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 and if you found this video useful give
me a thumb up and I will leave you a few links here to the other videos on my
channel that are perfectly complementary to what I was showing you today see you
in the next videos