Are you ready to start your own blogging success story? Well you’re in the right hands. Below is a list of all the resources you’ll ever need to get your blog off to a successful start.
If you need assistance with any of them, just send me an email and I’d be happy to help.
Just to let you all know that the links below contain affiliate links to services and products that I’ve used for building my own blog and other blog’s in my ownership, and therefore highly recommend them to you. I do get a little reward for recommending them to you of course but there is no additional costs incurred by you using them, it’s just a small way of getting something back for recommending them to you, so enjoy.
Publishing Platforms
Probably the best blogging platform in the world…
Web Hosting
There are many web hosting services available for bloggers, DreamHost and HostGator are great one’s to mention, but for me it’s BlueHost that tops the bill. I’ve been using them for hosting this very blog and my other blog project at XtremeBlogger.net since 2010 and I couldn’t be happier with their service.
They provide not just an affordable web hosting solution, but whenever I’ve had a problem or needed some technical assistance, the guys over at BlueHost have been more than helpful.
I’m a UK based blogger as many of you may know, and getting live support from thousands of miles away from the US at anytime of the day, is still mind boggling to me but I certainly am grateful for it.
Installing WordPress on BlueHost is easy with their ‘One-Click’ installation button meaning you can be blogging literally within 25 or 30 minutes of registering and setting up WordPress. Don’t forget as well as easy installation of WordPress, you can also install Joomla and Drupal publishing platforms in the same way.
The CPanel in BlueHost boasts some amazing features, I love the simple navigational options they have to offer users, especially if you’re a none technical geek like me J. Hosting your WordPress blog with BlueHost gives you the following features and benefits –
- Unlimited Domain Hosting
- Unlimited GB Hosting Space
- Unlimited GB File Transfer
- Unlimited E-mail Accounts
- Free Domain
- Free Site Builder w/ templates
- Secure Shell, SSL, FTP, Stats
- CGI, Ruby (RoR), Perl, PHP, MySQL
- $75 Free Google Credit
- 24/7 Phone, Chat & Email Support
Other Recommended WordPress Hosting
DreamHost – Use promo code M4MDH75 and get a massive $75 Off your DreamHost web hosting bill.
HostGator – Use promo code MAG4MARK25 and save 25% Off your HostGator web hosting bill.
WordPress Themes / Framework
Genesis takes WordPress to new levels that are absolutely unimaginable. Imagine WordPress being a the foundation for your blog, well Genesis framework is the structural parent skeleton that makes building up, or adding one of the many high quality premium StudioPress Child themes on top a mind blowing experience. It simply gives your WordPress blog a lot more editing options, features and benefits.
Using Genesis eliminates a lot of things for starters, one of which is the need to hire an expensive web designer to create a custom WordPress theme for your blog, the other being the fact that Genesis is a professional framework, and if you’re serious about making it big time with your blog, you’ll appreciate what it can offer you.
I’ve been using Genesis and the News Child theme as you can see on this blog for a number of years, and it’s simply brilliant. I have a well coded site, secure and optimized for the search engines.
If you’d like to find out more about Genesis go to their website here.
Templatic offers a wide range of business, blogging and ecommerce themes to choose from.
WordPress Plugins
Plugins are essential for adding features and enhancing user experience on your blog. Below is a list of the plugins I’d recommend installing into your WordPress blog.
Akismet Spam Filter
Do Follow
Pretty Link
WordPress SEO by Yoast
Google Analytics for WordPress
Ranged Popular Posts
nRelate Related Posts
ShareBar
WordPress Database Backup
WordPress Super Cache
CommentLuv
WPtouch
Other optional plugins which I also recommend for maintaining and keeping your WordPress blog healthy are -
Better Delete Revision
Clean Options / Database Optimizer
Blogging Guides, eBooks
Below is a list of eBooks and guides that I have read, reviewed and found extremely useful and educational from a bloggers point of view. I’d highly recommend them to you also.
Coming soon…
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