A guide to blogging for a side income.


How to Make Your Blog Secure

Introduction

When starting a side income blog, a WordPress self-hosted site or otherwise called a wordpress.org site, is the recommended blogging platform to use.

By following these guidelines for securing your WordPress blog, it will help protect your site from being maliciously attacked and give you peace of mind that your blog is secure.

Secure Access…

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How To Make Your Blog Load Faster

What is Website Page Speed?

Page Speed is how long it takes for a website to load when a user accesses it through a browser.

To check your website’s speed for all devices, you can use Google PageSpeed Insights.

Website speed is an important factor to consider when running a website or blog, but it’s even better to consider it before starting…

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How To Promote Your Blog

Introduction

Social media, SEO (search engine optimisation), online communities and guest blogging are all ways to promote your blog.

Diversification is however important when exploring these avenues, so that you are not relying on one avenue to maintain traffic to your blog.

Also, your priority should be on creating quality content. Doing this will help your blog withstand search engine algorithm changes and…

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How to Monetise Your Blog

Introduction

Monetising your blog is a great way to reward creating quality content on your blog, especially over a long period after establishing good traffic and receiving a reward for your work can be a boost for moral.

There are various methods to start earning from your blog.

Affiliate Links

Affiliate links are when you partner with a website that has a product…

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Install WordPress Locally

Install WordPress Locally

Setting up a local server environment and then installing WordPress is a good way to develop your blog on your computer before going live and avoiding many iterations of it being uploaded to your web host and published on the internet.

Install XAMPP

XAMPP is a local server environment with PHP, MySQL and Apache components supported. When installed, it will allow you to imitate…

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Using an AI Chatbot as an Assistant

What is an AI Chatbot

AI chatbots learn from human inputs through machine learning and are able to take text from a prompt on a website and generate knowledge on a topic or provide accurately depicting images.

Chatting to an AI or artificial intelligence chatbot is intuitive and simply writing what’s on your mind can provide insight on any given topic or generate time saving and innovative images.

If you visit a site like ChatGPT you will soon realise the wealth of…

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How to Get a Good Domain Name

The importance of a good domain name

A domain name is what is put in a browser to access a website on the internet.

Acquiring a good domain name to take ownership of the rights to that domain is a very important step when starting a blog or website.

Choosing the right domain for your brand or content being offered on your website offers a good first impression, aids in credibility and has SEO advantages.

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