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I'm Anastasia and you can check out my blog anastasiablogger.com. I've been doing this full-time since 2018 but I can tell you for a fact the first year of blogging was the most difficult. You have to make a lot of very important choices while NOT knowing the whole picture and learning as you go.

So in this video, I'll show you the 9 MAIN things you should do in the first year of blogging to set it up for success. And while all of these tips are very important, you really don't want to miss tip #6 because it's something you can't fix later ... but

First up, you need to install Google Analytics on your site.

It's free! And at the same time, it is the most comprehensive website analytics tool, you don't need to use any other WordPress plugins to track analytics. It takes 5 minutes to install Google Analytics code on the backend of your site. You can find lots of tutorials even here on YouTube and follow the steps, so I won't go into the details now.

Once you have it installed, you will learn a lot about your website visitors - are they coming in from social media, or a search engine? How long are they hanging around? Which pages on your site are the most popular?
And remember, you HAVE to use Google Analytics because any ad network or potential sponsor will ask you for stats from your Google Analytics and NOT from any other odd plugin or analytics tool.

By the way, if you have Jetpack plugin on your blog to track visitors, get rid of it. It's slowing down your site and not helping you learn anything more than Google Analytics could tell you.

Create a Google Search Console account for your site

This used to be called Webmaster Tools. When your blog is new, you can help Google find and index your pages faster by manually submitting your new pages in the URL tool in Search Console.
Here you will also see how your site's doing in search results, and which keywords it is ranking for, and it gives you a heads-up if any issues might prevent Google from indexing your site.
I noticed that a lot of beginner bloggers have Google Analytics but never even heard about the Search Console, so I thought it was important to mention it as well.

Don't Overspend in the First Year of Blogging
The truth is - and most people will not tell you this honestly and bluntly - well the truth is that you won't make a lot of money in the first year of blogging, you'll be lucky if you make anything at all.