How to Start a Blog in 2025 (Step-by-Step Guide for Beginners in 20 Minutes)

Welcome, I am Raj – founder of techlogitic.net and I am going to help you create your first blog in 20 minutes. I will help you pick your domain name, blogging platform, setup your website hosting, design and write your first blog post and promote it.

The journey of creating your own blog is often an exciting and interesting one, but it’s fraught with challenges. I’ve created this how to start a blog guide so that even beginners can begin writing their blogs without encumbrances like learning HTML or long tutorial videos.

This is going to be a long guide so take a cup of coffee or tea and let’s get started!

How to start a blog in 2025 in 7 easy steps.

Let’s clear out some air. Starting your blog is not free especially when you are serious about what you are doing. Starting a blog will cost you around $35 to $100

1. Pick a Blog Niche & Domain Name

Picking your domain name is as easy as choosing your niche. This is the web address which can let people find you by. For instance, the domain name for Google is www.gooogle.com. Your blog will have a similar name just like mine – techlogitic.net. You can choose whatever comes after the name i.e .com , .net , .org, .io , .ai etc.. the choice is yours.

Your niche can be any general topic you like fashion, technology, food, lifestyle, recipes etc.. I like writing about technology so my domain name includes tech in it to make it fancy/brand I added logitic to it. Your’s can be same as well.

You can ask yourself these 3 questions to get an idea of choosing your niche.

1. What am I passionate about? Are you a homewife or a student who loves to write about their travel experience or any kitchen recipes or day-today things?
2. Can I create consistent content for it? Make sure there is no dead end to your topic.
3. Are people searching for it on Google? This is a very important part whether people are actually searching this on the internet or you are just journaling about this online. To gain traffic you have to find topic ideas which like minded people are searching on Google.

I buy my domains from Namecheap, Godaddy & Bluehost (While purchasing the hosting from them I got a 1 year free domain so I bought breezebux.com. This is my new project I will be working on.)

For domain name suggestions, I use Brandbucket. Mixing of words have played a huge role in selecting the perfect domain name. My other project BreezeBux, the domain name was also curated from Brandbucket.

2. Choose the Right Blogging Platform

There are lot of platforms out there like WordPress, Blogger, Tumblr etc.. My simple recommendation is WordPress.

More than 75 million users use wordpress, the popularity spells out its awesomeness.

It’s the free platform that anybody can access at any point with tons of free features like themes, layouts and add-ons. The setup is an easy-breezy process so simple that children could set it up! WordPress also has tons of security features including constant software updates and security updates to protect from hackers.

WordPress.com vs WordPress.org

Here is quick table to know the difference between wordpress.com vs wordpress.org.

Feature	WordPress.com	WordPress.org
Theme Options	Limited theme options	Full theme customization
Plugins	No plugins	All plugins allowed
Storage	Limited free storage	Storage varies by host
Ads	Pay to remove ads	Run your own ads (or don’t)
Technical Control	Little or no technical control	Full control over database and files

The choice is yours and the above table speaks for itself. I highly recommend going with .org.

3. Get Web Hosting & Set Up WordPress

Web hosting services are essential for accessing domains and work somewhat like a computer hard disk drive for storing content such as images, text, etc.

Generally, web hosting comes around to $2-$5 every month. For the best results from your blog, it’s an absolutely essential investment.

With my personal experience I have found 2 hostings that help beginers create their first blog. The 2 hostings are Bluehost & Hostinger. I use them on personal level.

For this setup I am recommending Bluehost. Note – I am adding my affiliate link below so whenever you buy something via my link I will earn a commission.

Step 1 – Visit bluehost.com and click “Get Started”.

Step 2 – Browse the hosting plans. Bluehost offers Starter , Business & eCommerce Essentials.

Each plan starts with different pricing and features. In our case, we are creating our first blog so you won’t be needing eCommerce Essentials plan.

I suggest to go ahead with Starter plan. You can host upto 10 websites in this package.

Click on “Choose Plan”.

Step 3 – Add your domain. Bluehost offers 1 year free domain in their package when you opt-in for 36 month plan.

My recommendation – Create a list of suitable domains and when you opt-in for bluehost hosting register a free domain or if the domain is already bought click on “I want to use a domain I already own”.

Step 4 – Click on Continue to checkout and add your billing details.

You will received credentials on your email. It would look something like this – (Image attach)

Congrats, you have created your first blog under $150.

4. Design Your Blog (Themes + Plugins)

Selecting a Theme

A WordPress Theme is something you would want to make your posts look good or attractive to users and to yourself. For techlogitic.net I am using Atlas wp theme I bought this on themeforest.net. I have 3000+ articles and while searching I thought this was a good fit for me.

I personally like to keep a simple design at start. Later when I have more number of articles then I design a homepage.

I recommended using Astra, OceanWP or Hello Elementor in terms of design and loading time. If you are only focusing on Pagespeed insights or loading time at start I will say start with Generatepress theme. Less Customization and more options to go for.

When you use Astra, OceanWP or Hello Elementor, leveraging elementor page builder can make your blog post beautiful to users. Another factor of maintaining the bounce rate.

What plugins to use?

Plugins are something you can use to make any additional changes or add new functionality to your website.

My must-have plugins are Yoast SEO or Rankmath for seo Purpose, Updraft, Table of content plus, Wordfence (by default bluehost provides), Caching plugin (Bluehost configures and installs for us.)

I have made a quick table for themes and plugins.

Themes	Plugins
Astra	Yoast SEO or Rankmath
OceanWP	UpdraftPlus
Hello Elementor	Table of Contents Plus
Generatepress	Header and Footer Scripts
	Elementor (If required)
	Contact Form 7
	Classic Editor
	LiteSpeed Cache or Autoptimize (If using bluehost you can skip this, bluehost configures it for us.)
	Wordfence or Malcare
	SMTP Mailer (Not necessary if using Bluehost)

Elementor vs Gutenberg

Both are page builders and can help you bring your design ideas to life. I go for Elementor always as it is user friendly and very easy to build the page.

On other hand, gutenberg I find it useful only for adding blog posts of specific type.

I have a detailed guide on this topic you can read more from here.

5. Write & Publish Your First Blog Post

By this point, you should have a fully functional blog under your personalized domain name with a custom theme and great new plugins! That’s a lot, so you should definitely celebrate having come this far. Now, this is the last and most crucial step, the one for which you created your blog in the first place.

In order to create a new blog post, what you need to do is just select the Posts section and then choose the “Add new” option.

You will have a view of gutenberg or classic editor.

If you have come this far, I believe you have your topics ready. You can leverage AI tools now to make a content map for your website.

WordPress gives you the option to save your post as a blog, or publish it immediately through the boxy menu on your right. What is more, it even lets you set the visibility policies and the date of publication for greater control over what you post.

As soon as you click Publish, your blog post will be up and online, accessible to you under the “All Posts” section and within the “Posts” tab. It can even be edited anytime you wish. Some extra elements you could add to make your post more interesting are:

1. Graphic Images
2. Citation sources.

6. Promote Your Blog to Get Readers

Before promoting your blog. Do this first:

Create a Fabulous Contact Me and an About Me page.

The contact me page lets your readers get in touch with you.

The about me page gives some idea of who you are and what your blog is all about.

Now you have functional website with blog posts we can start promoting the blog. You can use social media handles to promote it fast.

I recommended making all social handles but working on where you will be benefitted. For ex, if you are to make a recipe blog I recommended posting videos on Youtube.

Here is the quick overview on Stepping up in the world of blogging.

Now that you have a blog and content, it’s time to drive traffic to your site and monetize it. Here are some effective strategies:

• Get your blog listed on major search engines like Google, Yahoo, and Bing.
• Generate traffic through multiple channels and techniques (more details available here).
• Monetize your blog through affiliate marketing, influencer partnerships, ad space, and sponsorships.
• Add a subscription box to build relationships with visitors and enable direct content marketing.
• Set up Google Analytics to track blog traffic and understand your audience better.

Add your website to Google Search console

To add your website to search console is very easy task.

You can have to go to https://search.google.com/search-console/about and click Start Now.

After verifying the domain, you can even search for low competition topics.

And this is how you start a blog within few minutes. It might take some more time at the start but once you get a hang of it you will be totally fine.

7. Monetize Your Blog the Right Way

Once, you have traffic on your first blog. You can monetize the website with Adsense, Ad serving companies, sponsored posts, reviews, affiliates.

It all depends on your niche.

If you have a kitchen or recipe blog. You can promote kitchen products and add your affiliate link to make a passive income out of your blog.

Conclusion

So that’s it for today on how to start a blog. Please note that the comment section is open, but they are highly moderated so there will be a few restrictions on what you can or cannot post. If you leave a message, I’ll try my best to approve of it in around 24 hours! Hope this resource was useful to create your blog in 20 minutes.