So Last time in my Monday morning round up post, I announced that I will be taking all the questions related to blogging , SEO, WordPress . I received lots of questions and I will be answering most of questions via blog post, so that other who have similar questions will get the answer.
Here is the first question from Anil
I am blogging free in wordpress now.I want my own website for blogging.Can i
move all my blog from wordpress to my site without loss my traffic.And i want to know how much it cost to create a new blogging website & how much to pay per month. And what is hosting etc.And how to start from,whose to contact to create
website.
Is it possible to Migrate from WordPress.com to Self hosted WordPress blog?
This is the most common question I’m being asked and answer is yes. Though this needed to be done with the utter care. (301 perma redirection). In simple word, migration should be search engine friendly. For this you need to contact my professional services.
How much it will cost to create a new website?
From him question, I guess he is asking about Blog. For a wordpress blog the cost involved is from 69$ to 500$. Depending on your budget. Variation is because how much professional website you want to have. 69$ is something which you will be paying for hosting + domain. After that you can start with a free wordpress template or premium wordpress template. You will get more insight about free vs premium in my previous post on Free WordPress theme VS premium WordPress theme.
What is hosting?
A hosting or Web hosting is place where you website will be hosted. In simple word this is where your website will be stored. You will have remote virtual access to it and you can perform every thing from remote.
How to start With (blogging)?
If you wish to start with a professional blog, you need to get a hosting and a domain name. You can start from Dreamhost.
If you are completely new to it, here is a guide on
how to sign up for Dreamhost free trial account.
But before buying hosting you need to select a domain name for your blog. Here are some guide which will help you to get a good domain name.
I have domain name and hosting what next?
So once you have a domain name and hosting, you can refer to following tutorials on how to get started after that. I have written 3 tutorial on installing WordPress on different hosting. Here are the links. Depend on which web hosting you used to get webhosting, you can use it.
- How to Install wordpress on Dreamhost
- How to Install WordPress on Bluehost
- How to Install WordPress on Hostgator
I have installed wordpress what next?
So after installing WordPress there are many things which you need to do. Here are guides which will help you to make most out of wordpress.
- 8 essential settings after Installing wordpress
- How to Install WordPress plugin from dashboard
- Submit your blog sitemap to Google webmaster tool
- Submit your Blog sitemap to Bing
- Add Google analytic to your blog
- Burn your feed using feed burner
WordPress Theme Resources
There are various WordPress theme resources. I will note down some of the best which I like and you can select your Dream wordpress theme from there.
WordPress Essential plugins
- Google XML Sitemap Plugin
- All in one SEO wordpress plugin
- WordPress contact form plugin
- Subscribe to comment wordpress plugin
- Meta Robots WordPress SEO plugin
- Maxblog press Ping optimizer plugin
- Wp super cache WordPress plugin
- No self ping wordpress plugin
- Related post WordPress plugin
- SEO friendly image WordPress plugin
- SEO Smart link WordPress plugin
This will cover almost all the basic things which you need to do to start a wordpress blog.
If you have any question like Anil, feel free to ask via contact form.
Article by Harsh Agrawal
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great post harsh….a must read for beginners
yes for sure, this for bloggers like me.
This Is Beautiful Idea! You are Sharing Your Knowledge by answering questions…
Hope Everyone Makes most out of it!
Thank You!
This is called all in one post.
Great job answering questions. Coincidentally, I covered a lot of those things too on my post today!
Really an excellent and useful post that will definitely help the new bloggers. Great Work Harsh.
Hi Harsh,
Really the best collection of Wordpress related topics and tutorials.
I hope it will be more helpful to newbie bloggers and those who want to be professional blogger by migrating their blog from free hosting to paid.
Good starts always lead to better successes! To choose blogging platform, good theme, reliable host and proper plugins are crucial steps when you are in this blogging world. This is a well structured post, and leads to many resources and possibilities.
Thanks Harsh for sharing such a basic but very important concepts.. Can you please tell us more about your services??
Regards,
Rehan
I like this kind of post, it looks simple but manage to cover up one big topic. Surely recommended for newbies..
Hey Harsh, What’s up.. I am here for the competition finally.
So run for cover lol.. This is Kamal btw
very useful information . thnks
I think going with wordpress.org would be a nice alternative until you run a successful blog and then migrating to your own personalized domain and hosting would be nice.But yeah on the other hand SEO done on the blog would suffer and a lot of things would have to be redone.
But for the people with lack of funds this is a great alternative.
Those getting into the came must be persistent and be prepared for it ups and downs.
This time also a wonderful initiative
. Nice post… Interestin and anwers many questions evryone shd know before starting to blog…. And btw mobile theme is awesome….. And works brilliantly