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Eric Stanley
15 Nov, 2019

How to start blogging

Now this being an obscure topic, I will try to be as different as possible. First things first, you guessed it right. Bluehost. Every post that I found about how to start a blog has section to create Bluehost account and use their service. I am not going to make any suggestions here, but I would say make your own research before buying a hosting space. Most of us tend to believe that the service that the product owner provides is directly proportional to the service that they provide and most of the times, it is true. Let’s see an example here. Service provider X bills $2.00 per month and service provider Y bills $1.60 per month. Now without knowing anything about either X or Y, if someone asks which one is better (without considering the cost), we would say X is better. Now, the outcome of the above scenario is either X might actually be better or maybe not. The point is, you are going to create a blogging portal for yourself or for your niche and you are not going to build a website like google. That means during the initial days, all you need is a single digit simultaneous user-handling server, which you will be hitting all alone. And, by the time you reach a significant user base, you will be matured enough to handle hosting changes. We don’t have to overthink here. Some would prefer cheap and some would prefer quality. I would let you decide on that. Though, this site is not a WordPress site, I would recommend non-technical users to go-ahead with any hosting provided which installs WordPress. Now, one of the mistakes that I did was looking free resources everywhere, until I realized that I would lose my interest as long as something is free. Coz’ as long as you know that something is free and you can get it anytime you wanted and you have nothing to lose, chances of losing interest are more likely to come true. What I’m trying to say is, just buy a paid WordPress theme that you like. Don’t go for free themes. Now, some people might argue that the above statement (or everything) is not true and I agree to that. I have seen sites (sub-domains) in blogspot.com and wordpress.com having more visitors than individually/business owned sites. I gotta say, “They are great bloggers”. This post is just for the ones that are trying to do something good and no intent to become great! Now, if you are still reading this. It’s time for you to start writing.

How to stay a blogger

Staying a blogger is always gonna be hard business. After revamping my blog site, I reviewed most if the interesting and well-established personal blogger sites and guess what, they are not staying a blogger consistently. It’s quite obvious that once you plan to start a blog, you put some good efforts into it and it’s no surprise. I have seen blogs where there were close to 80 posts in a month 10 years ago and hardy any posts in a month now. And I say that is no accident. It’s just the way life goes. Everyone has other work to do apart from blogging unless you earn quite enough from your blog posts. So, my first point about how to stay a blogger is plan not to. Yes. You read it right. Coz’ if you are creating your own blog, you are more likely to lose interest in due time and that’s totally human. That’s why I plan to create posts only when I have time and spend enough time to create one before publishing. That way I know that I am doing this only coz’ I’m interested in writing and not expecting anything more. Now, there is always a different opinion from different people and I respect that. If you think you can plan your life so perfectly, that even after a decade your plan still stays the same, I probably prefer anyone like that, not reading this blog! Having said that, my primary objective now with this post of mine is basically NOT to prove a point and that’s the way the cookie crumbles 🙂