How to Set Up a Blog to Make Money Online

These days blogging has grown to astronomical heights and most webmasters of old, have at least one active blog online. In fact many people have gone from having static websites built in html and other languages, and moved into the blog platforms like WordPress. They’re so much easier to establish and it takes no time at all to learn how to set up a blog.

We’ll assume that you have a self hosted domain name, and that you have cpanel installed on your server. If you have cpanel, you’ll need to log in to the administration panel, and click on the icon in the cpanel that says “Fantastico.” This is the wonderful application that comes with cpanel, to enable you to do things in a couple of mouse clicks that would have once upon a time taken hours or days to complete.

This is often significant piece of this subject. Click on your Fantastico icon and you’ll be taken to the Fantastico screen where you’ll find many options on the left side of the screen. Everything from shopping carts to simple content management (CMS) add-ons will be listed there waiting for you to select what it’s you wish to install. In this case you’re learning how to set up a blog, so look for WordPress on the list.

Click on the link that says “WordPress” and wait for the next option. When you have done this, you’ll see on the right side of the screen, information about the WordPress system, and you’ll also see a listing of any previous installations you have on the server. There will be a button or link also, that says “New Installation” and it provides the version number, the amount of space required, and other information. Click on “new installation”.

You’ll then be presented with some options to enter. The first of these is the location (folder) on your server where you want Fantastico to install the WordPress files. Read the instructions here carefully.

If you want the new blog to be located in the “root” directory, leave this box blank. If you want to have the blog located somewhere other than the main root directory, enter the name of the folder in the empty box. Please note: you’ll not be able to enter a folder (directory) that already exists.

WordPress needs to install into a new folder. For example if there are no folders already installed in your root directory, and you want your blog to be located in a folder called “blog”, you would add the word “blog” to the empty box.

At this point you’re almost finished learning how to set up a blog. You’ll now need to enter a username and password so that you can access the administration area of your new blog when it has been installed.

This can be changed later if necessary, but for now enter these details where you’re asked. You do not need to enter any other information, but if you choose to, simply read the instructions next to each option and complete the details accordingly. Click Install.

You’ll now see the system doing the installation, and you’ll be presented with a screen that lists all of the relevant information about your new blog, as well as being asked to “finalize” the installation.

You have at this point, the option to enter an email address for the system to send you the same information that you’re now seeing on the screen, and you’re recommended to do this. This is all of your blog paths, and login information, etc.

Now click the link that indicates the completion of the install, and you have successfully installed your new Self Hosted WordPress Blog.

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