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.

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Hi I'm Ryan Robinson

I'm a blogger, but I'm not my blog. I am not my business either. Occasional podcaster and very-much-recovering side project addict. Co-Founder at RightBlogger. Join me here, on ryrob.com to learn how to start a blog and build a purpose-connected business. Be sure to take my free blogging tools for a spin... especially my wildly popular free keyword research tool & AI article writer. They rule. Somehow, I also find time to write for publications like Fast Company, Forbes, Entrepreneur, The Next Web, Business Insider, and more. Let’s chat on Twitter (X?) and YouTube about our feelings (and business, of course).

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2,167 replies to “How to Start a Blog (and Make Money) in 2025: Ultimate Beginner’s Guide to Start Blogging in 6 Steps”

  1. Very long but very informative for new people. I used wordpress for my blog because its cheap, easy to use & understand, and theres a lot of flexibility with what you can do.

    For creating a simple website/blog its cheap. Using WordPress to create a website is free, however you need to buy a domain and pay for Hosting from a hosting site. I would recommend bluehost as a hosting site too, because of how painless it’s WordPress installation is and once you create a bluehost account a free one-click WordPress installation is included.

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  2. I’m very grateful to read this article. Very well written and nicely framed. Full of information.

    Thanks

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  3. You have written this quite well. The points you covered in this article to start a blog are great and more relevant than most.

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  4. Hi Rob, just want to say thank you for such a comprehensive article! I’m knee-deep trying to soak up as much guidance as possible to move forward as quickly as I can, and feeling pretty overwhelmed (!) so I fully appreciate the work you’ve put into all this. Congrats on building the success you have!

    My main concern is feeling as though I can’t add value to my niche – i’m not an ‘expert’, it’s really life experience and acquired knowledge I’m sharing, along with the desire to build a community and create awareness, so I cannot sell my services in the same way as perhaps you could at the start, so imposter syndrome aside, I sometimes worry that monetisation won’t be possible for me. But I will start with a goal to add value first and see what follows. Many thanks again!

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    • You’re very welcome, Emma! Love hearing that you’re in “soak it all up” mode. That can definitely be overwhelming, but I think a sense of great clarity can arise out of that phase too.

      Please allow me to let you in on a secret… nobody is a truly “expert” beyond what they’ve learned/accrued in terms of personal experience and the lessons they’ve gathered from their real world experience. If you’ve developed a skill, learned a process or otherwise become good at something—then others out there will want to learn that skill/process/ability from you. Plus, the ONLY way you’ll rise to feeling more confident in your expertise, is by working with others and helping them to accomplish similar feats as what you’ve done for yourself.

      You’re on the right track… just start connecting with as many of your potential readers as you can. Provide value to them, learn from them and keep working on your positioning in your niche. The monetization opportunities will start to feel more natural (and become more clear) as you get further into your work *with* your readers 🙂

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  5. Hi. My name is Joel I’m a college student, while free time I also write blogs on business and entrepreneurship. I have learned a lot from this post, all the tips are really good and helpful. Thank you for sharing this article with us.

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  6. Great! Absolutely comprehensive and educative, thanks for being so open minded

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  7. Writing a blog is an art. I appreciate you finding the time and energy to put this information together, this certainly helps me to start my own blog with an impression that can be handy for users.

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  8. Great work, may be one day I will be like you, writing comprehensively like this. Please can you help on using namecheap instead of bluehost because to me bluehost is expensive, dollars exchange to my country (Nigeria using naira) currency is high. I would have love to use bluehost, but is out of my ability.

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  9. I really loved reading your blog. I also found your posts very interesting. I think this is one of the most significant information for me. And i’m glad reading your article. Thank for sharing!

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  10. Starting a new blog is easy with WordPress if you are not technical enough. WordPress has many free plugins and themes, so you can get started with a little investment.

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  11. Hi Ryan,
    What a joy to be here again to read this in-depth guide.
    I am sure this is a must-read post for all online users as well as writers online.
    I am doubly sure about the importance of going through this post to get an indepth knowledge about creating a blog post.
    This is indeed an EPIC guide to all bloggers. I am bookmarking it and will share the link in my updated blog post at pvariel.com
    Thanks for sharing this piece of amazing knowledge.
    So glad to share and re-tweet.
    Best Regards
    ~ Phil

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  12. Hi Ryan,

    Thanks for your awesome resourceful handy guide. I am going to start a blog for Fashion designing. Definitely your tips work for my site.

    Please keep posting your valuable tips for us more and more..

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  13. This guide definitely has all of the info I could ever think of wanting about blogging.

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