In today’s society, the management of any business cannot be imagined without a website. Any type of business will come to your mind, or any topic can be squeezed onto the site that all people see. If you are from those who do not yet have a website and you would like to have it, the simplest way is to get acquainted with creating a blog.

Creating a blog today is easier than ever and I will show you here the complete process of how to set up a blog and make money.

So let’s start.

Where Do I Start a Blog

I personally use two, Blogger and WordPress. Both of these platforms work on very similar principles, and if you learn how to make your blog on one, you will also apply it to the other. On this occasion, I’ll tell you how to create a blog on WordPress.

Although you can go directly to the WordPress site, if you want to make money with your blog, I suggest another solution like SiteRubix.

SiteRubix is free to use and runs through the Wealthy Affiliates program that will teach you how to make money on your blog. Just go to SiteRubix, enter the desired name for your blog and click on Build My Free Website.

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In order to do this, you need to log into your website. This is very easy to do and can be done using the “Login!” button

This will automatically show you all your users you have associated with your website and from there you can log into your website.

Setting Up Blog – Theme for Your Blog

After you log in, you will see your WordPress administration dashboard on your website
If all of that look strange to you, don’t worry. After few times you’ll get used to it and even if you stuck somewhere you can contact me or get a ton of help from Wealthy Affiliate community.

On your left side menu click on Appearance > Themes

As a free member, you are limited to just a few of the thousands of themes, but it’s just enough for you to start your business. If in some moment you wish to get more professional themes, then maybe consider a premium membership. Choose the theme you like and don’t worry about pre-entered pages or posts, we’ll delete them.

On your left side menu click on Posts > All Posts

Select the post, go on it with your mouse pointer and click on Trash

Do the same with the “Pages” link as well.

If you prefer video material guidance, you can find it at under Getting Started section Lesson 5.

And if you want to change the settings of your theme you can do it through Appearance > Customize

If you make changes to your theme, every time you change something you need to click on Publish button which is above Customize section.

Setting Up Blog – SEO Ready

Your blog through SiteRubix come SEO (Search Engine Optimization) ready. That means that is already prepared to be indexed by major search engines like Google, Yahoo, and Bing. You have your website in place and now you want to make it SEO ready so that search engines can find it.

WordPress is the most powerful and widely used website platform in the world and it also has a wide range of “add-ons” (plugins) that you can use to extend the functionality of your website.
The blog comes with pre-installed two of the most useful plugins with your website automatically and your first step is going to be activating these plugins.

On your left side menu click on Plugins

You need to activate the “All in One SEO” and “EWW Image Optimizer” plugins. You can do that by clicking the “Activate” button

The All in One SEO plugin will take a bit of set-up which will do next.

After activated the All in One SEO you should see the “All in One SEO” item with your main menu now and click on General Settings.

Scroll down until you see Home Page Settings section. There are two sections that you will be updating there:

Home Title – This is the title of your website that will show up when you get ranked in Google and other search engines. This won’t actually show up on your site.
You want this to reflect the actual title of your website that you created with your site, but also add something to make it a bit more captivating.

Ideal Length: 40-60 characters, keep under 60

Home Description – This is a description of what your website is about and how it will benefit people. You just want to be descriptive as to what your site is all about.

Ideal Length: Under 160 characters

When you are done updating your Home Page Settings, scroll down to the very bottom of the page and click the “Keyword Settings” and check Use Tags for META keywords and Dynamically Generate Keywords for Posts Page/Archives and click the “Update Options” button.

Now your blog is SEO ready.

Setting Up Blog – Your First Post

For the very first post, you make, I suggest being About Me or About Us post. You can write posts in two ways:

Directly – when you click on Posts > Add New or
Through “SiteContent” on Wealthy Affiliate platform – when you write your content through “SiteContent” you have much more help and also:
- Already made Templates
- 100’s of critical grammar and spelling checks
- Duplicate content checker
- Automated publishing directly to your website
- Writing goals and accomplishments
- SEO analysis and checks
- Content structure analysis
- Ability to template content
- Vocabulary enhancement suggestions

For second one post, you need to add “Privacy Policy” page since as required for all major affiliate programs and all advertising platforms that you have it on your website.
You can add Privacy Policy from SiteContent since you have it there as a template or you can copy it from my site but then you have to replace all my website addresses with your blog address and email address as well.

After you publish your Privacy Policy, you are going to want to log into the back office (dashboard) of your website Go to Pages > All Pages and on Privacy Policy click Edit, scroll down to the bottom of the page and you will see the following settings.

Notice: You need to do that just for that page. For better understanding watch the video under Getting Started on Wealthy Affiliate platform, Lesson 7.

Managing your pages through Pages > All Pages/Add New

Setting Up Blog – Menu Settings

On your blog, you are in control of everything and you need to set up navigation through your blog, Also, search engines love when everything is very well organized so you get better rankings. Setting up your menu do after you make your post/posts and page/pages.

Under the Appearance, click the Menus subheading and this will take you to the custom menu creator.
Under the left tab, you are going to use Page and Post section. Posts are not added to your navigation by default, so you are going to need to click the Posts tab and it will show a list of your Posts.

You only create the About Me post, so check that and then Add to Menu. On the right side of Menu name enter: Main Manu. Under that, you have Menu Structure where you can arrange order by dragging items up and down or to the left if you want subfolder. After that, under Menu Settings check where you want your menu to appear on the blog and click Save Menu.

Now your menu is created and all of that you can do for every page/post you create.

Most themes by default will add Pages to the top menu, but if not, you need to put them on your menu and some themes have more places where you want your menu to appear.
If you prefer video material guidance, you can find it at Wealthy Affiliate under Getting Started section Lesson 8.

Setting Up Blog – Widgets Settings

Widgets are the fun stuff of your blog and they are used for easier navigation through your blog and placement widgets to your Sidebar or Footer Column. There you can add:

Audio
Video
HTML
Text
Categories
Archives
Search
etc.

By default, some widgets are already placed, but you can add more or delete one that you don’t use and you can arrange order by dragging items up and down.

Conclusion

There you go.

Now you have your own blog and you can arrange it as ever you want. To make money with your blog you need a good quality content and by that, I mean a lot of it if you plan to be indexed by search engines and to attract visitors to your blog.

Also, now you can promote your blog wherever you want and if you want to find out more about writing content and drive traffic you can see

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If you have any question or need more information about this section please contact me or leave a comment below and I’ll be more than happy to help you resolve your issue.