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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.
2,167 replies to “How to Start a Blog (and Make Money) in 2025: Ultimate Beginner’s Guide to Start Blogging in 6 Steps”
May I just say what a comfort to find a person that actually understands what they are discussing over the internet.
You actually understand how to bring an issue to light and make it important. More and more people need to look at this and understand this side of your story.
Thanks so much, Winifred. Glad you took a lot of value from this guide—it came from the heart 🙂
Thanks for your very impressive and helpful post on creating a blog and writing a post. I am really amazed and satisfied with reading and collecting your detail notes. I have collected 26 pages of notes from reading your various posts.
Thanks.
I’m so glad to hear that! Thanks for reading (and sharing) 🙂
Wow, best information I have found. Thank you so much. I have created a Rough Draft Blog, at wordpress. I am wanting to go through Bluehost. I’ll certainly return to your information, not just to use your Affiliate links to access bluehost, and to refer back to this information more than once.
I have also registered through email, for your seven day course.
Thank you so much Ryan, I feel like I’m understanding this process so much more now, wish I had got started years ago! Oh, and dont laugh at my rough draft blog. I created it actually today. Jotting down ideas, before I found your information, and needing to brain storm on how to mesh my writing skills and include affiliate links. 🙂
You’re very welcome, Cassandra! So great to hear you’re taking action too… that’s what it’s all about, making progress with your blog takes very consistent action over the course of weeks, months and years 🙂
Since you’re signed up for my email course, please feel free to hit reply to any of those emails and ask me questions if you have them—I like to personally reply to every email I get from readers. Be sure to poke around the rest of my blog for more writing and affiliate-related resources—a good starting place would be the link at the very bottom of this page (in my site footer) that says “Everything About Blogging.”
wow! was so happy when i found your write up, so rich in content. i had to bookmark it.
Please i need you to recommend a blogging template/theme that can accommodate up to 15 to 20 post pa page. Please if you don’t mind, you can reply me via my E mail
Thank you
Hey Chris! Glad you found this guide so helpful. I recommend either Elementor’s Hello Theme or Astra, they’ll definitely do the trick 🙂
Wow, That infographic is killer,
Hey Ryan, how do you come up with those ideas
Thanks, Niraj! I had the idea for getting an infographic made (to accompany this guide) after a few readers gave me the suggestion that I should film a video-based tutorial for this article. After doing that, I thought why not also make an infographic to give visual learners another way to digest this process… but I’ve also had success in the past with infographics being shared widely on social media, so I knew it was a proven content format already 🙂
Hi Ryan! I recently responded to a text from a friend and they suggested I start a blog. I haven’t a clue! I actually had to google “What is a blog?” I am interesting in starting a blog; however, I desperately need your help to get started.
I’m glad you found this tutorial then, Marie! If you follow the steps in this guide, then you’ll get set up and be traveling on the right path 🙂
Great Information.
I noticed that you have some Boxes in the FAQ section. Can you guide me on how did you do it?
Did you use a Plugin or Coding?
Great question, Kuldeep! I actually use a shortcode to do this (in HTML), so I’ll put together a quick post here soon that shows how to create the collapsible FAQ boxes.
Hey Kuldeep! I partnered up with my good friend Andy (a WordPress developer) and we made a super lightweight/easy plugin to do these FAQ boxes the exact same way as I do them on my blog here… but now with a very easy to use plugin 🙂
You can check it out and download it on the WordPress plugin marketplace (for free) here: https://wordpress.org/plugins/lightweight-accordion/
What the hell dude!!
You remember my comment. That’s pretty impressive.
By the way Thanks for the suggestion. I will definitely try this plugin.
Have A nice day.
Haha, you’re welcome! I promised I’d deliver for you 🙂
Good luck and let me know if you have any questions with the plugin once you’ve got it installed.
Awesome boss! useful information. I learned a lot from your post. Thanks!
You’re welcome, Tanvir! Glad you found my guide useful 🙂
Nice article, very in-depth. Thank you so much.
You’re welcome, Amit!
Thanks for these great tips!
You’re very welcome, Camille!
Thanks, Ryan for sharing tons of information here. The article is nicely written in a great format that covers all aspects of starting a blog.
You’re welcome, Aditya. Glad you found it so helpful!
Wow. Thanks for the comprehensive guide. I actually shared your blog with one of my friends who wanted to start blogging (a complete newbie). She actually got her website up and running last week following your guide during the coronavirus lockdown and I’m extremely proud of her.
Thanks for the guidance.
Jeremiah
You’re welcome, Jeremiah! Thanks for sharing my guide with your friends as well, I’m pumped to hear she found it helpful 🙂
Really helpful guide. Thank you for created this valuable article for your readers.
You’re welcome, Selina! Good luck with your blogging endeavors!
I am lost for words! Thank you. Your course and content are second to none! Over my 20 years in marketing I’ve never seen anything being even close to this. You are genius!
Ah thank you so much for the kind words, Eirene! It’s definitely the culmination of years of hard work, so thanks for the appreciation 🙂
I really appreciate you for putting together this great article. It’s been helpful in this difficult time.
I’m glad it’s helping, Celia 🙂
Amazing content! Would you mind if I use the images from your website??
Hey Eddy! Would you mind dropping me a quick email to contact@ryrob.com with a specific request about which images you’d like to use? Thanks!
How many blog posts do you need to post per week?
The answer is always… it depends 🙂
Based on a variety of life factors (like how much time you have to write, other commitments in your schedule, family/friend time, etc), how many articles can you confidently write each week without putting yourself under too much pressure to produce work? That answer will be different for everyone… but personally, I aim for publishing around one new long-form article per week and one shorter, quick tutorial style piece. It’s taken me quite a while to get to this point though, and in the earlier days of my blog, I’d publish more like ~2 long-form articles per month as I used to have a lot less time to blog.
Set a goal that’s realistic for yourself, readjust as necessary once you’re getting into a rhythm and keep your focus more on just having a regular writing practice as the primary goal (i.e. something like… you write for 3hrs/day on every Monday, Wednesday and Friday during the early mornings before your other work). If you can build habits that set yourself up for success over the long-term, then that’s a way more meaningful endeavor than aiming for just an arbitrary # of new blog posts to be published every week.
Wow. This is super duper complete for getting into blogging. I don’t see any Google Adsense on this site though, why?
Thanks, Allen!
Great question (re: AdSense)—I don’t monetize my blog with AdSense because it injects a decent amount of code onto the pages of your site… thus slowing down page load speeds and often adding pretty distracting, obtrusive advertisements directly in the way of a great reading experience for my audience. So for those two reasons (1) load time and (2) keeping my blog as great as possible in terms of reader experience, I’ve chosen to monetize with other channels aside from ad networks… that includes affiliate programs, online course sales, a podcast, consulting and more.
Exactly what I was looking for, thanks for putting up.
You’re welcome, Lakeisha 🙂
Yes! Finally something about blogging that I can actually follow.
Nice! Glad to hear it, Rob. Good luck!