Setting up a website is the easy part. But once you dive deep into the depths of it, you will find out that it is complicated. You have to take care of your SEO or Search Engine Optimization. This is how your keywords will rank on the first page of search engines. Monetizing it is also not easy. You need to have some good amount of traffic first.

Before creating your own website for a blog, make sure you target the right keywords for your articles. The best keywords are those which have low competition and high average monthly searches.

As for optimizing your site, there is on-page and off page SEO. On-page SEO refers to the keywords you are using in your articles, image optimization (titles of your images), and meta-tags, etc. While off page SEO mostly talks about backlinks. Backlinks are links to your site from another website. This is important because search engines think that your website has good content when there are lots of websites linking to your website. However, don't spam this since search engines knew it too.

Hope this can help people who want to start their own website. :)