Millions of people try their hand at blogging, but very few have ever made a lot of money through their efforts. However, if you start a blog with the intention of making money, and you are actually not interested in original writing, you are wasting your time a lot. The art of blogging is more than just science or formula. Without a deep love for your artwork, you will face a wave of frustration and resentment.

But if you are willing to invest time and effort, and you can always persevere over the years (and yes, I said for years), then you can generate a lot of income online. In fact, your blog is probably one of the best places to make money, and if done right, it can attract the right clients and customers no matter where you are in the industry or niche.

How to Start a Blog: Step-by-Step




1. Select a Subject

Be clear about what you are going to write about. Define a topic or niche, and build all your content around those things. This will help you to focus not only on laser writing, but also on creating digital products and services that promote your content.This allows you to attract customers, attract them with your most experienced posts, and test them with a lead magnet before throwing them into your sales border (more on that soon).


2. Select Platform

While Wordpress is the most popular blogging platform by far, there are others out there that can be linked to it as a small blogging platform like Tumblr, Blogger.com and Medium. However, if you are serious about your blogging efforts, you may want to go with your own Wordpress installation on a custom domain

While you can set up a blog on Wordpress.com with a subdomain like myblog.wordpress.com, you will get more pulse with an automated solution, and you will be able to use domains under popular platforms in your content marketing efforts.


3. Select a Domain Name

Custom domain names are important if you are serious about making money with the blog you are starting. Instead of relying on a subdomain hosted by a third party, find a short but relevant domain name (if possible) a domain name that describes the topic you are looking for, industry or niche. 

If you are very concerned about things like SEO, when choosing your domain name, you should heed the following suggestions: Use a high-quality (TLD) domain known as .com or .net Keep the background short, no more than 15 characters or more.

Try not to buy a domain name with hyphens, as they are often associated with spam


4. Find a Good Web Hosting Company

There are many good holding companies out there. When you start Wordpress, a custom blog, there are a number of endless options. The key is to do your best and choose the right one for your budget and ensure that quality assurance and overtime are available

Initially, you will want to start with a Managed Wordpress or Virtual Private Server (VPS) solution, and rate from there. Finally, you will need a dedicated CDN solution (below) as long as you traverse a few thousand visitors a day.


5. Caching and Content-Delivery Networks (CDNs)

Use a program like W3 Total Cache or WP Super Cache and open browser storage to ensure you speed up the delivery of your web pages. At first, this may not seem important. But as you grow and your traffic increases with thousands of visitors a day, this will become more important. Use Google's Speed ​​Insights to check items before and after installation.

It is also important that you set up a CDN, which will speed up the worldwide delivery of your content. For example, your page may load faster in the United States, but what happens when someone in Australia tries to upload your content? CDNs replicate data across multiple archives around the world, and make content delivery much faster

This is important for user information because most people who are focused on waiting even a few seconds for a page to load, usually leave the website and go to the next search result. W3 Total Cache integrates with AWS for Amazon and MaxCDN, two excellent options when it comes to CDNs.


6. Enable Permalinks

In Wordpress, you have to enable permalinks before downloading content, which will give you great canonical URLs that use SEO. Permalinks are available within settings> permalinks section of your Wordpress admin and select the post name option.


7. Install the AMP plugin

Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) Project Google's move to accelerate mobile access to a greater degree of their content. The AMP specification, which you can read more about here, helps reduce web pages to its basic building blocks with JS with back-to-back and CSS code displayed, making page speed faster.


8. Install Google Analytics

Install Google Analytics so you can track your efforts while building your blog. This is a great way to keep track of your results while using the URL campaign builder when leaving links on social media and other sites so you can effectively determine where your traffic is coming from.


9. Set up Google Webmaster tools

For anyone interested in blogging and monetization, you need to use Google webmaster's tools to see what keywords they are writing and any messages that may affect their rating ability. This will also allow you to submit an XML site map and track keyword appeals and click values. This is one of the most helpful tools for growing your site or blog with regular analysis of your efforts.


10. Learn SEO the right way

While you should not start a blog with the intention of setting it up until it is forgotten, you should certainly understand the basic principles of search engine optimization in order to focus on key features that will affect your ranking ability on search engines such as Google. Start with the Google Webmaster Guidelines, and then process and use that information. Learning SEO is a long and tiring journey. You should always increase your knowledge and expand your set of skills.


11. General Operating Control

If you are determined to succeed with your blog, you need to create useful anchor content. It requires a participatory, keyword centric, comprehensive, unique and well-written. Don't turn your content into search engines. Instead, write your content to people while respecting search engines and what they want. Simply put, it is a skill that develops over time with practice. It is also important to publish your content regularly on a weekly basis.


12. Sign up for the Email Marketing Platform

The best way to make money on your blog is by email marketing, which is clear and easy. Hands down, this provides one of the fastest and most reliable ways to earn money with your blog. But before you get there, you need to sign up for an email marketing platform like Aweber, ConvertKit, MailChimp, Continuous Communication, InfusionSoft or any other number of platforms out there.


13. Create a lead magnet

If you are interested in advertising anything online, rather than choosing to advertise on your blog (which will not make you real money unless you have at least hundreds of thousands of visitors a day) or engage in relevant marketing, you should create a direct lead magnet that will sell digital or end-to-end products The leading magnet will attract people to sign up for your list and provide you with their email address.


14. Create a Digital Product and Set Your Offers

Email marketing and lead magnets are all designed to help you build an automated sales machine. However, you need a digital product, service or other type of back-end offer to do just that. You can create more offers or products, which can lead people to higher prices on your top ticket sales.


15. Create a Sales Channel

Take the time to build your default sales fit. There is a lot involved in cross-border marketing, but the basic thing is that your visitors will appear on your site by finding your content, enter your sales border by providing your lead magnet or other tripwire, and be guided by a drop-down message schedule that will allow you to sell your products and services on autopilot.


16. Find Social

Creating a blog is not easy by any measure. To help you along the path to success, you need to have a community. Not only by connecting with other like-minded bloggers who are interested in online marketing, but also by sharing and sharing with others on social media platforms such as Facebook, Instagram and other social media platforms.


17. Market Your Content

One of the most important tips you will ever find is to build a blog and increase your visibility on search engines such as Google, as well as my regular strategy for setting up search standards in Google SERPs, content marketing. Marketing your content is a complex, long-term, seemingly endless process of creating the most useful offline content that connects to your basic anchor content, but it is worth it. You can use this same strategy to rate one number in Google searches for almost any keyword if done correctly. There is a lot of art in this and the technical framework and doing it right. Do not attempt to spam or use excessive keywords in an attempt to market your content in any way.

Content marketing can be done through articles on sites like Medium.com or Scrribd.com, can be done by answering questions on Reddit or Quora, and can be done via videos on YouTube or Vimeo, and various other ways. The point is that all content should be useful, timely. Do not try to do a small amount of work to get the maximum benefit. You need to do the exact opposite if you want to succeed.


18. Make money with your content

Let’s face it, starting and using a blog can be expensive. Don't expect to get rich overnight. However, you can take certain steps to monetize some of your content along the way. Make sure you keep discussing your topics and content and that your leading magnets help put people on the sales line that will eventually sell your top ticket items.

However, apart from this, you can always choose to generate a small amount of cash by doing other things like creating articles that will lead people to lessons or audio books that you have developed, or creating video tutorials that will eventually sell some great package or program that will help teach people anything.