It’s time to pick a blogging platform once you’ve chosen your niche. There are both paid and free platforms to start a mom blog.
Free website builders include platforms such as Squarespace and Wix. Website builders don’t require any coding skills and are fairly easy to use. However, a website builder isn’t suitable for a professional business since it doesn’t have SEO coding, quality design, and professional features.
The control you have over these platforms is limited, with less available functions and themes, leading to less engagement on your blog. Besides affecting user experience, free blog sites also affect the monetization potential of the site.
Although WordPress is a free platform at its core, in order to successfully monetize your blog it can have some cost attached to it in the forms of plugins and themes. Having a managed hosting plan for WordPress can further optimize your site’s performance.
WordPress is the most popular CMS, and for a good reason. WordPress has the following benefits:
You have total control over your site.
The wide variety of themes that are out there can make your blog design look incredible.
It is fast and simple to add website content.
You can do just about anything on your site with plugins.
Updating and maintaining the blog is a piece of cake.
There are millions of users who are knowledgeable and can help you answer questions and solve problems.
If you want to know more about the difference between website builders and WordPress, make sure you check out our blog post!
Decide on The Domain Name
When deciding on the name of your blog, there are some things to consider:
Make sure that it grasps the attention of readers and that it isn’t overly complicated.
See if the domain name that is associated with your blog is available for registering.
Remember that the name has to be as unique as possible, but at the same time, it shouldn’t be difficult to remember or spell.
Top level domains like .com, .org and .net are preferable
Buy a Hosting Plan
Hosting is an integral component of every website, blog and application because it is essentially the foundation your site will stand on. While there are different types of hosting available, all of them essentially carry out the same function — to provide a location for your website files to reside when users attempt to access them.
Install A Theme and Plugins for Your Blog