How to start profitable blog?
Starting a blog can be exhausting and long term, but it can also be very fast method to earn some money. Learning how to make a blog can change your life. It will broaden your horizons.
For some, blogging is a way to blow off steam after a hard day at work.
For some, it’s a fun side hustle. One that allows them to make money on top of their normal day job.
You have other bloggers which their blog has become a business and now they’re able to quit their jobs, travel the world, and live life on their terms.
You just need to START!
Blogging is risk free business and don’t need any investments to start. You can always find free blogging websites and free hostings for your blog.
In this article I am going to teach you how to start a blog and make money with it, even if you’re a total beginner and you have no money to invest.
First you need to ask yourself, why do people blog and why you want to start a blog?
Why Do People Blog?
Some people just want to help and teach others with something that they know better than others, or they have experienced something that no one or some people experienced.
You have second group that just want to share their new diet plan, because they lost a lot of kilograms in one week.
And you have third group. They’ve seen a lot of people making money with their blogs, and they want to make money too.
No matter what is your reason for starting, be consistent with your blog, and grow audience. Your blog can:
- Connect you with millions of people.
- Show your ideas to the world
- Make you money so you can quit your boring 9–5 job
You need to think what to write about
My blog is about making money online. I have started blogging about that topic just because I found it interesting and I have learned a lot about making money online in the past 2 years so now I want to share my tips and tricks about making money online.
Which topic will you cover in your blog?
You need to follow other TOP Money making blogs
Tuts+: $175,000 per month
Envato’s Tuts+ isn’t some newly-formed site. Founded in 2006 by Collis Ta’eed, Cyan Claire, and Jun Rundelivering, it’s been delivering outstanding tutorials and content to designers and developers from across the entire planet for quite some time now.
Today, they offer a hub of useful content and a tremendous marketplace where 2,000,000 active buyers are searching for site templates and useful paid tutorials that they offer as part of their platform. They earn their income primarily through a membership area and commissions from sales of digital goods on their platform.
CopyBlogger: $1,000,000 per month
CopyBlogger was started by Brian Clark, who’s been immersed in the online marketing field since 1998. He was content marketing before the term content marketing was even coined. In 2006, with just $1,000 in seed cash, he launched CopyBlogger, a site that provides some of the most useful online marketing advice in the world.
Today, CopyBlogger’s parent company is known as Rainmaker Digital, with over 200,000 customers, the company is constantly releasing useful online tools for digital marketers and perpetually educating the public on ways they can expand their reach through things like social media, blogging and search engine optimization.
They’ve done it with their websites, and you can too.
How Do Bloggers Make Money?
You can earn money on different ways and that is very cool thing with blog.
- You can display ads
- Companies can buy advertising space on your website/blog
- Affiliate marketing
- Selling courses, e-books or trainings
- Providing a service
And those are just few things, this list can be much larger and you can do all those things at once.
What you will need to start profitable blog?
First thing that you will need is hosting. Hosting can be free hosting and paid hosting. It depends on how much money you have and you want to invest. You have free hostings:
All those free hostings have their limitations, pros and cons, so I can highly recommend using paid hosting for your blog.
How to Start a Blog on WordPress in 10 Simple Steps
Step 1: Choose Your Hosting
Weather it is free hosting or you have decided to invest some money in your blog and you bought paid hosting. You will need to do next step as good as you can.
Step 2: Choose Your Domain Name
Once you have decided what hosting you want. You need to give your website a name.
This is the one and only name for your website, so give this some thought. Think about what is your website about and choose your name wisely.
It can be tricky coming up with a name that isn’t already claimed, but you can do this!
Tips for choosing your domain name:
- Stick to just.com endings. Don’t bother using.biz, .info, .org, or any other endings.
- Think if your domain name is simple and easy to remember.
- Leave just letters, don’t use dashes, numbers and other things.
Step 3: Install WordPress
Instal WordPress or other CMS.
As far as blogging platforms go, WordPress is in rare company. In fact, WordPress sites now comprise more than 30% of the entire Internet. You could go with a smaller platform like Tumblr or Blogger.
Step 4: Log Into Your WordPress Admin Dashboard
Your WordPress Admin Dashboard can be found at http://yourwebsitename.com/wp-admin
Step 5: Design your website/blog
You can use already finished WordPress theme to start your blog or you can use some website builders plugins like
And that’s it! You’re all set up and ready to go with your new site.
Step 6: You need to Monetize Your Blog
This is the most complicated part and it will take some time.
If you just got done with the steps above, your initial focus should be on customizing your blog, creating great content, and growing your audience.
Here are few tips how to grow your audience and make money
- Start reading about blog monetization. Find interesting ways to monetize your blog and apply them on your own blog.
- Your blog needs to be easy to read and easy to peek everything. Use short paragraphs, and use short sentences. This is hard part for new bloggers.
- Useful tool for writing great blog post is INK for all. That is free tool where you can write your blogs and it will help you to optimize it for search engines, help you with grammar, correct your mistakes…
- Your content needs to help people solve a problem. If it doesn’t do that, then it better be entertaining. Just think about how much people will stay and read your content, how much time you will take from them to read your content.
- Use social media to promote your blog posts. I recommend starting with Pinterest, then you can try promoting on Instagram, medium.com, YouTube and other things.
Let me know in the comments if you have question about making profitable blog and I’ll respond to you!
