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How to Start a Blog (and Make Money) in 22222The Ultimate Beginner's Guide to Start Blogging and Make Money in 6 Steps
This is my easy, step-by-step guide to learn how to start a blog and make money from it. For 10+ years, I’ve been blogging & making money online—this is the best way to start blogging (and soon make money from your blog) in 6 steps that’ll have you create a blog in 10 to 15 minutes.
2,167 replies to “How to Start a Blog (and Make Money) in 2025: Ultimate Beginner’s Guide to Start Blogging in 6 Steps”
Great post! So many tips! I always struggle with the “just do it” part. I always want to write more and publish more thoughts, but never take action. Any tips??
I hear you on that. Executing is always easier said (or imagined) than done 😂
Admittedly, it takes me a lot to force myself to publish more often (before the content feels 100% ready) and it’s something I’ll probably always be working on/fighting against in terms of that inner perfectionist.
My advice would be to set very hard deadlines for shipping your next post…
Then STICK to that deadline as if it were just as important as a major project you need to deliver to your boss at work, otherwise you’ll be fired. As a little psychological trick that comes next here… commit to publishing the post on time, no matter what. Sacrifice on the length, depth, visuals, and other elements of the blog content before you allow yourself to miss your deadline. Know that you can always go back later to beef up the posts, add more case studies, graphics, examples, stories, etc… but what’s most important (especially when you’re just getting started with a blog) is that you create a regular publishing schedule and RESPECT IT.
That publishing habit is what will help you grow into your first 100, 1000, 100000 readers.
Impressive steps on how to start a blog. May I just add one thing more, I suggest the use of relevant key phrases in your blog posts with a purpose to assist the search engines to apprehend what your posts are approximately and rank them consequently.
Hi Ryan,
Hope you are doing well.
I do need help here
Can you please check if its worth now to add for Adsense in my website?
Regards,
Durga
Hello,
I have already made up a programming blog and now I am trying to apply 10th part of this post: “Getting Traffic”
All information regarding social and other techniques are great and helpful.
If you publish posts about SEO and Link Building then it will be also great resource for newbies like me.
Thanks.
Thanks for the feedback, Hardik!
SEO and link building—I plan on adding a major section in the free course attached to this guide about how I’ve gone about building traffic through all of the different SEO-focuses strategies like guest posting, getting quotes featured on other sites, establishing columns on industry publications, finding strategic partners to do trades with and such.
Is it safe to say your ultimate goal in learning more about SEO and link building is to drive traffic to your blog (and start monetizing that traffic)? Or did you have another goal in mind?
Hi Ryan,
Right now I am using AdSense to monetize my traffic. As my blog is in programming field (Mostly Android tutorials), other goal of more traffic can be like a strong portfolio of my android knowledge to show to my clients.
Nice! That’s a good start, but in my personal experience ad networks aren’t very profitable until you’re generating millions of monthly page views. Have you considered joining some relevant affiliate networks to help increase your blogging income?
One of the best things you have going, Hardik, is that you’re in a very specific niche with your blog content… Android tutorials are super specific. What are your readers/viewers trying to learn most from visiting your blog? It might be a feasible option to begin working on a free mini-course and eventually a paid course for those that want to take Android developing more seriously.
Another possible route for monetization would be offering some of those readers that are most engaged—personalized coaching/tutoring from you on an hourly basis. You could meet over Skype/Zoom and walk them through problem-solving, do code reviews, etc. But you’re also right in the longer-term vision that your blog can help you to land more freelance clients who want to hire you with the goal of executing a new app build (or some other objective you’ve done a tutorial about).
Great article! and I really have fun reading your tips as I following the instructions and making my blog perfectly. Thank you for sharing this blog that is so helpful for me.
How do i actually make money through blogging?
There’s an entire lesson of my course dedicated to answering this exact question, because it’s something that could easily be it’s own standalone subject. Here’s the course (https://staging.ryrob.com/start-blog-course/).
In short though, the 8 different ways to make money blogging that we dig deep into are…
1. Sponsored content (getting companies/brands to pay you for a post on your blog)
2. Freelancing (selling your services—whether writing, design, development, marketing, photography or otherwise—to people who reach out to you as a result of discovering your blog content
3. Online courses (packaging your knowledge, experience, advice into a digital product for your readers)
4. Traditional ad networks (this is your CPC or CPM advertising revenue—not the best option for meaningful amounts of income until you’re approaching millions of monthly readers)
5. Podcast sponsorships (launch a podcast and get brands/companies to pay for ad spots in front of your audience via the podcast)
6. Affiliate programs (when you earn a commission from a company for referring new customers their way)
7. Physical products and software tools (building a solution to a problem your blog readers have)
8. Business partnerships (you never know who you’ll meet as a result of your blog that could evolve into unpredictably awesome new partnership opportunities)
On top of just these (common) blog monetization strategies, there’s literally no limit to the number of ways to monetize your blog—the only limits are your own creativity and the types of deals you’re able to broker for yourself.
But as you’ll see… the more traffic, email subscribers and regular readers you have on your blog, the more options you’ll have to monetize that audience, and the greater your earning potential will be.
Which is why your #1 focus when you’re still in the phase of learning how to start a blog… should be on consistently publishing content, attracting readers and building relationships with them that can lead to some of the monetization options above 😊
Hi Ryan, what an EPIC post it is!!!
It’s indeed a huge treasure hunt for bloggers! A collector’s item!
I am really glad to see such a lot of valuable tips, tricks, suggestions and connected links in a single post. 🙂
I appreciate your time to put this together for the Benefits of your readers.
Woh, it takes lot of time to go through thoroughly. Indeed this is a great guide to all bloggers.
Of course, though i am in this field for few years and I am already doing some of the things, but most of the things I mean a majority are completely new to me.
I am bookmarking this for my further read and study.
Will come back to you again soon!
Keep sharing.
May you have a great and profitable weekend. 🙂
Best Regards
~ Phil
Thanks, Phil! Glad you’ve gotten something out of this guide too 😊
Hello Ryan, your post is great, it gives me a more general look at how to make a blog. I think this is one of the clear and detailed articles on how to blog and choose niche. Thank you very much, I will save your post and read it every day!
Thanks, Jack! Really appreciate the ❤️
Read it every day though? DAMN! Shoot me an email (ryan@ryrob.com), I’d love to meet my most dedicated reader 😊
Hi Ryan,
A great post with detailed guide on how to start a blog. I have been listening to your podcast for some time. Let’s hope cross 200000 downloads by end of this year. 🙂
I have also subscribed and will keep you posted
Woo! Thanks for the love and for tuning in, Jay 🎧 💪
Do you have a blog of you’re own that you’re working to grow?
Yes Ryan. I am working on growing blog for “Grow in Cloud” a SaaS solutions developed for freelancers and service based small businesses 🙂
Sounds exciting, let me know if you’d like some feedback on it once you’re up and running and I’m more than happy to share my thoughts with you!
This is wonderful! Bookmarked…. I just bought my hosting and am setting up my blog! This will really come in handy….
Woo! Awesome, glad you’re jumping in Tonya. What’s your blog going to be about?
Hi Ryan,
I have looked into creating online courses. Thay seem like a great idea. But as far as I can see. The successful people have already built a great marketing machine with a big sales-funnel.
In my experience, the best way to test into building/selling online courses is to actually partner with (real) people you can help individually through the challenge you’d like to eventually help people with in a course… but instead find 5-10 people you can help manually—think of it as consulting—and do that for an affordable fee. This naturally bakes in the rightful assumption that you CAN help those people solve that meaningful problem in the first place… a good assumption you should have if you eventually want to sell courses on the subject too.
Once you can help that early group of people to overcome the same (or similar) challenge, you’ll have a wealth of experience that’ll help you begin to productize the advice, strategies, action steps, tactics, tips, etc that can form the basis of your course content. Use that early group of people you’ve helped as testimonials, success stories, and as vehicles to drive in more leads from within their communities. Grow organically from there.
The moment you start worrying about complex marketing automations and huge sales funnels (before you’ve already sold 100+ seats in a course of yours), you’re getting WAY ahead of yourself and you’re not optimizing for the most important metric in online courses… STUDENT RESULTS and actually helping people.
So, go back to the fundamentals… find a topic you can authentically help people on. Build a small community of those people and dedicate some time to helping them individually. You’ll learn. They’ll progress. You’ll get much better course content out of that process than if you sat down in a vacuum to script out a bunch of videos today.
Great response Ryan, perhaps a blog?
… or course, of course!
Ding! Ding! Ding! Perhaps both one day soon, Sid! 😊
Very informative and thoughtful, Ryan. Appreciate your open share in depth insight, and would encourage anyone reading my reply to sign-up for the course or coaching.
One lingering question, perhaps for a future blog rather than a reply here, how do you find, approach, and pitch sponsors for sponsored content and appropriately price?
Cheers!
P.S, Another lingering question, how do you look the same in every picture!
Haha, thanks Sid! Appreciate the love 😊
Great questions…
1. Definitely a topic for a deep dive blog post, but the essentials of how to get good blog sponsorships are (a) have access to an audience that potential sponsors would want to reach and (b) identify the kinds of products, tools, services that serve your audience. Then you can approach those potential sponsors with an offer to collaborate—whether that’s an ad, post, email, rev-share program or even something more creative.
2. I’ve been tested, and apparently I don’t age 😂
Hey Ryan!
Thank you so much for the great post! I’ve enrolled to the online course and now I just can’t wait to create and launch my blog. After a previous failed attempt to run my own blog, I’m now trying to collect a few pieces before I actually launch this one because I didn’t even get to post my second post on my first blog!
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Boom! I’m pumped to be going along with you for this adventure (2.0) 😊
What’s your blog going to be about?
I do have a blog and am wondering how to make it earn purely with Adsense only. Do you have any best kept secrets for this?
To be honest, I’m not very experienced with using/optimizing Google AdSense… all of the bloggers I know have told me it typically generates very modest earnings (in the tens of dollars in monthly revenue) until you’ve grown into the several hundred thousands of monthly readers.
My advice would be to join a few affiliate programs that are extremely relevant to your audience, and work on optimizing those offers to your readers as a starting point.
This is a beast of a post! Lots of great tips here Ryan!
Woo! 💪💪
Thanks, Andy!
Thank you for the inspiration, Ryan.
You’re welcome, Anna! Thanks for stopping by and reading along 😊
Great post, thanks for putting this together!
Of course! Much appreciated, Kenneth 👍
Great article! I’m am currently tackling affiliate marketing and this was super helpful! 😊
Thanks, Robert! Glad you stopped by 💪
Nice post! Great for someone who is new in this particular field. It helped me to start our own blog soon.
I know many will disagree, but the hardest part, IMHO is the promotion part. I think writing is easy, but I am a writer by trade and setting up a blog, choosing a niche, etc. that’s all easy for me. Promoting is the hardest part as I think it takes time to really build it up.
Consistent effort over time will lead to success!
I couldn’t agree more. To be honest, the writing component is practically a commodity today compared to how many *good enough* writers there are when it comes to putting together engaging content. I don’t even consider myself a particularly great writer.
The marketing, promotion, spreading the word and building relationships are where you truly differentiate yourself in blogging today. But yep, there aren’t many shortcuts to accomplishing that unless you can go insanely viral somehow—gotta put in the work, stay consistent and help people along the way 👏
I got to know your blog through Upfly youtube channel. Your content helped me a lot ! I’ll try to find my own niche :>
Woo! Thanks for much for stopping by, Yewon 😊
Nice post! Great for someone who is new in this particular field. It helped me to start my own blog. Thanks!
So glad to hear it, Ash! Keep up the hustle 💪
Very nice guide, thanks Ryan!
You’re welcome, thanks for stopping by Rajib!