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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”
Amazing content Ryan,
And the way you have written it is impressive and interesting to read.
Thank you for this amazing blog.
You’re so welcome, Jenny! Thanks for the kind words and I’m glad you were able to get something out of this guide on how to start a blog 🙂
Hi, I was just thinking about starting a blog and for that I started randomly search about blogging. Then your article popped and then I knew that blogging can be a way to earn other than being a hobby. Thank you so much. You inspired me a lot. I was a little in doubt about starting a blog but now I’m clear headed. Just wanna ask can I earn money from a free site as well? How does it work?
Thank you once again.
You’re welcome, Sangita! So glad you found my article.
Yes, you can definitely make money from a free website, but it’ll be more difficult than if you have a blog of your own (i.e. yourownwebsite.com) that isn’t branded as just a free site on some other platform. The best way for you to monetize a free blog is by landing freelance contracts or otherwise selling your services to readers that discover your blog and want to collaborate with you.
Wow, Ryan!
It such a detailed post I have ever seen. You’ve put all the important blogging details in a single post. Thank you for caring for your readers. Keep sharing innovative ideas in blogging.
Thanks for the kind words, Dinesh!
Hey there! Thank you so much for all this great information. My boyfriend and I are very interested in starting a blog and eventually joining affiliate programs with various vendors. I have topics that are important to be and I have shared with close friends that have changed their lives. Some maybe profitable and others are just good mental health practices that I have learned and implemented over many years of my own struggles. My question here is: Is there a way to turn those things into a profitable blog? I would love to chat more with you either via phone or email regarding some specific ideas I have. Please email me if you have time to chat by either means.
Absolutely! What you’re wanting to do, is exactly what I’ve done with my blog here. It started out 5 years ago as just a way for me to share my experiences with building different side projects, talk about my freelance work and how I was landing/working with clients on the side of my day job, and it slowly blossomed into something greater than that.
In short, there will be win-win ways to monetize any topics that stand to help and benefit your readers. Blogs are great destinations to share positive, impactful, helpful (free) content like what I’ve done with this guide about how to start a blog… and from there, you can eventually develop paid courses, books, consulting services, etc as a way to begin monetizing the readers that want more than just the free surface level content.
Right now, I’m only working one-on-one actively with students in my paid course, Built to Blog (more on that here if it looks like a good fit for you to join: https://ryrob.teachable.com/p/built-to-blog)
Hey Ryan,
I never missed a single article from you. All the articles, guides and posts written by you will always have top to bottom of the subjects in depth.
This article is a guide for the beginners and experienced bloggers as well.
I’ve bookmarked this page (how to create a blog). You’ve covered all info in regards how to create a blog and earn money from blogging.
The explanation of WordPress(free) and WordPress (paid) was really great.
Again, I’m a fan of your articles and monthly side income report 🙂
My best wishes for your upcoming earnings. All the best.
Keep Rocking Ryan.
Thanks
Saran
MoneyTells
Thanks so much, Saran! I’m pumped to have you reading along with me here 🙂
Such an extensive article. It surely brings great value to newbie bloggers. I would like to know your thoughts about the article frequency. Do you think publishing more content strengthen SEO for the site?
Great question, Dhiraj. The short answer is that yes, I’ve definitely seen a positive benefit to regularly publishing content on my blog (about once a week, sometimes more if I can).
But when you’re just getting started, that often isn’t a very realistic target because you probably have other responsibilities and time commitments. As a trade off for frequency, I always advise bloggers to invest in creating in-depth content… ALL of my best ranking blog posts are long-form and at least several thousand words in length.
Hi Ryan,
This is a really great article for the building and developing a successful blog. It will surely help me in upgrading my blogs.
Boom! Glad to hear it, Winnie! 💥
Thanks for creating such an in-depth guide to this, Ryan! ❤️
You’re welcome Raushan!
Thank you for your deliberate guideline on blogging! It’s really helpful! I agree that on free blogging platforms there is less control over the content and looks. Also, it’s difficult to find a blogging platform from where you can export all your data. Also, the main preoccupation for most of the bloggers is to grow the audience.
Boom! You’re welcome, Stanis. Thanks for the kind words, and yep—totally agree with you. WordPress all the way when starting a blog 💪
Wow!! That’s a so huge article! Yet nice to read and helped me to some extent. Thank you very much,
This type of in-depth and descriptive information is really wanted today especially for blogger. And thanks again once more
Special regards.
So glad to hear it, Rupam! Something in-depth like this has always been helpful to me when learning a completely new subject matter (like how to start a blog) 😊
Hi Ryan! Thanks for such a useful information. I was trying to pay for Bluehost, but do I have to pay at once? They tried to take whole 3 years money from my account.. (Luckily, I do not have enough money tho haha)
Hey Genie! Good question. Bluehost does take payment for the full plan duration you choose (all at once), but you don’t need to choose the 3 year option. You can drop it way down to 1 year and control the options of your plan to get the total 1 year cost to below $60.
One thing to remember is that Bluehost does the annual hosting plan billing so that they can drop the cost down lower than most hosting companies charge.
Hey Ryan,
I’m thinking how you wrote such long blo post and how much effort you may have puted to write amazing post.
It’s one stop for all blogging starting related queries and questions which most new blogger gets.
Oh yes, Mangesh! This guide to starting a blog has been slowly written over more than 1 year. The original version of it was much shorter, and I publish updates every couple of months… eventually making it a 25,000 word guide 😊
One of the highly asked question on internet is “How to make money through Blogging” or “How to make money Online” and for this question lots of answer available online and I tell this one is one of the best, since no one detailed this much about blogging very clearly.
Thanks for sharing your knowledge with us…………
You’re welcome, Yogesh! I’ve put a lot of time and effort into making this guide the best possible instructional on how to start a blog today (plus it gets updated regularly to stay current). Appreciate the kind words 🙏
Amazing article for begginers like me. This article helps me alot and gives me knowledge about blogging. Keep sharing such articles!
Thanks for stopping by, Prabhu!
Awesome article bro, keep up the good work.
Thanks, Buttu!
WOW WOW WOW. I don’t think I’ve ever written a comment ANYWHERE to review something but I couldn’t fight back the urge to not do so!
This article was phenomenal. It has literally answered every single question I may have had in such depth. I’ve been studying and making notes the last few days and with great confidence I can say, you have inspired and made me so excited to get started.
Thoroughly enjoyed this post and will be coming back for some more great content.
What a complement, Roxy! Thank you SO much for the kind words.
I’m pumped this guide has been helpful in answering your questions too. Learning how to start a blog can be an awesomely fun journey if you take the right approach & mindset. Really looking forward to what you build over the coming months!
And when you’re ready to start looking at ways to monetize your blog—check out my most recent guide (12 Ways to Monetize Your Blog on the Side): https://staging.ryrob.com/make-money-blogging/
2019 is a beautiful year starting off on the right foot. I’m pleased and humbled to experience “lots of action and positive search engine gains” this year. Google and YaHoO! is showing me lots of love indexing my pages while I’m getting closer to “side hustle millionaire” status. Thank you Ryan for keeping me motivated with your inspiring side hustle articles on Forbes.com. 🙂
Boom! Pumped to be a part of your journey these past few years too 💪💪💪
Hi Ryan,
Thank you for sharing all of this easy to understand information. I was wondering how secure from hackers my blog would be if I follow these steps. I am a writer not a computer programmer and have been researching how to ensure a secure blog and it seems overwhelming. SSL certificates, HTTP something, and a lot of other words that made question if this is even a good idea. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks again!
Good question! If you follow these steps (and always use a secure password manager like LastPass or OnePass to generate a very secure password for your blog login), then you’ll be in great shape.
Any good blog hosting company (including Bluehost) will offer you an SSL certificate for your blog, which comes free/included in any plan and that’s what gives your blog the “HTTPS” designation before the “www.” in the address bar of your blog’s url. Having that HTTPS designation means your readers will have a secure connection to your blog while reading on the site… that’s a big factor that search engines like Google want to see for websites moving forward. Added level of security for readers.
Great in-depth article. Really helped me a lot in creating my first blog. A bit confused about which plugins to install. Please help.
Glad to hear it, Avinash!
There’s actually an entire section here above about the exact WordPress plugins I recommend installing and beginning with when you’re still learning how to start a blog (search this guide for the words “10 Essential blog plugins you should have if you’re using WordPress” and you’ll find it).
What a post Ryan! Indeed, this is a great guide that satisfied every single query about blogging, especially how to start a blog. Thanks for sharing such a nice post.
It will inspire many people to get to blogging.
You’re welcome, Rupam! Thanks for the kind words 🙂