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. Your guide really is very nice and helpful to create a blog. I really like it, thanks for sharing.

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  2. Thanks for the awesome blog. The hard thing about writing blogs for me is that there are already several blogs about the topic you want to write about.

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    • You’re welcome, Fabian! Yes indeed, competition is always a factor in blogging—no matter what you’re writing about, someone else has already done a version of it before.

      Your opportunity is in creating something that’s uniquely yours (and that you believe can more effectively help a group of people) 💪

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  3. 🙌🙌🙏👍❤💯 Wow! This post was so informative! I am just starting out and I just finished reading “Six Figure Blogging Secrets” and your blog post beats that book by A LONG SHOT! I think I’m going to take my very first step and pick a domain name and hosting website ASAP. You’re post inspired me so much that I can’t wait to get started !

    I do have a question tho? How do you pick your topics? Because I believe that I have a good idea on what I want to talk about but im not entirely sure yet. The “Six Figure Blogging Secrets” had some suggestions but I’m not too sure on what niche I should go into. Any suggestions? You’re opinion would mean the world! Again thank you for this great piece of informative content you gave us I’m going to take action and start IMMEDIATELY! ✊❤👍🙏🙌😁

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  4. Hello,
    Thanks for this amazing article. There are many articles related how to start a blog on web but the way you explain the things is really appreciable. Keep sharing useful information and guiding the newbies like me.

    Aditi Gupta

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  5. Hello,
    Thank you for sharing your expertise.
    I just have started my own online webshop and I want to start to blog. Your article gave me more insights!

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  6. Excellent article with an insane amount of useful tools. Just added a few new bookmarks. Thanks for sharing so much information!

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  7. Hi there,
    is there a way to still earn money from the blog and not use some of the paid plug ins?

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    • Of course! There are almost always free plugin alternatives (or ways to get by without needing a particular plugin).

      My advice is to focus on your fundamentals… create high quality content, learn where your target audience spends time online, work on creative ways to bring them over to your blog and start conversations with those people. Learn how you can best help them. From there, monetization opportunities will become much more clear—and you don’t need many fancy plugins on your blog to start monetizing.

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  8. I must say, really informative post. You made several nice points there and I discovered exactly what I was having a look for.

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  9. I read this blog post and found it very interesting and useful for me. I hope you will post more like this, i am very thankful to you for these type of post.

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  10. Really in depth article, thank you Ryan!! We are considering adding a blog to our landscaping website, thanks again for these useful tips!

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    • You’re welcome, Larry! You’ve got nothing to lose by setting up a blog on your website—and publishing helpful content that can (1) bring new potential local customers your way and (2) provide value/advice to your existing client base in terms of how they can keep their yards/plants looking great year-round.

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  11. This guide is awesome! I wish I would have found it two years ago when I started my first blog. Very informative!

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  12. Very well written and this has provided a lot of information for me. As a new blog writer, it’s good to know about the tools out there as well as some blog writing tips. Thanks for sharing.

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