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. I’m so thankful to be reading this fantastic guide to improve my blogging.

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  2. Great write-up. I certainly appreciate the amount of effort you’ve put into this post
    Keep it up!

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  3. Starting a blog is essential if you want to do anything in the writing sphere.

    Or even if you have a product that you want the world to know about, then it’s best to have a blog to spread the word.

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  4. May I simply just say what a relief to find somebody that truly understands
    what they’re discussing when it comes to blogging. Thank you!

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  5. Entry mega !! 🙂 this can be turned into an ebook – how do you think you can live from blogging and recognize it as a profession?

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    • It actually has been turned into an eBook! 🙂

      You can grab it as a digital download by searching my blog for “blogging books” and grabbing it from that article. Check out my guide about how to make money from your blog (linked to from within this guide just a little bit above the comments section here).

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  6. Thank you so much for this guide. I’m a travel blogger just starting out and this helped immensely setting everything up, figuring out where I want to go and how to structure my content and make it more readable and exciting. Can’t stop reading around your site for more tips!

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  7. This information is really useful, and really creative, I got really motivated by the way this is written and designed.

    Thanks to you I will work hard on my blog. Thank you a lot!

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  9. I love your site as it is full of information and is really helpful! Keep posting!

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  10. I just started to set up my blog thanks to your video. However, I have a problem, I went in to my word press settings to change my url to a www. as you suggested and now it keeps saying it can’t find my url. I can’t get back in to my word pess settings now at all not even to change it back. What should I do???

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    • Hey Shelley! There’s likely a technical issue going on behind the scenes that may require some insight & help from the support team of your hosting company. Did you go with Bluehost to power your blog’s hosting? If so, I know their support team is extremely helpful… so log into your Bluehost account and hit the chat button with them—they’ll get this problem sorted out quickly.

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  11. I’m so grateful to peruse this awesome manual for improve my blogging.

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  12. Hi Ryan, I been following your blog from a couple of months now and I can surely say your content is next to none.
    Actually I plan to start a new blog and I want to know, can all niches be monetized?

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    • Great to hear you’re getting started soon, Osayande!

      The short answer is that yes, pretty much any niche can be monetized in some way (as long as there’s proven demand/a decent number of people searching in the niche). It might take a healthy dose of creativity to figure out the best way to monetize your blog in a particular space, but it’s possible. Check out my detailed guide on how to pick a profitable blog niche—it’s linked to from section #1 and #2 in this guide here above.

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  13. Very good information. One can easily build a website using this information. Keep it up.

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  14. Regards for writing this marvelous post, I’m very glad I discovered this.

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  15. Hurrah! Finally I found a post from where I can really get useful information concerning my study and knowledge about blogging.

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  16. I would like to thank you for the huge effort you’ve put in writing this blog post. I’m hoping to see the same high-grade content from you in the future as well. In truth, your creative writing abilities has inspired me to get my own personal blog now 😉

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  17. I took the leap today – followed your advice above and jumped.
    Thank you for a great post!
    I can follow the steps I haven’t got to yet and the advice. Wish me luck for the rest!

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    • That’s great to hear, Jackie! Congrats on getting started 🙂

      Be sure to check out the (many, many) other blogging-related tutorials I have here as you progress through the steps.

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  18. You are just awesome. Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge and it’s really helpful for me to improve my website. Thank you.

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  19. Hey Ryan,

    I hope you are doing fine and safe there!

    Even though, I’m following you and your content for quite a time, I never thought of dropping a comment. This is my first comment with you, feeling excited.

    What to say about this epic guide on starting a blog! You just blew up everyone with this incredible guide. I’m sure this is the first ‘How to start a blog guide’ on the Internet that has got whopping word count of 20,000+, I didn’t check the exact count though. You have covered everything a newbie need to start, build and scale a blog. Indeed, It is packed with a great value.

    I have been through your few other contents as well, all are master pieces. I’m glad I discovered you.

    BTW, the blogging scholarship thing is just thoughtful and lovely gesture. I wish you all good, keep entertaining us.

    Bye now..

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    • It’s great to finally hear from you, Mudassir! Thanks for leaving such a thoughtful comment too, I really appreciate the kind words.

      Good luck in the blog scholarship if you’re applying 🙂

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