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I’m Akshay Hallur, Founder of BloggingX, and This Is How I Blog
Akshay Hallur is a professional blogger and a digital marketer from India. He is the founder of BloggingX, InfoSparkle, and many other online ventures. He started his blogging journey in 2013 as a hobby and decided to drop out of college in 2015 to become a professional blogger. Now he is one of the top…
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10 Tips for Choosing a Good Blog Domain Name
Your domain name is the first decision when you start a blog and one of the hardest to change later. It becomes your brand, appears in every link you share, and is what people type when they remember you. The problem is that most obvious names are taken, and that pushes people into rushed choices:…
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Should I Start a Blog? 10 Reasons Why You Should (and the Honest Downsides)
Blogging has been around for more than 25 years, and today you also have to compete with social media, YouTube, and AI answers in Google and ChatGPT. So it is fair to ask: should I still start a blog? Short answer: yes, if you are willing to be patient and write from real experience. A…
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How to Decide What to Blog About (Plus 30 Blog Topic Ideas)
Deciding what to blog about gets harder the more you think about it. Will anyone read it? Can it make money? Is it already taken? Those are the right questions, but asked all at once they stop people from starting at all. This guide gives you a simple way to answer them: a three-part test…
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How to Start a Blog: A Step-by-Step Guide for Beginners
Starting a blog is still one of the best long-term ways to build an audience and earn money online. The tools have never been easier: you can have a professional WordPress blog live in under an hour, with no coding. This step-by-step guide walks you through the whole process for 2026: choosing a topic, picking…
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10 Things You Should Know Before Starting a Blog
Starting a blog and growing an audience is still one of the best long-term ways to earn money online. WPBeginner started as a simple blog in 2009 and grew into a multi-million-dollar business. But blogging is more competitive than ever, and AI tools now answer simple questions directly in search results. Start the wrong way…
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How to Add Click to Tweet Boxes in WordPress (Easy Way)
A click to tweet box highlights a short, quotable line from your post. When a reader clicks it, X (formerly Twitter) opens with the quote and a link to your post already written, so sharing takes one click. Quotes like this often get more engagement than a plain headline and link, because they make the…
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12 Common Affiliate Marketing Mistakes You Might Be Making
Affiliate marketing looks simple: write about products, add links, earn commissions. In practice most bloggers who try it earn little, and it is rarely because of a lack of traffic. It is usually a handful of avoidable mistakes. I made several of these myself over twelve years of affiliate marketing on RoadToBlogging. Here are the…
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How to Find and Fix Broken Links in WordPress (Easy Method)
Every blog collects broken links over time. Sites you linked to shut down or reorganize, you delete or rename your own posts, an image gets removed, or a typo slips into a URL. Each one sends a reader to a dead end, wastes Google’s crawl on pages that do not exist, and leaks the value…
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How to Stop Spam Comments on WordPress (8 Easy Ways)
Comments turn a blog into a conversation, but spammers abuse them to drop links. On popular blogs, spam can easily outnumber real comments, and deleting it by hand quickly becomes a part-time job. Here are 8 easy ways to stop spam comments in WordPress in 2026, from simple settings to free plugins. What Is a…
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How to Create an Expert Roundup Post (7 Easy Steps)
An expert roundup post collects answers from several people in your niche to one specific question and publishes them together. Done well, it gives readers perspectives they cannot get from a single author, gets shared by every contributor, earns links, and starts relationships with people who would never have answered a cold email about anything…
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Best Content Locker Plugins for WordPress (Social and Email)
A content locker hides part of a post, such as a bonus download, template, or extra tips, until the reader takes an action. Classic “social lockers” asked readers to share a post to unlock it; today, email lockers that ask for an email address are far more common and effective. Updated October 2026: several social…