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 am thinking of starting a blog of mine since a long time but each time I get demotivated by some or the other reasons. Today I searched on Google again ,” how to start a blog” and happened to read this wonderful piece of yours. I am not at all techno- friendly and there were some portions in this guide that I didn’t understand but it has surely motivated me to start a blog . It’s been one of the most useful piece of writings that I went through during this pandemic of Covid19.
    Thanks and regards
    Soni ( from India)

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    • Ah, this makes me so happy Soni. I’m so glad to hear this guide was super helpful to you in getting your blog off the ground (without being too technical)—that’s been the goal here all along! Good luck and please report back on how your blog is doing soon 🙂

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  2. I write articles about commercial real estate, coworking, business centers, offices, etc. And this article is very useful for me. Since I would like to start blogging about commercial real estate. For writing articles I good at it. And I think I can manage the blog at 100%. All your tips have inspired me and I have gathered a lot of useful information. Thank you very much.

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    • You’re very welcome, Ella! I’m happy you’ve discovered my blog here—and hope you come back for more useful blogging advice 🙂

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  9. Great post, Ryan, this is great content! I have a question about the timeline and how to of affiliate marketing. There are a handful of other people that I want to advertise for on my future blog. How exactly would I set this sort of thing up?

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    • Great question! If the products/services you want to be an affiliate of, have an existing affiliate program—they likely have a super clear page on their site explaining their process for accepting applications to join their affiliate program. If on the other hand you’re talking about bloggers like myself here, that don’t outwardly advertise an affiliate program for products, then your best bet is to just send them a cold email (or submit a contact form) to get in touch and see what kinds of options they have available. Most people/companies you reach out to will want to get an understanding of your audience size too (so they can determine the likelihood of whether or not you’ll be driving many sales of their products, so keep that in mind!

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  10. I really appreciate reading your blog!

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  11. there are so many steps yes! but the important thing is start now, right? blogging can be a source of income but as what I’ve read and seen, it is also good to have skills in digital arts. do you recommend enrolling to an academy for freelancing to build your skill especially to a newbie like me who don’t have that skill yet in terms of digital arts? do you have a recommendation? Thank you!

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    • Absolutely! Clarity and success with blogging both come from taking action… all the thinking, brainstorming, planning in the world won’t measure up to the impact of just getting started and beginning the process of learning to blog. If you’re looking to sharpen some of your skills, sure an online academy or course program can definitely be helpful—consider finding free resources and seeing how much you can self-teach yourself the skill you want to build first 🙂

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  12. Hi Ryan,

    I want say thanks and would like say that since i thought of being a blogger i am now going in the right direction after going thought your website. Looking forward i want you to keep helping me to become a blogger. Keep directing me Ryan. I want to know that i have decided name of my website i.e simplyawesomebyab

    Thanks a lot,

    Anind (AB)

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  13. Wow. You given all relevant information about creating blog with no experience. i would like to give you big thank you.

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  14. This guide helped me a lot, thanks for writing such an epic article. I hope now i am able start a blog.

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  15. Very great information for successful blogging here, Ryan. Thank you.

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