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. It’s hard to come by educated people in this particular topic, however, you seem like you know what you’re talking about! Thanks

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  2. Hey Ryan,
    I am using the optimize press editor for my blog posts instead of the wordpress editor and recently got approved for mediavine ads.
    My worry is that the ads will not work well alongside the op editor coding.
    I was wondering whether you have any advice for me since I am really confused. What is your take on editors?
    I would love to stick with the op editor since it has FAR more features than the classic wp editor.
    Any advice would be appreciated.

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    • Hey Ryan! Congrats on getting accepted by MediaVine, that’s definitely a good move in terms of monetizing with ad placements.. I’ve heard nothing but great things.

      What I used to do with running ad placements on my OptimizePress theme powered blog, was create a short code like [ad insert] that can be manually placed within the specific blog posts that I wanted to host advertisements… not ideal if you’re trying to implement across dozens (or hundreds) of posts and maintain on an ongoing basis though. I’d recommend chatting with the MediaVine technical support team to see what kinds of recommendations they have… there’s no doubt they’ve come across a situation like yours in the hundreds/thousands of blogs they work with.

      Ultimately, you may have to contract with a freelance WordPress developer who can help with any technical integrations that are above your head—which is what I do often.

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  3. Your style is really unique in comparison to other folks I’ve read stuff from.

    Thank you for posting when you have the opportunity, Guess I will just
    bookmark this blog.

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    • You’re very welcome, Lila! Thanks for the kind words.

      If you sign up for my email list, you’ll get a heads up about every new article I publish 🙂

      You can join over on my homepage.

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  4. Wow, what an informative post! Really I am very surprised to see something that contains all the processes to build up a blog from a to z. You also explained how to make money by blogging even. Thank you for the informative post.

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  5. You should be a part of a contest for one of the greatest sites on the web. I most certainly will recommend this epic guide!0

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  6. Hello Ryan,
    Good article. I’m totally impressed by the way you express so much information in a very clear and light way. Thanks for sharing.

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  7. Everything is very open with a really clear clarification of the issues. This was truly informative. Your site is extremely helpful. Many thanks for sharing!

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  8. It’s hard to come by experienced people in this particular subject, however, you seem like you know what you’re talking about!
    Thanks

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  9. You’re a very talented blogger, thanks for writing this guide. I’ve joined your email list too.

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  10. Have you ever considered publishing an ebook or guest authoring on other sites?
    I have a blog based upon on the same topics you discuss and would love to have you share some stories/information. I know my visitors would value your work.
    If you are even remotely interested, feel free to shoot me an email.

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    • Thanks, Pabrik! I’m currently pretty maxed out on my writing contributions to other authority sites, but I’ll definitely let you know when things ease up.

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  11. Dear Sir,
    Thanks for sharing a valuable piece of content with us.
    Thanks.

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  12. I was going to give up on trying to set up a blog but now I am inspired and full of hope that I can do it!! Thanks so much

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  13. Hi Ryan,

    Your all post’s feature image has unique color and fonts, I like that. Which tool do you use to design your feature image?

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    • Thanks, Sanjay! I use a combination of Adobe Illustrator (for the graphics) and Adobe Photoshop (for creating the layout of the images). It’s a pretty quick process once you’ve designed your templates and can just plug in new headlines and graphics when you create a new image 🙂

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  14. Do you have any video of that? I’d care to find out some additional
    information.

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  15. An interesting discussion is worth comment. I believe that you ought to publish more about this topic, it might not be a taboo subject but usually people don’t speak about the real challenges of blogging.

    To the next! Kind regards!!

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