Many people would love to start a blog but do not know how and where to begin. I’m guessing why you’re here, is because you’re not sure and may not have any idea on where to start, right? Staring a blog is not difficult, even the most-inexperienced internet newbie can learn how to start a blog and how to make money blogging, but I thought I’d help you by sharing these 11 Things I Wish I Knew When First Starting.

I am an experienced blogger and by following these simple steps you’ll hopefully get a good head-start in the world of blogging. Oh yes! Blogging is a good way to share your views, make new friends and even make money blogging doing what you love.

Choose a niche

One of the secret for a successful blogging is choosing a niche of your interest or abilities. You should choose a niche depending on your ability. Also the number of target audiences is essential, but you should understand that your first priority lies in your interest, then the volume of audience. To start a niche blog around a subject you’re passionate about has a very good advantage – you won’t get frustrated and quit. When you’re genuinely-interested in your chosen topic, you will see that you can easily come up with new and interesting content ideas.

Choose a platform

When you want to start a blog you need to ask yourself whether you want to use blogger or WordPress. These are two most used blogging platform on the internet today. Blogger is a blogging platform owned by Google, and is free, reliable and has enough space for you to publish your content. If you build a blog on blogger, remember it’s not owned by you, google runs the service and can shut it down any time without your consent. On the other hand, WordPress is also a free open source software. You will host you your site and you can decide how long you want to run it. You own your site- the data as well as the information you share on your blog without any fear of being shut down. There are also more beautiful themes and plugins on WordPress than Blogger or any other platform out there.

Get a domain name

Once you have decided on the platform to start your blog, the next step is choosing a domain name. Bluehost or Godaddy are the best place to get a domain name at a very good rate. A domain name is the name your blog will be known as – that is your brand. It is important to do thorough research before you chose a domain name, and is also good to choose a name related to your niche. It is easy to register for your domain name just go now to Bluehost or Godaddy.

Get a hosting company

Again, you need a place to put your blog – hosting. Bluehost is a great host to start your blog, there prices are moderate. You will install your WordPress through Bluehost. If you sign up through my link here, you’ll get a discount and I’ll get a small commission. Win/Win! I did a lot of research and Bluehost is my #1 pick and who I host with, Hostgator is my #2 choice and GoDaddy would be my #3 choice.

Chose a theme

There are beautiful free and premium WordPress themes you can use for your blog. A theme gives you the beauty and the feel you desire for your blog. Once you purchase a good theme like Genesis or ThemeForest, it will look awesome on your blog and blow your mind. Most WordPress theme are inexpensive and once you purchase it, you own it for life.

Good Permalink Structure

Don’t promote your blog if your URLs looks like, my name.com/blog?id=1468. It’s not difficult to reset, go to your permalink options in your WordPress settings, and change it to something like myname.com/my-content. You can install some useful plugins such as, SEO Yoast, Anti-Malware Security and Brute-Force Firewall, Limit Login Attempts, W3 Total Cache, WP-PageNavi and other useful plugins. Do not install too many plugin on your blog, because it could slow it down.

Set-up Google Analytics

Google Analytics is a free traffic report powered by giant tech Google. It gives free reports of your sites traffic; like where your traffic comes from. This free tool will help motivate you, because you know that people are actually visiting your blog, and you can plan your content or advertising based on the demographics that it reports as well. It’s an invaluable tool. Try it out today.

Google Search Console

Google Search Console (formerly webmaster tool) is a free useful tool from Google as well. It has numerous functions, like submission of your sitemaps to be indexed. It also alerts you to malware security issues as well as keeps track of 404 errors. Although Google Search Console is an optional tool, it’s really nice.

Quality Content is King

Another one of the 11 Things I Wish I Knew When First Starting A Blog is that content is so important and the way you structure it is crucial as well. Before you start your blog make sure you have at least 15 to 30 quality articles/post. It is totally wrong to announce your blog when it has just 5 to 10 posts on it. What I mean by quality content is from 400 original words or more. If you don’t want to get penalized by Google search engine and other major search engines, never copy contents from other blogs, even if you want to copy, give proper credit to the original author. Once you have that many posts, you can apply to Google Adsense or affiliate marketing, like Amazon, to make money blogging.

Join forums

Find forums which are related to your niche and establish a presence. Add value to people’s lives by writing a thoughtful comments or advice on others threads, and make sure to not advertise your product while doing so. Make sure to include your website link on the forum signature, which could increase traffic on your site slightly.

Expose your contents to social networks

Exposing your contents to your own social networks –Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Google+, Pinterest and StumbleUpon will help you to bring traffic to your blog. Also boost your post through Facebook advertising and you shouldn’t promote absolutely everything you wrote. Pick three to five of your best posts to boost, and you’ll get a good volume of audiences to your blog than promoting crap and end up pissing people off your blog.

I hope you found these 11 Things I Wish I Knew When First Starting A Blog helpful. I would love to hear about what you found the most helpful and if you have any other questions about blogging in the comments below.

Here’s to your health, wealth, and happiness!

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There are so many different health problems out there, but it always seems like each one is derived from similar things. It could be genetics, but it has been proven that with the knowledge we have today, even genetic health problems can be altered. Ray Kurzweil told us how in the documentary he created called Transcendent Man. He, and many other health professionals, have shared time and time again, many things we can do to get better from almost any health problem, so here are 14 Tips For Curing Your Biggest Health Problem.

14 Tips For Curing Your Biggest Health Problem

Get to the root of the problem – On the surface you may have an issue, but what is it really stemming from? Is there some deep rooted resentment that has been building up inside that you haven’t released and now it’s coming out physically? Could you be so worried and stressed out about something that your body is physically compensating for that? Is there some toxic behavior you’ve been partaking in that could be eliminated? If you can get to the root of the health problem, you can start focusing on making changes that affect the root issue, not the symptom thats on the surface. If you ‘re just masking the symptoms with pills, the problem will never go away.
Focus on the solution instead of the problem – Have you ever heard the saying “What you resist persists”? If you are resisting the health problem, and continually focused on it, you waste precious time that could be thinking about the solution. Tony Robbins said “If you keep asking yourself, Why am I so fat?, you will keep focusing on being fat. If you switch it to, how can I be healthy, your brain cannot differentiate positive and negative messages, it focuses on the thoughts and feelings.”
Do a detoxifying cleans – While identifying what the root cause of your health problem might be, it probably wouldn’t hurt to do a detox cleans. Consult your doctor, or better yet a naturopath, and ask them which one would be right for you. Most likely eliminating any acidic vs. alkaline foods or substances would probably be okay. I’ve read this is especially good if you have cancer.
Relax – We are so programmed in our society that doing more means you’re with more, but this simply isn’t true. Feeling good is the most important. We only live once so you might as well make it feel the best. If you are in your best state you can be the best for others. Take some time for yourself. Stop everything and just relax. The other day I was really stressed out about some circumstances that were out of my control. Around 2pm in the afternoon, I stopped everything was doing, drew a bath, put some lavender oil in it, and played some relaxing guided meditation I found on youtube and just let everything go. I decided in that moment to detach from everything happening, and just trust that it was all going to work out. I couldn’t control it anyway…so why worry and stress about it?
Meditate – This is a new one for me. Well, maybe for a year now, I’ve started listening to Eckhart Tolle, Abraham Hicks, Micheal Singer, and Vishen Lakiani about being present and how to meditate. I take 15 min. in the morning, and 15 min. at night before I go to sleep to just be still, and use that time to appreciate things and get into a good feeling place. It’s really made a difference for me. This kind of goes hand in hand with relaxing.
Make a list of healthy options – Take a moment and just jot down as many things you can think of that are healthy things you already do and healthy things that you would like to incorporate into your daily life. Having them down on paper, helps you realize that you are already doing a lot of healthy things and brings the things that have been swimming around in your mind to the forefront. It also will serve as reminder to just glance at it once in a while of things you could start choosing in the moment. Put the list somewhere you can see it like your bathroom mirror or the fridge maybe.
Make a list of things that make you feel happy and good – Same goes for this list. You could also make a list of things that don’t make you feel good, but don’t focus on that one. If you feel good tickling your child because you love the sound of their laugh and it makes you feel good, put that on the list. Looking at images of cute animals on Pinterest makes me feel good. I feel great after I do yoga. Think of everything you can imagine that makes you feel good, and when you have some downtime, pick one of the things on the list and do it. If you make a list of things that don’t make you feel good after doing them, you could replace the good with the bad!
Learn about something that interests you – I know I feel great when I learn something new, plus it will keep your mind off of your health problem because you will be too focused that to think about whatever your issue is. Maybe when you’re meditating or making your list of things that make you feel good, you could think about what interests you and start learning more about it. Maybe you end up becoming an expert on it and start teaching other. What better way to give back, make you feel good, and to keep your mind of your health problem.
Get present and enjoy the moment – Being present in the moment, instead of being in the past or future that don’t exist yet is challenging, but I believe it is the key to peace and appreciating that moment no matter what is happening, I think is the key to happiness. Peace and happiness are 2 things that interests me, so I’ve been learning all kinds of things about how to achieve them in every moment.
Trust that it’s all going to work out – Just today, I was talking to another mom about this, and how I used to be such a planner. I actually planned out all my goals 15 years out! I’m not saying there’s anything wrong with that, but I’ve let go of the planning so much and am focused on feeling good and about what I want. For example, I wanted to go to Bali. I put it on my vision board and hung it next to my bathroom mirror. I meditated about 5 days a week, and pictured myself there. Then one day I decided to rent my house out furnished. I thought, I’ll put a lock on my door under the stairs, put all my personal belongings in there, and if it rented I would go to Bali for as long as it rented. Someone wanted it for 2 months, then everything just fell into place. I went by myself with my 2 year old BTW. Bali is AMAZING!
Get perspective – Another reason I went to Bali was to get perspective. If you can take a trip by yourself somewhere, it doesn’t have to be Bali, even caping for 2 days, or a spa weekend, whatever you can afford, and what you think you would enjoy, do it. Take that time for yourself. Again, you only live once and if you have a health problem now, there’s no better time to go. Do whatever works for you and stop saying some day or some day will never come.
Get general – The easiest way to feel good is to appreciate things. If you have a health problem, that may be hard to do, so get general. Can you appreciate the way your bed feels? Can you appreciate the fact that you breathed all night long and didn’t even have to think about it? Find something totally general that you can appreciate around you, and focus on that.
Make little changes – It’s probably really difficult to change everything over night. Every day, you can make little changes. Start with the easiest ones and work your way up. If you’re committed to start doing yoga everyday, maybe you could start by 1 – 2 classes/week and then add 3, and then unlimited. Or instead of drastically turning vegan, when you’ve been eating McDonalds Burgers your whole life, maybe just order a salad with your Burger instead of fries next time. You know what I mean?
Get moving – I read an article in Time Magazine a while back that interviewed Centurions (Poeple that live to be 100) some of them smoked, some of them only ate organic, some of them drank, but the one thing they all had in common was that they were all active. They all moved their body some way. I feel like I can always do better at this one, since I’m on the computer a lot. I prefer to eat well and not exercise but I know how important it is and I always feel better afterward to I choose to make it a priority. For some motivation check out TOP 30 HEALTH BLOGGERS TO FOLLOW NOW TO LOSE WEIGHT

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