How To Start A Successful Blog Part 2: Setting Up

I WILL TEACH YOU HOW TO SETUP A FUNCTIONAL BLOG

Hi My name is Alvin @alvinhyblog

MANY PEOPLE WILL ASK: “Cant I use Blogspot? Its free.”

WOULD YOU TRUST ANYONE THAT BLOGS ON A FREE BLOG?

USE WORDPRESS

FROM PART 1 You should have chosen a name for your brand

NOW ITS TIME TO CHOOSE A WEB HOST

Here are the ones I recommend

WP Engine

Arvixe

BlueHost

NOW INSTALL WORDPRESS ON YOUR HOST

NEXT IS TO INSTALL THE THEME

There are loads of great themes on ThemeForest

Also at Elegant Themes

NOW INSTALL YOUR PLUGINS

“There are so many! How do I choose?”

Dont worry, I will tell you all the important ones

https://wordpress.org/plugins/akismet/

http://wordpress.org/plugins/contact-form-7/

http://www.alvinhy.com/easyazon/

http://www.alvinhy.com/nextscripts/

http://wordpress.org/plugins/w3-total-cache/

http://wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-seo/

Got them all installed?

AWSOME! YOUR BLOG IS NOW SETUP

Get ready for Part 3

Thank you! hope you had fun

and learnt something NEW !

Got questions? ask me about it on alvinhy.com