Step By Step Blog Launch Map
Everything you need from starting your website to growing it.
Want to make sense of this page? Read our guide on how to start a blog
Step #1 Buy A Domain
Buying a domain is the initial step you take when starting a blog. It is nothing but the web address from where your visitors are going to access your website. For example; the domain of this website is howtosuperblog.com
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Namecheap
It is the #1 domain registrar in the world and also the most affordable for new bloggers.
GoDaddy
It is one of the oldest in the business. The domains are affordable and provides great brokerage service. Highly recommended.
Step #2 Get Hosted
After buying a domain you now need a hosting provider that will host all the media and content of your website. Earlier this process was a very hectic & complicated one. But nowadays it has become very easy and efficient thanks to the support and amount of tutorials that come from people and the companies itself.
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Bluehost
Bluehost can be a great option for those of you who want great hosting for a viable price. Bluehost also has an amazing support team to help you instantly whenever you are stuck with some other worldly problem.
WPX
Bluehost can be a great option for those of you who want great hosting for a viable price. Bluehost also has an amazing support team to help you instantly whenever you are stuck with some other worldly problem.
Step #3 Design Up!
Now that you have hosted your domain it’s time to design your website. Earlier this was hard and tedious. But nowadays you can easily build sleek and stylish websites with the help of easy to use page builders. We ourselves use them on our website.
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Elegant Themes (Divi)
We have used a couple of page builders like Elementor and beaver. But time and again we keep coming back to Elegant themes. It provides a world-class builder called Divi and a host of other features and plugins. Also, their support is the Industry leading best.
Step #4 SEO for Supers
If people don’t visit your website how are you ever going to monetize your website? And this is where Search engine optimization (SEO) comes in. With the help of SEO you can generate passive and consistent traffic to your website. It’s slow but its damn effective.
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RankMath
Technical SEO is boring and hard when you do it yourself. And worse you can sometimes mess up important setting. Therefore using a plugin like RankMath saves you a ton of time and complex SEO processes.
Mangools
Assuming you are starting from scratch you wont have a lot of capital to invest. So for you Mangools is the best option out there. Its a complete SEO suite with keyword research, link building and serp tracking tools.
SEMrush
Complete online marketing suite for bloggers. If you want an SEO & Content machine then go for it.
Step #5 Marketing Box
After you have setup your website’s SEO stack you now need to setup your actual marketing stack. This includes stuff for Lead capturing, A/B Split testing, Analyzing your site etc. Setting up your marketing stack is crucial for your websites success.
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Aweber
Aweber is the answer to all of your email marketing worries. It is free, easy and fun to use. Also it is especially built for creators.
Hunter.io
Hunter is an all-in-one outreach tool built to simplify your link building workflow. It is equipped with both an email finder and a cold email software (It’s Free)
Hootsuite
Hootsuite is the best way to manage your social media. It’s free and easy to use. Even we use Hootsuite to manage our social media channels.
Hotjar
Hotjar gives you visual insight on your website users. That is Hotjar gives you screen recordings of what your users do on your website. You can use this data to improve your website for better user retention.
Step #6 Get-set-create
Content is and will remain king. No matter how much marketing you do. Also, content is the key to successful blogs. So you always want to give your best while creating content. So here are some tools you should use to write or create content.
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Canva
It is the best tool to create scroll stopping graphics for your website and social channels. Canva has a library of over 6 Million stock photos, videos and graphics.
Visme
It is the all-in-one visual content marketing solution for creators. You can create everything from Infographics to videos with Visme.
Surfer
Nowadays just content doesn’t work. That’s why you have to create all optimized pieces of content and Surfer helps you do just that It automates the research you need to do to write an article from start to finish.