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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”
Hi Ryan and thanks for an extraordinary article. It’s just what so many of us are looking for. I have a question: I’ve blogged for years, my last blog being about eight years old. It was a basic WP.com site with little traffic that I’ve now privatized. My content, however, was pretty good. I’d like to start over with a hosted WP.org site, following your advisements, and do it with the old, repurposed and updated content of the previous blog. What are your thoughts about this? Thank you!
You’re welcome, Michael! And great question—that is absolutely 100% what I’d recommend doing, especially since you’re proud of the content you’ve already created. If you follow along with the process here in my guide, you’ll get the right best practices all dialed in with your self-hosted WP blog (of which I’m sure you’re already pretty familiar with too)… from there, just make sure your old blog is fully retired and removed from where it used to live—once you’ve imported all of the content to your new site. You shouldn’t be presented with any technical or SEO issues, and you’ll have a solid foundation from which to continue your efforts from there! I dig it—please let me know how things progress, and you can always reach me over email anytime too 🙂
thanks, Ryan for sharing your content. it really helps to start blogging and generate earning
You’re so welcome, Avi! Thanks for the kind words 🙂
Absolutely, it’s worth it to put the work in.
Thanks for the informative guide. This article is very helpful to me.
You’re very welcome!
Hi Ryan,
I have been using your guide to getting a blog started, but I’m concerned about the fact that it is not secure. Do you have a recommendation for how to make it secure? I’m learning a new tech language here, and want to be sure my bases are covered!
Thanks!
Hey Meaghan! When you sign up for hosting with Bluehost, they actually include an HTTPS certificate for your site (which makes it secure). If that’s not showing on your end at the moment, I’d ping their support team to ask what might not be displaying that—my guess is some sort of small tech glitch or a setting that needs to be ticked on your end 🙂
Thank you! It actually showed up somewhere in the process. I’m not very tech-literate (yet), so this process is quite a challenge for me! I appreciate your reply, and the information that you share.
Of course! I’m glad you got it figure out—learning these things will (naturally) take some time, so be kind to yourself as far as expectations go with the learning curve along your journey 🙂
Hey Ryan, thanks for the super informative article.
Quick question – you recommend linking out to relevant blog posts and then emailing the blogger to notify them and ask for a share. I’ve found that a lot of the relevant articles I link to are on company blogs, and they only have a contact form for getting in touch so it’s it’s not possible to directly email the person responsible for their blog. In these cases do you recommend getting in touch via their contact form anyway, or should I try to contact them on twitter instead?
You’re welcome, Daniel! That’s a great question too—and my take is that contact form submissions are certainly less than ideal. I only ever go that route if I truly strike out on trying to find somebody to get in touch with more personally over email. I’d instead recommend finding the name of someone in marketing (or a blog editor, writer, partnerships manager, etc) on LinkedIn and then send an email their way… most companies use an email naming convention like “first@companydotcom” or “firstinitiallastname@companydotcom”) so you can pretty safely guess most email addresses 🙂
Thanks Ryan. I’ll try that out so.
You’re a talented blogger. This is a very noteworthy, amazing post. Thanks!
Thanks, Sahzad! 🙏
The true meaning of SEO is to publish content that both search engines and users can understand. I found this article to be SO informative and I really appreciate your attention to detail.
Agreed on that, Robert! Thanks for the kind words and I’m glad you found my guide so helpful 🙂
Thanks for sharing good information. Thanks to you I have started a local blog for myself.
Of course, Sam! You’re welcome and good luck with your new blog 🙂
This articles is so wonderful and up to date, can you suggest any other platform for blogging apart from wordpress? Thank you
Thanks for the kind words, Iyke! The only other platform I’d really recommend would be one of these: https://staging.ryrob.com/blogging-platforms/
Wonderful work very useful list thanks for sharing glad to find it 🙂
You’re welcome, Julia! Glad you found this guide so helpful 🙏
Thanks for this very extensive list of advice, tips and insights.
You’re very welcome! 🙏
Thank you for this guide
Of course! 🙏
This is so helpful. Wish I had read it before I had started my auto blog. Thanks for sharing!
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Thanks! 🙂
Hi Ryan,
Thanks for the very detailed article covering up all topics required to starting up a successful blog. It’s really a step-by-step ultimate guide for anyone looking to start a blog. Very helpful.
So happy to hear that, John! I appreciate the kind words too 🙂
Hi Ryan,
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You got it! Glad to hear you’ve found this guide to helpful 🙏
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You’re very welcome, Julia! Good luck with your new blog 🙂
You have got some great posts in your blog. I will be visiting again.
Thanks, Dipshan! 🙏
Hi Ryan! Thanks for this article. It’s helped me a lot in starting my blog.
You’re very welcome, Michael! 🙂