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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”
very useful instruction. thanks for sharing this
You’re welcome, Anthony!
Great piece! As a marketing analyst I found this to be very insightful
Awesome to hear that, Shayur! 🙏
Hey Ryan,
This is seriously amazing content… really helpful!
Thank you so much
I’m really happy to hear that, Meenakshi! 🙏
Hi, Ryan!
I am very inspired by your blogging story.
First time commenting on your blog and also very excited as you are my inspiration and a benchmark for me.
This post is the most comprehensive post on ‘how to start a blog’ and I was wondering what was left…
Thanks Again for writing such a helpful post for beginners like me…
Thanks for the kind words, Imran! You’re welcome, and wishing you luck with your blogging journey 🙂
This information is super important. You’ve just put it all in the right way…so helpful…thanks alot
You’re welcome, Maggie!
Hello Ryan,
First of all thanks for sharing this good post. Indeed so insightful post ,and I really benefited from this content.
Besides, the design of this blog is so beautiful and caught my attention when i entered.
Keep rocking!
Rupam Sardar
I really appreciate the kind words, Rupam. Keep up the work on your blog too 🙂
Hi Ryan, Thanks for this very informative blog. This has a lot of insights for starting my blog.
You’re so welcome, Ashley! Wishing you luck with your new blog 🙏
Nice article and very helpful, it inspired me to give blogging a try
That’s great, Yonas! Good luck with your new blog 💪
Superb! the very useful article you shared with us. I appreciate you so much.
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You may never know how much you inspired me with this guide. I’m definitely giving blogging another shot, and I hope it works this time.
Thanks again!
I’m honored to hear that, Danish. Thank you for the kind words and I’m wishing you lots of luck with your new blog!
Your article is very useful and much more instructive about how to make money online easily with blogging. This type of tutorial is helping so many beginners like me.
Great to hear 🙂
Now that’s an article! Pretty impressive length and depth, Ryan! Thanks for the help. Also, I’m enjoying the podcast!
Thanks, Ryan! Really appreciate the kind words—both this article and the podcast have been labors of love (and a loooooooot of time) 😂
Hi Ryan
This is my second time leaving a reply here. I want to do blogging and I have three topics in mind. Is it possible all the three topics under one blog.
Thanks for commenting again, Maggie! Glad to have you here.
It can certainly be doable to have a blog that covers three different topic areas… if they’re somehow related to each other. If they’re not at all connected in some way, then I’d tend to recommend narrowing your focus more (otherwise, the blog can be a little confusing to readers who come for answers about say… writing advice and find that you’re also talking about composting techniques). It’s not necessarily a bad thing, especially if it brings you joy to cover a few different topics on the same blog, but I’ll say that in my experience it makes it more difficult to build a real business around your blog and attract an engaged audience unless you stay pretty focused on solutions around just one main niche or a couple of closely related ones.
Want to share the three topics you’re thinking about and I can give you a more useful answer?
Inspired from the challenges my mother faced in her youth, lack of parental love,care and protection, I want to deal with parenting issues. Secodly,I want to deal with inspirations,inspire young people, my motivation coming from my interaction with many young people who shared their problems with me and thirdly I want to deal with girl empowerment.
To also add something extra. Due to COVID- 19, here in Kenya universities are now implementing online education though this has proven to be a major challenge, so I want to address the challenges faced by students from this kind of education.
That’s really great to hear, Maggie! Super meaningful topics to write about and help others with—they all seem connected enough to do well together. Good luck! 🙂
I saw your other comment too—anytime you want to ask a question, you can reach me via email at contact@ryrob.com
Great post, thanks so much
You’re welcome, Raul! 🙏
This is truly the best blogging guide for beginners if you want to learn blogging from scratch. Thank you!
Thanks for the kind words, Ayush! 🙏
Very helpful content, thanks for putting together
You’re welcome, Hemant!
Awesome post, thanks!
You got it! 👍
very useful instruction. thanks for sharing this
You’re welcome, Pima!
Hi Ryan, Thanks for this very informative blog. This has a lot of insights for starting my blog.
Glad to hear it, Forrest! Good luck with your new blog 🙂
Hi Ryan!
I’ve just installed Astra as a theme and am considering for my site. Before I choose a starter template, I have to filter by builder…Elementor, Beaver Builder, Gutenberg or Brizy.
Does it matter which one I go with?
FYI, I already have Elementor installed in WP admin so should I just stick with templates under Elementor?
Thanks!
Since you already have Elementor installed, I’d stick with them! 🙂
Thanks, I will stick with Elementor!
By the way, when setting up domain-based email, I assume you have to go through your Web Hosting Service provider (in my case Bluehost)? Looks like they offer monthly or annual plans through Microsoft or G-Suite.
Good question! That’s definitely one way you can set up domain-based email, yeah. Though I’d recommend first checking out this video from my friend Andy that walks through how to do this for free: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ak8Y4mnuvvc
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Will do, thanks Ryan!
I’m now working through the learning curve challenges of editing my pages (layout, images, fonts, positioning, etc.)
I have Elementor activated but when I want to edit my pages, I’m struggling with their editor. It definitely has a lot of slick tools, but I’m finding it easier to do basic editing with the WP Editor. I imported a template so all I really want to do now is basic modifications so I can get to publishing. Elementor seems more advanced and may be better for creating brand new pages from scratch.
Would you recommend staying with WP Editor as well, at least for beginners like me?
Ah, that’s so interesting to hear your experience with Elementor! I’ve always enjoyed the process of building pages from scratch with Elementor, so that’s something I personally like 😂
I’d definitely recommend leaning into whichever option feels best, easiest, most natural to you as you’re just getting started… because (as you know) the real magic starts to happen once you’re publishing content, finding your readers and interacting with them!
Thanks Ryan! I think once I start building pages on my own instead of modifying existing ones, my experience with Elementor will be more positive 🙂
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Hi Ryan! Good news, I’ve started using Elementor for editing and have grown to like it! I’m still playing around and getting more comfortable with it, but am definitely sticking with it going forward.
Bad news is I’m running into an issue with the Post header (title) on a blog I tried to publish (I’m using Astra theme). Oddly, the post title does not appear either when I’m in edit mode or when I publish. I’ve followed multiple Elementor video tutorials and still can’t figure out what’s going on. Guessing user error on my part but am at a loss.
I’ve put a ticket in with Elementor, but in the event that doesn’t help, do you have any suggestions on where to go for troubleshooting? I thought about hiring an Expert from Elementor’s site but am trying to use that as a last resort.
Curious what you did when you first started.
Thanks!
That’s great to hear you’re getting more into Elementor!
Interesting little challenge there with your post title not displaying. Would you mind emailing me the link to the particular post and I can take a quick look to see if anything is obvious to me? Your blog’s primary theme is technically Astra, so my hunch is that whatever’s going on will have something to do with your Astra settings… have you looked at every possible setting in your theme to see if something got switched off somehow? I’d check out the Astra support threads too.
Ryan
Hey Ryan I found a solution! For whatever reason, the Post Title widget wasn’t working (no matter what theme I selected) so I found an answer on a WP support thread. I ended up using the Heading widget instead along with the dynamic tag option. Never would have figured it out myself but it worked!
Again, thanks for your advice!
Aha! That’s great, thanks for sharing too. Almost all of these kinds of little things, I’ve found solutions in support threads too 😂
Hello sir, you have given very good information, I have created a blog but that much traffic is not there, what could be the reason? Please sir reply me 🙏🙏🙏🙏
Hey Abhishek! Have you gone through the section in this guide about driving traffic & getting readers to your blog? That’s where I’d start! And you can get some more ideas/insights in these guides here on my blog too:
https://staging.ryrob.com/how-to-promote-your-blog/
https://staging.ryrob.com/how-grow-blog/