WordPress is the best place I would recommend you start if you are serious about making money from affiliate marketing because it allows you to scale up, unlike the free blogging platform. WordPress was established back in the year 2013 and it has developed to be one of the most used blogging platforms.
People love using this platform because it offers a lot of benefits that no other blogging platform can provide. Below are some key benefits of using WordPress as your blogging platform.
Benefits of using WordPress as your blogging platform
With WordPress, you have full control over your website so you can add and delete whatever you like and whenever you like.
You can customize your WordPress website to suit your taste, this is because WordPress has thousands of free themes
The best part of WordPress is that it is search engine optimized. This is possible because it allows you to install as many plugins as you wish.
Haven’t said that, let's continue to create our professional WordPress website.
Follow these steps below to create a perfect WordPress website
Sign up for a good website hosting service
The work of a Webhosting service is that they are responsible for storing your blog content and showing it up when someone visits your website.
The best web hosting platform in the whole world is Bluehost; this hosting company is responsible for hosting millions of blogs/websites online. You can get started for as little as $2.89
Create your Bluehost account here https://mandarin11249980.brizy.site/
If you clicked on the link above you will be redirected to Bluehost's official website, here you have to select a hosting plan which are
• Shared Hosting
• WordPress Hosting
• VPS Hosting
• Dedicated Hosting
If you are not sure what plan to choose I will highly recommend you go for the Bluehost shared hosting which will cost you just $2.75 per month. With all the hosting plans, you will get a free domain name for a year
Choose a domain name
After selecting your hosting plan next is to create a new domain name, this is what people will type in their web browser when they want to visit your website. Make sure it is unique and similar to what your website will be all about.
If you have an existing domain name you can fill that in the space that is provided.
Fill in your Bluehost account information
This is where you have to fill in some information about yourself to complete the signup process, alternatively, you can use the sign-in using google to speed up the process
Cross-check your Hosting plan details
After filling in your information, you will be redirected to a page where you have to check for what you are paying for. Bluehost will add some other features like
• Domain Privacy Protection, which starts from $11.88 a year
• SiteLock Security from $22.88 a year
And some other features, I highly recommend you deselect all of these because you will not need them for now.
Select your payment method
Finally, after completing the other steps above, all you have to do is to select your payment methods, fill in the details and confirm the order.
Congratulations you have just created your website, next you will have to install a CMS (Content Management System), and we will be using WordPress for this.
How to Install WordPress on your Bluehost sites
After creating your Bluehost account, next, you will have to install WordPress on your new site, to do so follow the steps below
Log in to your Bluehost account
Go to the My Site tab
Click on Create Sites button at the top right
Enter your website info this includes Site Name, Site Tagline
Choose your domain name this is the one you used while creating your Bluehost Webhosting account, you can easily do that by using the drop-down.
Here you can choose either to install the Bluehost recommended plugins.
Click Next to install WordPress on Bluehost
Complete the WordPress installation process and you are good to go with the remaining process
Setup your WordPress site
After installing WordPress on your new site you have to do certain things to make sure your website is ready to receive visitors (people that will purchase from your affiliate links)
First, you have to log in to your WordPress dashboard, you can do this by typing this in your web browser like this (https://yourwebsite.com/wp-admin) and filling in your information to log in.
After that, you have to install a new WordPress theme.
WordPress is good when you have some good plugins installed so you will be installing a couple of them (google site kit, Rankmath, Elementor, and Contact form)
Finally, you can start creating good, valuable content that will benefit your visitors and make money from the traffic you drive.
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