This is the potentially a million dollar question. Every website owner and blogger wants to create blogs and websites that will become successful and profitable. However, how do we do this? To be honest, the amount of different websites out there, it makes it hard to pin point 5 steps that anyone can do to create a successful blog, irrespective of the content and category of blog. Putting this to one side, once you create one website then do it again, you start to realize that the creation of a website is very similar. Therefore, without further ado, here are five preliminary steps to creating a successful blog.

 

#1 Target a Niche Audience

If you try to make a website about something for which someone else has already done, you should not be surprised when your website struggles to become successful. There is competition for your market and as a newbie, you have started one step back to everyone else.

For this reason, always make a website or blog about a niche area – that way, you can be sure that there is no competition and you become the market leader for that category, the ‘go to’ website.

 

#2 Buy a Blog Theme

Talking from experience, I really think this is a must. The amount of days I have spent going from one theme, customizing it, to scrapping it and going to another theme makes me really realize that it is a far more efficient use of time to simply buy a theme or employ a tech designer to do it for you. Although costly, it will work out cheaper for you in the long run since you will be able to spend more time on areas of the website that really matter such as content.

 

#3 Always have Social Media Accounts

A website is a brand and a portal for information. Therefore, it should make total sense to link your website to as many social media websites as possible, giving your website accounts on each one. This way you can make sure you are giving your content as much potential to get traffic.

This might sound a lot of effort. But, once you have created social media accounts for your website, there are lots of plugins on WordPress that will automatically share articles to all of your social media accounts, quick and easy.

 

#4 Concentrate on Content

As a new website, you need to make sure you get content out for search engines to process. Therefore, for the first few months, focus all of your effort on posting quality content. That way, after a few months, your website will have a solid ground to go by. Sticking by a time schedule for publishing content might be the best way to do this (such as posting on specific days of the week).

 

 

#5 Track Your Blog’s Finance

If you go by this article, you will realize that it can be a little costly to get a website up and running. That is why it is important to track all finance relating to your website. This will help you see how much it costs to get your website functional (start-up cost) which may help you budget for future website creations. As well as this, seeing how long it takes for you to break-even based on the revenue of the website is a good way to understand how profitable and successful the website is.