how to start a travel blog Travelblog for beginners hey guys bryan with wp cupid blog and in this video I'mgoing to be showing you a complete Travel blogging  for beginners tutorial onhow to start a travel blog whether you be a technology have no experience atblog starting or even if you are a pro this travel blogging 1 for beginners tutorial  Article  will be perfect for you the great thing about this tutorial isthis extremely easy they'll fall along with even. 

if you have no experience instarting and setting up a travel blog by following this tutorial video you willhave your travel blog set up in as little as 10 minutes at the end of thisvideo you will have your travel blog successfully started I'm gonna beproviding you with a bunch of helpful resources that will help you in yourtravel blogging starting journey towards the end of the Article  so stay tuned thefirst step I'm gonna cover is how to choose and register your own domain namefor free to have a blog you have to have a domain name step two I'll be goingover how to choose a hosting provider to have a blog you have to have hostingstep three is getting our blog set up for free with the most popular.

 bloggingsoftware today the blogging platform is WordPress if you want your blog to rankreach success etc WordPress is the way to go if you don't have time to startyour WordPress blog right this second be sure to bookmark this video so you cancome back to it later let's get started the first thing you want to do is headon over to Bluehost via the link that I provided in the description Bluehost iswill be getting a free domain name and up to 63 percent off web hosting makesure you click the link in the description to get this great deal tohave a blog you have to have a domain name for people to find your blog and web hosting that powers your WordPress blog a little about Bluehost Bluehostpowers over 2 million websites worldwide in over 850,000 blogs around the worldthey're also recommended

 by WordPress themselves since 2005 they instantlyinstall WordPress for you which makes starting a blog that much easierthey provide 24/7 support via chat email and phone and they have a 30-daymoney-back guarantee if for any reason you are unhappy you can cancel and get arefund that no questions asked within the first 30 days I do want to mentionthat the link is an affiliate link and I'll receive a commission whichhelp support this channel and upses put out more wordpress tutorial videos onceyou click the link you'll be at the Bluehost home page you'll see the getstarted button on the page click the button this is where you can select yourhosting plan you'll see three different options you'll see a basic plan a Plusplan and a prime plan I recommend going with the basic plan then you can alwaysscale up whenever you like if you have more than one website then you wanted tochoose either the plus plan or prime plan I'm gonna choose the basic plan forthis tutorial as this is most common go ahead and hit the select button onwhichever plan you would like to use we are now brought to a the main page wherewe can choose a domain name that we want completely free or if you already have adomain name you enter in over on the right for the new domain you can selectif you want to be a dot-com dotnet org etc that comp it's the most populardomain extension so I'd recommend going with a.

com if you can I'm gonna type ina domain here and click the next button you were now brought to a create youraccount page this is real input your information we have first name last namethe business name is optional put your country address information in put aphone number and lastly the best email for you as you'll get emailed a receiptof payment and a copy of your login credentials etc below that you will seepackage information you'll see account plan this is rican select the term foryour hosting package you have 12 months 24 months 36 months and 60 months as youcan see you'll save money the longer you purchase your hosting for I'm gonnaselect the 12 months package this setup fee is free domain registration is freelet's encrypt SSL is free this SSL feature is a free SSL certificate whichmakes your site secure with the green bar and with the HTTPS the main privacyisn't I don't that I highly recommend it will prevent telemarketers and marketersgetting a hold of your personal contact information and bugging you with theirservices the domain privacy will shell Bluehost information for the site andnot yours site lock security fine is security for your WordPress website.

 andprotects it from hackers I'd unselect this as there are really good freealternatives you'll see code guard code guard creates daily backupsallows you to restore your sight with a click of a button in case somethinghappens there are free alternatives that work just the same SEO tools start youcan keep unselected this add-on will submit your site the search engines andprovide a report on your site ranking and keyword rankings submitting yoursite the search engines you can do for free this isn't necessary to have allthese add-ons are completely optional and up to you to get as you can seeyou're saving a lot for this hosting package below that you will input yourpayment information I'm not gonna fill this out for protection of personalinformation once you information is filled in you want to select the I'veread and agreed to Bluehost privacy policy in terms of service now click thesubmit button

 you are now brought to a page we will choose a password for yourBluehost account I click to create your password button and put the password youwould like click the I of read and agreed to boulos privacy policy in termsand conditions and click the next button you will now be directed to acongratulations page click the blue log in button to log into Bluehost Blose isalso going to at this time email your dashboard login information to the emailaddress you provided you and now see pick your themeBluehost has a bunch of awesome free wordpress themes you can choose from youcan select the theme now if you want to or below the themes you can click skipthis step if you choose a theme now you can always change your theme you pickwithout any problem at a later date I'll be going over this in more detail laterin the video once you choose your free theme or click skip this step you'll beat the page here stating all done click the button that says start building tostart building your blog on WordPress once you click that muggin you'll be atthe wordpress dashboard this is what the wordpress dashboard looks like it'll askyou a few questions as you can see if you don't need help just click that youdon't need help option once you do that you will see this page you will see blogposts where you can add a new blog post you will see where you can add new pagesto your blog if you want to change your navigation menus you can do so easilyand if you are going to sell products on your site you can install WooCommerce todo so on the far left you will see tabs hover over them and get to learn thempost is where you can add new

 post pages is where you cannew pages the media Tavis where your images will show that you upload to yourblog comments is where you can view comments people leave on your blogplugins is where you can install plugins for your blog almost any customizationor feature that you would want more than likely there's a plug-in already madefor it appearance is where you can change thelook of your theme or change your theme to another one or a premium theme selectthemes when you hover over appearance it will showcase free wordpress themes thatyou can choose from if you select most popular we show you the most popularfree WordPress themes hover over a theme and click install and then clickactivate to make the theme your WordPress theme you should also see addnew theme on this page this is where you can add a new theme if you got it fromanother site or it is a premium theme a great resource I've used for severalyears and recommend for professional WordPress themes that look like anaward-winning designer HD did your blog is creative market this is a creativemarket wordpress blog themes page you can easily browse wordpress bloggingpremium themes click on them and get a live preview of themes as you can seehere here's a few examples of premium WordPress themes that are alreadypre-made for you to input your information or change however you'd likeyou'll see they look really good click the link in the description below tocheck out creative market in the top left of your WordPress dashboard youwill see welcome here or your site title towards the top of the page click thisto view your site to log in to your WordPress dashboard you can do so viathe Bluehost cPanel or by typing in your domain name with a slash WP dash adminhere's an example it'll bring up this page here just input your logincredentials

 to be logged into WordPress another great resource that is helpfulin use by over 500,000 users is the drag-and-drop editor called element orpage builder Elementor page builder makes starting and creating yourWordPress blog easy you can make edits by dragging and dropping search elementor page builder on the plugins page and install and activate it if you like totry it out Elementor has a free and paid version I provide a link in thedescription so you can check out and compare the features of the free andpaid versions another great resource to check out is fiber fiber is a greatplace to get tasks done for just $5 it is helpful if you need a logo orthing done I provided a link in the description below and that is my travelblogging 101 for beginners tutorial video on how to start a travel blog ifyou have any questions get in touch as I'm here to help you with anything youneed alright guys thanks for reading  givethis video a thumbs up and subscribe to our blog for more wordpress  leave us a comment we love hearing from you