Blog Launch Checklist – Skyrocket your brand-new blog better

Blog Launch checklist is what you need to start your brand new blog.

Blogging can give you freedom and flexibility in your life. But you have to treat it like your start-up business. Imagine when you are going to start a business, and how many things you have to take into consideration from planning to budgeting to launching.

Yes, Starting your blog launch is easy in some ways. But if you are a serious blogger don’t take it the easy way. There are many things you have to do and take care of before the blog launch. Blogging is not rocket science. It is not instant gratification. It takes your time, effort, patience, determination, commitment, and a can-do and will-do attitude.

That’s why you have to be prepared from day one when you are going to bang your blog launch. You should not be overwhelmed, discouraged, and demotivated on the long way of the learning journey.

The first step you should take is to start your blog launch. There is a Chinese saying “A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” So, looking for perfection and procrastinating in your blog launch will be your biggest mistake. Just go through this step-by-step checklist and bang your blog launch process so that your blog can skyrocket.

Get Brainstorming

Is blogging for you?

Are you going to start a blog just to convey your message as a hobby?

Or you are going to start it for some serious money as a business?

If you are going to start blogging as a hobby then it’s up to you how you present your blog.  If you are serious about your new blog and treat it like a business then you have to take it seriously, think about it, and work on it as a business.

You see, blogging is not piece of cake that you are going to get easier. It is a long-term game or process. If you are looking for instant gratification then blogging is not for you.

Successful blogging requires dedication, determination, patience, commitment, and a can-do attitude.  According to the study, it takes 6-12 months at least, to get some results from your new blog launch.  It’s a long way of learning and going process and unless you are determined to do it, you will be overwhelmed soon enough. You would want to quit. When you are not truly passionate about what you are stating, it won’t be sustainable too.

Yes, it is true that blogging is a flexible job. You can be your own boss with the lucrative blogging business. You can keep learning and growing your business. It is one of the easiest and best ways to make money online seriously.

But you have to accept the fact too that not everyone succeeds in this business. You will need some technical knowledge to move forward your business. It takes long hours of work and you have to do it being lonely in this business. Blogging is a slow burner i.e.; you will see your progress very slowly as it is a long-term game.

In this way, when you are going to make it happen your blog launch, you have to brainstorm about it first- is it right for you? Or can you, do it? or are you committed and determined that much so that you can go learn and grow your blogging business?

With that note, here come the next three steps simultaneously.

Your why is the foundation of your blog. Unless you have a strong WHY, something intangible, a motivational factor that will push you through, you will quit sooner than later. When you don’t enjoy what you do, you will start to feel burned out soon enough and potentially waste hundreds of hours.

Excitedly starting your blog and banging your blog launch is a good thing. But going along with the blogging journey without feeling it’s all for nothing and quitting is very difficult. That time, your strong why if you have known already will give you strength to continue.

“I want to be a successful blogger” or “I want to make money” aren’t your why because you have started your blog as a business after brainstorming. Without being successful there is no meaning in blogging that you have started. Therefore, these are the only achievement you wish to achieve. You can’t put them as reasons Why you are starting your blog or why you have become interested in blogging in the first place.

Making money is the perfectly OK goal to have in blogging but again comes Why do you need to make money? Thus, you have to think and know your real why. For me, the WHY is “to teach enthusiastic people a freedom lifestyle through digital marketing especially blogging and affiliate marketing”

You also have to have a strong and push-able WHY:

• Establish an Online Brand, become an expert in your Niche
• Spend more time with your family after getting Money & Freedom
• Help your readers solve their problems
• Become an author in the future
• Be your own Boss and completely independent
• Become an authoritative Niche expert by educating others and gaining more exposure
• To build a strong online portfolio for digital marketing and freelancing

Likewise, you need to find and know your WHY. So that you can continuously go along with your blogging journey without any guilt, without quitting thought in the middle, and make your blogging business successful. After finding your WHY, there is the next step you should take together with this step. That is:

Setting your Clear Goal

Like your WHY, your clear Goal is another motivational factor that helps you keep going. It is too beginning step you should take before your blog launch and to define your purpose of blogging.

Setting goals help you focus your time and energy on what’s most important because goals help you create schedules. Schedules help you become disciplined and disciplines help you to reach your goals.

You should set both long-term and short-term goals for your blogging success. Goals should be specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound. These are the factors of goals you should include while defining your blogging goals. These will help you motivate the blogging journey because these all help you give the progress report of your blog.

When you are going to start your brand new blog launch, there are lots of pieces (like learning new tools, writing your blog posts, and connecting with your readers) you should manage to get the blogging puzzle solved. You may lose sight of your big goals, your vision, and the mission of blogging because of your daily work. For this reason, you should break down your goal into smaller milestones from the beginning.

Your smaller goals should be measurable and achievable too so that you can track your progress. Some examples of smaller goals are:

• Get 1000 email subscribers in 8 months
• Write at least 1 blog post a week
• Publish one ultimate guide greater than 3500 words
• Increase blog traffic by 4% every two months
• Make connections with 2 influencers in three months and feature them on your blog

In this way, by breaking into small milestones, your blogging tasks will be much more enjoyable and rewarding. You will know what you need to do next and when you will reach your next milestone.

“If you try to catch two rabbits at the same time, you will can none.”

“If you try to appeal to everyone, you will appeal to no one”

These quotes explain why you need to know your WHAT. When you are starting a blog, you can’t write anything and everything that you are interested in or passionate about. You have to know, where are you going as per your Goals, mission, and/or vision as mentioned above.

Know your WHAT means find your thing here. In other words, know your Niche, your blogging topic, and what you are going to write about in your blog.

It is understandable that you have lots of interests and maybe have experience in many things. But knowing your WHAT indicates – you should find your Niche in such a way that it has some differences from others so that you can stand out from the competition. Your niche should not be too broad or too narrow.  When you choose too broad a niche it will be difficult to stand out in the crowd. Similarly, when you pick a niche that is too narrow, you will have a harder time driving traffic to your blog.

Therefore, you have to pick your Niche which is popular enough, big enough to create content, and monetizable, and not forget it should be something you do not hate writing about. In this way, if you find your WHAT carefully, it will help you connect with your audience. It will simplify your blogging business and keep things running smoothly for a long time.

Here is a guide for you on how to find your Profitable niche quickly so that you won’t be confused more about knowing your WHAT.

Finding your Niche or Having your WHAT means you are already ahead of 90% of the bloggers out there. In the same way Knowing your WHO (your ideal customer, your customer avatar) means you are already in the business.

Blogging as a business means your ultimate goal is selling. Sometimes you sell actual products and other times you sell your idea. Either way, creating your customer avatar or knowing your WHO for your blog audience will make it easier for you to decide on crucial aspects of your blog. It will help you establish a consistent style and brand.  

Your content of the blog for your niche makes you more or less of an authority in your field. You have written your blog posts keeping in mind your ideal customers. In this way, you will attract a certain group of readers that will keep coming back to explore your content. Yes, that certain group is your Ideal customers, your WHO, your community, your tribe.

Your blog’s customer avatar is the key to crafting a successful blogging strategy. Not everyone will be interested in what you are writing. Therefore, after finding your WHAT, it is still important to find and know your WHO within that niche. You can go through this blog post to understand more about your customer avatar and to know your WHO for your blog.

Before start writing your blog posts, you should see more blogs on your niche. Researching your competition is as much as important as researching your niche. It is like 50% of your hard work is over. 

You can see that every blogger wants to succeed in their blogging business. Every blogger including you wants high traffic and high lucrative niche that helps you make more money from your blog. It is also true that where there is competition, there is a market and money. But it will be difficult to make your blog profitable in that competition unless you have some angle, differentiation, and uniqueness. You should have specialized in your niche gone deeper and should have gone the extra mile and provided information your competitors don’t.

Researching your competition doesn’t mean that you should copy or clone them. You have to research them for creating your own content as an inspiration. You can research your competitor’s site to look at the points like:

• Number of articles and blogs already out there
• Overall quality and frequency of blog post publishing
• The writing style, type of topics, their strength and weaknesses
• The way of promotion, blog format, selection of categories
• Most SEO tools like Moz, SEMrush, and Ahrefs can help you to find keywords, traffic, backlinks, top pages, SEO optimization, and more

Everybody wants to make money from blogs unless it is done as a hobby. As you have already learned how is it important to set a clear goal above. Blogging as a business means its main goal is to make a profit from it or you can say to make money from it so that you can make living from your blogging.

Choosing proper monetization options from day one plays an important role in your blogging success. Your monetization strategy may change on the journey but at least you have to have an idea of how you are going to make money with your blog.

Direct ads, affiliate products, sponsored posts, personal products, and email marketing are some ways you can monetize your blog. For more knowledge on how to monetize your blog from day one. You can read this blog post.

Blogging success will happen when you publish your blog content consistently and continuously after your blog launch. Study shows that having at least 24 blog posts can increase traffic to your blog by 30%, and having more than 50 posts can lead to a 77% boost in traffic. 

In the same way, based on your seriousness about your blogging business, this is how many posts you need to write before your blog launch.

• Recreational Bloggers: 5 posts
• Intermediate Blogger: 10 posts
• Serious Blogger: 20 posts
• Career Blogger: 50 posts

That is why you need a raw content structure and action plan in hand. You have already clear goals for blogging, your vision, and your mission. Preparing your action plan and raw content is preparing your categories, sub-categories, pillar contents, 3 blog posts in every category, sufficient blog sample headlines, and if possible editorial calendar or blog workbook. A good structure and clear plan with daily routines and steps to follow will help you keep motivated and reach your long-term goal.

You should always keep your long-term goal in sight, and track them regularly. For that, you should break down it into small and short-term goals. It will help you kick-start your content creation process. A blogging strategy is the one you need and should include in your action plan. The strategy makes it clear how you going to reach your goals. Which direction you should go? Which methodology you should apply in your blogging journey to get success?

This is the last one you should put a checked mark on before setting up your WordPress blog and before investing in your blog.

The elevator pitch is the way to share your expertise and credentials quickly and effectively with people who don’t know you. This is the way to introduce yourself to positioning in the online space. The elevator pitch includes everything about you and your business. In other words, you should prepare your elevator pitch in a way that includes your micro-niche, designation, mission, goals, and community. Being able to explain your blogging business in just a couple of sentences in a few seconds will help you clarify what your business is about.

Here is an example of an elevator pitch for my digital marketing business.

“Hi, I am Suman Maharjan, a digital marketing mentor and expert. I am the founder of (your community’s name: like blogging success tribe), and I am on a mission to help enthusiastic people to live a free lifestyle through digital marketing, especially through blogging and affiliate marketing.”

The Domain name is the address of your website. It is the text the internet user types into the browser window to reach your website.

For example google.com, and sagansuman.com.

Things to consider when you choose your domain name are:

• Catchy
• Easy to spell, pronounce and remember
• Short and Sweet (two or three words long)
• Without a hyphen (-) and possibly without a number
• Relevant to your blog niche
• If possible, include your keyword in your domain name
• Choose your domain name keeping social media handles in mind
• Check out synonyms online
• Always go for a dotcom domain name as it is the most famous domain extension
• Make sure it reads well. For Example penisland.net (Pen Island)
• Choose a branding-friendly domain name so that it is not too long for your logo

Now you have come up with your perfect and catchy domain name. Check the availability and register or purchase it ASAP as anyone in this world has the right to purchase it before you. Nowadays most hosting companies provide free domain registration services.

Choosing the right hosting is very important for your blogging business. Hosting is the place where your all files are stored and your blog lives. You need a place on the internet to display your blog website to the world and hosting provides that rented place on the internet in the form of a computer server.

High speed, reliable, secure, support, and affordable are some points among a lot of others, you should take into consideration when you are going to purchase the hosting for your blog website.

Now, you may be thinking there are lots of hosting companies that give you free service then why should you need to purchase the hosting? This blog post about blogging FAQs gives the answer to why you should go for the self-hosted company for your blog website.

Choosing the right blogging platform and CMS (Content Management System) for your blogging website is very important for usability, control, and SEO. Almost every hosting provider comes with all the essential CMS.

You may already get the answer to free blogging Vs Paid blogging platforms from the post mentioned above the Blogging FAQs. It is recommended that you should go for a self-hosted or paid blogging platform if you are a serious blogger. 

WordPress.org is the one you should choose and install in your blogging platform for CMS. It is easy to use and the most powerful content management system that will help you to set up your blog in a matter of minutes. This system gives you complete control of your blog. Mostly every hosting provider nowadays has WordPress software for free. You just need one click to install it on your blogging website.

Set up your WordPress login username and password something complex combining the different characters, numbers, and symbols.

Keeping a default username and Password like “admin” is not secure for your WordPress. It is also dangerous because hackers can easily hack your WordPress blog site.

You have to log into your WordPress account to change your Username and Password. After login to your WordPress account go to Users >> add new.

Choose administrator from the role menu and click add a new user.  After creating your new credentials, you have to log out and log in again with the new username and password.

In the meantime, if you want to change your display name, you can change it in the same process. On your WordPress dashboard, go to User >> All Users and then click on your username to change it.

After choosing your domain name, hosting, and CMS, your next step is to set up the social media accounts booking the same name that match your domain name. It is not compulsory but if you could and if the name is available on the social media account you choose, it will help you brand your blogging website in a better way.

Although social media platforms are like rented land, it is a great source to drive traffic to your blog. Do you know? According to a study, there are 4.65 billion social media users in the world which is 58.7% of the global population.

The social media traffic is quicker than Google. It is the best way to get new people to your blog. Therefore, booking your social media handles with your domain name is the best decision for the brand awareness strategy of your blog.

This certificate adds an extra layer of security to your blog site. SSL is a Secure Sockets Layer that encrypts all your blog data and protects you and your readers from being hacked into sensitive information like passwords, credit card numbers, personal information, etc.

The certificate makes your blog site trustworthy and professional. A small padlock on the left of the URL in your address bar is proof of SSL and the security of the blog site. Otherwise, Google will show alerting with the red color “Not Secure” in your address bar.

Most hosting company gives this certificate for free when you buy the hosting. It’s your duty to make sure that the hosting company you are going to buy has an SSL certificate. Besides adding the extra security layer, this certificate gives you peace of mind. Because all the data transferred between your blog and your readers are encrypted.

To make it professional and to prove that you are a serious blogger, you should create an email address with your domain name. It is far better than using your existing Gmail or iCloud email address for your blogging business.

Sometimes, certain affiliate companies which will be one of your monetization methods, also prefer a domain-specific email address. For example, my custom personalized business email with the domain name mail@sagansuman.com.   

You can make your custom personalized business email with your domain name with your hosting company from the C-panel if the email service is provided in your hosting package. Otherwise, you can make it from Google by investing little extra money in your business. Here is a blog post from WP Beginners on how to set up a professional email address with Gmail and G Suite.

This is one of the important steps you should take before your blog launch. Permalink is a permanent URL to your individual pages, posts, categories, and tag archives. A permalink is the web address used to link to your content. 

By default setting in WordPress, the URL consists of the date means numbers, which is not a good practice from the point of SEO for your blog. Changing your permalink structure is basically giving the URL a clearer view and making it more appealing to your readers.

The best practice to show your URL to your readers and for Google (as it analyzes everything about it to figure out what your website is about) is with a blog post title in it.

Log in to your WordPress Dashboard and go to setting >> Permalink and then select “Post Name “to change your permalink structure. Don’t forget to click on “Save Changes” to save your new permalink settings.  

This is another important step you should take before your blog launch. Your blog theme determines the design and looks of your blog site. It also affects the user experience and trustworthiness of your blog.

Choosing a theme for WordPress can be overwhelming as there are tons of free WordPress themes out there. What happens when you choose free themes, many blogs look pretty much the same and you cannot stand out in the crowd. Besides Free themes may not be up to date. You cannot get any tech support. It comes with limitations.  

But if you want to be original, stand out is unique, you should invest in a custom/paid theme. The custom theme is customizable as per your brand and business. It will look more professional. Also, custom themes come with a great user experience, fast loading speed, full security, and tech support.  

You should choose the theme as per your niche and needs. A good theme should be simple and must be easy on the eyes. It should be well-documented, responsive across all devices, and has more options for layout and design.  

When you install the theme in your WordPress, it comes with pre-installed widgets. Remove the unwanted and unnecessary widgets to make them look good. It can be done by going from the WordPress dashboard >> Appearance >> Widget area.

Customize your layout and design with the help of a page builder. Your blog should neat and tidy and pleasing to the eyes so that you can get a great user experience. This is the main reason, you should remove the unnecessary widgets from the theme.

Plugins are like apps for your mobile. WordPress plugins add new features and functionality to your WordPress blog site. There are tons of plugins both free and paid to help your design and for work done easily. That is why, in the WordPress community, there is a popular saying “There is a plugin for that”.

These are the essentials plugins you should install in your WordPress:

• Akismet: Protects from spamming comments
• Yoast SEO/All-in-one SEO: For Search Engine Optimization
• W3 Total Cache or WP Rocket: Caching plugin that speeds up your blog
• WP Smush: For image optimization
• Wordfence: Most Popular firewall & security scanner
• SumoMe:  Help you grow your site with analytics and testing features
• Jetpack: WP security, Backup, Speed, and Growth
• Easy Social Share Buttons: For social media sharing buttons
• Updraft Plus: Backup, restore, and clone plugin

For more details about the essential plugins, you can visit this blog post.

The Site title and tagline are the first things your readers see when they land on your blogging site. Therefore, it should be really catchy. But also have to take into consideration that it gives information about what your blog is all about and if they are a good fit for your content.

Your site title and tagline are means of communicating your site’s style to first-time visitors. It plays a key role in SEO and serves as a central part of your overall blog’s branding.

These are your important tools to keep your visitors on your blogging site as visitors will leave in a minute unless you catch their interest in your blog. This is the reason; you should optimize your title and tagline so that you can improve your first impressions and better communicate your Niche.

Considering your site’s niche and style, including your primary keywords, and integrating your title and tagline with your overall branding are the points you should include when optimizing your blogging site’s title and tagline.

Categories and tags are something that has a significant role when it comes to the content organization on your blogging site as well as SEO.

Your blog categories and tags should be the topics that your blog is mainly focused on.

Categories and tags are the two primary ways to group your blog content. In simple terms, Categories are general labels i.e., topics of your blog posts that can be grouped together. Whereas tags are more specific i.e., specific keywords. Categories indicate the genre of the post and tags indicate the individual things that the post talks about. These two help your content to find once you grow big.

Therefore, it is also another important checklist you should take care of while setting up your WordPress blog and before your blog launch.

A simple but catchy logo is the first step toward creating a strong brand. Your logo is your recognition in the online space. It serves as an online business card when your visitors find your blog via different channels.

Your logo is an expression of your brand and sets the tone for your brand. That is why, when you design your logo, you should consider the color combination with your theme. It helps you attract more visitors to your blog. Like site tile and tagline, your logo is also the first thing your visitors will look at after visiting your site for the first time.

Therefore, you should have something unique and meaningful logo added to your blogging site before your blog launch.

Favicon is the little icon that appears next to your site title on the browser tab.

These small graphics encourage people to click your URL. It is an indication of the professionalism of your blogging site. Favicon gives you and your site a kind of recognition as it is a tiny version of your logo.

Favicon is an important step in setting up your blogging site for your blog launch. It helps boost your online branding, adds legitimacy to your blogging site, and builds trust from your readers. Favicon is an immediate visual maker for your site that enables easy and quick identification for web users.

Gravatar means Globally Recognized Avatar. Anyone who wants to build a brand online needs gravatar because you can show your picture in your author profile and comments by associating your email address with your Gravatar account.

When your visitors leave a comment (with email) on your WordPress blog site which supports Gravatar, it pulls the Globally Recognized Avatar from Gravatar servers. Then that picture is shown next to the comment or email.  In this way, Gravatar works and gives identification around the web.

The about page will be your most viewed page on your blogging site because readers like to know the person behind the scene. Therefore, you should add a good-quality photo of yours on this page. Besides this page shows your credibility and builds your reader’s trust.

It is a sign of trustworthiness that includes what your blog is about, why you started it and what you hope to achieve, and how it can help readers. So, you can say it is your blogging site’s heart and soul.

The about page is a good way to connect with blog readers on a more personal level. It is also a great opportunity to showcase your most popular content and also works as a sales letter for your blog. You can or should include your opt-in or incentive on your about page along with your story. It will help you in conversion.

The contact page is as important as your about page. It also shows some professionalism on your blog site. The contact page is a great way to collaborate and connect.

In your contact page, you should include mainly two things i.e., contact information like email and social media IDs and a contact form. It helps you convey the message that you would love to hear from your visitors. So, you are making them easy to contact you by adding your contact email and contact form to your home page.

Some of the reasons people want to contact you or you can say the reasons you should have a contact page on your sites are:

• Your blog visitors or readers have some questions or feedback
• Other bloggers who are interested in collaborating with you
• Bloggers who want to write a guest post on your blog
• Your potential sponsors
• Targeted clients if you offer a service

Legal pages in your blogging site are required to keep the transparency between you and your visitors and also to comply with the policies of the search engines.

Creating these pages helps you to disclaim yourself from personal liability, protect your intellectual property rights, explain your site’s rules, work with advertisers, and protect your visitor’s privacy.

These pages help you in increasing the trust among your visitor.

The most important legal pages you need to add to your blogging website are:

Privacy Policy

This is the document that is legal and complies with GDPR rules and regulations. This page informs your readers how you going to use their personal data/information, which you have collected through cookies, email sign-up forms, contact forms, comments sections, Google Analytics, etc.

You need to add this page to your website when you are working with affiliate programs, Google Analytics, and other many third-party services.

Disclaimer

You need this Disclaimer page in your blogging website and must have it compulsorily if you use affiliates like in your blogging website. Disclaimer tells your readers or visitors that you don’t take any legal responsibility for anything you publish. You are only providing information not professional advice in your blog. If They follow your advice or information, you can’t be held liable for the outcome.

Likewise, if you don’t have a separate affiliate disclosure page, you should include it in the disclaimer page to tell your readers that you do not accept any liability for your blog content or third-party links.

Terms & Conditions

The terms and conditions page is the explanation of your blogging site’s rules and regulations, rights, and obligations. Although this page is not so legal you should add it to your blogging site. This page helps you to protect your rights and your intellectual property.

A limitation of liability, your right to make changes to your site, your right to terminate anyone’s use of your site, and your intellectual property rights are some points you should include on your terms and conditions page.

You should set up Google Analytics from day one so that you can track your blog’s traffic and performance. Where you are getting traffic from, who your audience is (age, gender, location, etc.), and what are your most successful posts, are among other pretty important data you can track from it.

Tracking your analytics will help you identify what is working and what is not. It tells you whether you are helping as many people as you want, and whether you are reaching your target traffic and page view goals or not.

Hence, understanding Google Analytics is as important as your high-quality content.   

Google Search Console is another add-up you must include in your blogging website before your blog launch. It helps you monitor, maintain and troubleshoot your website’s performance in search results.

The search console helps you to do the following operations so that you can improve your site’s performance:

• See all keywords for which you are organically ranking in Google.
• Index all the latest posts manually if you want them to appear faster on Google
• Compare the keywords based on the web, images, etc.
• Track the organic performance of your pages
• Find your blog’s overall health and speed score
• Notify you if Google finds any errors
• Connect your site map structure

You just have to sign up for the Google Search Console account and get Site Map. Add to your WordPress blog with the help of a plugin or Coding. Then finally connect your Google analytics with your Google Search Console account. You can get a full guide on how to get your website on Google search by going through this link.

Now technically and mentally you have set up all the necessary things in your blogging website. It’s time to write high-quality and value-packed blog posts with the help of the raw content structure and action plan you have prepared.

Write one detailed post for each category you have chosen on your blogging site so that it serves as pillar content for the categories. Ensure that these posts are evergreen and don’t require many updates.

Writing your epic blog is a must to stand out from the crowded online blogging space. So, while creating and writing your blog posts you should take care of many things like:

• Keyword Research is very important
• Catchy headlines are important for social and SEO
• Media (images, videos, audio, infographics) optimization is a must.
• SEO Optimization of your blog post is important for growth
• Consistency is key to success. Get help with the editorial calendar for continuity.
• Publish interlinkable blog posts
• Add meta description, conclusion, and call to action for each post

And a lot more things you have to include in writing your blog. You can go through the blog post for more details: on how to start a successful blog that makes money.

It’s your choice to have a sidebar or not. A sidebar with widget installation is a great way to promote your blog posts and capture email subscribers. Therefore it is also one of the important checklists in your blog launch checklist.

This is the place where you can show your blog post preview, social media updates, email subscription boxes, etc. And also, you can include your contact information, social media profiles for links, blog categories, latest blog posts, and your “about me” page.

The real fun begins just after hitting the publish button and after your blog launch. Share your blog posts on your social media accounts creating custom social media content. You can also schedule your blog post for sharing using or signing up tools like buffer, tailwind, etc. There are lots of such tools available for you online.

Besides sharing on social media accounts, here are some tips for promoting your blog posts:

• Connect with another blogger with the same niche
• Comment on other blogs and networks to grow your brand
• Reply to comments within your blog posts
• Try to write some guest blog
• Install the social sharing button plugin and include it in blog posts
• Include a Blog post or your website’s URL in your Social media accounts bio.
• Connect with like-minded people and join supportive Facebook groups

Your email list is your most precious asset, your best friend that will help you on the journey of blogging. It is the easiest way to build trust and build a relationship with your readers.

Your list is totally yours and you have full control of it. Google might change its algorithms anytime and your post’s rank can fall. In the same way, the followers of social media accounts don’t mean anything unless they trust you. If these third-party websites in cases happen anything or change anything or go down, you can still get in touch with your readers with email marketing.

Do you know the fact that email subscribers are 3x more likely to share your content on social media? Your email subscribers spend 138% more than non-email subscribers on your blog content.

You should start building a list as soon as you start blogging. The sooner you start your email list, the better you can market your blog. Besides that, over 70% of people abandoning your blogging site may not return. To keep in touch with them you should start building your email list right away.  Here is the ultimate guide on how to do email marketing.

A lead magnet is a free resource that you offer your readers to sign up to be on your list. Creating an opt-in incentive is a good way to collect the contact details for your email list by offering something your readers love for free.

Your free incentive or lead magnet should be something that will help your readers to do something or take actionable steps or to get something valuable. There are lots of lead magnets you can create for your readers. Some examples are – checklists, cheat sheets, workbooks, templates, guides, printables, eBooks, short email courses, etc. In the beginning stage, you just have to create something small and easy to understand with value.

Now you have your lead magnet. To give your free incentive or lead magnet to your readers, you need a mechanism. This mechanism is your sign-up form or opt-in form.

You have to showcase your opt-in form whether it’s only one or multiple opt-in forms, on your blogging website wherever it is possible to increase your opt-in rate and grow your email list.

Here are the places you can show or place your opt-in form on your website before and after your blog launch:

• Link to an opt-in page in your navigation of the homepage
• Add as an inline form to your blog posts
• A sidebar is a good place for an opt-in form
• Can also use in exit popups and intent popups
• You can use tools like a welcome mat, hello bar, and chatbots
• In the footer of your website
• As a slide-in on one or more pages
• At the end of your about page
• In a scroll box

Automated emails get 152% higher click rates than other types of emails. The autoresponder sequence is a script that automates emails. Another Checklist on your blog launch checklist.

Almost all email service providers have this service. Some are free with limited emails and some are paid. You can create your welcome email sequence to deliver the lead magnet to the subscribers.

Email autoresponder sequence can use to cut down the amount of work. Rather than emailing each individual who signs up or opt-in for your lead magnet, an autoresponder may send out emails that other scripts have personalized.

Plus, you can use this service to market you, your product and services, and your blog posts, and build a relationship with your subscribers.

The landing page is the page designed with a single focus or goal i.e., a call to action. This is a stand-alone page created especially for a marketing or advertising campaign.

You can build a landing page or squeeze page for promoting your lead magnet. Like a lead magnet, you can also place the link of the landing page into your sidebar and at the end of your blog posts.

Besides increasing conversions, landing pages boosts your credibility and reinforce your brand. This page is different from other pages of your website along with the home page as mentioned above it is focused on specific, short-term goals so that you can get the result you want sooner. Hence the more optimized landing pages you have, the better your blogging website.

Finally, you have reached your destination. It’s time for your blog to launch to the world. Check all the pages, the home page how it looks and if everything is in its place and works the way you would like.

Check your blogging site from both desktop and mobile devices. If possible, check in different browsers as well so that you can make sure your blog is working everywhere.

Keep your consistency. Know that blogging is a long-term commitment and it takes time to build trust and credibility in your niche. You have to learn, test, and apply the different strategies for your blogging success. Then you will know what has worked and what hasn’t. Rinse them and repeat the process. In this way, if you have done it strategically, rinsing and repeating the process, you can make living from your blogging.

Final Thought

When you have a clear plan, and clear vision with commitment and dedication, it will be easier to follow your steps toward your destination. You just need to track your progress regularly and have fun with your blogging.

Now I think you have also got a clear picture of your blogging goal. So, what are you waiting for then? You have all the steps to your blog launch in your hand. Assemble them and fire the tail of the rocket so that your blogging website (rocket) can reach its destination.

If you still think or have the missing part in this post to assemble for your blogging rocket, please let me know in the comment section.

If and also need any assistance in assembling your blogging rocket to launch, I am always here to help you.

Happy blog Launch!!!!!!