how to start a money-saving blog finance blogging for beginners hey guys Bryan
with WP Cupid Blog and in this video I'm gonna be showing you a complete personal finance
blogging for beginners tutorial on how to start a money-saving blog whether you
be a technology I have no experience a blog starting or even if you are a pro
this personal finance blogging for beginners tutorial video will be perfect for you
the great thing about this tutorial is it is extremely easy to follow along
with even if you have no experience in starting and setting up a money-saving
blog by following this tutorial video you will have your money saving blog set
up in as little as 10 minutes at the end of this video you will have your blog
successfully started I'm going to be providing you with a bunch of helpful
resources that will help you in your blog starting journey towards the end of
the video so stay tuned the first step I'm gonna cover is how to choose and
register your own domain name for free to have a blog you have to have a domain
name steps you I'll be going over how to choose a hosting provider to have a blog
you have to have hosting step three is getting your blog set up for free with
the most popular blogging software today the blogging platform is WordPress if
you want your blog to rank reach success etc WordPress is the way to go if you
don't have time to start your WordPress blog right this second be sure to
bookmark this video so you can come back to it later let's get started the first
thing you want to do is head on over to Bluehost via the link that I provided in
the description Bluehost is will be giving a free domain name in up to 63
percent off web hosting make sure you click the link in the description to get
this great deal you can also enter WP cupid blog comm slash go slash Bluehost
in the search address bar like you see here to have a blog you have to have a
main name for people to find your blog and web hosting that powers your
WordPress blog a little about Bluehost Bluehost powers over two million
websites worldwide in over a hundred fifty thousand blogs around the world
they are also recommended by WordPress themselves since 2005 they instantly
install WordPress for you which makes starting a blog that much easier they
provide 24/7 support via chat email and phone and they have a 30-day money-back
guarantee if for any reason you are unhappy you can cancel and get a refund
no questions asked within the first thirty days I do want to mention
the link is an affiliate link in our receiving commission which helps support
this channel and helps us put out more WordPress tutorial videos and once you
click the link in the description below or enter wpq poblano slash Bluehost
you'll be at the Bluehost home page you'll see the get started now button on
the page click the button this is where you can select your hosting plan you'll
see 3 different options you'll see a basic plan a plus plan and a choice plus
plan I recommend going with the basic plan and you can always scale up
whenever you'd like if you have more than one website then you want to choose
either the plus plan or choice plus plan I'm gonna choose the basic plan for this
tutorial as this is most common go ahead and hit the select button once ever plan
you would like to use we are now brought to a domain page where we can choose a
domain name that we want completely free or if you already have a domain name
you'd enter it in over on the right for the new domain you can select if you
wanted to be a dot-com dotnet dot org etc dot-com is the most popular domain
extension so I'd recommend going with a.com if you can I'm gonna type in the
domain here and click the next button you were not brought to a create your
account page this is where you will input your information we have first
name last name the business name is optional put your country address
information in put a phone number and lastly the best email for you as you'll
get emailed a receipt of payment and a copy of your login credentials etc below
that you will see package information you'll see account plan this is where
you can select a term for your hosting package you have 12 months 24 months 36
months and 60 months as you can see you'll save money the longer you
purchase your hosting for I'm gonna select the 12 months package setup fee
is free domain registration is free let's encrypt SSL is free this SSL
feature is a free SSL certificate which makes your site secure with the green
bar and with the HTTPS domain privacy is an add-on that I highly recommend it
will prevent telemarketers and marketers getting a hold of your personal contact
information and bugging you with their services the domain privacy will shell
Bluehost information for the site and not yours site lock security fine is
security for your WordPress website and takes it from hackers I done select this
is they're really good free alternatives you'll see code guard code guard creates
daily backups and allows you to restore your site with a click of a button in
case something happens there are free alternatives that work just the same SEO
tools start you can keep unselected this add-on will submit your site to search
engines and provide a report on your site ranking in keyword rankings
submitting your site to search engines you can do for free this isn't necessary
to have all these add-ons are completely optional and up to you to get as you can
see you're saving a lot for this hosting package below that you will input your
payment information I'm not gonna fill this out for protection of personal
information lunch information is filled in you want to select the I have read
and agreed to Bluehost privacy policy in terms of service now click the submit
button you are now brought to a page where you choose a password for your
Bluehost account click the create your password button input the password you
would like click the I of retina green to blue host privacy policy in terms and
conditions and click the next button you will now be directed to a
congratulations page click the blue log in button to log in to Bluehost Bluehost
is also going to at this time eaten by your dashboard login information to the
email address you provided you will now see pick your theme Bluehost has a bunch
of awesome free wordpress themes you can choose from you can select the theme now
if you want to or below the themes you can click skip this step if you choose a
theme now you can always change the theme you pick without any problem at a
later date I'll be going over this in more detail later in the video once you
choose your free theme or click skip this step you'll be at the page here
stating all done click the button that says start building to start building
your blog on WordPress once you click that log in you'll be at the wordpress
dashboard this is what the wordpress dashboard looks like it'll ask you a few
questions as you can see if you don't need help just click that you don't need
help option once you do that you will see this page you will see blog posts
where you can add new blog post you will see where you can add new pages to your
blog if you want to change your navigation menus you can do so easily
and if you are going to sell products on your site you can install WooCommerce to
do so on the far left you will see tabs over over them and get to learn them
post is where you can add new post pages is where you can add new pages the media
tab is where your images will show that you upload to your blog comments is
where you can view comments people leave on your blog plugins is where you can
install plugins for your blog almost any customization or feature that you would
want more than likely there's a plug-in already made for it
appearance is where you can change the look of your theme or change your theme
to another one or a premium theme select themes when you hover over appearance it
will showcase free wordpress themes that you can choose from
if you select most popular it will show you the most popular free WordPress
themes hover over a theme and click install and then click activate to make
the theme your WordPress theme you should also see add new theme on this
page this is where you can add a new theme if you got it from another site or
it is a premium theme a great resource i've used for several years and
recommend for professional WordPress themes that look like an award winning
design agency did your blog is creative market this is the creative market
wordpress blog themes page you can easily browse wordpress blogging premium
themes click on them and get a live preview of themes as you can see here
here's a few examples of premium WordPress themes that are already
pre-made for you to input your information or change however you like
you'll see they look really good click the link in the description below to
check out creative market in the top left of your WordPress dashboard you
will see welcome here or your site title towards the top of the page click this
to view your site to log in to your WordPress dashboard you can do so via
the Bluehost cPanel or by typing in your domain name with a slash WP dash admin
here's an example it'll bring up this page here just input your login
credentials to be logged into WordPress another great resource that is helpful
and used by over 500,000 users is a drag-and-drop editor called element or
page builder element or page builder makes starting and creating your
WordPress blog easy you can make edits by dragging and dropping search element
or page builder on the plugins page and install and activate it if you'd like to
try it out Elementor has a free end paid version I provide a link in the
description so you can check out and compare the features of the free and
paid versions another great resource to check out is fiber fiber is a great
place to get tasks done for just $5 it is helpful if you need a logo or
something done I provide the link in the description below and that is by personal finance
blogging for beginners tutorial video on how to start a money-saving blog if you
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