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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.
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Hey Ryan!
Nice article, thanks for sharing your ideas with us, I also agree with Benjamin Ehinger here in the comments. Promotion of blog or any website has become so harder as of now. especially for newcomers like me, It is easy for anybody to share their experience or knowledge by writing a blog. But to rank high in a search engine is not so easy bcoz ranking in search engine depends on so many factors, which is quite difficult to understand in the beginning. Apart from your knowledge in a blog niche, it is also necessary to have a knowledge of SEO.
I agree that it’s *never* easy to rank high in organic search terms that are competitive… it always takes time and success is never guaranteed, sometimes months of work even for my site that’s relatively well-established and reputable.
But the most solid possible foundation for ranking well is always going to be through producing/sharing STAND-OUT content that goes insanely far above and beyond the value/depth other competitors provide. If you can successfully do that, then some of your content promotion work will be made significantly easier for you because you’ll be out there pitching guest posts, asking for social shares, connecting with publications and you’ll have amazing content on your site to refer back to (and be super proud of).
Nice article. Very useful for beginners.
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Thanks, Sivabalaji!
Such a lovely guide with clear information (especially the infographic). Loved reading it and yeah definitely WordPress is the best CMS to use for starting a blog.
Couldn’t agree more! Thanks, Rakim 🙌
The points which you have explained in your blog are great, and I hope it will be very useful to other bloggers as your blog is quite understandable and interesting.
🙏🙏🙏 thanks Syed!
Great post, very informative. I’m wondering why other bloggers writing about this topic don’t go into as much depth. You must continue your writing. I’m confident, you have a huge reader base already 😊
Thanks so much, Supriyo! 🙏
Great post!
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How much time does it take to start making money from a blog?
To be totally honest, time to making money from your blog varies A LOT based on things like…
– The topics you’re writing about
– Whether you have an existing audience somewhere (or are starting from scratch)
– How much time you’re able to allocate to writing/promoting your content
– If you have any relationships with more established bloggers, brands or websites that can help accelerate your progress by letting you guest post
– Which WAY you choose to start monetizing your blog (see the section about monetization above) because some are much easier/quicker than others
– How well you’re able to implement your monetization strategy (i.e. are you good at selling a course to your email subscribers, or are you able to generate enough page views/podcast downloads to convince sponsors it’s worth their investment to advertise on your platform)
And a hundred other variables…
But what’s important is that you start today… and create a habit of regularly writing, building relationships to help share your work on other existing platforms where your potential readers already frequent, attract email subscribers, form relationships with and learn from them, and put together a win-win product/service that you can sell to those readers.
That’s going to be the quickest path, and can certainly be done in as little as 1 month if we’re talking about getting to the first time you earn anything from your blog. If you’re talking about getting to a more significant level of income or repeatable streams of income, 3 to 6 months is a much more realistic time frame if you’re able to allocate a meaningful amount of time to growing your site. There’s definitely a long-tail effect though, where the longer you stick with it (i.e. 1, 2, 3+ years), the more you’ll have published, the more authority your site will have, and the more you’ll earn.
In the end, it all comes down to consistent habits. Execute, execute, execute.
Definitely one of the TRULY best tutorial articles out there about starting a blog!
Thank you, Chris! ⚡️
Hey Ryan, what a thorough tutorial you have my friend! Loving your content man. It appears that it’s updated as well. God Bless….👍
Yessir! Thanks for the kind words and support, Andre 🙏
Hey Ryan, what a great read! Full of information and some great tips on blogging and how to monetise it.
I am currently working on a travel blog, however I am having second thoughts on whether this is a good idea or not as it is such a crowded market! I have a passion for travelling and want to share my journey (in 2019) on my new blog. I am worried I don’t have enough of a ‘niche’. Whats the best way for a travel blogger to stand out from the crowd and should I even be going down this crowded route?!
Thanks in advance 🙂
Simon! Thanks for sharing (and for the kind words).
Personally, I think there’s always an opportunity to carve out a niche within any industry—even travel blogging. While there are more competitors in a space like that, you also typically have a much higher demand for more content there too… there are SO many appealing trip destinations around the world, and travelers are always searching for advice, places to stay, things to do, sights to see. Just because others cover the same destinations, doesn’t mean you can’t do it too—and still find your readers.
My best advice would be to start thinking about ways you can differentiate yourself… through things like ultra high quality location-based photos of everywhere you go, more of a “locals take” to visiting _________, having extremely in-depth written content that goes beyond what others write/share about the destination, shooting videos of all the best sights you need to see when you go to ___________ and having that content go up to YouTube along with your blog, documenting your journey behind the scenes on Instagram, the list goes on.
Don’t get discouraged by competitors… take inspiration from observing what you see working well for them, adapt it to fit your own style/strengths/interests and you’ll continue building your own unique flavor to blogging over the course of weeks, months and years as you get more comfortable and publish more content.
But as you know, from everything I discussed in this guide… step #1 is actually choosing to start a blog in the first place. Get your first article published (it doesn’t have to be perfect), and work on finding your unique superpowers as you grow. Start now, don’t wait until January!
This is an amazing blog post about creating a blog for me. Thanks for writing about this in such detail.
Thanks for stopping by, Vinay! 👋
Ryan, you nailed it. This is helpful and insightful article… Thanks for writing.
Thanks so much, Arinzona! Glad you got value out of it ⚡️
Hi Ryan, I have started my blog. I want to get traffic to my website, please help me.
Hey Devandra! There’s an entire section in this guide (above) about my best traffic driving strategies—and an in-depth look at how I use them to grow my blog’s traffic. So my first piece of advice is to start there.
After that, you can take a deeper dive in this article I wrote that goes into more depth on (even more) traffic driving strategies I use: https://staging.ryrob.com/drive-traffic-website/
Thanks for sharing such an amazing article.
To start blogging is not an easy thing but it’s also not so difficult too. If you are good in English and have strong vocabulary then you can start your blogging carrier. One more thing you must choose topics for your blog that have a lot of searches.
You’re welcome! Thanks for stopping by, Udit. And definitely agreed on choosing topics to blog about that already have well-established search volume. That helps big time in guaranteeing there’s existing demand for what you plan on blogging about.
Hey Ryan,
Thanks for such detailed post!
You got me motivated to start a blog but still figuring out my niche. This niche search got me wondering, what exactly is your NICHE for this blog as I can see a variety of posts from different categories and topics and also the name “ryrob” doesn’t seem to follow your own advice in this post itself? How have you made it so big and successful? I mean what seems to be a multi-niche blog?
Thanks for the kind words, and GREAT question Alex!
My niche—originally when I started this blog, everything I published had something to do with *starting and growing a side business* which is a theme I try and stay close to still today… hence this guide on how to start a blog has a lot of bits weaved into it that are related to squeezing time out of your busy schedule around things like work & family commitments.
You could say my niche is “side hustles” and that’d be pretty fair. Under that broader umbrella, I’ve gone in the direction of writing about a lot of my freelance work, successes and failures with the blog, my experiments in productivity, coaching/consulting work, testing out other types of side businesses, validating ideas… it all ladders up to growing a business on the side of your day job.
So even though you may not immediately realize it as a reader, there’s a niche that everything more or less falls into on my blog. Though the domain name, ryrob, is just my nickname—and more than anything, that’s a reflection of how I started my blog… as just a personal experiment in sharing my thoughts online. It’s grown a lot from there as I’ve discovered this niche topic I care so deeply about 😊
How’s that for proof you don’t need a super relevant domain name in order to become successful at breaking into a niche? I’d agree that sometimes it can be very helpful if you do (to signal to readers what your site is likely all about), but it’s not by any means a requirement for creating a successful blog.
Hey Ryan Robinson,
This is really an excellent article and thank you so much for such a great job. I enjoy your article from the beginning to end and got useful information. As a web developer I completely agree with your post.
Woo! Thanks for swinging by and leaving some love, Heroheto ✊
Hi, Ryan!
Thank you for this insightful article. I have learnt a lot from it. I just wonder how you came up with the Monthly Search Volume (MSV) estimates to determine the Level of Demand based on the MSV as shown on your Niche Market Demand Checker spreadsheet. How do you compute the calculations?
Thank you for your help.
Good question!
The estimated MSV (monthly search volume) is just that—an estimate you can get from several different tools online, like SEMrush, wordstream, ahrefs, kwfinder and others, that’ll give you *their* estimate of how many searches are done on the keyword phrases you run through the tool. That part’s pretty straight-forward.
Determining a level of demand on the other hand, is much more subjective and open to interpretation.
If you ask 100 different experienced bloggers/SEO experts, you’ll get 100 different answers to this… but here are the ranges that I personally use to determine the level of demand a keyword phrase has when I run it through a keyword research tool (note: these options are in a dropdown menu in column G of the niche market demand checker spreadsheet document you referenced):
Very Low (< 1,000) Low (1,001 - 2,000) Medium (2,001 - 5,000) High (5001 - 10,000) Very High (10,000+) Keep in mind, we're talking about # of monthly searches here, and in the context of how much search demand there is in a given niche topic area—which is a great place to start with your writing for a new blog. You can certainly graduate to going after keyword phrases that get well into the tens or hundreds of thousands of monthly searches... even millions... but for the context here of ranking your content well with a niche topic that has at least a decent level of search demand, using my scale is a great start.
You are awesome, Ryan! Thank you so very much for taking your time to help me better understand this game. Your method is uplifting.
Thanks a million and may good things come your way.
Sincerely,
Guy
You’re welcome, Guy! I’ve got a lot of respect for anyone asking deep questions about topics around how to start a blog. Come back by anytime I can help out!
Very helpful article thank you so much for providing this article.
You’re welcome! Thanks for the kind words 😀
Wow, this is an amazing read and quite interesting too. I am definitely going to use these tips to start my blogging website and earn money. Thanks Ryan Robinson.
Glad to hear it, Sam! Good luck, and definitely stop back by to report in on how things are going 💪
Thank you for writing this! It was extremely long but full of valuable information. I’ll use this greatly.
Haha long indeed, but pumped you got as much value out of this guide as I was hoping to give 💪🏼