Hi there I'm Anastasia of AnastasiaBlogger.com and today I will teach you How to start a blog in 11 minutes
without any technical overwhelm people Often delay starting a blog because
they're afraid of two things the first Fear sounds like this oh I am NOT a mute
at technology I will never be able to Set up a website on my own
believe me anyone can do it and I'll Show you today how fast and easy it is
step by step the second fear sounds like This starting an online business must be
really expensive I need to save up more Money before I get to it that's really
just an excuse my friend your fear is Holding you back for no reason at all
you will see today that starting a blog Or a website of any kind is very
affordable these days now let's get into The steps because hey I promise you it
will take just about 11 minutes so step Number one is choose a domain and
hosting the domain name is the name or The address of your blog the golden rule
of website naming is that you have to Make it as short as possible and easy to
memorize the second rule is that the Main names in that cone zone are always
preferable because users automatically Think of dot-com when they memorize the
mains and also the main single cone zone Are considered more trustworthy both by
users and search engines and the rule Number 3 is don't use numbers or hyphens
and your domain names they are difficult To read and to remember we'll see in a
few minutes how you can search for the Main name and how you can even get one
for free but when it comes to hosting I Always recommend Bluehost for beginner
bloggers Hosting is where your site Content will be stored so it's important
to have a reliable hosting that also has A 24-hour support and let me explain why
I recommend Bluehost from this video you Will see that WordPress will be
installed and your site will start Working so smoothly by just clicking on
a few buttons in Bluehost interface that You don't need any technical skills to
set it up the step number Is setting up WordPress if you ask me
why WordPress and not any other website Builder like weeks or Squarespace
that's because WordPress has the largest Community of users and the biggest
platform used globally with huge library Of free plugins and themes plus since
WordPress is so popular and powerful There are tons of free tutorials
available even here on YouTube for Literally anything you might ever want
to set up on your WordPress site here is How our wordpress blog will look like in
the end result to start setting it up The first thing you need to do is click
on the show more link in the description
Under the video it will open the full
description and you will find my Affiliate link that goes to Bluehost I
partnered with Bluehost to get the best Pricing for you so when you click here
you will see that you can start a Self-hosted site for just two
ninety-five dollars a month this is a Very special discount Bluehost offers to
my audience if you go through my Affiliate link now let's click on this
green button get started here you will See various packages and I would suggest
you go as a beginner with the basic Package it's a great value for the price
because you will not only get the Hosting itself but also a free SSL
certificate which makes your site show Up as a secure site on HTTPS address and
you can also see here a free domain name For the first year so let's click select
on this page you need to search for an Available domain if you want to get a
free domain name and by the way if you Already have a domain name you can use
this window on the right side I already Told you what are the best practices for
choosing a domain so we will try to keep It short and let's imagine we're
creating a food blog let's search for a Domain maybe food set go calm oh it
shows none available so be prepared that A lot of domains you can think about are
already taken and it can take you some Time to find a domain that is still
available and if you're not ready With a domain name at this point I would
just recommend you to click on this link Below that says I'll create my domain
later it means that you will skip the Step for now but you will still be
eligible for a free domain which you can Choose later in your hosting account but
let me try for now some other Combination for example sneck said go
calm great so it's available and let's Move to the next step now let's fill our
account information now scroll down to Package information you will see here
that if you choose the basic plan for 36 Months you will get the lowest price per
month I would personally go with this Option to secure this package for the
next three years now scroll down and in The package extras section you can
select only one option which is the main Privacy protection and the rest of the
options are really not essential Moreover you can always get them later
in your Bluehost account but the main Privacy means that if someone searches
for the public information about your Domain your full name and the email
address will be hidden so it literally Protects your privacy so keep it on here
we will add our payment information Don't forget to check the box that you
agree to Bluehost Terms of Service and
Now hit submit great you made it now
let's create your Bluehost account click Here now let's create a password for
your account it has to be something that You will not forget but it has to be
something reliable Click on this checkbox to agree to their
privacy policy and hit create account so Let's click on go to login here and here
you have to insert the password you just Created and hit login now hold on a
little bit while it's setting up your Account here Bluehost will ask you a few
questions to understand better what kind Of site you are building because they
will recommend your plugins based on the Type of the site but you can totally
skip the step I will do it now just Click on this link below again here is
just some information they're collecting About your site so you can click on skip
the step again at the bottom of the page Here Bluehost will show you a selection
of free and premium WordPress themes but We don't have to select the theme right
here we can again skip the step and I Will show you later how you can add the
free theme that you saw at the beginning Of this tutorial now the host will show
you this temporary domain and you don't Need to worry about it because the
domain that you selected is going to Take some time to propagate so you can
start building your site on this Temporary domain and move it later
remember that I told you that Bluehost Made it super easy for you to build a
wordpress site and all you have to do Now is click here on this WordPress
button great this is how your wordpress Dashboard looks this is the back end of
your site and you will be editing your Posts and installing plugins here step
number three is installing a wordpress Theme remember I promised you to show
how to install a free WordPress theme Inside your dashboard to do this hover
over the appearance and then themes now Look up for the button wordpress.org
themes click here and WordPress will Show you a selection of available themes
but we will search for that pretty theme I recommended you to try
it's called ash so we will search here In the search bar on the right for the
name ash it showed up and we need to Click on this install button now let's
click activate Let's go to the top left corner of the
screen and click on visit site to see How our blog looks like these are the
basic elements of the homepage and now We will start customizing it to make it
our own step number four is setting up The home page of your blog and to do
this we will go back to dashboard hover Over the appearance and click customize
since we're building a food blog I want
To change this header image to something
related to snacks We will click here on the header image
first read the information about the Current Heather size it's 1,300 by 500
pixels and you will need an image of This size I already got mine ready so
I'll just click add new image I'll just Drag and drop the image from my folder
now let's click on the button in the Bottom right corner select and crop
since I created this image in the right Size I don't need to change anything or
crop anything I'll just click on skip Cropping here great now let's edit our
site name and the tagline we will click On this arrow to go back to the menu and
choose site identity you have here site Title and the tagline to edit the site
title I will keep the same as the domain A snack set go and the timeline we will
say delicious simple snacks for your Family hit publish to see the changes we
need to close this menu and in the Dashboard click on visit site if you
want to avoid going back and forth to The dashboard after every little change
I recommend you to keep a separate tab Open with your site and you just need to
refresh the page to see the changes all Right you can see now how it looks on
the site see how easy it is to customize Anything on the home page ok so now I
will open in a new tab the customize Window and let's go to widgets here
we'll click on the right sidebar this is The part of your site where you usually
have your profile photo A short information about the site you
can also have a search bar for users to Search anything on your site and I would
also recommend having here a block of Recent posts let me show you how we set
up all of this so we click on add widget First search for a text block let's add
our profile photo click here to add an Image drag and drop the image here click
on this button in the bottom right Corner insert into post now let's write
some short text about our site click Apply let's add another widget look for
this search bar okay I want now to add The recent posts widget I'll put in the
title recent posts hit apply also at any Time you can easily organize these
blocks just by dragging them see how Change the order of the widgets in my
sidebar you can continue editing your Site in WordPress until you're happy
with how it looks while you're doing This your site is private and only you
can see it when you are ready to make Your site live and visible to everyone
you need to go to the button coming soon Active it will show you this menu and
the button to launch your site you'll Just need to click on this button and
your site will go live so if you didn't
Follow the steps while I was showing you
this tutorial then put it on the replay And just remind you if you want to get
the exclusive price offered by Bluehost To my subscribers to limited time only
you need to click the link in the Description below this video I can't
promise this price will be available Forever since it's a really special
offer so don't miss your chance and Start your website for less than three
dollars a month and I also have a free Course that will help you build a
profitable website and in just a week it Will teach you all you need to know
about a beginner blogger monetization Strategies and what actually will help
you make money with your site I'll give You a link to this free course in the
top right corner and in the description Below this video if you have any
questions let me know in the comments Below this video I'll be happy to help
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