Launching a blog can feel exciting, but also a little overwhelming. With so many steps involved—choosing a niche, setting up your website, creating content, and promoting it—it’s easy to miss something important. That’s why having a clear blog launch checklist is essential.

In this guide, we’ll walk you through 30 steps check list you need to take to launch your blog successfully, so you can start strong, attract readers, and grow your online presence with confidence.

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Launching a successful blog requires good planning and I have put together a 30 points check list to help you launch your site hitch free.

Because, you’ll soon get burned out, if you do not have passion for what you are doing. ”Passion is the energy that keeps us going, that keeps us filled with meaning, and happiness, and excitement, and anticipation. It’s a powerful force in accomplishing anything you set your mind to in life.

When you have no goal, failure is inevitable

Goal setting is knowing what you want to achieve or where you want to get to, and setting a time frame to accomplish it.

Therefore, what do you hope to achieve when you launch your brand new blog?

Perhaps you’ve decided you want to write 5 post every month? Write 2 guest post every month for another blogger?

Get traffic of …. for the first 6 months?

Ensure you have goals to motivate you to succeed.

After setting your goals, your next question may be, “how can I achieve these goals?” Employ these seven winning ways to achieve your business goals.

I usually recommend Bluehost to my readers and it comes with a free domain.

I also, advice against launching your blog on free blogging platform for the following reasons.

They come with all forms of restrictions, so you have no control over your blog.

The prominent restrictions are, you’ll not have a custom domain name, and monetisation of your blog is restricted. Worst still, the free platforms owners display unsolicited adverts on your blog indiscriminately.

WORDPRESS SELF HOSTED (wordpress.org), being the most versatile of the blogging platforms available, is the BEST to start your blog with.

It requires basic technical skills to set it up, it has a solid community support to help you, and it gives you total control of your blog or website. It allows you to customize and monetize your site as you wish.

This independence comes with a price, though. WordPress.org software is free, but you’ll need to buy a domain and hosting for your blog You may not see the need to incur this cost at present, but years down the line and with so much effort put into writing great content and building your blog, you’ll see the need to use a self hosted.

At that time you’ll need more advanced features for your blog, which will leave you with no other option, but to migrate to self hosted or pay for an upgrade in free blogging platforms (although it will still not give you the advanced features that wordpress has to offer).

Furthermore, migrating a blog to a new blogging platform has its complications. Your blog permalink will change, and consequently some of your site visitors may not be able to locate your blog.

However, if you want to simply launch a blog for leisure with no intention of making money from it, by all means start with a free blogging platfrom.

Word press.org can be used to build different types of sites ranging from blogs, ecommerce, directory, membership site, advert sites and magazine sites.

It requires basic technical skill to start a blog. In addition, it gives room you room to grow.

To update your favicon, you’ll need to place a 16×16 pixel icon (named favicon.ico) into your website’s root folder. For WordPress users, that’s directly into your public_html folder.

You can create a picture file in Photoshop and simply rename it to favicon.ico, or you can create one easily for yourself on a website such as Favicon.cc..

By default, they usually come out looking ugly, like this:

http://theonlinecompass.com/?p=123 (where p=123 simply means post #123)

Before you write your first blog post, you should change the permalink settings to simply be the name of the post that you create.

A blogger should have an editorial calender. Regardless of whether he is new to blogging or his is being in blogging.

An editorial calender is your time table for publishing your posts. It helps to ensure consistency, and consistency is key to success..

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