How to start a blog that makes money in Nigeria

Are you wondering how to setup a blog when actually you don’t know anything in programming language, not even html basic, you might be wondering, Is it possible to build a blog?

in these tutorials, I will teach you how to setup a blog in less than 5 minutes without knowing a line of code and I’ll also show you how to monetize it.

When you are you are done with these tutorials, you should be able to how to set up a blog but if there is anything that is unclear to you, you are welcome to ask questions or contact me privately. I will be delighted to help you, this guide contain pictures for proper understanding.

I know that blogging seems overwhelming for beginners, that’s why this post was created for beginners, you don’t need to be a professional programmer with high-tech skills to develop a beautiful full functional blog, even if you are rated 10/100, you will be able to create your own blog with the steps below:

How to start a blog

1. Choose an attractive domain name
2. Choose a hosting provider
3. Install WordPress
4. Customise your blog
5. Write your first blog post
6. Monetize your blog

what is blogging?

A blog is a website that place priority on your content, it is a content focused type of sites where the writer who is the blogger provides informative content to the visitors. To learn more about a blog, click here and I also have a beautiful on blogging mistakes you should avoid.

Why you should start blogging?

There are many reasons you should start blogging especially if you have something of great interest to you, a passion or alternative source of income.

Here is a simple mathematics passion+interest+business=money. What ever reason you have, it will finally payoff.

A blog gives you the freedom to express yourself to the world and connect with people who shares the same interest with you and it can be a great source of income when done the right way.

You choose the tone you discuss with your audience but most blogger’s choose the informal format.

You are entitled to write anything that is of great interest to you, after all it’s your space.

What defines you as a true blogger is the ability to learn over time and solves your audience problems, your articles should be informative, educative and entertaining at the same time.

You don’t need a degree in your choosen niche to start blogging,as long as you have interest on your choosen niche, you will find it interesting to learn more and more along the long run.

Is blogging still profitable in 2022?

Seeing the numbers of blog springing up on daily basis, there is a blog on any niche imaginable, beginners are faced with the question, is blogging still profitable? Isn’t it too late to start blogging?.

Yes and yes, blogging is profitable and will continue to be profitable as long as you are using the right technique’s. To be a successful blogger, you need to choose a niche that is focused on helping your visitors achieve something, it will differentiate you blog from other blog’s and unique (Note that what makes your website unique is the quality of content that you provide).

It will protect you from the competitive environment, from other established blog’s since your blog is focused on helping a single audience.

Reason. Why you should start a blog

1. To share your knowledge, stories, interest and passion to the world.
2. To create an alternative means of income.
3. Blogging gives you awareness, recognition and make you an expert that others will look up to for advice.
4. Connect you will people who shares the same interest and passion with you.
5. Blogging helps boost brand awareness if you have a business.

Choose an attractive domain name

One of the most important first move you will make is to choose a domain name, not just any works, your domain name should give your audience a tip of what your blog is all about without visiting your site.

There are couple of things to consider while choosing a domain name for your blog:

Your niche

The niche you choose to blog on determines your blog name for instance it doesn’t make sense to have a blog on political niche and your keyword have something like recipes in your domain name or a marketing blog with mobile gadgets keyword in it’s domain.

It’s a misconception, don’t drive away potential traffic by choosing a complicated domain.

Keep it simple, memorable with keywords relating to your niche but if your blog is all about you, I humbly advice you to use your own name if it is still available. Try other domain extensions with your choosen domain to see if it is available, for example, supertechcity.com is already taken but you can still try supertechcity.org or supertechcity.net to see which is available, hello it’s just an example, not asking you to do that, come up with something unique and brandable.

Remember whatever name you choose will become your blog URL but don’t worry, you can still change it later.

If you are having a hard time coming up with a perfect domain name, please contact me, I will help you brainstorm some amazing domain name ideas for free,I owe you that.

Choose a webhosting provider

After you are done choosing a domain name which I believe you have, the next stage Is to choose a webhosting company for your blog, see our list of best webhosting companies.

While WordPress itself is free, you need a webhosting company to make your website visible and accessible to the world wide web audience. For webhosting, I recommend bluehost, they’re WordPress number one recommendation and see reasons:

1. They are affordable
2. Get free domain
3. Free CDN+SSL
4. 24/7/365 customer support
5. 1 click WordPress installation
6. Fast performance
7. Money back guarantee
8. Reliability

Then for new blogger’s especially in Nigeria who can’t afford or choose to patronize a local hosting company, there are couple of great and reliable webhosting companies I have tested and best so far is domainking.ng👑, they are affordable, reliable, there customer service is outstanding and you stand a chance to get free domain+SSL when you host your website with them.

Take it from me, they are the best in Nigeria.

For the sake of these tutorials, I am using domain king for experiment however, not minding the webhosting company you choose,it is still the same step.

First choose a hosting plan

2. Go ahead to pay for your choosen plan

On the new window, if you have already registered a domain name, then choose I will use my existing domain and update your nameserver but if you don’t have a domain name, type your domain name and click on check, if it’s available hurry, scroll down the page and click on continue.

On the next page, cross check your details, you see a summary of your orders before clicking on continue

You would be directed to a checkout page to complete your purchase, click on checkout

At these stage, if you have an account, just accept there terms and conditions and click on complete order but if you don’t have an account, just create one and complete order.

When your order is complete, check your email for your cpanel details.

How to access your WordPress cpanel and login?

1. To access your WordPress cpanel, put cpanel at the end of your domain for example, yourdomain.com/cpanel.
2. you would be prompted to your login page, input your login details to login.

How to install WordPress

To install WordPress on your domain from your cpanel:

Open your cpanel

Scroll down and choose software by softaculous

Click on install WordPress

Fill out all the necessary details

When you are done, click on install below the page

You have successfully install WordPress on your domain, hurry and visit your website.

How to login to your WordPress admin dashboard?

You are done with your WordPress installation and now you are wondering how to access your WordPress backend of your blog, this guide is simple, just keep reading.

Add wp-admin to the end of your website, for example, supertechcity.com/wp-admin

On the next page, enter your WordPress installation username and password.

If you loose your password, don’t panic, click on lost password to recover it

You will be redirected to your WordPress admin backend.

How to install a WordPress theme?

WordPress install a default theme for your blog automatically, if the default theme doesn’t meet your requirement, don’t worry but before then, see our list of WordPress themes, it will help you make a choice.

There are thousands of free and premium WordPress themes available that serves different purpose based on your requirement, to access WordPress free theme directory, click on appearance

The good thing about WordPress is that it’s easy to change the appearance of your website in minutes without knowing a line of code, from the list of available themes, choose the one you want based on your requirement.

Click on install and activate

That’s it, you have successfully installed a WordPress theme on your blog.

Not satisfied with the default design, want something professional, let’s customize your theme.

How to customize a WordPress theme (easy steps)

Go to appearance, click on customize

On the next page, you have the power to edit and make changes to your theme.

What is a WordPress plugin?

A WordPress plugin is a software designed to add extra features and functionalities to your website.

WordPress plugin extend the existing features of your website, WordPress is the home of thousands of free and premium WordPress plugins. It has a plugin for any features you want, It allows you to create any type of website that you want, for example, you can use a WordPress plugin to add social share button to your blog, build e-commerce website, build form’s, email list and many others.

How to install a WordPress plugin?

To install a WordPress plugin, just follow the steps below:

Click on plugin

Click on add new

Choose or search plugin

Click on install and wait, next click on activate

You just added a new features/functionalities to your website.

How to write a blog post on WordPress?

Ready to write your first blog post, you are just few steps away from being a blogger, ready to share your interest to the world, let’s get started;

From your admin menu bar, click on post

Click on add new

On the next page, enter your title and content

When you are done,hit the publish button to publish.

You have just created your first blog post.

Now, there are questions that should be popping up on your mind, how often should I post? How to increase website traffic? and many more, don’t panic, I will treat each and every one of them.

How often should I post on my blog?

How often you post on your blog entirely depends on you the blogger, how long it takes you to prepare an article.

It’s your blog anyways, you can post whenever you want as long as the article Is ready but the secret is be consistent, create an editorial calendar and stick to it, I have a post on blogging mistakes and how to fix them, you can check it out.

Which site can I use to drive traffic to my blog

Social media Is a great tool to drive traffic to your blog, I use social media and forums, some site I recommend are:

1. Niche Facebook groups
2. Quora
3. Twitter
4. Instagram
5. Reddit
6. If you have lots of graphics, Pinterest is a good choice.

You can also niche it down further, choose a community that oversees the interest of your audience.

Proven ways to increase website traffic?

1. Send newsletter
2. Do keyword research, include your keywords in your content
3. Stay active on social media
4. Run advertisement
5. Do guess post
6. Create high quality contents

How and way’s to monetize your blog?

There are number of ways to monetize your blog. They are as follows:

1. Ad network
2. Affiliate marketing
3. Creating course
4. Ebook sale’s
5. Digital download
6. Direct advertising
7. Sponsorship post etc

How to summit your blog to search engine?

After creating your blog, you want it to appear in search engine then you have to summit it to search engine like Google, Bing, yahoo etc.

To do that, visit Google console page,add your website to your web property

Click on add property to add your website.

How to verify your domain on Google?

To verify your domain on Google, first you have to add your website to your property on Google console.

Click on setting

Click on ownership verification

Choose any method for verification, HTML tag, Google analytics, Google tag manager, domain name provider etc

Follow up the procedure as stipulated.

How to summit your sitemap to Google?

To summit a sitemap to Google in WordPress, you need your SEO plugin to generate it for you automatically. For the sake of these tutorials,we are using rankmath, click on rankmath> sitemap

copy your sitemap Link and. Open your Google console, click on sitemap

Click on add new sitemap

Paste the link and click on continue

NOTE: your sitemap must be in XML format.

What is a sitemap?

A sitemap is a file that gives search engine detail explanation of everything on your website and their relationship. A sitemap tells which page of your website are more important and valuable.

Why you need a sitemap?

A sitemap helps search engines like Google crawl your site property,if you link your webpages properly, it helps search engine discover valuable information about your website and speed up crawling.

According to Google, using sitemap doesn’t guarantee that every page on your sitemap will be crawled and indexed,as Google rely on complex algorithm to schedule crawling. Your website can benefit also from having a sitemap and if you don’t have, your website will not suffer or be penalized.

Back to the question, you have to weight the pros and cons to make your decision, for me, you should have a sitemap.

Reason why you might need a sitemap?

1. You need a sitemap if your website is big, Google might overlook some important and valuable information on your site like new and recent updates.
2. You need a sitemap if your website is new and have fewer external like pointing to it, Google bot and other web crawlers crawl web according to some stipulated standards that Google discover discover link’s from one page to another. You are at risk of Google not discovery your website if no other site link’s to them.
3. You need a sitemap If your website has lots of video and image or shown in Google news, sitemap helps search engines take additional information about your site and provide them when necessary.
4. You need a sitemap if your content pages are not properly linked to one another, your sitemap helps make sure that Google doesn’t overlook any of your pages.

Reason why you might not need a sitemap?

You don’t need a sitemap if your website is:

1. Small
2. Properly linked internally
3. Don’t have Rich media files or new pages

What is backlink?

A backlink is a link from other website pointing to the resources on your website. If someone mention your website in there own website, a backlink is automatically generated.

Search engines like Google rank and weight website according to the numbers of backlink from authority website to determine that the site is trust worthy and have lots of resourceful content.

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