How To Create A Free Blog On WordPress

LSA knows that many of its students are primarily focused onfine tuning their DJ skills rather than becoming bloggers but if you want anykind of success at all as a DJ maintaining a personal blog is an absolutelymust.  It’s the best way of getting yourname out there, it helps you build a fan base and it shows that you areserious. A blog is just another name for your own website, one that you addcontent to regularly.

If you want your blog to attract an audience it is importantthat you do it in the right way. Building a successful blog has become rather advancedin recent years. There is so much information out there on the web that advisea variety of ways on how to manage a successful blog it can be hard to find thebest advice for you.  

LSA has written HOWTO CREATE A FREE BLOG ON WORDPRESS to help DJs start a blog in 6straightforward steps, without confusing the process with complicated SEO(search engine optimisation) stuff.  Intruth, if you write about trending subjects you are genuinely passionate about, add links to helpful LSA posts and include visualcontent like videos and GIFs and if you make sure you build a consistentroutine around writing and posting you’ll naturally attract an online audiencewithout having to learn complicated SEO.

So here are the steps

1.    CHOOSINGA PLATFORM; WordPress is by far one of the biggest blogging platforms inthe world, with countless ways to design and layout your blog it leads the wayfor all blogging platforms.

2.    DESIGNINGYOUR BLOG; WordPress allows you to choose different template designs foryour blog called themes and if you grow tired of how your blog looks you caneasily change the theme with just a few clicks, without losing any preciouscontent or images. The best themes are the ones that look and function equallywell on a desktop screen as they do on a mobile screen. Your blog’s designshould reflect both you and your brand and be user-friendly. Choose somethingthat looks professional, uncluttered, navigates easily and is easy for you tocustomise. https://wordpress.com/themesvisit this link and search for themes under DJ, Music, Blog etc. Choose a themethat suits your needs and allows you tolink to your existing social media such as facebook or soundcloud.

3.    ADDING PLUGINS;A plugin is basically just a small code program that adds extra functionalityto your theme. If you have a need for something that your theme doesn’tprovide, there will be a plugin for it. The more plugins you add the sloweryour blog will load. This is why its important to choose the best theme foryour blog. You should only have 6 or so plugins if you wish your blog to loadfast. Basically your theme should provide you with all the fundamental functionsthat allow visitors to see and hear what you are all about and link to all yoursocial media. Your Plugins can then do all the extra jobs you theme doesn't provide like help you monitorbasic SEO and optimise your visual content. Different themes require different plugins and because there are so many to choose from LSA has researched and identified which of them perform the best. We recommend the following plugins; Comet Cache, GIF Animation Preview, AddToAny Share Buttons, All In One SEO Pack, WP Smush and Feed Them Social.

4.    POSTS,PAGES & CONTENT; Content is king. Without well-written and engagingcontent, your blog isn’t going to build an audience. Think of your blog as alive autobiography, like a scrapbook of all your thoughts and actions over timethat your fans can visit to discover more about you and catch up with whatyou’ve been doing. Posts are published with time and date in mind and listed inreverse chronological order on your blog’s home page. They can be aboutanything you are doing or anything you have taken an interest in and will makeup the majority of your site’s content. Posts encourage conversation. They havea built-in commenting feature that allows users to comment on the content.Pages are used to communicate the core content about your blog that requires noresponse from your visitors. Such as your about page, contact details, bio,events page etc and can be displayed in a menu so they are easy to access nomatter which post you happen to be reading.

5.    CREATINGQUALITY CONTENT WITH LINKS TO LSA POSTS; Creating quality content canencompass anything from teaching your visitors something useful to providingentertainment. While blogging about yourself can have its benefits, you shouldalways be focusing on trending subjects whilst solving the visitor’s problems withhelpful advice. Satisfying their needs is what will drive readers to exploremore of your blog and return to your blog again and again. LSA blog posts arefilled with helpful guides and advice and you can use our posts to add to yourposts by creating clickable links within your content. This allows you to writeabout things more creatively without having to worry about writing detailedguides or solving a problem. For example you could write a post about yourexperience playing an amazing set in Ibiza and within the content of your postadd a clickable link to LSA’s post Howto get big DJ gigs on the island of Ibiza. You get to promote yourselfwhilst at the same time helping your visitor’s access useful advice on how theycan get to experience what you did for themselves. What readers really want isa collection of related and helpfulposts on the same topic tohelp solve a problem or question. If you have video, GIFs, infographics and other visual content besure to include it. If you don’t you can search for relevant video or visualcontent in LSA’s blog and link or embed it in your post. Linking to relevantLSA blog posts will offer your visitors more in-depth information on the topicor a related subject that they can use to help themselves. LSA has also createda super easy step-by-step visual tutorial to help you create your ownprofessional animated GIFs to help your blog become a success. [MAKEFREE ANIMATED GIFS]

6.    USING SOCIALMEDIA TO ENCOURAGE CONVERSATION; Be sure to share your post across all yoursocial media. Once you have written a great post make sure you share it with asmany people as possible. Encourage conversation by including a question that entices a response from the reader. Different social media platformshave different days and times where sharing a post can get maximum exposure sobe sure to share you post at the best possible time.

By combining LSA quality contentwith your own and following these 6 simple steps you will be getting the bestpossible start for building a highly successful blog.  

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