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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”
How in the wide world of sports do I file taxes on income from a blog?
Great question! The short answer is that it depends a little bit based on the exact sources of income from your blogging efforts… if you land freelance clients, then you’ll likely be treated as an independent contractor by your clients and will need to report that income as 1099C income on your annual tax return each year.
Either way, your blogging income will be taxed as self-employed income that you’re responsible to report at the end of the tax year. Because of that, I highly recommend paying quarterly tax estimates and saving a % of your gross income each month for upcoming tax payment purposes. Personally, I tend to set aside 40% of gross income each month into a savings account that I treat as my “future tax payments” and that’s always more than enough.
Get em’ Ryan. Loving your positive energy on the entire concept of blogging and side hustling. Keep up this amazing energy. I’m supporting you 100% of the way! 🙂
Boom! Thanks for the support <3
I’m new to this and very thankful for your in depth explanation 😊
You’re so welcome! ❤️
Great tips! Very easy to understand. Thanks for sharing!
You’re welcome, Brandi! 🙂
Hi Ryan, this is a great explanation of how to get a blog started, thanks for sharing.
You’re welcome! So glad you found it helpful 🙂
So whats your opinion on using blog systems other than WordPress, like laravel for instance. Is it seo-friendly like WordPress?
I’ve tried a few over the years. Personally, I don’t recommend any other CMS platforms for building a blog on anymore—WordPress is insanely easy to learn and use. It also has the largest ecosystem of themes and plugins to customize just about every possible aspect of your website without ever needing to write a line of code, which is a major selling point if you don’t come from a web development background.
To your specific question about SEO-friendliness, the platform you choose isn’t actually the biggest deciding factor in that. It plays a role (of which WordPress is well-optimized for and I can’t speak to how well-optimized laravel is), but it’s still not a significant factor. The theme you use (on a WordPress blog) will have play lot more of a role in how SEO-friendly your blog is, out of the box… and then decisions like which plugins you install, how fast your hosting is/site loads, URL structure, the length/depth of your content, use of target keyword phrases, backlinks acquired, etc will all be much more important factors in building a blog that’s designed to do well in organic search. Check out my guide to blog SEO for more on that: https://staging.ryrob.com/blog-seo/
What an amazing post! It helps me lot to know some basic things for starting a new blog. I have been blogging for three years and all I will say is that blogging is awesome. This post is really great. Thank you very much.
You’re welcome, Rupam 🙌
Probably the most detailed “How To Start A Blog” post we’ve seen. It must have taken a while, thanks for setting it up!
-Andrew
Haha oh yes indeed. This guide took me months to compile, and is updated all the time. Thanks for the kind words!
I really appreciate this epic guide, Ryan! Very informative and quite helpful. I found unique content on how to build a personal brand with this.
So glad to hear it, Andrew! Thanks for popping by.
Very nicely explained, each and every step to getting started with blogging… Thanks for sharing!
You’re welcome! Appreciate the kind words and feedback, Jiten 👍
Your article is exactly what I was looking for. Thanks for all of your tips. Now I need to choose the right hosting so that my future visitors feel as comfortable as possible when they are on my site and due to your instructions I think that find the right one for myself. Thanks for the tutorial Ryan!
You’re welcome, Mike! Pumped you found my guide so helpful 🙂
Thank you very much, it’s more than an article, it’s a full guide ! Great value, you helped me to setup my blog the right way Ryan, thanks for all your tips 🙂
You’re welcome! 💪
Very useful information for all bloggers to follow, thanks for sharing this Ryan!
Thanks for stopping by and sharing the kind words, Palash 🙂
This is one of the most comprehensive tutorials I’ve seen on getting a blog off the ground. Thanks for sharing.
It’s taken years to fully compile! Thanks for stopping by 🙏
Thanks so much for this article.
You’re welcome! 🙂
Wow, what a great read! It’s so detailed and lots of things I didn’t even consider! (like possibility to make podcasts or invite guests). I guess now I’ll have some additional ideas to add to my content plan before starting.
Ok, now off to inspired work. Thank you!
Absolutely! The possibilities for monetizing a blog once you’ve attracted an engaged audience are nearly endless. It just takes a dose of creativity and a well-tuned ear for listening to what your readers are telling you they want/need.
Thanks for sharing this guide
You’re welcome Gilbert 👋
What a comprehensive guide to marketing and blogging! I am following your site.
I love the fact that you said that you need to set goals. Many of our startup sales funnel clients just focus on the wrong numbers: followers. This is not a smart goal. Does it translate to money and customers?
Monetising your blog today is harder than ever, so you need to get creative. Thanks for sharing.
YES! I completely agree… focus on the metrics that matter 👏
Traffic
Subscribers
Revenue
Hey man I’m surprised by how someone can write really giant blog posts full of value.
I got tired reading this but your hands didn’t.
I really appreciate the hard work you put into writing these gigantic blog posts.
I read your one article before this article about starting a blog.
That post was gigantic too.
Thanks for sharing enormous value my friend
You’re very welcome, Tarun! Trust me, even though the output of the article may take you 30 minutes to read in full… it’s A LOT of work back here behind-the-scenes (many, many hours) that bring a guide like this to life.
I’m searching this type of article for earning by blogging.
Glad you found me here, Sanjida! You can also check out my guide that dives even deeper into how to monetize your blog here:
https://staging.ryrob.com/make-money-blogging/