HasnaVlogs: How to Start a Successful Blog in 2017

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How to Start a Blog: Step-by-Step Instructions Hasnavlogs</h2>
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So you’re thinking about starting a blog, but you don’t have
any idea where to start, right? Guess what—neither did we. We were clueless.
When we created this blog a few years ago, we had no idea how to start a blog
or how to be a blogger. Heck, we could hardly spell HTML, let alone build a
blog.Hasnavlogs</div>
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<b>But good news</b>: Hasnavlogs</h3>
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 it’s easier than you think. We’ve
learned a ton of lessons during our ascent to 4 million readers. And now you
can learn from our pain and suffering to circumvent much of the tedium involved
in setting up a blog.</div>
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Here’s how we started our blog, step by step, followed by an
instructional video, as well as additional rationale and insights:</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">    </span>Domain and
Hosting. The first thing we did when starting our blog was go to Blue host and
register our domain. We didn’t even need to set up a WordPress page first,
which is the platform we use, since Bluehost does all that for you. Bluehost’s
basic price is $3.95 a month, which works for 99% of people (go to this link to
receive a 50% discount off the monthly price and a free domain). Then, we did a
simple, free, “one-click” install of WordPress through Bluehost. When we had
questions we were able to chat with the “live chat”<span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"> folks at
Bluehost for free. They pointed us in the right direction and made starting our
own blog super easy.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">    </span>Theme. A good
theme gives you the look and feel you want for your blog, allowing you to make
a blog that looks exactly how you want it to look. If you’re not a coder (we
certainly weren’t), then a theme makes the design work a million times easier.
Plus, once you purchase a theme, which are inexpensive for the time they save
you, you own it for life. A theme has two halves: the framework (the bones) and
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">        </span>Framework.
There are several WordPress theme frameworks on the market, but Genesis is
without a doubt the best and most flexible choice. Genesis is the first half of
your theme. Many themes merely handle the aesthetics of your new blog, but
Genesis provides a necessary foundation for your Child Theme. Simply go to
StudioPress and purchase the Genesis Framework.</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">        </span>Child Theme.
After you get your Genesis Framework, you’ll want to find the right Child Theme
(which is just a silly way to say “blog design”). The Minimalists uses the
beautiful “true” theme, which is available at BYLT, the Genesis Community
Marketplace. Head on over to BYLT, browse their carefully curated collection of
themes, and find the design that’s right for you.</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">    </span>Modify Your Blog.
Once we had our domain, hosting, Word Press, and theme, we spent a lot of time
tweaking the theme to get the look and feel we wanted (i.e., making our vision
a reality). Then we spent even more time tinkering with the theme and arguing
about it and tweaking it some more. Once we had created our blog, we set up a
free Feed burner account so people could subscribe to our site via email and
RSS subscriptions. And then we established a free Google Analytics account to
track our stats. Feed burner and Google Analytics were both easy to sign up
for, and we still use both today.</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">    </span>Plug-in. We use
only a few plug-in on our site: “Google Analytics for WordPress” and really
simple Facebook and Twitter share-button plug-in (since human beings are
intrinsically wired to share value, it’s important to make your posts easy to
share with others). They take just a few seconds (literally a few seconds, it’s
just a click of a button) to install once you’ve started your blog. And if you
really want to play around with some cool plug-in, check out WPBeginner’s Best
WordPress Plugins.</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">    </span>Write Compelling
Content. Last, via Word Press, we started writing and uploading the content for
our pages: About Page, Contact Page, Start Here Page, Books Page, Tour Page,
Archives Page, etc. Next, we designed our logo using free images we found
online and text from a regular word-processing program. Then we put a picture
of ourselves in the header (this is important because people identify with
people, not logos). Finally we started writing new blog posts and publishing
them regularly (at least once a week), accompanied by free photos from
Unsplash, Pixels, and the Library of Congress. And the rest is history.</div>
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20 Recommendations for Your Blog</h3>
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</b></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span dir="LTR"></span>Find Your Niche.</b></span> You
needn’t have a niche, but it helps. When learning how to be a blogger, it’s
important to ask yourself what you’re passionate about. Running? Cooking? Being
a parent? Have you found your passion? If so, whatever it is, write about that.
If not, then you must first find your passion. (Note: We generally recommend
that people don’t start a blog about minimalism or the paleo diet or any other
heavily saturated topic. But what we really mean when we say this is: don’t create
a blog about something unless you have a unique perspective. If you’ve embraced
simple living and have a unique perspective, then by all means have at it.
Enjoy yourself.)</div>
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</span></span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><b><span style="font-size: small;">Define Your Ideal Readers.</span></b>
Once you’ve found your niche, you need to know who will be reading your blog.
For example, we blog about living intentionally. Thus, our ideal readers are
people who are interested in exploring minimalism so they can clear the path
toward more meaningful lives. If you want to write about your newborn baby
growing up, that’s wonderful: your ideal readers are probably your friends and
family. If you want to write about restoring classic cars, that’s cool, too.
Tailor your writing to your readers (whether it’s your family or local
community or whoever else will read your blog).</div>
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</span></span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><b>Add Value.</b> Your blog must
add value to its readers’ lives. This is the only way you will get Great
Quality Readers to your site (and keep them coming back). Adding value is the
only way to get someone’s long-term buy-in. We both learned this after a decade
of leading and managing people in the corporate world.</div>
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</span></span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><b>Be Original.</b> Yes, there are
other blogs out there about the same thing you want to write about. Question:
So why is your blog different? Answer: Because of you. You are what makes your
blog different. It’s about your perspective, your creativity, the value that
you add.</div>
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</span></span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><b>Be Interesting.</b> Write epic,
awesome content. Especially if you want people to share it with others.</div>
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</span></span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><b>Be Yourself.</b> Part of being
interesting is telling your story. Every person is unique, and your story is an
important one. The important part of storytelling, however, is removing the
superfluous details that make the story uninteresting. A great storyteller
removes 99% of what really happens—the absorptive details—and leaves the
interesting 1% for the reader.</div>
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</span></span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><b>Be Honest.</b> Your blog needs
to be authentic—it needs to feel real—if you want people to read it. You can be
your blog, or your blog can be you. That is, do you really embody the stuff you
write about? If not, people will see through you. “Be the change you want to
see in the world,” is the famous Gandhi quote. Perhaps bloggers should build
the blog they want to write for the world.</div>
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</span></span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><b>Transparency.</b> Being
transparent is different from being honest. You needn’t share every detail
about your life just for the sake of being honest. Always be honest, and be
transparent when it adds value to what you’re writing. (You won’t ever see
pictures of us using the restroom on our site, because that’s just not
relevant.)</div>
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</span></span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><b>Time.</b> Once you’ve learned
how to start a blog, you’ll learn that blogging takes a lot of time, especially
if you’re as neurotic as we are (we spent over 10 hours testing the fonts on
this site). And see those black Twitter and Facebook icons in the header? We
spent hours on those, deciding what was right for us). That said, once you have
your design set up, don’t tweak it too much. Instead, spend the time on your
writing.</div>
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design looks good is because we have a great host, we have a great theme, and
most important, we had a vision of how we wanted our blog to look. Once we had
the vision, we worked hard to make that vision a reality. (Note: neither of us
had any design experience prior to starting a blog.) It’s hard to create a
beautiful blog if you don’t know what you want it to look like.</div>
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</b></span></span></span><b><span dir="LTR"></span>Find Your Voice.</b> Over time,
good writers discover their voice and their writing tends to develop a certain
aesthetic, one that is appealing to their readers. Finding your voice makes
your writing feel more alive, more real, more urgent. For additional reading,
check out Joshua’s essay about Finding Your Voice.</div>
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</span></span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><b>We Instead of You.</b> Use the
the first-person plural when possible. Statements of we and our are more
powerful than than you and your, especially when talking about negative
behaviors or tendencies. The first person comes off as far less accusatory.
Think of it this way: we’re writing peer-to-peer—we are not gods.</div>
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</span></span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><b>When to Post Question.</b>
When is the best day and time to publish a blog post? Answer: It doesn’t really
matter. We don’t adhere to a particular schedule. Some weeks we post one essay;
sometimes we post three. Yes, it is important to write consistently, but you
needn’t get too bogged down in the details.</div>
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</span></span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><b>Social Media.</b> Yes, we
recommend using Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram to help connect with your
audience and other bloggers, but don’t get too caught up in it. Focus on the
writing first, social media thereafter.</div>
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</b></span></span></span><b><span dir="LTR"></span>Ignore Negative Criticism
and Stupidity.</b> Sure, we get a lot of negative comments and stupid questions
from ignorant people who aren’t really our readers (e.g., negative comments
like “You’re not real minimalists” and stupid questions like “Are you guys
gay?”). We call these people seagulls: they fly in, crap on your site, and fly
away. But we pay them no mind, because we didn’t start our blog for them.
Delete their comment and move on.</div>
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</span></span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><b>Research.</b> Spend time
researching what you’re writing about. The reason we are able to use so many
helpful, relevant links in our essays is because we put in the time to research
our topics.</div>
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</b></span></span></span><b><span dir="LTR"></span>Keep It Simple.</b> This is
where minimalism can be applied to starting any blog, irrespective of its
genre. No need to place superfluous advertisements or widgets all over your
site. Stick to the basics and remove anything you don’t need. Remove anything
that doesn’t add value.</div>
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</span></span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><b>Picture.</b> Put a picture of
yourself on your blog. People identify with other people. If two goofy guys
from Ohio aren’t too afraid to put their pictures on their site, then you have
nothing to worry about.</div>
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</span></span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><b>Comments.</b> If you’re going
to have comments on your site, then read The Five Words That Kill Your Blog by
Scott Stratten.</div>
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</span></span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><b>Live Your Life.</b> You’re
blogging about your life (or about certain aspects of your life, at least), so
you still need to live your life. There are things that we always put before
writing: exercise, health, relationships, experiences, personal growth,
contribution.</div>

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