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If you want to make money from your blog
Then you have to write a lot of contents
To achieve that you have to learn
How to increase typing speed and boost your productivity to its maximum
Where you can write an average of 1,000 words an hour

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Yes this is doable
You just need to follow my ideas below
Where I am going to show you productive ways
To increase typing speed skills
Without losing focus and accuracy in writing

Remember I am talking about increasing typing speed with moderate speed writing on your keyboard with less errors

Also writing and editing are two different things
Related to each other but can be separated
In a way that can make you productive

Meaning you can write whatever
You want like anything that comes to your mind
Still need to edit it later as
You will find lot of typos

I notice that it can take me
Around 2 -3 hours to properly
Amend my blog posts
After copying it from SimpleNote (open Google and search for Simplenote)

I am OK with that and I don’t measure it in my typing speed time
My challenge and so yours are with writing as a main task
It is drudgery with no doubt
But it is the only way to make or break

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Before I start

I just want to lay down a fact that
Most bloggers who fail to make money online
It is because they may know that writing contents is really very essential to their success
But they get lost in the writing process

Either because they don’t know how to write good contents
Or they are not sure what to Blog about (add a link from not sure what to Blog about)
Or they spent tons of hours completing a piece of content
Where it turns out that writing as a task is a torture for them

Here is a fact, although blogging has so many skills to acquire
Still writing contents for your blog
Number one task you should manifestThe key to success is not hard working but smart working Click To Tweet

Hoping you get ideas on how to increase typing speed
Making the habit of writing like a pleasant experience
Where you seek a spare time to just write

1) Start With Outlines

I will call it fill in the blanks (highlight yellow)
You have to know
What you are going to write
If you stare at a blank screen
You will get stuck on where to start from
Start with an outlines instead of blank head
Although outlines take time to prepare

That’s why if you find yourself
Having topics on your head
Write it down as headlines
Avoid details, finish them and revisit later
These are the seeds to where you will start from

I recommend reading about great tips for finding what to blog about

2) Find Your Most Quiet Time/Avoid Distraction

I do all blogging tasks while my kids are around
Only writing requires quality quiet time

For you own sake
Setup a daily fixed quiet time
At least a minimum of an hour

Before you start, train and force yourself to avoid distraction
Even put your cell phone on mute
You may require to search something online
Well I would say, move to the next point
Search the internet only when you decide to take a break

If you have all your points ready
Your fill in the blank task should be easy
Again any required research should be on the next iteration when you go online again

Here is a list of top apps to help you avoid distractions

Also you can use Ilys to avoid distraction

While writing and help you increase typing speed
You create an account, log on and start typing
Then specify how many words you want to type
Also you will not be able to see your words only the last character

3) Practice writing Every Day

If you force yourself to sit down and type daily
No matter what even
If you think sometimes writing is a daunting task

You are not writing to become a novelist
You are writing to take your blog to the next level
I suggest you don’t write your first product
Until you write more than 100,000 words on your blog

Make sure you master organizIng your titles
Practice tweaking best performing titles to adapt yours
Also rearranging your headlines to which headlines come first
Learn how to create your table of contents like this one here

4) Develop Your Micro Sprint

Right after getting quiet time and
Practicing writing every day
You get to develop what is called Micro Sprint

This is the key to increase typing speed
It is the ability to type continuously for 5 minutes

It can be plus or minus a minute or two
Depending on your brain power
Good news is that Micro Sprint can be improved for all of us
Remember you don’t go back and edit your text
You just write flawlessly and measure your performance

5) Define Your Goals

You plan to increase your writing productivity
It should be measurable plan
Where you are able to define goals
Are you planning to reach 1000 words per hour

If this is the case, what is your current words per hour
Are you working to improve it within the next month then 2,3..months down the road?

Without goals, you have no clue what you trying to do and where you are going
You will be like a boat that is set to sail to nowhere

6) Write Anywhere You Can

When I first started writing
I realized that dedicating a writing time
It is not the best solution
Sometimes you get few points
You really want to write

It becomes very annoying
You start writing your points on your cell phone
When you go home, you email them to yourself
Then copy and paste on your WordPress
This is completely impractical and unproductive

That’s why I found that
If I can use my phone to write my blog posts
Synchronize what I wrote on all devices like my laptop or tablet
This way you can be productive by writing anytime everywhere like when you are on public transit

I started with Evernote and switched to Simplenote
Evernote allows you to format your text
But you still need to fix your content when you paste it on WordPress
That’s why I switched to Simplenote

Actually when I am using Simplenote
I have to make few lines as title H1 to H3, bold or italicize a word or phrase
I just add my note between 2 brackets for my action
Like I write a note that says make it bold or italic

If you know about an editor that overcome this formatting challenge
Add it to the comments below
I use IPhone and I have this link
It compares all text editor apps

I am happy with Simplenote as it does the job
Perhaps I am looking for search text feature
Simplenote is missing that

7) Use Voice to Text Apps

Typing is faster than writing
While nothing can beat the speed of speaking over typing
Getting your thoughts written on paper
If you are like me who is slow in typing on keyboards
You can think about using one of the speech to text apps
You have to try many mobile apps till you find the best suitable match for your needs

Also if you are writing on your Laptop
You can use Google Voice
But you have to use Google Docs
You can speak and then copy and paste
Your contents to your favorite text editor

Also Dictation.io is another version of voice to text

8) Use Text Expansion and Automatic Spelling Corrections

Who doesn’t like to get tools to help be productive
Text Expander is one of them
If you have some words you always use
You can build a list of abbreviated words
Then you type them and they will be written for you

Like you type IMHO (make it bold) it will be in my humble opinion (make it bold)
Remember to take sometime to review your writings and come up with these words and their abbreviated version

Also spelling corrections software is a must – it helps increase my typing speed
I always see when I write on word that few words are getting corrected automatically
If there is no correction, at least it will underline the ambiguous words for you

9) Take Frequent Breaks

You think that I don’t know
What I am talking about or
I lost focus of my point

If you don’t take frequent breaks
You will never be able to write faster than before
My tips here are a mix of both
Internal and external factors

Know yourself first
I myself struggle to write
Continuously for 30 minutes
I have to take a break and
So I measure my performance in each session

If I am able to write 500 words per session
I will set a realistic goal of 750 words
You are not writing faster from memory
But you are writing from your mind

There’s a big difference
Your goals here are for improving
The process of writing
You are not trying to improve the speed

10) Set a Deadline to Finish

If you manage to stick to setting deadlines
You are on the first step to great productivity

Problem with blogging and internet marketing in general
Everyone speaks from different perspectives
Each blogger has his/her own formula on how to accomplish things
Only one thing that really matters
Those who have deadlines and due dates
They are the one who made it online

Take this example, if you are 100% sure that
You need to write 60 blog posts each is around 5,000 words
If writing each blog post takes 12 hours
Plus let’s say 3 hours for editing and adding images

You need 900 hours (60 posts x 15 hours)
If you work 4 hours per day and avoid weekends
You need 900 divided by 20 (4 hours/day x 5 days a week)
You have to work 45 weeks (almost a year)

In reality every blog is different than the other
The 60 blog posts can be different from one blog to another
Back to the deadline and setting due dates (making commitments)
I was very easy when I mentioned 4 hours per day
In reality it is really hard to achieve 4 hours a day
Especially if working full time and raising up small kids

You will end up taking very long time of around 2 years
Till you start seeing decent traffic to your blog
I bet you will quit before 2 years
That’s why the only way to blogging success is by
Setting goals, defining clear due dates and working in small sprints

11) Skip Tough Parts

You have outlines which I call it
Fill in the blanks but
That does not make it easy to
Write eloquently without you get stuck losing focus and
Staring at your monitor wondering
How to move from one point to another

If you can manage to skip your current point
Go to the next one and revisit old point later
That would be great, it is hard I know and
I sometimes still struggle to make it

Practice yourself to interrupt your thoughts
Move from one point to another easily
You will figure out that
You revisit your old point and write again very smoothly
So you could have wasted your time for no reason

12) Set Separate Time for Editing

If you can ignore your urge to edit typos and missing words
Due to high speed of mind thoughts
Release your mind to let your thoughts flow and obey your hands to write
Go and edit later but don’t interrupt your mind

That’s why I mentioned Ilys earlier as when you start typing
you will not be able to see your existing words
This will make you stay focused

13) Avoid Multitasking

Multitasking is good, but not when you’re writing
You will experience a drop in productivity
It will take longer to finish writing your blog post
You will also be vulnerable to more errors

Every time you switch from writing and coming back
Your brain will take long time to adjust to where you stopped

14) Accept Competition

I am not sure about your behavior but I found that it can work for many people
Those who love to be challenged

There are so many forums and websites
They let you sign up for writing competitions
There is 31 day writing challenge
Many more for 500 or 750 words per day

If you decide to go with one of them
Make sure to tell your friends and family
This will make you accountablePractice makes you better; it’s the repetitions that make it effortless Click To Tweet

How Do I Become A Productive Writer

It should be similar to what I said before, but I will recap the above in different words

1) Prepare a draft copy with all your titles/headlines as known as outlines

2) Avoid distraction at all cost

And stay focused as much as you can
Stop checking your emails/Facebook if you are in the middle of writing
Put your cell phone on mute and don’t answer calls or reply to texts

3) Write everyday no matter what

In other word, writing for your blog can be intimidating
But try to develop a desire to like it as your best friend

4) Develop your micro sprint

5) Have a set of goals

You are writing to have a good content to promote blog
Without blog content, it is hard to get SEO
Without SEO then no traffic and no conversion

6) Write even If not in front of your Laptop

Use Evernote and Simplenote across all devices

7) Use Voice to text apps

Check them on either apple store or google play or even Google Voice

8) Use Text expansions and automatic spelling corrections

9) Take a break every 30 minutes

If you can focus more than 30 minutes then keep writing but if you get tired
Don’t waste time staring at the screen
Take your break and come back fresh again

10) Assigning a deadline for every blog post

11) Skip showstopper and move on

You may get stuck on a headline or title
Skip it and move on
Come back to it later and you get inspired to write easily and increase typing speed

12) Finish your edits on non writing time

Don’t mix your writing with editing your text
I know it sounds hard, I want you to keep writing

Then edit your post later

13) Multitasking is bad enemy to writing

Multitasking is not for writing

14) Join writing competitions

Go to Google and type the phrase “join writing competitions” and see what you will get

Tools That Help Increase Your Writing Productivity

1) Google Docs

Google made it easy to write on laptop by opening Google Docs on your browser
Also download it as an app and resume writing on
You have to be connected online from your cell phone to be able to access your documents

2) Evernote

Free version lets you synchronize your documents between your laptop and cellphones
You can format your text and create headlines but they don’t work with WordPress as you have to fix your format

3) Simplenote

I love it for its simplicity and ability to synchronize text between multiple my laptop and cellphones
It keeps track of multiple version of your same document which is a very nice feature
It lacks the ability to search for a word or phrase on your cell
You can search on your laptop using the browser search feature (CTRL+F)

4) Trello

Although Trello is not considered a true text editor app
It has the ability to create multiple boards and align them together
I see this feature very useful when creating your own eBook or online course
You can lay all your chapters structure so you keep focus on your topics

5) Grammarly

Even for English native speakers
Making grammar mistakes can happen
Grammarly integrates with your browser or on your cell phone
It corrects spelling mistakes and grammar instantly while you type

6) Hemingway

Not as professional as Grammarly
But easy to use online text editor
It scans your text and highlights texts
That are hard to read

7) Ilys

You specify how many words you aim to reach
It will let you write without viewing your previously typed words
It is just a way to help you overcome your temptation to editing habits

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If you really want to learn
How to write for a blog that keeps
Your readers attracted like a magnet
Then you need to follow all the steps below

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If you think that writing stunning content is only
A gifted talent given to few writers then you are wrong
I am going to show you below how you can start
practicing writing enticing content in no time

What I wrote below works for all kind of blog posts
If you read it attentively and follow them to the letter

Personally I am writing this post for myself first
As I am planning to use it as a guideline
Every time I plan to write a new blog post

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Writing For A Blog To Win Both Visitors and SEO

This blog post is intended to take you
Step by Step on how to write great content for your blog
Without going through procrastination writing your blog contents
Due to fear of starting to write
And not able to organize your thoughts
Or doubting that your Audience will not like it

Another issue that adds up on top of that is
Taking SEO (Search Engine Optimization) into consideration
It makes you really sick as you cannot write flawlessly
As you try to write SEO contents plus appealing to your Audience

I know all of your problems as I have gone through all of them
In this blog post, I will show you how to create blog contents
Without worrying about SEO and making sure
your Audience will definitely like it and share it

Think about your title

Your blog post title is the key to either
Repelling or enticing visitors
to click on your blog post and read your content

To come with attractive titles
You can use Hubspot blog idea generator or Portent title maker

Or if you have a title in mind
You can analyze it using Coschedule Healine Analyzer

Don’t write a title that promises something
Different than what is inside
For the sake of being attractive

For this blog post, I came up with this title
Although I found Hubspot suggesting different
Attractive one but I realized I wanted to
Keep my promise and provide you with a content
Related to my title (I hope so)

A trick which I always do when
I come up with my blog post title
I take my title and do a search on Google
Using “AllInTitle:” followed by my blog post title
With no space after the colon

If I repeat my title, Google will show up some results
I try again to change anything in my title and
Repeat again the “AllInTitle:” till I get no results found

This helps me to identify when I publish my content
To see if Google indexed my blog post or not yet
Keep in mind to keep your title characters to 60

Consider your Audience first

I always imagine myself
Going inside user’s brain to
Understand what is the user’s intent
When searching for a title like mine

Google managed to sort websites based on
Many factors, I read that they are around 200+
But one key factor that Google gives great weight is
How long your audience stay on
Your blog post and your website in general

If Google decides to show up your blog post to visitors
They measure if you helped them find
What they are looking for

The only way for Google to know that is
By measuring how long your visitors stay on each visited page

Please imagine for a moment
If you have a visitor now
Do you meet his/her need
For what he/she is looking for

Action, forget about SEO here
Focus to provide the best solution to
Your Audience problem or concern and this will
Happen by the deep research as listed below

Do very deep research

You know the famous phrase “Content is king” but
How to write for a blog that great content that you call it a king

A. Read search engine top results

Go to Google, Bing, Yahoo, Yandex and
DuckDuckGo for your planned topic
Trust me it is not lot of work

Once you do it for one blog post
You will be able to complete
This step in less than an hour

All you need to do is to take points
And drop them into any editor
For example in this blog post
I collected half of the ideas here
Only from checking other blog posts

Think about it this way
People are craving for
Solutions to their problem
They can tell
If your blog did an excellent job
Or they go and look for another blogs

B. Modify your old blog posts

Nothing is best than
Writing a blog post
Following all steps listed here

Then later on after publishing your blog post
You go and find something missed

Remember making a blog post thorough
Never happens overnight

By the way this item itself
I added after I published this blog post

It was 6 AM early morning
I was half asleep and I realized
That I always add missing things to old blog posts
So I decided to add it here

C. Analyze major social media

When it comes to Social media sites
Especially Facebook, Instagram and Twitter
Not all niches work the same
I don’t know about your niche
But as a rule of thumb
The best blog posts those that get viral
To search social media sites
I use Buzzsumo.com free account

You need to get an idea of
What made an ordinary blog post go viral
Keep in mind that sometimes
The blog post itself is not different than other posts

It may be unique due to its visual media
Like great Infographics, mindmaps or videos
Created to summarize it

D. Search for your topic on Pinterest

Pinterest is not a social media site
It is a hybrid of social media and search engine
Go to Pinterest.com and search for your topic
From top results check for how many times
Any particular pin got pinned

I cannot give you a definite number of
What to consider as a great blog post
As it differs from one niche to another
Pick the pins with the highest number of re-pinning

E. Search Quora for related questions

Go to Quora.com and search for your topic
I love Quora as one question can lead you to another
Which has never crossed my mind
Some answers are completely out of the box

F. Check Reddit site

I recommend Reddit.com because
The community there is against adding any link
Except when it is collaborating a point

It has a voting system where the best answers
According to most of users will rise to the top

G. Check Answer The Public and QuestionDB

Go to Answerthepublic.com and QuestionDB
These sites they add no value but
They generate hundreds of questions
Based on the seed word
e.g. “write great content” or “great content”

BCTT = A good question is like an arrow you can aim at any challenge (Gamestorming book)

Put effort to segregate your points under the right topics

I have a confession to you, I am not good at this but
I am doing my best to look at all the points
Which I collect from the above deep research

My advice is, don’t try to complete it in one sitting
It is an iteration job
Once you start writing more details for every point
You can see that some points make more sense
If they get moved under different headline

For example under the headline below
For adding the magical spices to your content
Adding engaging images and relevant videos
Where in fact created as a separate point

Later on, I realized that it would make
Sense to group it under the below headline

Add these magical spices to your content

Always think about using
All of them as they can be applied
Almost to all types of blog posts

1. Start with nice appealing Introduction

Start with a statement what your blog post is about
Restate the problem to show your empathy and
To assure to your audience that
They will get what they were promised on the title
Inform your audience with the benefits
They will get from reading your post

2. Use AIDA

AIDS is an acronym for Attention, Interest, Desire and Action
Actually this can be a separate blog post
But I will summarize it here

Attention
Who is reading your blog post
To get your user’s attention
You have to develop what is called
An empathy map as shown below

Put yourself in his/her shoes
Create a persona of gender, age, education,
Their current occupation and interest

What is the most current
Problem they are facing
How you are helping them
With your current blog post

You only have the title and
The first paragraph to show them
That your can relate to them

Interest
Best way to grab their attention is
By providing an information that
Educates and entertains them

Doing that you will be able
To connect through emotional level

Desire
You create desire when you
Provide value to their problem

List all the possible information
Then provide them with a solution
That will make what you said very easy to achieve

For example, if I tell you that
I have a tool that scans all of the above
Mentioned sites under the deep research section
If know you will develop a deep desire to buy it
By the way, there is no tool doing that

Action
If all of the above were done perfectly
You have a high chance of closing your action successfully
Like asking to subscribe to your mailing list
Or even buying a quick guide that take them by hand

3. Write Anecdote

Definition of Anecdote in dictionary is
Short amusing and interesting story
About a person or an incident

Always write a story about yourself
That shows their weakness but in you
Describe their weakness as if it is yours
Don’t show yourself as a hero

4. Share interesting statistics

Day to day statistics is not going to grab attention
but shocking numbers will make your Audience want to read more

5. Add engaging images and relevant videos

Images and relevant videos are totally up to
Your imagination, there is no training or advice
I had an earlier post on building websites
I found an image of a child stacking cubes (I got hooked to it)

My advice here, there are free sites
Where you can download images from
Like Allthefreestock.com

If you can add a mix of cartoon images, 3D
Or your own images created by PowerPoint

Infographics is considered one of the factor
That can lead to sharing your blog post on
Social media or sharing the Infographics on Pinterest

Venngage and Canva is considered one of the best
Places to create your Infographics images

6. Speak with a personal style “I, Me, Mine”

When I first started writing on another blog
I thought that I will lose credibility by using the “I, Me, Mine”
I realized later that the opposite is true
People tend to listen to personal experience
If it is back up by solid proof

Make your content scannable

Provide your audience with clean experience
Everybody now is surfing the web from their mobile phones

Speaking about my experience with my iPhone 8
When I visit websites and I get any pop up
Sometimes I cannot close it
Because the close [x] icon is very tiny

I try if no luck then I kill the web page
I learned a lesson as what if I have a visitor
On my website, what is his/her experience

Anyway I will give you my advice
Please stick to it (I created them in short notes below)

1. Create small paragraphs of 4-6 lines at most
2. Each paragraph has short lines (even if you have full width page)
3. Add bullet points for list items
4. Images not only illustrate your words
But they relax your eyes between long text
5. Font 20x and line height 28px (try it, it makes very nice reading experience)

Here is a proof based on the 2 screen shots below
I leave it to your judgment

Just Basic SEO is enough

Start with the following
1. Setup Google Search Console
2. Install Bing WebMaster Tools
3. Setup Google Analytics
4. Install Yoast SEO if you are using WordPress
5. Put your keyword in your URL
6. Shorten the URL
7. Use your keyword in the first paragraph and in the summary section

The best thing to do is go and read Brian Dean SEO Checklist

Create a long form content

Did you hear the skyscraper technique
Simply you find a piece of content and
Take this content and you build on top of it

You make a complete guide out of it
Build a long complete not missing any point

Some misunderstood the skyscraper technique
They find a piece of content and rewrite it

Don’t fall into the mistake of finding a long content
To take it and rewrite it, you are creating
A garbage non sense content

Link to some relevant content

Google loves seeing you taking reference
By linking to authority sites

But How do you know that
You are linking to a high authority site

Well download SEO Quake or MozBar extensions on Chrome browser
Any website with DA (Domain Authority which ranges
from 0 to 100 to measure the authority of any website)
Greater than 50 is enough sign that
It is an authority website

Add a clear call to action

some bloggers have their call to action is
Offering their an affiliate link or their own product

I believe the best approach and it works most of the time
Encourage your visitors to join your mailing list

If you have a very nice researched blog post
You have a high chance of getting lot of sign ups
Assuming you have a relevant sign up form to
What your visitors had read on your blog

What are the best content writing tools

This section can be a separate blog post
But I managed to append it here
As it makes sense to complement
What I discussed above with best writing tools

Grammarly

Nothing is better than having an online tool
That can check your grammar, spelling and plagiarism detection

Evernote

This online website will make it easy to take notes,
Create To Do lists and write blog posts
Best thing is that you can see it from everywhere
You write on your laptop and it synchronizes with Evernote mobile app

Hemingway

Easy to use online text editing tool
That analyzes your text and it highlights
Sentences that are hard to read
Suggests to remove extra adverbs…etc

Ilys

Online tool to help you write without distraction

When you start it, it asks you
How many words to write
The app will only display
The last letter you typed

Trello

When it comes to task management
To sort your ideas, draft your project
Then Trello comes in place

You can divide your work into
Separate columns name it whatever you like
Ideas, To Do, Doing and Done or completed
You can move any items between above columns

Also similar to Evernote
You still can update your items
On the go by using the Trello mobile app

StackEdit

Best tool to integrate between Blogger, Dropbox, Gist,
GitHub, Google Drive, WordPress and Zendesk.
Without losing your text format

Best thing it also has offline functionality

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In this blog post I am going to talk about why bloggers fail, this is one of the most controversial topic

Where everyone seeks an honest reply with no benefit whatsoever from the adviser who wrote his/her answer

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Usually you read an article that answers or covers this topic

Only to find the writer convincing you to buy his/her course

Convincing you that it is super extra amazing well proven with testimonials

That if you follow his/her course,  you will make money in few days (usually they claim 1 month)Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts. (Winston Churchill) Click To Tweet

What happens is you start blogging and you either put effort based on knowledge you built by yourself or applying it from an online blogging course

Time passes by and no money at all

You go and check all of your affiliate programs, nothing is there, still no sales yet

Then you check Adsense or any pay per click you are in and again few cents here and there

Very frustrating and not really worth the effort and energy you put in when you started

So here I am trying here to list the top 6 reasons why bloggers fail online

I will start with (keep in mind that this is not a negative tone, I am doing my best to transfer a realistic impression but I seriously hate negativity and I always adapt all possible methods to keep me positive)

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1-Blogging requires a lot of patience

To tell you how long you need to be patient

I would say 6 months (if you really know what you’re doing and following some good Facebook blogging groups) to one year or 2 years

Obviously working on your blog almost daily but how many hours daily? (wait, I will answer this under item # 2)

All I can say now is that when you start blogging, you cannot promote your blog right away as you still don’t have many blog posts published yet 

Talking about myself, I started this blog on July 27th, 2018 and I decided that I would dedicate the first three months for writing 15 long epic posts

Keep in mind that the first few posts are the most important ones as you extract all your knowledge and enthusiasm into your blog

2-Blogging requires a lot of time

This one I was able to measure when I started this blog, I told you that I started almost end of July so I was keeping track of my initial activities 

Most of these activities are writing the first few blog posts while adjusting and setting up my WordPress 

I would like to share with you my excel sheet which I used when I started

I spent 8315/60 (to get the hours) ~ 138 hours in my first 84 days

That’s almost more than 2 hours per day as I skipped few days

I felt it is going to be hard to keep doing this record keeping practice

As when I decided promoting my blog I knew it would take me 2 – 3 minutes here and there 

So keeping track of every task or action will be a waste of time by itself 

At least this excel sheet will give you a clear indication of how much time is required for your end

Remember promotion in my opinion takes less time but it requires consistency 

If I say that you need a set of time daily after your third month

A minimum of one hour daily (two hours are the best option)

Assuming that you keep writing frequent blog posts (one blog post every week or two) 

I would suggest to take the hours from the excel sheet

Add your ability to keep the one or two hours daily 

Now question, how many hours from the total hours you collected you can achieve in a short period of time

Can it be less than one year?

That’s why not all bloggers are born with the same talents, some are really good at writing while others are born with artistic talentFailure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently. (Henry Ford) Click To Tweet

Anyway now you know that writing blog posts and promoting your blog are the keys to your blogging success, you write first then promote

3-Blogging requires a lot of traffic

I started promoting this blog on October 29th (almost 3 months after I started) 

Being lucky to get one sale for ebook called how to get instant Followers on Facebook page on November 24th, here is what I noticed 

Trying multiple traffic sources on my first week then I realized it is impossible due to very limited time constraint 

So I decided to keep Pinterest as the only source of traffic for now while trying to build some links to my blog when possible 

I realized that this sale happened because I picked a product which I chose carefully and I already bought it so I knew what I was writing about 

I imitated a post about this product from a very similar well known blog

But I wrote it from a different angle and I was able to do that because I purchased the product already 

So not only you require a lot of traffic but also a very reliable well known trusted product that other bloggers are highly promoting

This sale happened with around 100 visitors per week and 89 visits to only this blog post that is promoting this Facebook page product

4-Blogging requires dedication and focus

One of the reason why bloggers fail when it comes to dedication

I was very realistic when I decided to start creating this blog

I knew that I will not be able to put time every single day due to taking care of my two lovely little boys

But I was very determined to stop few things like reading novels as my hobby and only if I have time, it will be for my blog

Also focus to get what you want to accomplish first before you get distracted by any other things 

For example, if I am working on my manual Pinterest pinning

l will make sure to pin first whatever the pins that caught my attention, then checking their associated landing pages after 

If you don’t have this strategy, you will start doing one pin

Then because of our human curiosity you will end up visiting the web page linked to that pin

If it is a professional one, you may end up signing up to this website newsletter

Or navigating through this website (you got the idea)

You may even forget that you actually started the pinning task

5-Blogging requires setting a clear goals

Why bloggers fail is that they are not setting a clear goals

Clear goals don’t occur unless you set up very short term goals first

Best way to reach your short term goals is to plan 2 weeks of tasks and activities on your calendar (some bloggers write it down on a physical calendar) 

This is totally up to you, for myself I use an app on my iPhone to plan my 2 weeks

Your tasks/activities should include writing at least one blog post (I say at least because I struggle completing only one blog post) 

Also planning 2 weeks of submission on social media using Social Media automation tools like SocialPilot or Buffer

Plus the main driving traffic task like Pinterest or any other things on your calendar

6-Blogging requires some creativity

I am very positive personality and I hope you don’t see a negative message in my few sentences below 

The formula for making money online is a recipe of writing contents that are all about specific problem written from different angles 

Also written with many different blog posts as you are not sure which one will convert the best so try to cover your best affiliate products in different blog posts 

Plus adding the blog design/testing to the formula to make sure you have an easy to navigate blog posts when using especially mobile phones and laptops

Plus adding the traffic to the formula as you will not be able to make decent money with 50 visitors a day, you need way more than that (maybe 20 times, it all depends on your power of writing converting words)

Finally adding to the formula, the final piece which is your creativity 

With creativity you manage to create your own product, convince your visitors that it is the right fit for them 

With creativity, you can convert the same content which you have on your blog to different forms of data like video, podcast, PowerPoint presentation or PDF (by the way, the list did not end with PDF, sky is the limit)

To recap, the top 6 reasons why bloggers fail online

1-Blogging requires a lot of patience 

6 months to 1 year working very hard and if you have questions always ask on bloggers Facebook groups

2-Blogging requires a lot of time

How much time,refer back to my excel time tracker which I listed above

3-Blogging requires a lot of traffic

If you think it is 50 visitors a day,I would tell you starting with 50 x 20 times

4-Blogging requires dedication and focus

If you don’t get distracted and you keep focused on your task for at least half an hour

Then you are on the right track

5-Blogging requires setting a clear goals

I recommend you to create a bi-weekly plan on either a physical calendar or mobile app

6-Blogging requires some creativity 

You have to come with your own ideas and to believe in yourself

My final advice here

Bloggers quit (I don’t blame them) after not seeing any significant results from their blogs due to

• Skipping so many days not doing anything, these days count toward measuring your overall success
• Not contributing consistently a daily time like an hour minimum to your blog (if you miss a day or two, you can cover it later)
• Paying for so many services that pulls money out of your pocket (start with only SiteGround as your web hosting – this is the best web hosting service)
• Not building a solid relationship with other bloggers as they will understand your pain and speak your language

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I will discuss now the top 10 blogging challenges all bloggers don’t follow
When they start blogging
I bet you at least 2 or more I and you had fallen in

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I list them below in chronological order based on
How critical to your blogging success journey
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1) Blogging should be for niches with real passion

This is the biggest blogging challenges

If you start a new blog without a real passion on what you are writing about

I will state it clear here, if you don’t like what you are doing, you would fail making money

Driving traffic to your blog takes a lot of time and energy

And if your only purpose for your blogging is to make money

Then you will definitely give up after 6 month

Because you will see very few money coming in from Ads and may be few affiliate sales

Right away you think to yourself why it is not working for me

And since you are not doing something you really love

So why bother when you see no quick benefits coming to you right away

I know you read a lot of posts from top bloggers saying you have to follow the niche

Where you will be able to make money from

Yes that’s true but I say you have to follow your real passion

Bear with me I will explain it below

This is not supposed to be contradicting, they should be completing each other

Follow your real passion on one condition that it should be profitable

Niches with money to be made fall under these categories

• How to make money
• Health and Fitness
• Personal finance
• Beauty and fashion
• Relationships and personal development
• Lifestyle (like survival, gardening, Women’s lifestyle..etc.)

Again the above niches are not the only niches you can make money with

But they give you the best chances especially if you are just starting in blogging with no experience

If you have a real passion in one or more of the above niches then you are a winner

Because you followed your passion in a niche that can easily make money for you

I mean by following your passion is to be able to write 50 plus posts

And never get bored and to have a real passion to search about it on the internet and never fed up of reading more

I started before a blog about diet and because I am following a good diet

I thought that I would be able to write about diet, losing weight and fitness

First because of lack of experience and it was very broad topic

I was not able to focus and I completely gave up writing posts in my diet blog

After the fifth post and guess what no money was made at all

It was not convincing to visitors to click on my affiliate links

Because I really didn’t have the passion nor experience to write about it

Especially when you are not running other profitable blogs to pay for professional freelancers to write for you

2) Blogging should target your audience problems (about your readers and not yourself)

Second mistake is to keep talking about yourself, your dog, and your family or about your own interests

Remember you are not Bill Gates you are someone who is completely unknown

And you want readers to listen to you

I only write about me if I am talking about how my audience’s problem impacted me

And how I tried to solve it

And then my audience would listen to me as this relates to them

If you want to make money from your blog then you have to write about what your audience like

And how to benefit them

Once you provide them with valuable posts then they have no problem following your recommendations

And buying through your affiliate links or your own productsMistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them. (Bruce Lee) Click To Tweet

To provide them with what they really love to read about

Then you need to figure out how to do that?

You have to come up with a list of websites from your best influencers in your niche

Just go to buzzsumo.com and type your URLs which you collected earlier

It will display the top posts which got shared

Don’t be afraid to write down the same ideas other bloggers wrote about

As in fact you can make it better

For example if the best shared posts on specific URL on buzzsumo is about top 10 tricks/ideas about so

And so then you can search other bloggers site

Then come with top 15 or whatever the number you come up with

Here you are adding value and educating yourself

And by doing that you can come later on with a better idea to represent your post as an infographic (long image) listing all your posts headlines and share it on Pinterest or Instagram

3) Blogging should be on a very narrow topic

One of the Blogging Challenges is to create a blog on broad topic like how to make money with all possible methods (Forex, Investment, Savings…etc.)

Always start very narrow, build your traffic then go broad if you want, you will be building an authority site

When I started my diet and fitness website the one I mentioned earlier which was a total failure

I wrote about different broad topics like diet, fitness, gym, exercise and training

So not only I did not connect to my readers’ own problems

They were also not able to navigate my blog due to lack of relevant posts

Again I did not have any experience/passion about this topic I went very broad so readers were not able to find any related posts to keep them connected to my blog

Although there are so many examples

I recently found on some blogs about two or more broad topics like Making money, family finances and mommy tips but in fact every topic is relevantly covered by many linked posts very highly connected to each other

In fact, if I am able to write about different topics in different niches

I would rather create separate blogs for each one but again this is my opinion

4) Blogging should be about quality and not quantity

Fourth mistake is to write short posts not covering everything, I am not against short posts

if you decide overcome blogging challenges by writing your blog posts

Please make sure to cover everything and make it epic (quality)

Adding 50 posts to a blog with few contents due to the rush of completing your post and moving on to the next one (quantity) will not help you in SEO and even for your readers who are coming from social media sites

I remember a fellow blogger once said that he took 16 hours to write an epic post

And when I heard this I went to my blog log (excel file where I keep track of my daily activities) I found that I have posts that took 20 hours to complete

Assuming you work 2 hours daily (undivided attention) then you need 10 days to complete one post

I sometimes visit my existing posts and I try to make them more perfect as when I write my posts

I read others so I may come to something I wrote before

But I missed a point or an idea so I return back to my existing post and try to make it perfect

5) Blogging is not only about writing but also promoting your contents

Fifth mistake is to only focus on writing and you think that traffic will come through search engines

Always plan for driving traffic to your posts unless you are very talented in SEO and you know what you are doing

If you write very long epic posts with fantastic images and you stay there hoping visitors will come to your blog

Then good luck as nobody is going to see it, you should plan for driving traffic and promoting your blog

I would rather say when you start a new blog your focus will be 100% on writing your contents and after reaching a certain limit (I would rather say 35+ posts)

You should start switching your time to 80% promoting your blog and keeping 20% to writing new posts

When you start promotion especially on social media sites you will completely be surprised by finding your hard work being perceptively shared less than you expected

Based on your readers combined opinions which you cannot deny

I go to Google analytics and I find some posts which I really put great efforts in to perform OK

And the posts which I spent less time and wrote them without diligent research perform very well

By the way that’s a good sign because you still have to room to enhance them

You will end up to getting a sense of what you will work on more and what your readers would like you to write about

In reality, you will find yourself writing some posts again from different angles

For example I started my first post on WordPress website setup process 

I found it useful to my readers so I wrote 5 simple easy steps to start blogging in an hour where I am writing the same post but from different angle

6) Blogging is about consistent writing (stick to a schedule)

Sixth mistake is to write lot of blog posts when you start

Stop for a month or two then write again, this is a fatal mistake

Although I talked above about giving 80% of your time to promotion

You should still dedicate consistent time to writing new contents

Sticking to a realistic schedule for posts writing will help you with search engine traffic to stay steady as blogs which don’t get updated frequently lose all the search engine traffic gradually

So stay focus as I mentioned earlier you will end up writing fresh contents based on your visitors’ engagements

Meaning every time you write a new post and share it on social media sites

Your visitors will reply with remarks, questions and notes that would give you an idea of what they really expect from you

Actually some bloggers take the contents creation to a new level

They add a survey link on their blogs to collect their visitors feedback as not all visitors will leave a comment (SurveyMonkey is an example of survey sites to gather your visitors feedback)

7) Blogging should be engaging your readers (allowing comments on posts)

Seventh mistake if you don’t see your blog posts from readers’ perspectives

I never thought why would someone create a blog and remove the comments from their posts

But what happens few bloggers cannot handle criticism

I keep all opinions and I remove only comments which carry bad language and off points comments

You have to approve all comments (called comments moderation)

Before they get published on your blog and if you are using WordPress as your blogging platform

You can go to Settings –> Discussion –> Comment Moderation and check your settings to make sure you have full control on your visitors’ comments

08) Blogging is not free, there is a cost

Eighth mistake when you start blogging on a free blog platform without realizing that the best way to start blogging is by buying your own web hosting

Yes, not much cost but there is

If you are building your blog without any intention to make money from then it does not matter if you run it on free blogging site like Tumblr or Google BloggerForgive yourself for your faults and your mistakes and move on. (Les Brown) Click To Tweet

But if your plan is to make money

Then keep in mind that free bloggers will not let you put any advertisement on their sites nor affiliate links (free WordPress sites allow some affiliate links like Amazon and eBay)

You will be very limited in your options to choose your affiliate links

So why the hassle when you can buy affordable hosting like Siteground (that’s the one I am using)

You can save with this offer for 3.95$ you can get a StartUp plan

Which covers you with hosting one website plus your domain name (name of your website)

Remember starting with the right web hosting will help you down the road

When your site gets some traffic from search engines like Google and Bing who knows and you don’t want to lose all traffic coming from search engines because of your slow page load speed

I have a detailed post on Google page load speed and that’s why I changed my web hosting

9) Blogging time is always unlimited

Ninth mistake when you think that one day you will not put any effort in your blog

I hope I can explain this better

First I will start with the fact that blogging is never ending journey

If you write a book you know that one day you can finish it but when you begin blogging there is no end

When you start a new blog there is certain steps to follow to start making money from your blog

These steps are

1: What your blog with be about

2: Choosing your blogging platform (I use and teach WordPress)

3: Choosing your domain name

4: Find a web hosting (I recommend Siteground as best web hosting)

5: Installing WordPress (I recommend WP101 course to fast track your WordPress learning process).

6: Installing essential plugins after WordPress installation

7: Choosing your WordPress theme

8: Creating your contents (this is an ongoing process)

9: Monetizing your blog

10: Promoting your bog (driving traffic to your website)

You cannot shortcut some steps or skip few of them

Steps from 2 to 5 are covered in my previous post 5 simple easy steps to start blogging in an hour

Step 5 regarding installing WordPress can be overwhelming for non-technical users

But WordPress is not intended for technical users

It is easy platform where few courses like WP101 managed to explain it in 3 to 4 hours and you can easily fast track your WordPress learning process

Steps from 8 to 10 are always ongoing steps and they never end

You always need fresh contents to add to your blog, keep looking for new affiliate programs to try and keep promoting your blog

Successful bloggers always tend to write good contents in short period of time to minimize the time required to establish their blogs before they start the promotion step

Creating 35 to 50 new fully researched contents like roundups, How Tos, long list posts, cheat sheet posts…etc. takes lot of time and energy

If you remember the roughly 20 hours range which I estimated earlier for each post and multiply it by 50 posts this means you need 1000 hours of hard work

Assuming you work 3 hours per day so you need one full year for writing good contents only

I am not putting these numbers to discourage you, absolutely not

What I am trying to do is to make sure you realize how important not to get distracted by any activities but to focus on writing your contents and putting your best effort to deliver long posts in a short period of time

The good thing is that you actually don’t need 1000 hours because if you start writing and avoid all distraction at all levels (putting your cell phone on mute, closing your email program…etc.) you will end up writing more than 2000 words in less than 4 hours

I created 10 long posts around 2000+ in less than a month with images while working 2 hours a day, keep in mind that English is not my native language and my English level is like grade 9 students

Yes you can do it too but having said the above, always keep in mind to give yourself 6 months before you start making money as writing contents alone can take 3 to 4 months alone

Here is a hint for you, always try to come up with 3 to 4 blog posts so you move from one post to another without wasting time on what to write about when you finish your current post

I learned this when I found that I can spend like 2 – 3 days doing nothing because I have no idea what to write about so don’t fall in this trap

10) Blogging perfection can waste your precious time

You waste lot of time on making everything perfect, please this habit as it is one of the blogging challenges that take you nowhere

This is my top weakness; I spent one day almost 4 hours looking for a simple theme with full page width and another day testing all of them to choose the best one and another 3 to 4 hours just trying all possible plugins for Google ads and other ads network

Top one priority is to write your blog contents and when you get tired/bored of writing and think about switching tasks, you can look at what you have on your list by using a website called Trello where you can keep track of all your wish list and track your accomplishments

Another big time waster is to stop in the middle of writing to search for topic on internet only to find yourself moving from one page to another losing track of what you were initially doing (this is called analysis paralysis)

Then followed by the comparison trap where you watch other bloggers’ website comparing their contents, images and layouts to yours leading you to being discouraged

Another big time waster is not having a plan for your current week ahead of time, keeping a plan with your progress (percentage of tasks completion) will make you focus on completing your tasks before your due dates

Always make sure your weekly plan is very reasonable in time and never miss a week without having the content creation on your list

To summarize the above post, I talked about the top 10 blogging challenges all bloggers abandon

Blogging should be for niches with real passion

Look for you passion in niches that make money like

• How to make money
• Health and Fitness
• Personal finance
• Beauty and fashion
• Relationships and personal development
• Lifestyle (like survival, gardening, Women’s lifestyle..etc.)

Blogging should target your audience problems

Don’t write about your own interests but write about your audience problems, you can write about yourself on how you solved these problems

Blogging should be on a very narrow topic

Always start very narrow, build traffic then go broad if you want (building authority site)

Blogging should be about quality and not quantity

Try to write long posts, make it epic, do lot of research and always keep your posts on mind, if you find something to add to existing posts, go and edit them

Blogging is not only about writing but also promoting your contents

Excellent blog posts without traffic are useless

Blogging is about consistent writing

Best way is to stick to schedule like 1 post every week or 2 but always try to be consistent

Blogging should be engaging your readers

There is nothing wrong about allow commenting on your blog

It is OK to do comments moderation (approving all comments before being published)

Blogging is not free, there is a cost

Yes expect to pay reasonable fee like any other thing in life we pursue

Blogging time is always unlimited

There will never be that one day where you will stop touching your blog

Blogging perfection can waste your precious time

Wasting time on tiny details as this will distract you

Just focus on your task at hand

Finally I listed the 10 blogging challenges for you to follow, please share it with your friends using social media to the left hand side or bottom (mobile)

Here I am challenging everyone who claims that starting a new blog online is tough

Or it is very technical and not for him/her

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In this post I am going to show you 5 simple easy steps to start blogging in an hour

Even without asking for any help only by reading and following exactly the steps listed below but before I start, I would like to tell you the followingBlogging can generate a great deal of traffic to your online business (Fabrizio Moreira)”Click To Tweet

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Why you should start blogging now

There are so many reason on top of my head to start blogging now

I am not trying to convince you, it is all up to you to see it the way I do

Blogging helps other visitors looking for information

Yes even if you are not getting enough traffic from search engines

Having the fact that you are actively engaged on social media sites may lead users to visit your website and read your blog

Blogging can help you make extra cash

Please listen to my advice, if you are just starting your blog right now and the only purpose of blogging is to make money then be patient

Yes be very patient some bloggers say it can take up to 6 months to a year

I don’t want to comment on this as I really don’t know your dedication and how actively you work on your blog but again yes some bloggers make really good money from blogging

Blogging helps to organize your thoughts and still learn more

Yes this is true, for example while I am writing any post

I go and search the internet to look for other bloggers’ opinions and I get really great ideas on my topic

Always try to make your content inside your post looks like an epic

So I really learn new things every time I come with a new idea to write about

Blogging makes you a good researcher and better writer

Yes to write better you have to read more and more and the only way available to you

If you are in front of computer with internet is to read about what others had to say about your topic

You can come with a compiled version of all ideas or even come with better ideas based on laying down other bloggers’ thoughts and writing your opinion about all of them

Blogging opens a lot of opportunities for you like self promotion

While blogging some visitors go to the About page (the most visited page in all blogs, you should create one)

And read more about you, who knows you may get an email from someone who really wants to work with you or gives you an idea of something you have never though of

Blogging helps you to stay in touch with visitors

Blogging allows visitors on your website to leave a comment (if you allow commenting)

This will help you to reply back to them or modify your content based on their advice but also blogging allows you to capture email addresses from visitors on your blog and stay in touch with them

Blogging builds rapport and increase engagement

Blogging gets connected with the automated social media tools like Buffer

So you can get your existing and new posts to go to all social media sites which means more traffic for you and increasing your engagement by getting users to share your blogging contents to their contacts

Blogging can be your hobby if you don’t have one

I myself don’t have hobby to waste my free time

The only thing I enjoy is to work on my blog and I think a lot of people like me

Blogging helps to grow your business or your brand

If you are working on a company website

Starting a blog with useful contents about your product or service can really help to grow your business and increase awareness of your brand

Blogging helps you to stand out and establish authority

Blogging done with quality content, personal touch, exposure (social media sites), building email list, focusing on relevant topics and not broad range of niches

All together and with consistency can help you to stand out and establish authority in your topics or nicheIf folks focus in on a niche and own it, there is a good chance they could make half a living from blogging (Jason Calacanis)Click To Tweet

Why blogging is important for you

Blogging helps you to educate your customers and users by enticing them with great contents about how you can solve their problems

And provide answers for their concerns and by doing that you establish a mutual trust between both of you and so you have a high chance of increasing your sales

Also blogging will increase your traffic and by adding more contents to your blog

Then SEO (Search Engine Optimization) will definitely increase where you can use the extra traffic to your blog to put internal links taking your customers to your products/services and that will lead again to more sale

Few assumptions to know before you start blogging

• I assume you are familiar on how to use the internet including signing up in websites
• Checking your emails and doing basic searches on search engines like Google and Bing
• I assume that you know that blogging takes lot of time and effort before you start seeing significant impact on your traffic coming to your site especially if you are planning to make money from your blog
• Of course you know that blogging is not free and there is a cost to get started but it is affordable
• You know that blogging platforms are so many and I use here WordPress as my blogging platforms
• I assume that you should expect to learn very basic HTML, basic SEO, using Social media and basic things on how to use WordPress (yes I am using WordPress as blogging platform)
• Also be aware of copyright issues as you are not allowed to copy contents from other websites into your blog
• I assume that you have already decided which niche you want to pursue as I am not discussing here how to choose your niche

Now the 5 Simple Easy Steps to Start Blogging In an Hour

Step # 1: Choose your domain name

10
Minutes

Although choosing domain name does not have any action to take

But it is essential to be listed as a step because it is part of your blogging overall success

Make sure to choose a domain name that reflects your brand, avoid abbreviations as much as possible

Make it memorable and make sure of your words spelling

Think about your blog purpose and try to come with a domain name to convey this

Finally if you are still confused

I suggest you go with a domain name similar to all blogging

You already follow and come with either variations of extensions e.g. if the domain name you like is .COM

Then look for .NET or .ORG or try to add/change an extra word in the domain name e.g. ParentalTips.com is taken , I found that MyParentalTips.com is available (of course at the time of writing this post

Step # 2: Buy web hosting

5
Minutes

Yes you have to buy your own web hosting

I am using Siteground and you can save with this 3.95$ offer by registering for a StartUp plan

Which comes with hosting one website plus one free domain

Step # 3: Install WordPress

5
Minutes

This is the easiest step in all of them

You just click on a button and everything will be done for you, I also described how to install WordPress on your web hosting in details under another post

Step # 4: Choose your theme

15
Minutes

I always hear an expression that says “you don’t marry your theme”

But at least choosing the right one will save you time later when switching between themes

As when you switch to a new theme

All your widgets contents will be lost

It is something to keep in mind before you switch to a new theme

Just copy the contents of all your widgets to a notepad (don’t say I did not tell you so)

I recommend using a theme like this one where you can get the benefit of full width screen

Some themes are really narrow and cause your visitors to scroll down a lot for long posts

But when using the amazing Elementor plugin you can really have stunning design

And good looking posts for your visitors to read

I recommend to read later my post about choosing suitable theme for your WordPress site

Step # 5: Install essential plugins

25
Minutes

There are very essential plugins to install before you start writing your first post

I already had a previous post on actions to take on your WordPress after installation

I really hope that my 5 simple easy steps to start blogging in an hour is not overwhelming

And don’t get stressed by sticking to the minutes which I listed above

I am kind of person who really dislike writing unpractical to do things or any thing that is really intimidating

The one hour or even less is really possible till step 3 and you will have a WordPress site ready for you

In fact when I started this post it was 45 minutes for the first 3 steps

But I said to myself let me make it really a complete steps to have a ready made blogging site

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