Starting a blog is the best way to learn digital marketing and apply your learning. Blogging can also help you acquire new clients as a freelance digital marketer.
I have prepared a super-comprehensive guide on how to start a blog to learn digital marketing and SEO.
Here are simple steps to start a blog
- Decide your blogging topic or blog niche
- Do topic research and online research to find similar blogs
- Make a blog plan and content plan
- Start writing content for your posts
- Prepare content for about page
- Collect good images and photos to use on your blog
- Decide a theme for your blog
- Choose a domain name
- Buy Domain and Hosting – Ideally from the same company
- Setup your hosting
- Create your professional email address
- Install WordPress on your hosting
- Setup WordPress
- Upload logo
- Apply WordPress theme
- Install Essential Plugins
- Create Google Analytics Account
- Create Google Search Console
- Set up your blog with Google SiteKit
- Install SEO Plugin – Yoast or Rankmalth (Both are good. I use Yoast)
- Create your posts – Start adding content to your blog
- Create About Page, Terms and Privacy Policy
- Create a contact us or contact page
- Create Menu and link pages with menu
- Create social media accounts if required
- Add Newsletter subscriptions
- Configure email marketing for subscribers
- Optimize your blog posts for SEO – On-page SEO
- Start with Off-page SEO and link building
- Start promoting your blog
- Share your blog posts on LinkedIn, Facebook and also via Instagram Bio
- Use Twitter to promote your blog
