Hey Spiders,
This is a one-stop update on our 60 Days Blogging Challenge.
What can you expect to achieve or generate in next 60 Days:
- Your personal niche blog.
- Deep knowledge in Content development, Writing skills, SEO and Social media marketing.
- Boost in self confidence.
- A potential product to earn at least 500$ per month after 180 days.
What will you need to start the challenge:
- 1-2 hours of free time daily.
- A dedicated will to progress daily.
- Buy a domain and a hosting service ( details explained below )
- A internet connection, your laptop and a cup of hot coffee đ .
Here is what you can expect to do in next 60 Days:
- Setup work in first 10 Days
- Content development, Writing & Social Marketing Strategies to Digest in next Day 11-50
( In this phase you will be writing 25-30 articles ) - Finishing work from Day 51-60
How to make full use of this page and 60 Days Challenge:
- Visit this page every single day.
- Follow the steps laid out to setup your blog.
- While you are on article writing stage, digest the articles being listed here to sharpen your understanding and skills.
- Like our Facebook page and join our Facebook group to keep updated with the latest changes.
- Reach us out at any moment you feel that you can’t follow whats going on.
- Comment down below for any queries.
DAY 1-10 – SETUP STAGE
Day 1
- First of all we formed the idea for our Blog.
- Our first child blog is based on what we could write about easily – Tea.
- We accumulated 25 keywords on which we will focus our articles on.
- To have a detailed insight on how to form idea and select keywords –
Day 2
- We bought domain Teaddicted.com from Namecheap.
- A yearly web hosting shared server plan was bought from A2Hosting.
- The nameservers from Namecheap was pointed towards A2Hosting server.
- After that we installed WordPress in our server.
- The blog was ready to be customized.
- Detailed guide on buying domain, server and installing WordPress –
Day 3
- We installed Genessis Framework + Cookd Pro theme on our blog. It costed us around 78$.
We installed these necessary plugins
- Google analytics
- Yoast Seo
- All in one wp migration
- Akismet Anti-Spam
- Wp Super Cache
- Broken Link Checker
- Contact Form 7
- Flamingo
- EWWW Image Optimizer
For detailed guide on How to select a theme and install plugins –
Day 4
- We started customizing our theme.
- We designed and uploaded our new logo.
- 5 pages: Home, About, Contact, Posts and Privacy Policy pages were added.
- Header, footer and body element were customized for a clean look.
- For detailed guide on how to add elements to your blog –
Day 5
- Get Ready to take a tour of our new blog Teaadicted.com – The Tour
Day 6
- We made our facebook page, instagram account, and pinterest account.
To know more:
Day 7
- We installed Yoast SEO plugin.
- We opened our Google search console account.
- We linked Yoast to Google search console and optimized our website configuration to boost SEO presence.
Read the full guide: Kickstart your SEO
Day 8
- We published our very first article on Teaddicted.com.
- We gave out a detailed guide on how to write your first article.
- Optimize the article to get organic search hits form google using Yoast SEO Panel.
Read the full guide: How to publish your first article
Day 9
- We provided detailed strategy on How to write content daily
Day 10
- We opened up our Mailchimp account and made a mailing list.
- We installed Sumo me plugin.
- We setup Sumo me and connected it with Mailchimp to make our first newsletter popup service active for collecting email id’s from interested visitors.
Read the full guide here: Gearing up Newsletters
DAY 11-50 – SKILL DEVELOPMENT STAGE
- Several non generic SEO Tweaks: Tips and Tricks are given here to boost your SEO. This was listed from our own experience. You may not find most of them anywhere else.
- Invaluable tips to grow your Facebook page and increase your reach are laid out here.
- Detailed tips to grow your Instagram account and increase your followers are laid out here.
11 Powerful Tips to Create Tempting Headline
- Headline is the brand ambassador for your article.
- You need to make it look good and stuff enough words for your readers to read the whole article.
How to earn money by Sleeping on the Island of Affiliate Marketing
- In blogging, Affiliate marketing is the best way to earn passive income.
- Here you will get to know what is affiliate marketing and how to start implementing the tactics
to earn from it.
The Truth about Blogging, Marathon & Success
- It’s a food for thought for you blogging career.
- We explained why to treat blogging as a marathon and not like a race.
11 free Blogging Tools that will make you Insanely Productive
- Make sure to grab each tool to automate your most of the daily mundane process in blogging.
4 Powerful Tips for rewriting Articles in an Awesome way
- During article writing phase, most of you will be tempted to rewrite articles.
- This list covers the best process for rewriting articles which is tailored by our own experiences.
How to make Awesome Featured Images for your Article
- Featured images are the face for your article.
- You need to make it look attractive and definitive enough for readers to start reading your article.
5 Amazing Insights to make your readers Glued to the Article
- You don’t want your readers to come and go away on just reading first few lines of you article.
- You will become successful as a Blogger once you figure out how to keep readers engaged till the last line of your article.
- This article describes 5 amazizng insights on how to keep users engaged until the last line of your article.
10 Amazing Ways to make your Rewritten Article a Bomb
- Rewriting articles gives you an advantage to make it better than you found it.
- This list will provide you amazing ways to achieve it.
Content drives Traffic but Good Design retains it
- If Content is the King, then Design is the Queen.
- Know why good design is important for your articles and steps to implement it.
Our Look of the updated child blog :
So this was all for today. We want you people to like our Facebook page and share your progress or queries there.
Stay Motivated and Keep Webbing