How To Set Up A Blog Site For Your Cat

If you have an interesting Cat you should set a blog site where you can share it's life with the rest of the world. The cat story can be told in form of written text by you and posting of cat pictures and cat videos.

Securing Domain Name For Your Cat
The first step in setting up a cat blog is purchasing the domain name for your site. Cat.com is not available so your domain name should be something like maruthecat.com. The trick is combining your cat name plus the word cat.

Free Domain Name For Your Cat Blog
Domain names cost from $9.99 - $20. But you can get a free domain name from web hosting companies such as Bluehost and Web Hosting Hub. This companies will give you a free domain name when you purchase blog hosting service from them.

Build Your Cat Blog Using Wordpress
Wordpress is the best software to build and create your cat blog. It is easy to use and you don't need website skills to use it. If you have never used Wordpress, go and get a free blog site at wordpress.com. Registration will take 5 minutes and you can start blogging about, what your cat ate for breakfast, post a video of your cat chasing the neighbourhood cat and pictures of your cat during your summer vacation.

Best Hosting For A Cat Blog
For those who prefer having a self hosted Wordpress blog, you can never go wrong by purchasing hosting from my recommended blog hosting services.
WebHostingHub.com
Web Hosting Hub, is an award-winning hosting company, provides affordable web hosting services with the highest level of technical support and customer satisfaction. Their All-in-One hosting plan starts from only $3.95/mo and includes all the features you'll need to get your cat website or blog online fast.

Bluehost.com 
BlueHost has become well known for providing some excellent features at the low cost. At the same time, great customer service and excellent products is what really sets BlueHost apart from other web hosting companies. Their technical support is ranked as one of the best on the market. If you look around for your cat blog hosting, you might be able to find cheaper web hosting companies but with BlueHost you will get the best value for money.

Popular Cat Blogs That May Inspire Your Cat blog
One way to learn all about cat blogging is by following some of the most popular cat blogs in the web.  


Misha The Cat

Henry The cat

When your cat blog goes viral make sure to contact www.kickerhosting.com so that I may list your cat blog here.

Get Your Own Blog & Start Making Money

I always feel it is better to have your own self hosted blog vs having a free blog from free blog hosting services such as Wordpress.com, Tumbrl and Blogger. The main benefit of a self hosted blog is you have more control, you can runs ads and make changes to the design and functions of the blog.

I got the following email from one of my readers who is thinking of migrating her blog from wordpress.com to a self hosted wordpress installation.

Hello Asterix,

I have been writing on my wordpress.com blog for the last 2 years and I just discovered they don't allow users to have ads. My blog is popular and I believe I could start making money through advertising.

Can you advise me on how to get my own blog with my custom domain. I desperately want to know how to create my own blog on self hosted wordpress blog. I thought of how to build my own blog on blogger but I got discouraged when I had it is not possible to transfer from wordpress.com to blogger.

Thanks

Gladys.

Get A Domain Name

The first step in getting your own blog website is purchasing domain name. A good domain name should be single word, short and memorable. The price of a domain name is $10 and it is renewed every year. You can get a FREE DOMAIN NAME from blue host web hosting if you buying web hosting of your blog from them.

Web Hosting For Your Blog

A domain names needs web hosting. My recommendation is always bluehost, they are a good host for a beginner who is starting a small blog or website. Today, BlueHost has become one of the most recognizable names in the web hosting industry with over 1,000,000 domain names hosted.

Blue host advantages are

Free Domain Forever!

Free Website Builder

Host UNLIMITED Domains on 1 Account

UNLIMITED Web Space & File Transfer

After you have purchased blog hosting and domain name you need to install wordpress in it. Watch this Step-by-Step video Guide on How to Install Wordpress in Your blog that is Hosted on BlueHost Web Hosting. This is very simple and easy 1-click installation of wordpress blog to your website.


Once you are done with the installation you can then proceed to migrate your wordpress.com blog to your self hosted blog.

Here is a video demonstration on how to do that.


I wish you a happy migration.

All this for an affordable monthly fee of $6.95

Installing Wordpress Blog

How To Set Up A Photography Website

A photography website or blog is the perfect place to showcase your best work. That is not all, having a website for your photography business shows potential clients you are serious and professional.

First Get The Domain Name For Your Photography Website

Before you get into other small details of setting up your photography website or blog I would recommend you first check out whether your desired domain name is available and purchase it. Bluehost web hosting will give you a FREE DOMAIN NAME if you sign up for their cheap web hosting package.

Qualities of An Effective Photography Website

An effective photography website i.e. a website that make customers give you business should include the following.

1. Contact details - It is no use having a website and you don't give essential contact details. Put your real names, email, telephone numbers, Facebook page and Twitter handle.
2. Testimonials - Ask your satisfied customers to writer a testimonial for you. Research from Amazon.com has shown customers are more likely to purchase when they read customers reviews. The testimonials are seal of approval.
3. Your Portfolio - Upload some of your best work so that visitors to your photography website can see you are the real deal.
4. Attractive Homepage - The homepage design should contain an Image that makes a visitor pause for a minutes and say WAW! Internet visitors are impatient lot and you have to work hard to capture their attention.
5. Have a blog on your website - Blogs are popular with search engines and having an active blog will help your website to rank high on Google.
   

Design the Photography Website

The above points should be clearly communicated to the designer of your photography website. If you are not sure how you want the photo website to look like, you can check out online for photography website templates.

The following is a list of some of the best photography websites that you can have a look at for some inspiration.

Burn Magazine

Chase Jarvis

Gavin Gough

Timothy Allen Photography

Best Photography websites

Isabella

Promoting Your Photography Website

The best places to promote your photography websites are photography forums, Facebook and Twitter. Check out digital photography school. Write frequent guest posts on popular photography blogs to build your back links and get targeted traffic.

Web Hosting For a Photography Website : Upload Unlimited Photos

Photography websites are multi media websites with lots of images. These images eat up space and bandwidth. Bluehost web hosting have unlimited hosting plan that doesn't give you a limit on the number of images you can upload.