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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”
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Agreed! 🙂
So informative, i love the way you expressed yourself here. The step by step guide was an added advantage for the reader.
I have been really inspired by your blog and started my own now.
Please motivate me as I have published my blog posts but can’t get traffic as of now.
Thanks for the kind words, Arshdeep! Pumped to hear you’re motivated to start your blog 🙂
Thank you Ryan for this wonderful exposition on how to start blogging. I’ve been truly blessed and I’m starting as soon as possible based on all I’ve learned from you. I’ll keep getting in touch with you as I move on in my blogging.
You’re welcome, Samuel! Glad to hear that, and good luck with your blog 🙂
Hello Ryan, Hope you will be fine.
Thank you so much for your great article. I think you did this post not in one day but maybe in several days/months. Very long post. But very detailed and informative and also motivative for new bloggers.
Could you kindly explain that is it necessary to purchase hosting plan for new bloggers for wordpress? Doesn’t WordPress have its own server?
Love from Pakistan…..
Right you are! This guide has been written steadily over the course of months (now years), but I’m glad you found it so helpful 🙂
You need to get a hosting plan (with a company like Bluehost, Dreamhost, etc) in order to have a public blog that you personally own… but if you want to try WordPress(.)com, Wix or Weebly, they do offer free (albeit very limited/restricted) plans that you can use to start testing the waters with blogging. There’s nothing wrong with that if you’re in a position where you need to start with a free blogging site. Here’s an article I wrote about that right here: https://staging.ryrob.com/free-blogging-sites/
Hey Ryan,
I heard that the best way for a new blog to start making money is to become a content marketing consultant.
But I have no experience in it. So what should I do. (I am a PS game blogger)
I will very much love to get your answer.
It certainly doesn’t hurt to be a content marketer by trade! The major benefit is that as a content marketer, you’re often paid by companies, brands, startups to write (useful) content for their blogs and on the blogs of other websites in their industry… and as an author, that gives you the opportunity to slowly get some high quality author bio links back to your own blog in the process. That’s been pretty instrumental in my own success with this blog over the years.
I talk a good deal about my approach to content marketing & building my freelance business in these guides, so see what you can come up with from them—but I don’t (yet) have a specific piece on how to become a grat content marketer. Thanks for the suggestion though! For now, I’d suggest reading these articles though (and please ask any questions here that I can help with):
https://staging.ryrob.com/why-freelance-while-working-full-time-and-how-to-do-it/
https://staging.ryrob.com/content-marketing-strategy/
Thanks Ryan, I will really on them right away
It was really helpful, but can you suggest what is the procedure of choosing s niche. ?
Hey Pel, of course! Check out my step-by-step guide about how to pick a niche for your blog right here: https://staging.ryrob.com/blog-niche/
Hi Ryan, This is really huge post to read through! I just got started with a new site and looking forward to receive more guidance and steps from you to learn many new things 🙂 Thanks again!
Great to hear that! You’re welcome, Sashwato 🙂
Hi Ryan
The post was nice and insightful.
I would like to know which platform will be right for collecting emails on my blog.
Can you help me?
Thanks for sharing this post.
You’re welcome, Abhishek! Sure. In this guide (the section about email marketing), I recommend using ConvertKit as the best/most impactful tool for collecting emails on your blog—and effectively building relationships with subscribers and marketing to them. However, when you’re just getting started—if you’re on a tight budget, I’d check out Mailchimp as a free tool to collect subscribers and send them (limited) emails as you just get your blog started. Mailchimp is free for up to 2,000 subscribers right now.
Thanks, Ryan
great article Ryan, very helpful
but am scared of starting my own cause I don’t know how I can be able to drive traffic for a blog
am still a student and I don’t know, am I too young to start a blog? even though I have a domain name and a niche
Thanks for reading and asking this question, Hezekiah. If you’re here reading along (and already have a domain name & niche), then you’re certainly not too young to start blogging. You’re almost already doing it 🙂
My advice to you would be to embrace the fact that you’re not going to know how to do everything in the blogging world TODAY. It’ll take time to learn, experiment, persist and eventually perfect the traffic driving strategies you find to be working (after plenty of experimentation and a lot of work). As I talk a lot about in this guide here, the first step is to just get started… and from there, you can begin solving real problems (with your blog content) for readers in your niche. Then, use the traffic driving strategies we talk about here to go out and find those readers… then bring them back to your blog.
You can do this. It may take months or years to become financially successful, but you have the potential to start positively impacting the lives of others very soon.
Very well explained.
Glad to hear it, Deepak!
Am really blessed with this write up. God bless you Ryan.
Glad you’ve found this guide so useful, Ayobami!
You were totally on point! Thank you for the tips Ryan. I would try to apply to this to my startup blog.
You’re very welcome! Good luck with your blog 🙂
i want to start a blog
You’re in the right place, Emmanuel! Let me know if you have any questions as you make your way through my guide 🙂
Very informative and easy to follow
Thanks sir
You’re welcome, Nidhi! Good luck 🙂
I’m intrested
Good luck with your blog, Akintayo!
Thank you for these, but I do not have a laptop or desktop can I use my phone to do all these?
Hey Temitope, it’ll be difficult to set up (and manage) your entire blog with just a mobile phone… you’ll likely need access to a laptop or desktop computer with an Internet connection in order to do the initial set up of your blog (especially if you want to have some meaningful control over how it looks), but it’s more feasible to manage your blog from just a smart phone once everything is set up and running well.
Thank you for this.
Hi Ryan very first a huge congrats You are awesome👌🏼my question would be to you do you recommend to start a blog like i never had none of Computer work also i have not got no computer certificate?? From my twenties i hold one of my dreams which is to talk to people especially to girls,women from an absolutely needed subject but i never could achieve it. So basically i have and could come out my whole ideas and thoughts but i am not too sure i could be enough by the real technical,computer work too!
Many thx im looking forward for your response Ryan:)
Hey Milla, thanks for the kind words! You can definitely start a blog without having much computer experience, just understand that you’ll be learning new things every day… which I think should be a fun, exciting new challenge. It’s ok to not know what comes next in the progression of building/growing a blog, but if you’re able to commit to taking small steps every day, then you’ll get there 🙂
very informative
Thanks, Srivari! Glad to hear that 🙂
Hi Sir,
This Really Very useful information about how to start a blog and make money, i am a new blogger this article help me lot thanks for sharing.
You’re welcome, Prosanta. Happy to hear this guide helped get your blog off the ground!
Very informative and easy to follow
Thanks, I’m really happy to hear that, Srivari!