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Blogging for a Living Level 1: Build an Amazing Blog from Scratch: [Perfect Small Budget Project]

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About Blogging for a Living Level 1: Build an Amazing Blog from Scratch: [Perfect Small Budget Project]

What You Will Learn in Level 1

Choosing a Subject for Your Blog

Which Blogging Platform and Why

Getting a Great Name for Your Blog

Hosting for Your Blog

Connect Domain and Hosting

Installing the WordPress Software

Add SSL and Make Your Blog HTTPS

Create an Email Account

Your Blog Title and Subtitle

Basic Blog Settings

Installing Plugins Part 1

Installing Plugins Part 2

Add a Cookies Consent Plugin

Create an Author Profile

Choosing and Installing a Theme

Setting up the Privacy Policy

Setting up a Contact Us and T&C Page

Creating Menus

What if the Theme Only Has One Menu?

Lets Talk Widgets!

Basic Customization Part 1

Basic Customization Part 2

Getting Headers and Logos Made

Creating a Header in Canva

Creating a Logo with Canva

Getting Content and Ideas

Crafting Great Post Titles

Writing Posts

Preparing Your First Post

Adding Your First Post Part 1

Adding Your First Post Part 2

Adding Your First Post Part 3

Adding Your First Post Clarifying SEO

Adding Your First Post Part 4

Adding Pages and Categories to the Menu

Fix Missing Home Page

Drop Down Menus

Post Scheduling and Post Frequency

Creating Sliders Part 1

Creating Sliders Part 2

Customizing Sidebars

Customizing the Footer

Tidying up the Blog

What You Will Learn?

  • Is your dream to have complete freedom to work when you want and from where you want? .
  • Imagine that your work is also something you enjoy doing. Most people only ever dream about earning a living from doing something they love. Some are using blogging to realize that dream, so why not you!.
  • Follow along with me as we build an appealing, professional-looking blog from scratch.  .
  • The training starts out assuming that you have no prior knowledge but becomes more advanced as you progress through the lessons..
  • Not sure what you want to blog about?  No problem. We've got some great pointers and advice for you :).
  • By the end of this course, you will have a fully-fledged blog, ready to move on to Level 2 (which is all about generating an income through your blog). .
  • Learn from an instructor with 20 years of experience building blogs & websites and extensive online marketing experience..
  • Let's take a look at the top 6 reasons why everyone who strives to earn a living online, should have a blog:.
  • Blogging is an ideal way to get free traffic from Google and the other search engines.
  • Blogging can be used to market almost anything at all from affiliate products, to ecommerce, to Amazon listings, and more..
  • User-friendly technology available today makes blogging simple, even for non-techies!.
  • We can use blogging to turn our interests into profit. Almost any subject can be monetized..
  • It's virtually free! You can build and run a successful blog on less than $10 per month..
  • A blog is an asset and can be sold on in the future..
  • Aside from the potential of earning an ongoing income, a blog is an asset.  Blogs can sell for 4, 5, even 6 figures..
  • No knowledge or experience is required for this course because you will be following me, click-by-click, step-by-step as we create a blog the right way from the ground up..
  • You will need to budget for around $5-$10 per month for hosting..
  • Throughout the course, I demonstrate every step in detail with 'over the shoulder' lectures. You will also learn how to create posts and which types of posts work best. You will learn where and how to get content and ideas for your posts. And how to optimize your posts for the search engines - the simple way - and much, much more..