Start a blog with 0 cash
Ok … so here’s my first post with tips. Please keep in mind that I won’t show you how to make millions in 1 day … I will try to help you improve your existing earnings.
Everything I write is from my own experience and if you apply everything correctly you will surely improve your earnings.
The easiest way to make money online is by blogging. Many of you probably have a blog already, but for those that don’t this is a step by step tutorial on how to start and promote your blog with 0$ cash. That means no advertising, no paid hosting … maybe just your own domain name.
What you will need:
- a domain name
- hosting
- a publishing platform
As you probably figured out by now you will have to get these 3 things for free. Here’s how:
Domain name
I truly suggest you get your own domain name at first. If you don’t have any credit card or Paypal account ask you mommy or daddy to give you $10 for a domain name.
I use Domainrightnow.com to manage all my domains. The prices are ok. I began using it since I registered on DDBoard. DDBoard is a forum which registers domains for you in exchange for quality posts.
This is how I got my first domain ( Sava’s Place ).
Hosting
After your domain is registered you gotta get hosting. I recommend 2 free hosting providers which also requires posting. Either ej.am or grandforums.com.
Check them out and see which one you like better. They both offer cPanel for management.
Thor Erik suggested another good hosting: Ceege. Take a look at these 3 and choose the best for you.
Publishing platform
Now that your hosting is also set up and you changed the nameservers for your domain it’s time to install your blog.
I strongly suggest you use Wordpress. If you know a bit of html and CSS you can make your own theme to stand out from the crowd.
Here are the steps necessary to optimize your wordpress installation.
First of all … when you install wordpress make sure that “Do you want your blog to appear in search engines” is checked.
A must do is to set up wordpress to use static links instead of dynamic links.
And that’s it. 3 easy steps and you have your own blog with your own domain name and hosting without paying a dime.
Later on … when your blog gets a lot of visitors you have to consider to buy hosting because paid hosting offers much more bandwidth.
I remember that those free 5 GB of bandwidth I had only lasted me 7 days … and Puff … my site was down: Bandwidth Limit Exceeded.
When you see this message … and I hope you do … it means that your blog started receiving traffic, much more traffic than what your free hosting could stand.
In future posts I will tell you about some must have Wordpress stuff, managing your blog for better search engine inclusion and ways to make it sticky.
Stay tuned.
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Love your blog. I hope you’ll keep your promise and deliver quality tips for beginners. Keep up the good work.
May 7th, 2008 at 3:58 pm -
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May 7th, 2008 at 4:51 pm -
I think you did a great job on this site. I love it.
Have fun! Happy surfing!May 8th, 2008 at 5:43 pm -
another free hosting you could try would be http://www.ceege.net here you can get the 10 required to request then just run off
(but the community is great, and if you stick around, you can get yourself some quality hosting above what you need :p)May 9th, 2008 at 7:02 am -
Thor,
What uptime loading speed and uptime ?
Is the host reliable ?
If yes I will add it to the postMay 9th, 2008 at 7:38 am -
The host have an really good uptime(at the moment they have been up for 43 days
it’s an america based server with a decent connection and fewer members than ej.am, which resoults in a much more reliable server(since there’s less hosted sites there’s less load)you can get status here:
http://ceege.net/status/May 9th, 2008 at 8:34 am -
It looks ok to me. But they have so little space … only 450 GB.
Thanks for letting me know about this host. Once they improve and maybe upgrade a little I post post it here.May 9th, 2008 at 8:38 am -
450 gb is more than enough consider they have only 12 sites hosted with them at the time. Unlike EJ.am who is more or less unkown
May 11th, 2008 at 7:49 am -
Actually I think ej.am is very known. Their forum has a lot of users and surely hosted more than 300 websites when I used them.
Anyway Erik, thanks for sharing this. I added it to the post.May 13th, 2008 at 11:45 am -
thanks for this post! really helps!
June 5th, 2008 at 10:53 pm -
So you are savaplace of ddboard. hehe.. niessuh here. remember me?
June 15th, 2008 at 4:22 am -
yes I do :>
June 15th, 2008 at 9:03 am