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Top Alternatives to Google Adsense - Best Adsense Alternatives

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There is no doubt that Google Adsense is indeed one of the easiest and best monetization methods that any blogger and make use on his blog. A lot of bloggers make a good <a href="https://ninjaoutreach.com/100-dollars-a-month-from-old-blog/" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #337ab7; outline-offset: 0px !important; text-decoration-line: none;">steady monthly income</a> from their blog with the help of Google Adsense and we have even seen bloggers who boast of up to four figures monthly income from Adsense.<a href="https://ninjaoutreach.com/google-adsense-alternatives-822.html/google-adsense-alternatives-2" rel="attachment wp-att-851" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #337ab7; outline-offset: 0px !important; text-decoration-line: none;"><img alt="alternatives to google adsense" class="alignright size-full wp-image-851" height="250" src="https://ninjaoutreach.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/google-adsense-alternatives.png" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 8px solid rgb(255, 255, 255); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 1, 0.3) 0px 1px 5px, rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 0px 0px 18px inset; box-sizing: border-box; float: right; height: auto; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 12px; max-width: 100%; padding: 10px; vertical-align: middle;" width="300" /></a></div>
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That been said, There are lots of bloggers out there that get rejected from Google Adsense each and every time they apply for an account; mostly because their blog does not meet Adsense requirements and may be violates Adsense T.O.S. If you are on of those bloggers, then you will find this list of Adsense Alternatives helpful helpful.</div>
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Also, In recent times, there have been a lot of "Adsense Banning" Activity from the Adsense team, it is like they are just intentionally banning people randomly for no good reasons. A lot of my friends have been affected, some got their account back while some were not that lucky.</div>
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If you are one of those whose Google Adsense Account got banned, then you will find this alternative to Google Adsense list helpful. You will be able to monetize your blog again with ease and peace of mind.</div>
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So, Let's meet Our Top 10 Alternatives to Google Adsense</h2>
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 1.     Media.Net</h3>
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Media.net Also known as Yahoo/Bing Advertising Network is a <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">great Alternative to Google Adsense</span>. Its Ads and features are quite similar to Google Adsense and they are quite lucrative as Adsense (in terms of earnings).  They have lots of features and they support mobile Ads.</div>
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You have the opportunity to customize your ad units in terms of style (size, color, shapes) so it blends better with your respective blogs & website.</div>
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2.     Infolinks</h3>
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<a href="https://ninjaoutreach.com/infolinks-review-monetize-blog/" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #337ab7; outline-offset: 0px !important; text-decoration-line: none;">Infolinks </a>is one of the most popular Google Adsense Alternatives; I have been seeing it on lots of blogs in recent times and its earning potential is good. Infolinks offer in-text advertising for your site and they pay you per clicks on the ads. They don’t pay you per impression but rather per click.</div>
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Infolinks will turn keywords into your blog posts to advertisement links and it displays an advert when your <a href="https://ninjaoutreach.com/one-post-got-10k-unique-visits-per-month/" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #337ab7; outline-offset: 0px !important; text-decoration-line: none;">visitors</a> hover their mouse over the link. The best part about Infolinks is that it doesn’t take up space on your site; their system will just automatically turn keywords into your content to ads. They also offer Intag Ads, Research and InFrame Ads.</div>
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[<a href="http://www.infolinks.com/publishers/?kid=9gbh" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #337ab7; outline-offset: 0px !important; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Sign up</a>] [<a href="http://www.infolinks.com/publishers/?kid=9gbh" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #337ab7; outline-offset: 0px !important; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Publisher's page</a>]</div>
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3.    Chitika</h3>
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Chitika is a great alternative to Adsense and a lot of bloggers have found success sing this Ad Network. Chitika offers search-targeted, mobile, and local ads to best target your users.</div>
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Chitika's Search Targeted Ads ensure that the ads on your site are seen by users who are interested in the ad content.</div>
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Chitika's Local Ad Exchange allows you to display local ads to your site's visitors based on their location.</div>
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Chitika's mobile ads cater to the needs of advertisers and publishers looking to target and monetize traffic on the go.</div>
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[<a href="http://chitika.com/" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #337ab7; outline-offset: 0px !important; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Sign Up</a>]</div>
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4.        Kontera</h3>
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Kontera is one of the best alternatives to Google Adsense. Kontera offers in-text advertising, something similar to Infolinks which I mentioned above. Kontera does not take up additional ad spaces on your blog, rather, they analyze your site’s content and turn relevant keywords or phrases into hyperlinked text ad.</div>
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Kontera provides publishers with incremental advertising revenues from their mobile or PC web pages. The ads customizable, that means you are able to alter the color of the hyperlinks, control the density of text links or even restrict turning any specific keywords into a text ad.</div>
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5.      MadAds Media</h3>
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MadAds is an Ad network that I stumbled upon recently. I believe MadAds has a great potential to be a good alternative to Google Adsense. MadAds offer a wide range of campaigns which includes: CPM, CPL, CPA and CPC.  Check MadAds out to see for yourself what they have to offer.</div>
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6.      ClickSor</h3>
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<a href="https://ninjaoutreach.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/clicksor.jpg" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #337ab7; outline-offset: 0px !important; text-decoration-line: none;"><img alt="clicksor" class="alignright size-medium wp-image-841" height="125" src="https://ninjaoutreach.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/clicksor-300x125.jpg" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 8px solid rgb(255, 255, 255); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 1, 0.3) 0px 1px 5px, rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 0px 0px 18px inset; box-sizing: border-box; float: right; height: auto; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 12px; max-width: 100%; padding: 10px; vertical-align: middle;" width="300" /></a></div>
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Clicksor is another popular Adsense alternative that you can use on your blog. Clicksor is a contextual advertising network just like Adsense which offer ads that are relevant to your blog content</div>
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According to Clicksor, "Publishers can get paid 60% of advertising revenue generated by the website. The actual rates may vary depending on website performance and market conditions. The geographic location of your site traffic levels can also play a part in determining your overall revenue potential".</div>
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Clicksor offers a variety of Ads format which is: Inline Text Links, Text Banners, Graphical Banner, Pop-Unders, Interstitial Ads.</div>
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7.      Qadabra</h3>
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Qadabra is an alternative to Google Adsense that I also stumbled on recently, It is a Banner Ads platform that lets you <a href="https://ninjaoutreach.com/500-ways-to-make-money-online/" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #337ab7; outline-offset: 0px !important; text-decoration-line: none;">make money</a> from your blog by placing banner ads at various positions on your blog.</div>
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Qadabra is a straightforward, self-serve ad platform created for publishers looking to monetize their <a href="https://ninjaoutreach.com/generate-massive-website-traffic/" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #337ab7; outline-offset: 0px !important; text-decoration-line: none;">website traffic</a> and earn revenue through performance-based advertising.</div>
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8.     Buy Sell Ads</h3>
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Buy Sell Ads (BSA) is a great alternative to Adsense that lets you monetize your blog by selling direct Ad spaces on your blogs. Buy Sell Ads has a lot of features that will help you monetize your blog effectively and they are widely used by most <a href="https://ninjaoutreach.com/top-parenting-blogs/" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #337ab7; outline-offset: 0px !important; text-decoration-line: none;">top blogs</a> and Pro bloggers out there.</div>
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They offer a range of Monetization options like Tweets Monetization, Apps Monetization, Email Monetization, Ross Monetization and mobile Web. Make sure you check them out to see what they offer.</div>
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9.       Adclick Media</h3>
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Adclick Media is a popular Ad network which is also a good Adsense alternative. Adclick Media offers pay per click earnings opportunity for bloggers and website owners.</div>
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Adclick Media offers <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Photo Text Ads, </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Banner Display Ads, </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Full Page Interstitial Ads, </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: small;">Email Pay-Per-Click Ads </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: red; font-size: x-small;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 9.75px; line-height: 0; position: relative; top: -0.5em; vertical-align: baseline;">(BETA Launched!). </span></span></span></div>
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10.       Adside</h3>
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Adside is an alternative to Google Adsense with similar Ad types and more Ad formats that will Sky-rocket your earnings. AdSide is a pay-per-click ad network serving quality content publishers, advertisers, and media agencies.</div>
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They offer some great ad types and placement such as Margin Ad, Corner Ad, Toolbar Ad, Sidebar Ad, Banner Ad, inImage Ads, inVideo Ads. You need to visit them to see the demo of how these Ad types look.</div>

Top Alternatives to Google Adsense - Best Adsense Alternatives

There is no doubt that Google Adsense is indeed one of the easiest and best monetization methods that any blogger and make use on his blog....

why use adwords if seo is free? see how google adwords works with seo.

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<span style="font-size: large;">at this stage you probably understand how adwords can help you increase leads and get found online by new customers.<br />there is however, one big question that lingers: why would you pay for placement in google if the goal is to rank organically with seo?</span></div>
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why use adwords if seo is free?</h2>
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The ultimate goal is to be found organically through your SEO efforts, however, there are some key reasons as to why AdWords should be part of your online strategy.</div>
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<span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Time for Results:</span> An organic SEO strategy takes time to see results, often 3-6 months. During that time you could be missing out on new leads. With an AdWords campaign you can start to see results in a fraction of that time.</div>
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<span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Quick Adapting:</span> Your goals, keywords and audience can change with little to no notice. AdWords allows you to adapt and make changes at any time. Due to the length of time organic SEO takes to mould, it is harder to change quickly.</div>
<div style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 25px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Google Display Network:</span> The Google Display Network can reach users on thousands of partner websites. This means you can display more visual ads in many different ways, not just in search. Your hotel can be displayed on other websites people look at after they have checked you out, a subtle reminder that you are still there.</div>
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adwords works with your seo</h2>
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While there are many advantages to an AdWords campaign, in the end it’s another tool in your online marketing toolkit and a way to push people to your website. In addition, AdWords works along side your organic SEO goal. So, while you work on your long term SEO strategy, an AdWords campaign can instantly be driving people to your website today.</div>
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why use adwords if seo is free? see how google adwords works with seo.

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Which is Better. SEO vs Google Adwords – The Facts

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It is a question often asked, but rarely answered properly when it comes to SEO vs Google Adwords and all other forms of paid media.</div>
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<span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 600;">Which is Better? SEO generated organic results or Google’s Adwords and paid media marketing?</span></div>
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In this article, we’ll leave aside the hype and just go through the facts.</div>
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<span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 600;">Cutting to the Chase</span>SEO that produces high ranking organic results beats all other forms of paid advertising, hands down.</span></div>
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And that’s not just in terms of cost, but in terms of Trust, Click Through Rate and Return on Investment as well.</div>
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We have observed time and time again that even when people click on ads, they will often cycle back and look for more information about a company or product by searching through Google’s organic search results.</div>
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Why  is it so? What do result-driven SEO have over Google Adwords and other types of advertising online?</div>
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<span style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #003366;">1. People Trust Organic Results more than Google’s Ads</span></h2>
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One of the best ways to tell what people trust is to follow the clicks.</div>
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We have all heard of ad blindness. People online have historically moved past most ads without even reading them.</div>
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Though it has to be said, for some industries (possibly the finance sector), where services are being sought, ads may in fact hold a higher trust rating. Never-the-less, the statistics speak for themselves.</div>
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The graph below shows the current approximate click through rates for organic search results in Google.</div>
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Organic vs. Google Adwords Click Thru Rate Chart</h3>
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The change in click through rate is dramatic. The top three organic results are rewarded for their search engine optimisation efforts with over 50% of the clicks.</div>
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Compare Google’s Organic Click Thru with Ad Click Thru</h3>
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Most of the people we meet have invested large amounts of money trying to get their business past the first hurdle. We have invested large amounts of time and money as well – to find out what works.</div>
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From fast ways to <a href="https://www.malleeblue.com/3-ways-to-boost-your-ranking-almost-overnight/" style="background: 0px 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #167ac6; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.4s ease-in-out;">improve site ranking and boost search positions</a> for already solid websites to long term projects that see small business holding their own against much bigger competitors. We have worked out what makes people click, so you don’t have to.</div>
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WSI Online World reported that at least 75% of all clicks are organic search result clicks. The bottom line is that most users trust those links in Googles’ search results more than they trust the advertising. And the best way to put your business among those search results is effective SEO.</div>
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<span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 14pt;">While paying for per click advertising is quick, consumer trust and longevity of results lean heavily in favour of SEO as a better marketing strategy than Google Adwords over the long term life of a business. It’s tortoise and hare stuff.</span></div>
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Banner blindness is one of the major reasons why Google’s visual ad network is such a failure. The only people who think those ads are pretty are the advertisers. More aggressive tactics like pop ups are considered intrusive and actually could be doing your brand a great deal of harm.</div>
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Given the number of ad and pop up blockers in use, one wonders how many millions of dollars are clicked down the dunny each year without a second flush.</div>
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Don’t interrupt me with ads, sign ups or suggestions. Leave me alone if you want my business.</div>
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<span style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #003366;"> 2. SEO has a Better ROI than Google Adwords</span></h2>
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Here is one way for you to think through your SEO and organic web marketing costs when comparing it to Google Adwords and other paid advertising.</div>
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Would a Google Ad spend give you a better return on your investment (would it cost more or less) than to secure the same result in organic search?</div>
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In other words, which is better value?</div>
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<span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 600;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 14pt;">SEO and good back linking </span><span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 18.6667px;">aren’t</span><span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 14pt;"> instant like paid advertising, but it keeps working long after the money is spent.</span></span></div>
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Getting to the third position on Google’s first page, which has an overall average click-through rate of 10%, or buying an ad on Google’s first page which has an average click though rate of 2%?</div>
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The purpose of the calculation below is to determine which represents the better value and which is likely to give you the better return on your investment.</div>
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Quite often, the best result is by combining a number of long tail keywords in a niche. Depending on the industry, you want at least 1,000 searches per month for that keyword or keyword group.</div>
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<span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 600;">Example Case</span></div>
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<li style="box-sizing: inherit; list-style-type: disc;">.02% x 880 = 17.6 (Likely click through)</li>
<li style="box-sizing: inherit; list-style-type: disc;">17.6 x .0235% 9(conversion rate) = 4.136 (actual conversions)</li>
<li style="box-sizing: inherit; list-style-type: disc;">0.4136 x $3000 (likely profit per conversion) = $1,240</li>
<li style="box-sizing: inherit; list-style-type: disc;">Deduct your Cost per Click (17.6 x 171.77) = 3023.15</li>
<li style="box-sizing: inherit; list-style-type: disc;">Result: <span style="box-sizing: inherit; color: red;">-$1782.35</span></li>
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Not good. For Google Adwords to be worthwhile, this person needs to drastically lift either conversions or profit margin.</div>
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<span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 600;">For an SEO Campaign</span></div>
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Your mission would be to set an SEO budget under the Adwords cost in an effort to rank on the first page for less money.</div>
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So, using the Calculation and example above you can calculate a viable SEO spend that could generate 5 to 10 times more revenue than paid media -and at a much lower spend – thus, a much higher ROI.</div>
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<span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 600;">Let’s take the keyword, “Houston personal injury lawyer”, as an example.</span></div>
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According to the Google Keyword Planner, that keyword gets an average of 880 searches per month and has a suggested bid of $171.77.</div>
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If you could get 2nd organic search result position for this term using an effective SEO Stratgey, you would expect to have about 14% of search engine users click on that result.</div>
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This would amount to about 123 visitors to the page.</div>
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Given it would cost $171.77 per visitor to replicate that traffic using Adwords, the SEO value of that ranking (The total cost if you were using Adwords) is about $21,000 per month.</div>
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With these numbers, it wouldn’t be out of the question for someone wanting to rank for this term to spend $5000 to $10,000 per month on link building and SEO Services  to achieve these rankings for that keyword – and still be way better off with $11,00 – $16,000 left in their pocket.</div>
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Not only that, but, people searching for a keyword like this are typically ready to buy. If they can find you organically, all the better. You have done the work, now you just have to close the deal.</div>
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<span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 14pt;">Your SEO Spend should represent the monthly amount you are willing to pay for a minimum of three months. After that you could considering lowering your budget and moving in to SEO maintenance mode.</span></div>
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You might consider combining several keywords into a single group and set your budget accordingly.</div>
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These calculations use the average conversion rate of 2.35% which is an excellent starting point but you can also adjust it according to your median market averages below.</div>
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<span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 600;">A Cheap CPC isn’t a Good Guide</span></div>
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If you chose the keyword, “Amazon”, you would see that it gets 68 million searches a month. The competition is low and the CPC is .04 cents. Sounds great, eh? Lots of searches, low price, low competition.</div>
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But the reason for this is that no one bothers to go after that keyword because, among other things, nobody can compete with the domain of the same name (www.amazon.com). It would be a pointless exercise.</div>
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You can learn more about clever keyword strategies to help you move to the first page of Google at https://www.malleeblue.com/1st-page-google-optimization-tips/</div>
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<span style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #003366;">3. Peer Opinion Favours SEO Generated Results</span></h2>
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People trust people more than ads. Recommendations from friends, colleagues and influencers’ not only influences direct traffic but also pushes organic click through rates even further ahead of Google Adwords.</div>
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Direct traffic is usually the result of direct recommendations or repeat business. But even here we have seen a fascinating pattern emerge.</div>
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<span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 600;">Some things don’t change. What our friends say matters more than the advertisers by-line.</span></span></div>
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We have seen time and again that people who click through via a Google Adwords or even come directly to a website through a recommendation will often later cycle back to the SEO generated organic search results, compare a few competitors and even search for the brand name or product of the original recommendation and click through to the site once more before purchasing.</div>
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The thinking seems to be that if a brand show sup as credible in organic search then they are likely a more trustworthy site to deal with.</div>
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By contrast, people rarely click through a direct referral or an SEO generated organic result and later click back to click on an Adwords campaign.</div>
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SEO Generated Organic vs. Adword Traffic Sources</h3>
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When this data is tested to see how much traffic is really coming from direct sources, several <a href="http://www.conductor.com/blog/2014/07/organic-search-actually-responsible-64-web-traffic/" style="background: 0px 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #167ac6; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.4s ease-in-out;">studies related to Google Search</a> have shown the true value of SEO.</div>
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Groupon wanted to find out how much of it’s traffic was really direct and really organic. So <a href="http://searchengineland.com/60-direct-traffic-actually-seo-195415" style="background: 0px 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #167ac6; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.4s ease-in-out;">they performed a risky search engine study</a>. They de-indexed their site for 6 hours and discovered that in fact the direct traffic was much lower than 40%.</div>
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There traffic dropped by about 60% and were therefore able to attribute up to 64% of their true traffic to organic, SEO driven sources.</div>
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<a href="http://www.nielsen.com/us/en/insights/reports/2015/global-trust-in-advertising-2015.html" style="background: 0px 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #167ac6; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.4s ease-in-out;">From Neilson</a>: <span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 600;">Global Trust in Advertising,</span></div>
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“The most credible advertising comes straight from the people we know and trust. More than eight-in-10 global respondents (83%) say they completely or somewhat trust the recommendations of friends and family. But trust isn’t confined only to those in our inner circle. In fact, two-thirds (66%) say they trust consumer opinions posted online—the third-most-trusted format.”</div>
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Social media plays a big role here. A 2016 study published on <a href="http://www.journalism.org/2016/06/15/digital-news-audience-fact-sheet/" style="background: 0px 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #167ac6; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.4s ease-in-out;">Journalism.org </a>in to where people are fetching their news showed that 65% are using digital technology with a huge 48% getting their daily round up of news from Social Media Sources.</div>
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Compare this to a 2012 study which showed only 17% accessing social media for the same purpose (in this case, the purpose was the US Presidential Election).</div>
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<span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 14pt;">Engage your audience via Social Media as part of your overall SEO and Online Marketing Strategy. Make your brand stand out by ensuring you brand all your work consistently.</span></div>
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Weighing up the costs before you get started in online marketing is daunting. Many times, people just don’t know what si going to work for them until they get going. Not only that, but many that claim to be an Expert SEO Service often turn out to disappoint badly.</div>
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What is Working for You Right Now?</h3>
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Tell us in the comments what success you have had and how you had it – whether in paid or organic search. Do you think SEo is better than Google Awords and other forms of paid media like Outbrain?</div>
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Is it just a matter of different approaches for different markets? If you are not sure where to start in budgeting for a campaign, have a look at the kinds of SEO services on offer and start doing some research.</div>
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Talk to experts in both fields and especially  talk to other businesses about their strategies. Businesses that are already doing the work and enjoying some measure of success.</div>

Which is Better. SEO vs Google Adwords – The Facts

It is a question often asked, but rarely answered properly when it comes to SEO vs Google Adwords and all other forms of paid media. Whic...

The Ultimate Beginner’s Guide to WordPress Blogging

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WordPress Blogging</h1>
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So, you want to start a WordPress blog?</div>
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Maybe you’re excited to get your voice heard, or want to use a blog to generate passive income?</div>
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Bloggers like Pat Flynn and Darren Rowse are proof that you can make an amazing amount of money with blogging, and become a thought leader in your industry.</div>
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Taking Pat Flynn as an example, Pat’s worked on his blog since 2008 and is now <a href="https://www.smartpassiveincome.com/income-reports/" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #2361a1; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out;" target="_blank"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 600;">making $132,000 every month</span></a><span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 600;"> </span>— just by creating content.</div>
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Darren Rowse makes <span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 600;"><a href="http://www.problogger.net/blogging-income-breakdown-first-half-2016/" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #2361a1; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out;" target="_blank">well over six figures annually</a></span> with his blogs, leveraging his audience to sell products and get commissions through affiliate marketing.</div>
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The blog you are reading now is another example.</div>
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Started as a simple SEO Blog, it now generates enough leads and sales to run a profitable SEO business, in one of the most saturated industries online.</div>
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<span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 600;">Whether you want a platform for your voice, or to create a passive income machine, you’re in the right place.</span></div>
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I’m not going to lie and say that it’s easy to build your blog to become profitable, but you have to start somewhere.</div>
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Professional bloggers make money because they’ve found a way to build an audience and sell that audience products on other people’s behalves (that’s affiliate marketing), sell their own products, or by selling ad space on their site…</div>
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But, the great thing for you is that you don’t have to worry about that yet.</div>
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In this guide, I’m going to teach you the process of setting up a WordPress blog from scratch.</div>
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I’m going to guide you through the 10 steps you need to go through to get started with your brand new blog.</div>
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So, if you are a beginner to WordPress blogging, get a cup of coffee and let’s see how blogging can literally change your life.</div>
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How to Start a WordPress Blog</h2>
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<li style="box-sizing: inherit; list-style-type: disc; padding-bottom: 10px;"><a href="https://www.reliablesoft.net/wordpress-blogging/#step1" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #2361a1; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out;">Step 1: Select and register the perfect domain name</a></li>
<li style="box-sizing: inherit; list-style-type: disc; padding-bottom: 10px;"><a href="https://www.reliablesoft.net/wordpress-blogging/#step2" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #2361a1; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out;">Step 2: Choose the best WordPress hosting</a></li>
<li style="box-sizing: inherit; list-style-type: disc; padding-bottom: 10px;"><a href="https://www.reliablesoft.net/wordpress-blogging/#step3" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #2361a1; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out;">Step 3: Install WordPress on your new host</a></li>
<li style="box-sizing: inherit; list-style-type: disc; padding-bottom: 10px;"><a href="https://www.reliablesoft.net/wordpress-blogging/#step4" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #2361a1; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out;">Step 4: Write and publish your first post</a></li>
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<li style="box-sizing: inherit; list-style-type: disc; padding-bottom: 10px;"><a href="https://www.reliablesoft.net/wordpress-blogging/#step6" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #2361a1; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out;">Step 6: Learn how to change the appearance of your WordPress blog </a></li>
<li style="box-sizing: inherit; list-style-type: disc; padding-bottom: 10px;"><a href="https://www.reliablesoft.net/wordpress-blogging/#step7" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #2361a1; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out;">Step 7: Install WordPress plugins</a></li>
<li style="box-sizing: inherit; list-style-type: disc; padding-bottom: 10px;"><a href="https://www.reliablesoft.net/wordpress-blogging/#step8" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #2361a1; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out;">Step 8: Write and publish the most essential pages on your blog</a></li>
<li style="box-sizing: inherit; list-style-type: disc; padding-bottom: 10px;"><a href="https://www.reliablesoft.net/wordpress-blogging/#step9" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #2361a1; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out;">Step 9: Learn how to make money with your blog</a></li>
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Why Choose WordPress as your blogging platform?</h2>
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Before getting into the steps, let me explain briefly why you should choose WordPress as your blogging platform and not go with other platforms like wix, medium, blogger, square (to name a few), that are free and maybe a bit easier to use for beginners.</div>
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When it comes to blogging, it’d be unwise to start anywhere but your own domain.</div>
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That’s for a few reasons:</div>
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<li style="box-sizing: inherit; list-style-type: disc; padding-bottom: 10px;">It’s yours, now and for as long as you pay renewal fees.</li>
<li style="box-sizing: inherit; list-style-type: disc; padding-bottom: 10px;">Domain authority. The sooner you buy a domain, the sooner you can start aging it and increasing its authority</li>
<li style="box-sizing: inherit; list-style-type: disc; padding-bottom: 10px;">Links back to your Medium blog will do nothing for your <a href="https://www.reliablesoft.net/what-is-search-engine-optimization-and-why-is-it-important/" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #2361a1; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 600;">SEO</span></a>. Again, your own domain means the authority goes to you, not other people.</li>
<li style="box-sizing: inherit; list-style-type: disc; padding-bottom: 10px;">You get full control over the design, content, and rules of your site.</li>
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And, when you’re hosting your own site, there’s no better option than WordPress.</div>
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<span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 600;">WordPress is the most popular blogging platform</span></div>
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WordPress isn’t the only way to set up a website, but it is one of the easiest, most popular and SEO-friendly way.</div>
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<span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 600;">RECOMMENDED FOR YOU:</span><br style="box-sizing: inherit;" />Running a WordPress website? Then <a href="https://www.reliablesoft.net/products/courses/the-complete-seo-course" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #2361a1; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out;" title="Proven SEO tips"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 600;">download this how to guide</span> </a>and learn how to optimize your website like a Pro.</div>
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Let me explain:</div>
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WordPress runs 26.4% of all websites globally.</div>
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WordPress is a content management system, which means it’s a piece of web software that sits one layer between you and the raw code of your site.</div>
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Without WordPress or another CMS, you’d need to manually code every page, upload blog posts to a FTP server whenever you wanted to publish a post, and you wouldn’t be able to take advantage of the huge community for support, plugins, and themes.</div>
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There are a few CMSs out there, but WordPress is <span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 600;"><a href="https://managewp.com/statistics-about-wordpress-usage" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #2361a1; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out;" target="_blank">the most popular by far</a></span>.</div>
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It runs over 66 million sites, including sites like Forbes, TechCrunch and CNN. With the amount of content these sites create and publish every day, you can be sure it’s good enough for a small starter blog.</div>
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WordPress is user friendly</h3>
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If you’re not up to the challenge of coding a site from scratch or diving into the code of someone else’s template, WordPress is the way to go because it has every customizable option right there in front of you.</div>
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It makes switching around the look and feel of your site a quick task instead of a week-long project of trial and error as you learn to code.</div>
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It’s also easy to moderate comments, see your traffic, and expand your site’s functionality with the hundreds of thousands of available plugins.</div>
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WordPress is SEO-Friendly</h3>
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The best thing about WordPress from a marketing perspective is that it comes SEO-ready.</div>
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This means that WordPress sites do some of the technical SEO for you, such as easy indexing in Google search, and support for a wide range of SEO plugins, such as Yoast and All in One SEO.</div>
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Without WordPress, you’d need to manually install analytics by tweaking the code on your pages, and ensure your HTML is properly optimized.</div>
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Avoid these issues and save time from the start by choosing WordPress.</div>
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<span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 600;">Hint: Read <a href="https://www.reliablesoft.net/best-wordpress-seo-practices/" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #2361a1; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out;">Best WordPress SEO Practices for Beginners</a></span></div>
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The difference between WordPress.org and WordPress.com</h3>
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One of the most confusing things for beginners (probably because the products are named so similarly) is the difference between <span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 600;"><a href="https://wordpress.com/" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #2361a1; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out;" target="_blank">WordPress.com</a></span> and WordPress.org.</div>
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<span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 600;">WordPress.org:</span></div>
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<li style="box-sizing: inherit; list-style-type: disc; padding-bottom: 10px;">Self-hosted: you need to pay for hosting from a service like BlueHost</li>
<li style="box-sizing: inherit; list-style-type: disc; padding-bottom: 10px;">Fully customizable with zero limitations</li>
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<span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 600;">WordPress.com:</span></div>
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<li style="box-sizing: inherit; list-style-type: disc; padding-bottom: 10px;">WordPress’ software using its own hosting service</li>
<li style="box-sizing: inherit; list-style-type: disc; padding-bottom: 10px;">More expensive than some hosts available</li>
<li style="box-sizing: inherit; list-style-type: disc; padding-bottom: 10px;">Limitations to customizability; you’re restricted to a pre-set amount of themes</li>
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<span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 600;">My recommendation would be to set up WordPress.org through a hosting service. This way, you pay less and get more functionality for your money.</span></div>
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Ok, now that we all agree that WordPress is the way to go, let’s examine in more details the 10 steps for setting up a WordPress blog.</div>
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Step 1: Select and register the perfect domain name</h2>
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Your domain is an essential part of your brand identity. It sets the tone for your site, and lets readers know what kind of content they can expect from you.</div>
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Here are the main considerations:</div>
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<li style="box-sizing: inherit; list-style-type: disc; padding-bottom: 10px;">Keep it as short as possible</li>
<li style="box-sizing: inherit; list-style-type: disc; padding-bottom: 10px;">Make sure it’s easy to read, type, and remember (examples: yahoo.com, x.ai, apple.com)</li>
<li style="box-sizing: inherit; list-style-type: disc; padding-bottom: 10px;">Add a keyword that’s relevant to your blog (examples: smartblogger.com, <a href="https://www.digitalmarketingpro.net/" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #2361a1; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out;" target="_blank"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 600;">digitalmarketingpro.net</span></a>)</li>
<li style="box-sizing: inherit; list-style-type: disc; padding-bottom: 10px;">Don’t use hyphens or numbers — reading it out loud will be a nightmare</li>
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Another more complex consideration is your domain extension. For <a href="https://www.reliablesoft.net/local-seo-checklist-for-small-business/" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #2361a1; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 600;">local SEO</span></a>reasons, it can be a good idea to register something like co.uk if you’re in the UK.</div>
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That way, Google has a basic idea as to your relevance to a specific country.</div>
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However, in recent years, country-specific domain extensions have been used worldwide as a matter of preference.</div>
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For example, you’ll find plenty of tech companies with .io extensions (and you can bet they’re not all from British Indian Ocean Territory).</div>
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Why not <a href="https://www.reliablesoft.net/tools/bluehost/" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #2361a1; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out;" target="_blank"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 600;">head over to Bluehost</span></a> now (the service I use personally), and pick your own domain name?</div>
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They have a range of extensions to choose from that could make for an awesome and memorable domain, such as .tech, .space, .club and .info.</div>
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<img alt="register domain for new blog with bluehost" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-5615" height="462" sizes="(max-width: 877px) 100vw, 877px" src="https://www.reliablesoft.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/register-domain-bluehost.png" srcset="https://www.reliablesoft.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/register-domain-bluehost.png 877w, https://www.reliablesoft.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/register-domain-bluehost-300x158.png 300w, https://www.reliablesoft.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/register-domain-bluehost-768x405.png 768w" style="border-style: none; box-sizing: inherit; height: auto; margin-bottom: 12px; max-width: 100%;" width="877" /></div>
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Registering a new domain is easy, just follow their on-screen instructions and you will be a proud domain owner in minutes!</div>
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Step 2: How to choose the best WordPress hosting?</h2>
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Once you have a domain to use for your new WordPress Blog, the next step is to choose your hosting provider i.e. the company that will host your blog on the Internet.</div>
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There are plenty of factors (and even more options) to consider when picking hosting for your site.</div>
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First of all, you’re going to want to make sure the host is reliable, affordable, and offers support if you need it.</div>
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There are three kinds of hosting options available for your WordPress blog.</div>
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Shared hosting: pros and cons</h3>
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Shared hosting is the most cost effective solution and perfect for hobby blogs that don’t get a lot of traffic.</div>
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<span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 600;">Pros:</span></div>
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<li style="box-sizing: inherit; list-style-type: disc; padding-bottom: 10px;">It’s cheap. If you’re expecting less than 500 visitors per day, go with shared hosting from a provider like <a href="https://www.reliablesoft.net/tools/bluehost/" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #2361a1; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out;" target="_blank"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 600;">Bluehost</span></a> for as little as $3.95/month.</li>
<li style="box-sizing: inherit; list-style-type: disc; padding-bottom: 10px;">It’s easy to maintain. The server is shared with all kinds of other sites, so you will have your service managed along with everyone else.</li>
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<span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 600;">Cons:</span></div>
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<li style="box-sizing: inherit; list-style-type: disc; padding-bottom: 10px;">It can be slow. Since you’re sharing hosting with hundreds of other sites, your site’s speed can be impacted randomly by demand for other sites on the server.</li>
<li style="box-sizing: inherit; list-style-type: disc; padding-bottom: 10px;">Limited customer support. Shared hosting is cheap, so you can’t expect a high level of customer support.</li>
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VPS hosting: pros and cons</h3>
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Virtual Private Server hosting (VPS) is the next step up from shared hosting.</div>
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Instead of sharing the server’s power with a lot of other people, you get your own space to work with.</div>
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<span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 600;">Pros:</span></div>
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<li style="box-sizing: inherit; list-style-type: disc; padding-bottom: 10px;">Huge bandwidth and space. It’s all yours!</li>
<li style="box-sizing: inherit; list-style-type: disc; padding-bottom: 10px;">Configure the server in any way you like. Add domains, customize settings, run apps on the server if you like.</li>
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<span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 600;">Cons:</span></div>
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<li style="box-sizing: inherit; list-style-type: disc; padding-bottom: 10px;">Usually quite costly. Bluehost, for example, charges starting at $14.99/month.</li>
<li style="box-sizing: inherit; list-style-type: disc; padding-bottom: 10px;">Pay for features you might not use. If you’re a beginner, you don’t need to functionality of a VPS.</li>
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Managed VPS hosting: pros and cons</h3>
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Managed hosting is the top tier package you can get. With a managed host, you’re not responsible for any problems that might occur; you get a dedicated team to help you 24/7, and priority support to help you optimize your site from experts.</div>
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Pros:</div>
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<li style="box-sizing: inherit; list-style-type: disc; padding-bottom: 10px;">Top tier security. Never worry about backing your site up or getting attacked by hackers.</li>
<li style="box-sizing: inherit; list-style-type: disc; padding-bottom: 10px;">Fast sites. Managed servers are known for optimized loading times because they use the best equipment available.</li>
<li style="box-sizing: inherit; list-style-type: disc; padding-bottom: 10px;">White glove support. A huge part of the managed WordPress host experience is support; you get 24/7 help and advice with anything you might need.</li>
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Cons:</div>
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<li style="box-sizing: inherit; list-style-type: disc; padding-bottom: 10px;">It’s expensive. The most popular services, charge from $29/month for the their basic package.</li>
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<span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 600;">My recommendation for hosting your first WordPress blog</span></div>
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For your first blog, anything more than shared hosting would be overkill.</div>
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You don’t need bandwidth to support a huge number of visitors. You don’t need any advanced options, either.</div>
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As you grow your blog and get more traffic, you will have to consider migrating to managed VPS hosting, from an <a href="https://www.reliablesoft.net/seo-web-hosting-how-do-hosting-providers-affect-seo/" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #2361a1; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 600;">SEO friendly hosting provider</span></a>.</div>
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<span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 600;">To get started in the fastest, most cost-effective way, use Bluehost’s shared plan which starts from $3.95/month.</span></div>
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Here’s how to get started:</div>
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First up, go to <a href="https://www.reliablesoft.net/tools/bluehost/" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #2361a1; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out;" target="_blank"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 600;">Bluehost</span></a>.</div>
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Hit the ‘get started now’ button to pick your hosting plan. The basic plan is fine for now, and you can always upgrade later or even cancel within 30 days if you change your mind.</div>
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<img alt="bluehost wordpress hosting" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-5620" height="851" sizes="(max-width: 877px) 100vw, 877px" src="https://www.reliablesoft.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/blueshost-hosting-plans.png" srcset="https://www.reliablesoft.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/blueshost-hosting-plans.png 877w, https://www.reliablesoft.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/blueshost-hosting-plans-300x291.png 300w, https://www.reliablesoft.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/blueshost-hosting-plans-768x745.png 768w" style="border-style: none; box-sizing: inherit; height: auto; margin-bottom: 12px; max-width: 100%;" width="877" /></div>
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Follow the on-screen instructions to complete your registration of your new hosting account.</div>
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Step 3: How to install WordPress on your brand new host</h2>
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The great thing about handling your blog setup with Bluehost is that you can install WordPress in just one click.</div>
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Once you’ve made your purchase, just hit ‘Install WordPress’ and you’re ready to go!</div>
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Wait a little time, progress through the dialog boxes. Don’t worry, you’ll get prompted and kept in the loop every step of the way.</div>
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As soon as WordPress is installed, you’ll be asked to set up a username and password.</div>
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Make sure to use an extremely strong password, because it’s terrible to get your site hacked and it happens all the time.</div>
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If you’ve just registered example.com, then go over to example.com/wp-login where you’ll be asked for your username and password:</div>
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<img alt="wordpress login page" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-5622" height="713" sizes="(max-width: 545px) 100vw, 545px" src="https://www.reliablesoft.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/wordpress-login.png" srcset="https://www.reliablesoft.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/wordpress-login.png 545w, https://www.reliablesoft.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/wordpress-login-229x300.png 229w" style="border-style: none; box-sizing: inherit; height: auto; margin-bottom: 12px; max-width: 100%;" width="545" /></div>
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Exciting, right? You have a WordPress blog! A proper one, too. And that means you can start customizing your blog and publishing your first content.</div>
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Step 4: Write and publish your first WordPress post</h2>
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Before getting into the details on how to publish your first post, you should understand some basic WordPress terminology.</div>
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<span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 600;">The difference between WordPress posts and pages</span></div>
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It’s easy to get confused about posts and pages if you’re new to WordPress.</div>
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They look similar on your site, the editor is the same inside WordPress, and they’re created in a similar way in the interface.</div>
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To explain the difference, let me use an example:</div>
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If you wanted to publish a blog post, you’d use a <span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 600;">post</span>. WordPress will place new posts at the top of your blog, like you’d expect.</div>
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If you wanted to publish an about page, or your contact us page, you’d use a <span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 600;">page.</span></div>
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Pages don’t appear at the top of your blog like a post. They’re one-off, timeless content that isn’t included in your RSS feed or with comments enabled.</div>
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You wouldn’t want to start a conversation on your privacy policy page, would you?</div>
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Pages are also hierarchical. This means you can have pages inside pages.</div>
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For example, if you had <em style="box-sizing: inherit;">example.com/free-ebook</em> and wanted to make a download page for people to visit to download the ebook, you’d make a subpage on the URL <em style="box-sizing: inherit;">example.com/free-ebook/download</em>.</div>
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As a general rule of thumb:</div>
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<li style="box-sizing: inherit; list-style-type: disc; padding-bottom: 10px;">Use posts for the dynamic parts of your website (i.e. your articles) and pages for the static content (i.e. about us page, contact us, etc.).</li>
<li style="box-sizing: inherit; list-style-type: disc; padding-bottom: 10px;">Have in mind that posts and pages are not the same as <a href="https://www.reliablesoft.net/how-to-seo-your-wordpress-categories-and-tag-pages/" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #2361a1; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 600;">categories and tags</span></a>.</li>
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Step 5: Learn how to use the WordPress Editor</h2>
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Write and publish your first post</h3>
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Now it’s time for the most exciting part of blogging: publishing a post.</div>
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On the left-hand menu, hover over ‘Posts’ and choose ‘Add new’.</div>
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Here you can add your title and body text, and drag in images and videos.</div>
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Adding an image is easy. Just click ‘Add Media’:</div>
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Once on the next screen, you can drag files into the window or browse from your computer:</div>
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Saving post drafts and previewing</h3>
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At any point, you’re free to save your post as a draft if you want to come back to it later and edit it.</div>
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Don’t worry about losing anything you write in WordPress, because it will always save your drafts automatically, too.</div>
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<img alt="save wordpress posts" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-5629" height="485" sizes="(max-width: 877px) 100vw, 877px" src="https://www.reliablesoft.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/save-wordpress-post.png" srcset="https://www.reliablesoft.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/save-wordpress-post.png 877w, https://www.reliablesoft.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/save-wordpress-post-300x166.png 300w, https://www.reliablesoft.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/save-wordpress-post-768x425.png 768w" style="border-style: none; box-sizing: inherit; height: auto; margin-bottom: 12px; max-width: 100%;" width="877" /></div>
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Make sure you <span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 600;">preview the post</span> before hitting publish to check for errors.</div>
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<img alt="publish wordpress posts" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-5630" height="341" sizes="(max-width: 877px) 100vw, 877px" src="https://www.reliablesoft.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/publish-wordpress-post.png" srcset="https://www.reliablesoft.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/publish-wordpress-post.png 877w, https://www.reliablesoft.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/publish-wordpress-post-300x117.png 300w, https://www.reliablesoft.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/publish-wordpress-post-768x299.png 768w" style="border-style: none; box-sizing: inherit; height: auto; margin-bottom: 12px; max-width: 100%;" width="877" /></div>
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When you’re sure it’s ready to go, hit the big blue publish button to unleash your first blog post on the world!</div>
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Why not load up your site in another tab now to check it out?</div>
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Editing and updating posts</h3>
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Another great thing about WordPress’ post editor is how easy it is to update your posts once they’re published.</div>
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The best blogs always keep their old posts updated so they can provide up-to-date value to their new readers that come in from search engines.</div>
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To update a live post, go to ‘Posts’ on the lefthand sidebar and just go in and make edits.</div>
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When you’re editing something live, you’ll notice the publish button changes to an update button:</div>
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<img alt="update wordpress posts" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-5631" height="661" sizes="(max-width: 411px) 100vw, 411px" src="https://www.reliablesoft.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/update-wordpress-posts.png" srcset="https://www.reliablesoft.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/update-wordpress-posts.png 411w, https://www.reliablesoft.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/update-wordpress-posts-187x300.png 187w" style="border-style: none; box-sizing: inherit; height: auto; margin-bottom: 12px; max-width: 100%;" width="411" /></div>
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A quick tip for when you’re writing inside WordPress: use a tool to check your spelling and grammar.</div>
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For that, I’d recommend using <span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 600;"><a href="https://www.grammarly.com/" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #2361a1; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out;" target="_blank">Grammarly</a></span>. It doesn’t just catch simple mistakes; it can detect problems with sentence structure and punctuation, too.</div>
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You’ll soon get into the flow of publishing posts regularly, and keeping your blog maintained. But that isn’t all there is to blogging.</div>
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Step 6: Change the appearance of your WordPress blog</h2>
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When previewing your first WordPress blog, you will notice that it comes with a default theme, that has a specific look and feel.</div>
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While there is nothing wrong with that, if you want something different which is also more professional and flexible, you need to consider investing your first $100 in purchasing a professional WordPress framework and theme.</div>
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Let’s take it step by step:</div>
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What is a WordPress framework?</h3>
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A WordPress framework is a set of designs and components you can use to customize the look and feel of your site.</div>
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Unlike free themes — which are often restrictive in their customizability — frameworks empower you to customize your site in a flexible way.</div>
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You can think of a framework as a layer that sits on top of WordPress and gives you extra functionality, better security and more flexibility.</div>
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An example of a powerful WordPress framework that helps you create websites of any kind is StudioPress’ <a href="https://www.reliablesoft.net/tools/genesis/" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #2361a1; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out;" target="_blank"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 600;">Genesis framework</span></a>.</div>
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What is a WordPress Theme?</h3>
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A WordPress theme defines the appearance of your blog.</div>
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A theme includes the design layouts for the different pages of your blog, fonts, colors, formatting styles and everything that is related to the visual appearance of your blog.</div>
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WordPress themes are either free or paid (premium).</div>
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<span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 600;">Free vs. Premium themes</span></div>
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Whether you can get away without paying for a WordPress theme is a question you’ll tackle the moment you come to choose a theme for your blog.</div>
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So, what’s the answer? Is premium always best?</div>
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In general, yes. Premium themes will come with rich customizability options, support, and security.</div>
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Theoretically, it is possible to use a free theme and the right concoction of random plugins to get a similar effect, but it’s in no way recommended because you never know how good the theme or plugins will hold up against hackers, or interact with each other.</div>
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<span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 600;">Use a free theme if…</span></div>
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<li style="box-sizing: inherit; list-style-type: disc; padding-bottom: 10px;">You don’t have the budget for a premium theme (Usually $100)</li>
<li style="box-sizing: inherit; list-style-type: disc; padding-bottom: 10px;">You’re happy with using the theme ‘as is’ with limited customizability</li>
<li style="box-sizing: inherit; list-style-type: disc; padding-bottom: 10px;">You’re willing to risk security vulnerabilities or choose only from the approved WordPress theme repository</li>
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<span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 600;">Use a premium theme if…</span></div>
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<li style="box-sizing: inherit; list-style-type: disc; padding-bottom: 10px;">You have a specific idea of how you want your site to look and you want a fully customizable starting point</li>
<li style="box-sizing: inherit; list-style-type: disc; padding-bottom: 10px;">You value support and advice on how to edit your theme</li>
<li style="box-sizing: inherit; list-style-type: disc; padding-bottom: 10px;">You prefer a high level of design quality</li>
<li style="box-sizing: inherit; list-style-type: disc; padding-bottom: 10px;">You want to reduce the number of vulnerabilities on your site</li>
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There are plenty of fully customizable themes available through the Genesis framework, including clean and professional blog themes Foodie Pro and Digital Pro:</div>
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Read more about <a href="https://www.reliablesoft.net/tools/foodie/" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #2361a1; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out;" target="_blank"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 600;">Foodie Pro</span></a>.</div>
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<img alt="premium wordpress themes" class="alignnone size-large wp-image-5665" height="607" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" src="https://www.reliablesoft.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/foodie-pro-theme-1024x607.jpg" srcset="https://www.reliablesoft.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/foodie-pro-theme-1024x607.jpg 1024w, https://www.reliablesoft.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/foodie-pro-theme-300x178.jpg 300w, https://www.reliablesoft.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/foodie-pro-theme-768x455.jpg 768w, https://www.reliablesoft.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/foodie-pro-theme.jpg 1200w" style="border-style: none; box-sizing: inherit; height: auto; margin-bottom: 12px; max-width: 100%;" width="1024" /></div>
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Read more about <a href="https://www.reliablesoft.net/tools/digitalpro/" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #2361a1; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out;" target="_blank"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 600;">Digital Pro</span></a></div>
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<img alt="premium wordpress themes" class="alignnone size-large wp-image-5664" height="660" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" src="https://www.reliablesoft.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/digitalpro-theme-1024x660.jpg" srcset="https://www.reliablesoft.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/digitalpro-theme-1024x660.jpg 1024w, https://www.reliablesoft.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/digitalpro-theme-300x193.jpg 300w, https://www.reliablesoft.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/digitalpro-theme-768x495.jpg 768w, https://www.reliablesoft.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/digitalpro-theme.jpg 1200w" style="border-style: none; box-sizing: inherit; height: auto; margin-bottom: 12px; max-width: 100%;" width="1024" /></div>
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or see all of StudioPress’ Genesis framework themes <span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 600;"><a href="https://www.reliablesoft.net/tools/studiopress/" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #2361a1; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out;" target="_blank">here</a></span>.</div>
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When you use a free theme without a solid framework, you open yourself up to a lot of hassle if you make any mistakes while editing code.</div>
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I know people who have accidentally wiped their sites repeatedly because they were using low quality themes they’d found somewhere on the internet.</div>
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Frameworks like the Genesis framework put you in safe hands with a high level of security and support.</div>
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How to install a free WordPress theme</h3>
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To select a theme from WordPress’ theme library, hover over ‘Appearance’ on the left-hand menu, and click ‘Themes’:</div>
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<img alt="change wordpress theme" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-5635" height="579" sizes="(max-width: 877px) 100vw, 877px" src="https://www.reliablesoft.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/change-wordpress-theme.png" srcset="https://www.reliablesoft.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/change-wordpress-theme.png 877w, https://www.reliablesoft.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/change-wordpress-theme-300x198.png 300w, https://www.reliablesoft.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/change-wordpress-theme-768x507.png 768w" style="border-style: none; box-sizing: inherit; height: auto; margin-bottom: 12px; max-width: 100%;" width="877" /></div>
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Click ‘Add new’, and you’ll find all kinds of themes to choose from.</div>
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If you’ve got a particular style in mind, you can click the ‘Feature filter’ button, and narrow it down by its purpose, layout, and features.</div>
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<img alt="wordpress themes" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-5636" height="461" sizes="(max-width: 877px) 100vw, 877px" src="https://www.reliablesoft.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/wordpress-themes.png" srcset="https://www.reliablesoft.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/wordpress-themes.png 877w, https://www.reliablesoft.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/wordpress-themes-300x158.png 300w, https://www.reliablesoft.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/wordpress-themes-768x404.png 768w" style="border-style: none; box-sizing: inherit; height: auto; margin-bottom: 12px; max-width: 100%;" width="877" /></div>
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Click on any theme you’d like to use to install and activate it. Now go to your site to see how it looks!</div>
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If you don’t like something about your theme, you can try to edit it with the available options found in the <em style="box-sizing: inherit;">Appearance > Customize menu.</em></div>
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If you have development experience, you can even try to adjust the code by reading your theme’s documentation.  (Be careful editing code in Editor, however, because one wrong line can break your whole site.)</div>
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How to install a premium WordPress theme</h3>
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When you buy a premium theme, you’ll download it from the store as a .zip file.</div>
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Unlike free themes you can access from inside of WordPress, you can’t just one-click install .zip files; you need to go into <em style="box-sizing: inherit;">Appearance > Themes > Add New</em> and click ‘<em style="box-sizing: inherit;">Upload Theme</em>‘:</div>
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<img alt="install premium wordpress themes" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-5638" height="461" sizes="(max-width: 877px) 100vw, 877px" src="https://www.reliablesoft.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/install-premium-wordpress-theme.png" srcset="https://www.reliablesoft.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/install-premium-wordpress-theme.png 877w, https://www.reliablesoft.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/install-premium-wordpress-theme-300x158.png 300w, https://www.reliablesoft.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/install-premium-wordpress-theme-768x404.png 768w" style="border-style: none; box-sizing: inherit; height: auto; margin-bottom: 12px; max-width: 100%;" width="877" /></div>
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Step 7: Install WordPress plugins</h2>
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In addition to themes, you can alter the functionality and appearance of your blog by using plugins.</div>
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<span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 600;">What are WordPress plugins?</span></div>
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WordPress plugins are one of the single biggest factors why WordPress blogs are so powerful.</div>
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They add new features and functions to your blog without making you write or edit a single line of code.</div>
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Want to enable comments with Facebook? Show social sharing buttons? Backup your whole site in one click?</div>
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Plugins can do it all.</div>
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And, they’re easy to install from inside your site’s WordPress back end. Just click on ‘Plugins’ from the left-hand menu:</div>
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<img alt="wordpress plugins" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-5641" height="498" sizes="(max-width: 877px) 100vw, 877px" src="https://www.reliablesoft.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/wordpress-plugins.png" srcset="https://www.reliablesoft.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/wordpress-plugins.png 877w, https://www.reliablesoft.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/wordpress-plugins-300x170.png 300w, https://www.reliablesoft.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/wordpress-plugins-768x436.png 768w" style="border-style: none; box-sizing: inherit; height: auto; margin-bottom: 12px; max-width: 100%;" width="877" /></div>
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Now you know how, which plugins will you choose?</div>
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<span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 600;">Here’s a list of essential (Free) WordPress plugins you should use on your new blog:</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 600;">WP Super Cache</span></div>
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Cacheing is essential for WordPress sites because it reduces the size of your webpages.</div>
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This puts less strain on the user’s internet connection and your server, and even improves your SEO.</div>
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<span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 600;"><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-super-cache/" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #2361a1; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out;" target="_blank">WP Super Cache</a> </span>is created by Automattic — the same company that builds WordPress — so you know it’s trustworthy.</div>
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<span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 600;">BackUpWordPress</span></div>
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Your data is precious, and the longer you have your blog and put time into it, the bigger the risk becomes of losing it all.</div>
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With a backup plugin like <span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 600;"><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/backupwordpress/" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #2361a1; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out;" target="_blank">BackUpWordPress</a></span>, you never have to worry about losing data or having your site ruined.</div>
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If anything goes wrong, just restore your site from the most recent backup!</div>
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<span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 600;">Yoast SEO</span></div>
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Even though WordPress is set up for technical SEO out of the box, you will want to use Yoast so you can write your own meta descriptions, get <a href="https://www.reliablesoft.net/5-on-page-seo-techniques-thatll-boost-your-rankings-checklist-included/" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #2361a1; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 600;">on-page SEO guidance</span></a> as you write, and rank more easily in search engines.</div>
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Even the <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-seo/" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #2361a1; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out;" target="_blank">free version of Yoast</a> is a massive step up from vanilla WordPress SEO functionality.</div>
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<span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 600;">Contact Form 7</span></div>
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Need forms on your site? Maybe you want to make sure you have an easy way for leads to get in touch with you, or to collect their information?</div>
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With <span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 600;"><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/contact-form-7/" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #2361a1; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out;">Contact Form 7</a></span>, you get shortcuts to easily add forms anywhere on your site without having to type any difficult code.</div>
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Free vs premium plugins</h3>
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Most of the plugins I’ve mentioned above, like Yoast and WP Super Cache, have premium versions you can choose if you want extra features.</div>
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The catch with these examples (and most premium plugins you’ll come across) is that you’re unlikely to need the advanced features premium plugins offer (at least at the beginning).</div>
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However, you might want the support, security, and fast update cycle that comes with going premium.</div>
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My advice for you at this stage is to use the free versions of premium plugins until you outgrow them. That way, you’re never paying for anything you don’t use.</div>
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Step 8: Write and publish the most essential pages on your blog</h2>
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<span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 600;">4 essential pages you need to include on your blog</span></div>
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Your visitors will come to your site with certain expectations; even if it’s a blog, they’re going to be looking for an about page, a contact page, and others that you might initially overlook.</div>
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Treat this next section as a checklist guide for the pages you should make next:</div>
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Home page</h3>
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An optimized blog will always have its own home page — not just a list of the most recent posts.</div>
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See Problogger, for example:</div>
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<img alt="wordpress home page" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-5643" height="554" sizes="(max-width: 877px) 100vw, 877px" src="https://www.reliablesoft.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/wordpress-home-page.png" srcset="https://www.reliablesoft.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/wordpress-home-page.png 877w, https://www.reliablesoft.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/wordpress-home-page-300x190.png 300w, https://www.reliablesoft.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/wordpress-home-page-768x485.png 768w" style="border-style: none; box-sizing: inherit; height: auto; margin-bottom: 12px; max-width: 100%;" width="877" /></div>
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While there is a list of recent posts further down the page, the first thing the reader sees is a big call to action to subscribe to the newsletter.</div>
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A big chunk of your page views will be going to your home page, so use that opportunity to capture leads and show first  time visitors what you’re all about.</div>
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Elements to consider including in your home page:</div>
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<li style="box-sizing: inherit; list-style-type: disc; padding-bottom: 10px;">A headline to inform visitors who you are and what you do</li>
<li style="box-sizing: inherit; list-style-type: disc; padding-bottom: 10px;">A clear <em style="box-sizing: inherit;">Call to Action</em> (that’s an action you want users to perform), check out our <a href="https://www.reliablesoft.net/" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #2361a1; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 600;">homepage</span></a> as an example.</li>
<li style="box-sizing: inherit; list-style-type: disc; padding-bottom: 10px;">Links to the most important parts of your website</li>
<li style="box-sizing: inherit; list-style-type: disc; padding-bottom: 10px;">Description of your products or services</li>
</ul>
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About page</h3>
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Your about page should be a description of you and your blog.</div>
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In many cases, the about page is one of the most frequently visited pages of a website, so you’d better make it hard-hitting, descriptive, and actionable.</div>
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<img alt="wordpress blog about us page" class="alignnone size-large wp-image-5657" height="592" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" src="https://www.reliablesoft.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/blog-about-page-1024x592.png" srcset="https://www.reliablesoft.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/blog-about-page-1024x592.png 1024w, https://www.reliablesoft.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/blog-about-page-300x174.png 300w, https://www.reliablesoft.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/blog-about-page-768x444.png 768w, https://www.reliablesoft.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/blog-about-page.png 1200w" style="border-style: none; box-sizing: inherit; height: auto; margin-bottom: 12px; max-width: 100%;" width="1024" /></div>
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What you see above, it’s a screenshot of our <span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 600;"><a href="https://www.reliablesoft.net/about/" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #2361a1; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out;">about page</a></span>.</div>
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Try to include all of the below in your about page:</div>
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<li style="box-sizing: inherit; list-style-type: disc; padding-bottom: 10px;">Good examples of the kinds of content readers can expect</li>
<li style="box-sizing: inherit; list-style-type: disc; padding-bottom: 10px;">Your story: why did you set the blog up, and what are you doing with it?</li>
<li style="box-sizing: inherit; list-style-type: disc; padding-bottom: 10px;">An image of you or your team</li>
<li style="box-sizing: inherit; list-style-type: disc; padding-bottom: 10px;">A call to action</li>
<li style="box-sizing: inherit; list-style-type: disc; padding-bottom: 10px;">Facts about you and your blog</li>
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Blog page</h3>
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Since you should have a main homepage, it means your blog page will live one level deeper, on a URL like example.com/blog.</div>
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What should it look like?</div>
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A good way to answer that question is to look at the /blog pages of conversion-orientated marketers, and see what they’ve tested and come out with.</div>
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Typically, blogs are a chronological list of articles. That’s what readers expect, so it tends to be what they get:</div>
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<img alt="wordpress blog page" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-5645" height="478" sizes="(max-width: 877px) 100vw, 877px" src="https://www.reliablesoft.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/wordpress-blog-page.png" srcset="https://www.reliablesoft.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/wordpress-blog-page.png 877w, https://www.reliablesoft.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/wordpress-blog-page-300x164.png 300w, https://www.reliablesoft.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/wordpress-blog-page-768x419.png 768w" style="border-style: none; box-sizing: inherit; height: auto; margin-bottom: 12px; max-width: 100%;" width="877" /></div>
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But, like any tightly optimized page, it should have visible email capture (opt-in) boxes as a basic requirement. Also consider adding:</div>
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<li style="box-sizing: inherit; list-style-type: disc; padding-bottom: 10px;">An ‘about’ widget: a condensed version of your about page with a quick bio and a photo</li>
<li style="box-sizing: inherit; list-style-type: disc; padding-bottom: 10px;">A list of your most viewed pages</li>
<li style="box-sizing: inherit; list-style-type: disc; padding-bottom: 10px;">Featured posts</li>
<li style="box-sizing: inherit; list-style-type: disc; padding-bottom: 10px;">Categories</li>
<li style="box-sizing: inherit; list-style-type: disc; padding-bottom: 10px;">Archives</li>
<li style="box-sizing: inherit; list-style-type: disc; padding-bottom: 10px;">Social media buttons so your readers can follow you</li>
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Contact page</h3>
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Depending on what your blog’s purpose is, your contact page could be your biggest source of income.</div>
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For people providing services, contact pages are where you must persuade the reader to get in touch. It needs to be well optimized and easy for the user.</div>
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For bloggers who primarily want to push readers to share, comment and subscribe, the contact page doesn’t need to be so purposeful — it just needs to be there.</div>
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Here is an example from <span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 600;"><a href="http://sethgodin.com/sg/contact.asp" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #2361a1; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out;" target="_blank">Seth Godin</a></span>:</div>
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<img alt="wordpress contact page example 2" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-5647" height="582" sizes="(max-width: 877px) 100vw, 877px" src="https://www.reliablesoft.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/wordpress-contact-page-2.png" srcset="https://www.reliablesoft.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/wordpress-contact-page-2.png 877w, https://www.reliablesoft.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/wordpress-contact-page-2-300x199.png 300w, https://www.reliablesoft.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/wordpress-contact-page-2-768x510.png 768w" style="border-style: none; box-sizing: inherit; height: auto; margin-bottom: 12px; max-width: 100%;" width="877" /></div>
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Seth’s not looking for anything in particular, but is providing a way to get in touch with him if you need to.</div>
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For blogs that don’t offer services, something like Seth’s page would be ideal.</div>
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He uses the page to show his email address, and add a little personality.</div>
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On your contact page, you should try to include:</div>
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<li style="box-sizing: inherit; list-style-type: disc; padding-bottom: 10px;">Your phone number</li>
<li style="box-sizing: inherit; list-style-type: disc; padding-bottom: 10px;">Your email address</li>
<li style="box-sizing: inherit; list-style-type: disc; padding-bottom: 10px;">A contact form</li>
<li style="box-sizing: inherit; list-style-type: disc; padding-bottom: 10px;">Your physical address</li>
<li style="box-sizing: inherit; list-style-type: disc; padding-bottom: 10px;">Reasons why the reader should contact you</li>
<li style="box-sizing: inherit; list-style-type: disc; padding-bottom: 10px;">Your social media profiles</li>
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Step 9: Learn how to make money with your blog</h2>
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How to make money blogging</h3>
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Blogging is a great hobby, but it can also be your full time job.</div>
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It takes a lot of work to build a community and an audience, but when you have a big list of people to market to, you can generate a heap of passive income with Adsense, affiliate marketing, and selling your own products and services.</div>
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Here’s a brief explanation of each method:</div>
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<a href="https://www.reliablesoft.net/can-you-still-make-money-with-adsense/" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #2361a1; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 600;">Making money with Adsense</span></a></div>
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AdSense is a Google product. For publishers like you, it’s a way to display advertisements on your site and generate revenue without putting in the effort to pick and choose <em style="box-sizing: inherit;">which</em> ads you’re displaying.</div>
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Once you install AdSense on your site, you select where you want ads to show, then set it (and forget it).</div>
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Your income depends on the keywords your site ranks for, and the amount of traffic you get.</div>
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To put it bluntly, if your audience is small, you’re going to get peanuts.</div>
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The bigger you get, however, the more likely you are to earn significant money from AdSense.</div>
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Rank organically for content with affiliate links</h3>
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Most of the bloggers I’ve listed so far  — <span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 600;"><a href="http://neilpatel.com/blog/" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #2361a1; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out;" target="_blank">Neil Patel</a>,</span> Pat Flynn and Darren Rowse — are affiliate marketers.</div>
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They make hundreds of thousands every year by writing content that sells other people’s products.</div>
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Here’s a rough overview of the process:</div>
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<li style="box-sizing: inherit; list-style-type: decimal;">Get in touch with companies that sell products related to what you blog about, asking for an affiliate partnership.</li>
<li style="box-sizing: inherit; list-style-type: decimal;">Receive your own personal affiliate link that, when clicked, shows the company that you were the one who referred them a customer</li>
<li style="box-sizing: inherit; list-style-type: decimal;">Write a high-ranking blog post targeting a relevant keyword, including affiliate links</li>
<li style="box-sizing: inherit; list-style-type: decimal;">Get traffic to your affiliate links</li>
<li style="box-sizing: inherit; list-style-type: decimal;">Get X% of the company’s earnings for each referral</li>
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Obviously, this is nowhere near as simple as it sounds. For starters, you need to know <a href="https://www.shoutmeloud.com/must-know-things-joining-affiliate-program.html" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #2361a1; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out;" target="_blank"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 600;">which affiliate program to join</span></a>.</div>
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You need to learn how to write posts that deserve to <a href="https://www.reliablesoft.net/how-long-does-it-take-to-rank-in-google/" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #2361a1; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 600;">rank highly on Google</span></a>, build relationships with other companies, and learn copywriting to sell readers products.</div>
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These skills will all come in time. The more you write, optimize, and look at the data, the better you understand your audience and are able to recommend solutions that really solve their problem (and send you a bit of money each time, too).</div>
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Sell your own products and services</h3>
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Establishing a blog is one step on the road to becoming an authority.</div>
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When you’re an authority, people will want to hire you and buy your products, giving you another revenue stream alongside affiliate marketing and AdSense.</div>
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You’ll know the problems your audience is trying to solve by the comments and traffic you get, so setting up a blog is like the first stage of market research for any products or services you might want to sell in the future.</div>
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Blogging about writing? You could sell an ebook full of valuable information from your own experience, or a video course of writing tips.</div>
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You could also put yourself for hire as a marketing consultant or copy editor.</div>
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<a href="https://www.caloriesecrets.net/" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #2361a1; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out;" target="_blank"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 600;">Run a nutrition blog</span></a>? You could sell a collection of recipes, or your services as a nutritionist.</div>
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Whatever your blog’s about, where there’s interest there’s also revenue to be made.</div>
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What will you sell to your readers?</div>
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If that sounds confusing, don’t worry about it now. Register to my newsletter (below) and I’ll send you a <span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 600;">free guide</span> on how to make money from your blog. For now, concentrate on building your blog content’s and traffic.</div>
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Step 10: SEO Optimize your WordPress Blog</h2>
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To set your blog up to generate revenue, you’ll need to know the basics of content writing and SEO.</div>
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You’ll need to network, build links, build a social media following and write the top content in your niche that outclasses everything on the first page of Google.</div>
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Are you up to the task?</div>
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Yes?</div>
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Our <span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 600;"><a href="https://www.reliablesoft.net/ebook/wordpress-seo-guide/" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #2361a1; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out;">WordPress SEO guide</a></span> is your next step.</div>
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In it, you’ll learn:</div>
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<li style="box-sizing: inherit; list-style-type: disc; padding-bottom: 10px;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 600;">How to grow your traffic to more than 500K organic visits per month (case study included)</span></li>
<li style="box-sizing: inherit; list-style-type: disc; padding-bottom: 10px;">SEO secrets you can use on any blog</li>
<li style="box-sizing: inherit; list-style-type: disc; padding-bottom: 10px;">How to generate a ton of traffic while you sleep (for free)</li>
<li style="box-sizing: inherit; list-style-type: disc; padding-bottom: 10px;">How to improve user experience and conversions</li>
<li style="box-sizing: inherit; list-style-type: disc; padding-bottom: 10px;">The process of keyword research</li>
<li style="box-sizing: inherit; list-style-type: disc; padding-bottom: 10px;">The what, why, and how of SEO’s most important element: link building</li>
<li style="box-sizing: inherit; list-style-type: disc; padding-bottom: 10px;">How to make thousands of dollars from adsense</li>
<li style="box-sizing: inherit; list-style-type: disc; padding-bottom: 10px;">How to quickly grow your traffic, without taking any risks</li>
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The guide is written by our Digital Marketing Manager that has more than 15 years of experience with WordPress SEO.</div>
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Packed with checklists, screenshots and actionable tips, this is the<em style="box-sizing: inherit;"> only SEO book you’ll ever need to read!</em></div>
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Good luck with your WordPress Blogging and remember: building a succesful online business takes time, it needs a lot of patience and hard work but it’s also one of the best jobs in the World!</div>
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