How To Create A Free WebsiteBlog on Wordpress.com | How to Make a WordPress Website in 2019 - Step by Step
hey guys my name is Deepak from mumbai base for comm and first of all I do want to welcome everyone who is just now tuning in to my channel today I am going to actually share a step-by-step tutorial on how to start your own blog on wordpress.com for free on this channel if you are completely new I share a variety of ways for those that are looking for a legitimate way to make money from home and blogging is one of the most popular ways especially for stay-at-home moms like myself as well as teens college students or anyone that is just looking to make an additional income from my personal experience of being a professional blogger for the last two years I have to say that this is one of the best career choices that I made so for those that are new to blogging let me break down what is a blog a blog is a platform where you can be able to share your ideas about something that you are very passionate about it can be a personal blog it can even be a website where you are just sharing information about a topic that you are very knowledgeable in keep in mind that it does take time to make money with a blog or a website which I will explain the different ways that bloggers are able to make money in a separate video so I want to jump right into how to get your blog up so what you're going to do is go to google.com and you're just going to type in wordpress.com once you type in WordPress com you're going to go right here where it says create a free website or blog now you are sitting right here on WordPress coms homepage it says create your new website for free wordpress.com is the best place for your personal blog or business site and I agree I personally agree from being a person that started on blogger calm and I actually migrated my blog over to WordPress so I'm just going to go right here select create a website and the first step that you will need to do is choose a theme or website design for your blog or website so I'm just going to go ahead and select that one for now the next step is let's find a domain this has to be one of the most important thing as far as far as finding and choosing a domain name that is related to your website or blog so for the sake of this video I'm just going to select something very simple free mommy coupons so once I type in my desired domain name it will give me some options here now I can go ahead and just select the free domain here where it will be free mommy coupons dot wordpress.com keep in mind you will have that wordpress.com on the end of your domain since it is free the only way that you can get rid of that wordpress.com is if you buy your own domain where you have free mommy coupons.com that will require you to purchase a domain from some recommended sites like namecheap.com or GoDaddy calm you can be able to purchase your own personal domain name for no more than $20 as you can see here this is $18.00 per year for the whole year third $25 per year it just depends on the domain name that you choose or the website that you go and visit but for the sake of this video we're just trying to create a website for free so we're just going to select the free domain the next step is picking a plan that is right for you we're just going to select the free plan the last step is creating your account you will need a valid email address as well as a username and password that will be very easy for you to remember and log into your wordpress so I'm just going to go ahead and answer some of my details here and I'll be right back to guide you guys through so once you have created your account and put in all of your information as far as your email address and your user name and password you will see this screen pop up here where you will need to verify your email address you should receive an email very shortly and once you activate your email address then you can be on your way to basically start customizing your website or blog so right here you can you will see that you can be able to customize your site by adding a header or any type of background image now I'm sure that many of you guys that are just starting off you won't have a customized header or a background image but you know for those that do um you can customize that right here you will also have this option to select a different theme or website design so if you want to select and be able to browse through the different themes that they have you can do that here next you can add features with your plan which like I said before in the previous screen where you were able to change the type of plan that you have you can you know add on more options if you just want to create and just keep your your free plan then you can skip that step for now right here it says you can start your first post so if you just click right here to starting your post you can go ahead and start typing out your very first article and also if you need to create a page you will do that right here I'm a standalone page is something that is recommended either an about me page or contact page so I'm just going to go ahead and walk you guys through and just show you around the site so you can have an idea of what you're doing go ahead and click right here where it says my site this is exactly what you're - or it will look like you don't have any type of visitors as of yet so your stats right here will be completely empty as well as you don't have any type of articles created so you won't have anything listed here I'm going to be honest it's not you're not going to learn everything overnight it's going to take you some time to get used to how WordPress is set up and everything and how to navigate through all the options that you have right here but I'm just going to show you some of the most important and just explain through some of the most important features of WordPress now if you want to go ahead and view your site you can click that view your site home screen and this is exactly what your blog or website will look like I'm going to go ahead and expand let me try to expand or move my screen recorder up here as you can see that this domain right here this is the address that people will see and be able to where people will be able to find you free mummy coupons dot wordpress.com is the one that I selected so I'm sure yours will be different so I'm just going to click right back here on my site and it will bring up the left-hand column here where I'm just going to scroll down here where it says blog posts this is where you will be able to add your first article so once you select a blog post you can go ahead and type in the first article title that you're going to use now like I said I'm just typing in some random information here just for the sake of the video so you guys can be able to have an idea of what you're doing so I'm just going to go ahead and type a few sentences here after you have typed in a few sentences you can actually choose preview just to see exactly what your article would look like when it is displayed on your website so this is basically how everything and there they are showing the mobile version right here but this is the desktop version here so you can be able to select these different versions here this is the mobile version and then this is like the tablet version and then this is the desktop or computer version so this it gives you different views on how people will view your blog posts so I'm just going to exit out of there the next section is the categories and tags this is very important that you add tags or categories related to what your article is about the tags are really really important you know since I have a title here that says free mommy coupons I would want to make sure that I add some of the main popular tags that will help people find this article so I'm just going to type in coupons comma free coupons comma mommy coupons I'm just going to type in a couple of tags here and this will be very relevant to people finding the information that they need on your site also you can add a category right here and I would suggest you know since I'm talking about free mommy coupons then you will want to add something that's coupons here and then you can add that category right there also you can add a featured image that is highly recommended especially for a blog because images really capture your readers it captures your readers attention so it is very you know it's recommended to have plenty of images on your website down here you will be able to share your content we will have the option to either activate or enable being able to share your content now if you uncheck this box then people won't be able to share your content and then you can also disable having a like button right here if you don't want that but I highly recommend you guys if you want traffic to your blog you want to keep those checked you want people sharing your content this option right here will give you the ability to customize your article whether you want it to be just the standard article if you want to show an image a video if you want to have a photo gallery so that is where you would customize what is shown on this particular article I'm just going to click right here back on my site so I can get back to this left-hand column too now right here you can be able to create some standalone pages the most important there are four important pages that you need to create when you are first starting a blog you need to create an about me page a contact page a disclosure policy and a privacy policy and I'm going to explain for each an about me page an about me page will basically help people know what this site is all about if you want to actually share some personal information about you know your background or your family that is up to you if you want to share any type of personal information about this blog that would capture your readers and they can get an insight you know look at you know the person that is the author of this blog then that is highly recommended for you to do that when you first starting a blog the second one is a contact page especially if you want people to reach you if you want people to contact you for additional information it is best to have a contact me page you can actually add a contact me box where people just fill out some information some brief information their name and then the message that they want to write out like and just basically say if you have any additional questions please reach me at your email address here and you know you can just provide your email address where people can be able to contact you the next page that is important is a disclosure policy a describe that disclosure policy is very important for those that may be promoting or selling any type of affiliate products may be a part of any type of affiliate programs this way you could be able to disclose to your readers you know the different programs that you are in whether you are an affiliate with Amazon and you are selling and getting a percentage off of any type of products or if you have a job board on your website where you earn a percentage of any type of activity on that job board so you want to disclose that and to be honest a lot of affiliate programs they require you to have some type of disclosure policy on your website so that is very important and I'll make sure to leave that link below in my description box for you to go ahead and get a disclosure policy set up the next page that is very important is a privacy policy you need to have a privacy policy especially you know for your site visitors letting them know that you may collect different information just for you know stat purposes or just to gather certain statistics about who is coming to visit your site so that is very important I know if you plan on you any type of ad networks like Google Adsense they also require you to have some type of privacy policy and so that is very important for you to have like I said an about me page a contact me page disclosure policy and a privacy policy I'm going to go right back here to you know the stats page here so I can browse down to the next thing what you can do is click on themes here I'm sorry and you will be able to browse through so many different options as far as different web designs of how you want your site to be displayed you'll notice that there are quite a few that you can select that are free or you can click the drop down box here and go to all the premium themes where you will see a variety of different themes found the prices are different just depending on you know the different themes they may have different features for the ones that are you know 125 175 these right here you have some that are pretty more that are pretty reasonable around 59 69 for you here's one for 49 so it just really depends on what you plan on doing with your website as far as the design and what your budget is as far as your pocket or what you want to come out a pocket upfront so those are the main things as far as getting the blog up and getting started now if you want any more additional information about really helping your blog and optimizing your website or blog to get in more traffic I will explain that in a separate video I will love to hear your comments and any feedback about this video as far as if it was helpful or not or if you need me to explain anything in more detail so until next time guys I hope you enjoyed this video and if you're looking for any other work from home opportunities or if you're just looking to check out my official blog in my blog that I have had for two years a little over.....
How To Create A Free WebsiteBlog on Wordpress.com
# How to Make a WordPress Website in 2019 - Step by Step
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