31 Essential Steps When Starting Your Blog
What to do in your first month
Starting Your Blog
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1. Decide if blogging is right for you
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2. Set big goals with realistic expectations
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3. Find your passions
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4. Decide on a profitable blog niche that align with your passions
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5. Decide on a blog name
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6. Purchase your domain name, sign up for hosting and install wordpress
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7. Customize your blog
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8. Take a great headshot or use a good picture
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9. Connect Google Analytics
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10. Install necessary plugins
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11. Write your about Me Page
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12. Write your Disclosure Page
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13. Set up your domain name email address
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14. Set up your social media pagers & set up rich pins on Pinterest
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15. Populate your Pinterest boards
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16. Research your topics for your first three pillar posts
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17. Outline your three pillar posts
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18. Write your first pillar posts
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19. Write your second pillar posts
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20. Write your third pillar posts
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21. Interlink your pillar posts to each other and create pinnable images
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22. Research what freebie would do well with your audience
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23. Create your freebie
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24. Sign up for an email marketing client
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25. Setup your freebie and add it to the top of your pillar posts
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26. Create a landing page for your freebie
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27. Apply to Pinterest boards
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28. Join Facebook Groups and network with others
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29. Launch your blog!
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30. Promote your posts and freebie on Pinterest and Facebook
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31. Evaluate your 1st month and write down an improvement plan for month 2
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