangible benefits of the blogging? Will it give you both money and fame? Is it really worth to devote time to it? When a blogger start blogging, he or she is excited and motivate. But as the time progresses, they may feel lazy, less motivated and slowed it down. Hopefully, this post will motivate all you people for blogging again. Improved Writing Skills:- Frankly, I am not convent educated or started my education with English medium school. So before blogging my writing skills was not that strong and matured. After blogging, I have a better email writing skills, better article writing skills. I write quotes for my friend s marriage anniversary card. Isn t it great to blog and acquire writing skills? One more thing you can add to resume:- So now in my official resume at Linkedin, I do mention my blogging profile. It helps me in twoway. First, I acquired knowledge of HTML and CSS, SEO because of WordPress. Secondly, as your blog is famous, a recruiter or agency may contact you for an offer. Networking:- Blogging is not for the people who want to work alone. I have got many new friends online and got a chance to learn and share my idea with them. Help Someone This is the biggest satisfaction you will get while blogging. I never felt it in my 9 to 5 job. In blogging, you will directly interact and solve their problems. Self-learning 5
Blogging gives you a very good idea about many topics. You can easily discuss it in any forum. It will give you more knowledge about your domain and with every topic, you will be one step closer to be an expert. A place to share my thoughts:- People normally write a diary to share thought to themselves. A blog has the unlimited range for your thoughts. Within minutes, you can share it with the world A blog is a memory too:- Someone said you can kill a man, but not his thought. Same goes for a blog; a blog is a great place to keep all your thoughts together. You can check it anytime, even when you are very old. 6
Chapter 2 Why WordPress? Support and Community: WordPress is one of the biggest platform for blogging. According to W3Techs, WordPress is used by 58.6% of all the websites for content management system we know with this bigger community it is very easy to get solution. Fully Customized: WordPress works with themes and plugins. So you can customize the look and feel of the blog with CSS and custom themes. There also thousands of plugins available to add news features to your blog instantly Self hosted: As WordPress comes with a self-hosted blog, you have control on all your WordPress data. You can take backup of post, themes, plugin and everything. 7
Chapter 3 Types of WordPress Hosting There are various types of WordPress hosting like cloud hosting, dedicating hosting, VPN hosting and managed hosting. You also have two types of Wordpress hosting; Free and self-hosted. A self-hosting plan gives your own space on the Internet to store file related to your blog like HTML, CSS, images, Video files etc. You will have full control about how the file will be stored on the hosting and what blogging platform you want to choose. It is provided by third party vendor who rents their space by charging a small amount. Free Blog Created using free blogging platform like blogspot or wordpress Normally have website url as yourname.wordpress.com Comes absolutely free No way of customizing blog by using CSS or plugin Self Hosted Blog Create using paid services like Bigrock,Hostgator etc Own hosting have customized domain name like yoursite.com You need to pay for own domain and hosting as initial cost You can add plugins and change theme css to give professional look to your blog 8
You have limited Limited bandwidth and disk size available from free blogging platform You can select your own bandwidth and disk size from hosting provider 3.1 Comparison of Top Indian Hosting in India: Bigrock HostingRaja Bluehost.Com domain starting at INR 639.Com domain starting at INR 699.Com domain starting at INR 794 Basic unlimited hosting package start at INR 229/month Basic unlimited hosting package start at INR 299/month Basic unlimited hosting package start at INR 279/month One click wordpress installation support One click wordpress installation support One click wordpress installation support 30 days money back gurantee 30 days money back gurantee 30 days money back gurantee Manual Backup Automatic backup your data periodically with INR 100/month Automatic backup every 5 days External application includes Wordpress, Joomla, Mysql,PHp,Forum, Includes Mysql,PHP, ruby, perl, python, portals, forum, Includes Mysql,PHP, ruby, perl, python, portals, forum, 9
Cron jobs, Drupal, Cars support counter, Wordpress, Drupal etc counter, Wordpress, Drupal,Apache, CGI etc 3.2 Types of WordPress Hosting: Shared hosting is Web hosting in which the service provider serves pages for multiple Web sites, each having its own Internet domain name, from a single Web server. Most Web hosting companies provide shared hosting. Managed hosting is an IT provisioning model in which a service provider leases dedicated servers and associated hardware to a single client. The equipment is at thehosting provider's facility and managed there by the service provider. 10
A virtual private server (VPS) is a virtual machine sold as a service by an Internet hosting service. A VPS runs its own copy of an operating system, and customers have superuser-level access to that operating system instance, so they can install almost any software that runs on that OS. 11
Chapter 4 4.1 Bluehost case study Bluehost is one of most recommended hosting for Wordpress. WordPress officially also recommend Bluehost. It has a lot of features which makes it an easy choice: 24/7 Support SimpleScripts 1-Click installs Chosen To Support Millions Of Sites SSH Secure Shell Access True Resource Management Proven Track Record Blazing Fast Servers 4.2 How to get your Wordpress Blog Up and Running Before you begin setting up your first Wordpress blog, you must buy a hosting package. I will recommend you to go to Bluehost and select a package based on your requirement. If you are a newbie start with a basic package and upgrade it once you have more experience. 4.2.1 Ten easy steps to start with Bluehost: Step 1: Go to Bluehost and buy a hosting package 12
Step 2 : If you are newbie, I would suggest to start with a basic plan with one free domain. You can select a domain name and order it with this Step3: Once you have domain name and web hosting, we need to start setting up WordPress. Bluehost comes with free 1 click WordPress install. You can find it in your Bluehost dashboard. You need to login to your bluehost and need to go to website section. Select Wordpress and click on it to install it. 13
You can also do the same thing using cpanel from the left side.look for a section called website builder and select Wordpress install. 14
Step 4: Once you click install, you will see WordPress installation window. The process of installation will begin. 15
Step 5: It is time to select a domain of your choice, Find your domain name and start installation Step 6: Select site name, user name and password for your blog 16
Once the installation is complete, you can login to your WordPress blog. You can keep admin url, username and password for your record. It will be send to your email also. Your admin URL will be like as : http://www.yourblog.com/wp-admi. Replace yourblog with your domain name. Step 7: Login to your blog using admin URL and create your first post using posts Add new 17
Step 8: Once you are done writing your post, click on publish to publish your first post to the world. Please note I have used affiliate link in this book. If you buy from my link, I will get an amount as part of the commission. 18