How to Start a Blog According to Blog Tyrant's Beginner Guides

Blog Tyrant's beginner path is a four-decision sequence: pick a blogging platform, choose a host, install WordPress, then work through a launch checklist before you publish. The site has been publishing this material for ten years and organizes it under a "Starting a Blog" section with a stated goal of helping readers "start a blog and build an ethical income online through tested content, SEO and email marketing strategies." If you want the shortest route from zero to a live blog, follow the order below rather than reading the guides at random.

The four starting guides and what each one is for

Blog Tyrant's "Starting a Blog" section lists these entry points:

The site also maintains tool pages — a domain name generator, website uptime checker, WP security scanner, downtime calculator, WordPress speed test, and password generator — that support the setup and maintenance stages.

Step 1: Choose your platform

Use "How to Choose the Best Blogging Platform" first, because every later decision depends on it. The two broad routes are a hosted platform (you sign up and start writing) and self-hosted WordPress (you control hosting, plugins, and data). Blog Tyrant's own guide set is built around self-hosted WordPress — it publishes WordPress-specific installation instructions, plugin reviews, and speed and security tools — so if you follow the rest of the path as written, you are choosing the self-hosted route.

Decide this before you buy anything. Switching later means migrating content and rebuilding your setup.

Step 2: Pick a host

"What is the Best Blog Hosting" is the guide for this step. Hosting choice affects page speed, uptime, and how much technical work you do yourself. Blog Tyrant treats this as a standalone decision rather than a footnote to installation, which is a reasonable signal of how much it matters: a slow or unreliable host will undermine the SEO and traffic work covered in the site's later guides.

Step 3: Install WordPress

"How to Install WordPress for Beginners" is the hands-on step. The input and action are: you have a hosting account and a domain, you run the installer your host provides (or a manual install), and the expected result is a working WordPress dashboard you can log into. If installation fails, the usual causes are domain DNS not yet pointing at the host, or missing database credentials — both are host-side issues to raise with support rather than WordPress problems.

Step 4: Run the launch checklist

"Launching a Blog Checklist" is the final gate before you go public. Treat it as a verification pass: confirm the site loads, permalinks are set, and the basics are in place. Only after this should you move into the site's other sections.

What comes after launch

Blog Tyrant's homepage organizes the rest of its material into four further areas, which map to the order most blogs need them:

• Traffic & SEO — How to Get Traffic to Your Blog, Blog SEO: How to Rank in Search Results, How to Get More Backlinks, How to Speed Up Your WordPress Site, Ultimate SEO Guide for Bloggers
• Email Marketing — How to Do Email Marketing, Easy Hacks To Get More Email Subscribers, Best Email Marketing Services, How to Create an Email Newsletter
• Writing Tips — How to Write the Perfect Blog Post, The Ultimate Blog Post Checklist, Types of Blog Posts that Work
• Make Money Online — How to Write Blogs That Convert, How to Start Affiliate Marketing, How to Add Google Adsense to WordPress, How to Start an Online Store

The site frames the money section around creating "a sustainable income stream from your blog in ways that help your readers and don't make your blog sleazy" — in other words, it positions monetization as something you build on top of traffic and an email list, not as a first step.

Common sticking points

• Reading out of order. The platform and hosting decisions constrain everything else. Doing the WordPress install guide before choosing a host wastes the work.
• Skipping the checklist. It exists to catch the small configuration errors that are annoying to fix once you have readers.
• Expecting income immediately. Blog Tyrant's own structure puts monetization after traffic, SEO, and email — the sequence is the advice.

If you only have time for one article, start with "How to Start a Blog – The Definitive Guide," since it is positioned as the overview that the other guides feed into.