💡A potential solution to the previous post's problem: Just give me a blog.
TL;DR: combine all the tools bloggers use in one place and simplify all of them for non-technical people.
There are many parts of it, I'm breaking them down:
1. A potential blogger wants to understand if this activity is for him/her**("Can I make money with my blog?", "How it'll look like?", "What opportunities will be opened for me after I start blogging?"). Hence, we should organize bloggers' stories. Tell people how some person started blogging and made $400 from ads after a year, what do publish about, what was their initial goal. Tell people how the other person didn't earn anything after 2 years, but publishing regularly about animals' diseases and thus helping a science community. Also, this person was offered a job. And many more such various stories: how do some earn money from ads, the others earn by allowing sponsor links, etc. How others were given interesting opportunities like a job. Or, met great people on the Internet. What do they publish about, how frequently, what are their blogs' statistics, etc. *Wannabebloggers should understand what to expect and if this activity is for them.
2. If the person decides to start a blog, then the solution should simplify the whole process:
a) no separate service to buy a domain. Check the domain availability and buy it instantly there, on our imaginary solution's website.
b) choose a blog's website design also there: many templates for many use cases. Choose one and see a preview immediately on the bought domain's address.
c) at this point, the blog is ready. Now it's time to customize it.
3. The solution set up an admin space for the author. With a dashboard, built-in website analytics(speed, SEO issues, visitors count, etc.), tools to write a post, check it with Grammarly-like tools(spelling, synonyms, overall readability). Also, there are other great-value SEO-related tools:
- to analyze competitors' blogs, see what do they publicize about, how many visitors and earnings do they have;
- analyze a niche an author wants to publish in: what are the popular keywords, what sort of articles do people look for, estimated visitors for every article, and many more metrics.
Here's what my process looks like, though I'm a technician:
- I search for and buy a domain. No big deal.
- I set up a server in a cloud(DigitalOcean): I run a Ghost blog container there. Not a big deal for me, but it takes time, and is a big deal for non-technical people. Of course, others may choose something else(other blog engines).
- I "connect" my bought domain to a server in a DigitalOcean panel. Then, Nginx configuration and SSL certificates setup(for HTTPS traffic).
- I connect Google Analytics for website metrics. But ideally, I'd go with something else. Many people and some browsers(like Brave) block GA. Thus, the website visitors' count isn't a complete number. For other websites, I use umami(open-sourced, free), and it requires another server and a bit of coding(putting a script to pages).
- I use many SEO-related tools to do keywords research, analyze my niche.
I update my blog engine periodically, change a theme design, text, or something else. Plus, spell-checking for every post(not only Grammarly but other tools).
Overall, it takes time for a technical person. Imagine how much time such a solution might save for non-technical(and technical) people.