Submitting your blog to search engines requires two things for most of them. Creating an account on their platforms and your sitemap. The sitemap has a lot of parts to it and to avoid making search engines index parts of our blog that we do not want it to, we will be getting only the … Read more

Creating Your First Blog Post; this is the long-awaited part that actually involves the blogging aspect. If you have followed all the previous steps from 1 to 10, I must congratulate you. The previous steps have set up your admin for good and you do not need to ever go back to them except if … Read more

Blog pages are static pages that are rarely updated and usually do not rank on search engines. So we will not be wasting a lot of time setting up required blog pages on your WordPress. You are expected to create the average minimum required for anyone who comes to your blog to see that you … Read more

There is no WordPress without adding relevant Plugins. I consider plugins as fittings for a house. Fittings like electrical fittings, mechanical fittings, and even smart house fittings. For your blog, remember that the more plugins you add, the heavier your site. You want to go with only what you really need. To install a plugin; … Read more

One way I use to explain the concept of a blog theme is to think of it as an interior design for an empty house. Unless you can write code for your blog from scratch, a blog theme gives your blog the finished look. It often comes with preinstalled colour, font, and style which you … Read more

Here are things to set up WordPress as your CMS. On the dashboard, close the Welcome message and any other thing you do not wish to see on your Dashboard. Click on the Screen Options to do that. Note that what you will see on the Screen Options is different for every tab you click … Read more

If you chose WordPress as the CMS you wish to use, here is how to install your WordPress. Remember that from the post on connecting the domain name and hosting, we had the domain on Truehost and hosting on DomainKing. So you will be installing WordPress where your hosting is; in our case, DomainKing. To … Read more

This post will show you how to choose your content management system. In the post I wrote about beginner blogging terms, I explained what a content management system (CMS) means. To choose your CMS, here are things to bear in mind. Cost. As a beginner, cost is very important. You don’t know how long you … Read more

So you bought them separately, here is how to connect your domain name and hosting. You can move over to the next step 5 if you bought your domain name and hosting together from the same company. I will be using the two hosting companies I recommended in my previous post to explain to you … Read more

Here is how and where to buy your hosting with your Naira card. If you are based in Nigeria, you would have experienced the issue of paying for services priced in other currencies outside the Naira currency. To address this, there are hosting companies, existing and catering to the Nigerian market. This allows you to … Read more

Here is how to choose and buy your domain name. So you have set out your business plan, to choose a domain name, here are things to keep in mind. Your domain name is a web (home) address. To do this, I believe you have decided on a particular niche (area of interest/concentration) to blog … Read more

Some bloggers have argued about whether you should buy your domain name and hosting together or separately. I always took their advice and adhered to it until I spoke with a developer. A WordPress developer. This developer made it clear that the bloggers who believe in buying a domain from a different company and buying … Read more

A lot of beginner bloggers have made mistakes, setting up their blogs for failure by not knowing the difference between wordpress.com and wordpress.org blogging platforms. I will spare you that error and waste of time. There are many CMS platforms for setting up blogging and you have chosen to use the WordPress platform for yours. … Read more

To start blogging today without quitting the next day, you will need to develop a blogging business plan. As far as the internet world is concerned, blogging is a long-term strategy for growing your business, whether small, medium, or large scale. Don’t worry, no one is reading the plan, so you don’t have to worry … Read more