hey guys and welcome to blog tip tuesday where i share helpful blog tips every single tuesday
in today's video we are going to talk about how to monetize a blog and build it into a six-figure
website now for those of you who don't know who i am my name is whitney bonds and i run the blog
tried and true mom jobs i started my blog in june of 2018 and i had no idea what i was doing i just
wanted to be able to stay at home with my kids and i needed a way to make money now for me the only
thing that i could find was blogging it was just the only thing that i could think of that i could
actually do i had no plan b so my blog had to work after seeing other bloggers making one thousand
to fifty thousand dollars per month i thought well why can't i do that so after a year of a
lot of work and long nights i was able to make six figures with my blog now the way i want to do this
video is to show you how i would approach a brand new website and turn it into a six figure website
now there are many different ways that you can actually monetize a website but this is
the way that i would do it and i want to choose a different niche than the one i'm currently in
just to show you how you can make money in other categories all right so step one is to think about
what you want to write about now the example that i'm going to use today is to do a blog for people
who love dogs now i don't own a dog my family they want one really bad and that was like the first
thing that came to my mind when i was trying to think of an example for this video so i'm
gonna do a blog about dogs step two is to think about how you can help someone with your idea
because the only way to make money blogging is by helping people and you need to target a specific
group of people now i'm going to show you the importance of this shortly so just stick with me
now you should be able to fill in this blank i help people blank in my example i help people with
dogs come up with things to do with their dogs so the specific group of people that i'm targeting
are dog lovers step three is to determine if people are actually searching for what
you want to write about so you need to find out what people are searching for on google because
when most people have a question where do they go google and what pops up in the search results
it's blog articles so you want to find out what questions people are searching for on google so
you can answer them through your blog articles and get consistent traffic to your website
now in my case i want to find out what dog related questions people are asking on google
so i can get traffic to my website now i did a video that goes more in depth about how to
find out what questions or keywords people are searching for on google so i will link that video
in the description below but i'm going to show you a quick example of how i will go about this
and i do want to tell you guys that i did do a little pre-work before this video because
searching for the right keywords can be very time consuming it is a lot of work but it's necessary
okay so i would use this tool called kw finder i would use it to help me find out what questions
or better known as what keywords people are searching for on google and just so you know
my strategy is always about getting traffic i love getting traffic to my website because the
more traffic i get to my website the more money i make so i use tools like kw finder to know
exactly what people are searching for so i'm not just writing my articles in vain
so i paid 49 for their monthly plan and using their keyword tool i started putting in different
questions that i thought people would search for on google so i put in things to do with
your dog and i found that 1800 people search for that specific question each month on google
now this isn't bad because typically i look for monthly search volume of a thousand or more you
will also see that the keyword difficulty is 35 out of 100 which means it's going to be kind of
hard to rank on the first page of google for this keyword but it is possible just so you
know you want to be on the first page of google for whatever search term that you are targeting
and you want to be in the top two search results if possible because just think about the way that
you use google do you usually scroll down to see all the search results that pops up in google
no most people at least they look at the first two search results unless you are just really looking
for something specific so the lower the keyword difficulty number is the easier it is to rank for
on google especially for a brand new website like this one would be so i would put this keyword in a
google sheets document and write down the keyword search volume and the keyword difficulty so i'm
basically just like building a case to see if this is a good idea for a website and building out my
content calendar i also love this tool because if you filter it by keyword difficulty you can also
find some other related keywords that people are searching for that i could also write articles on
now red is hard orange is kind of hard and green is easy so i like to go for the easier keywords
since they are easier to rank for on google so you see here i would actually prefer to do an article
on fun things to do with dogs because you can see that the search volume is 2100 and it's pretty
easy to rank for it's 29. so i would rather do a keyword on this and so i would add this one to
my spreadsheet i also see that what to get for a new puppy is a keyword that people are looking for
and it has a nice search volume and it looks like it's pretty easy to rank for so i will
also do an article on this this also would be a great affiliate opportunity because i would
try and find some things on amazon that would be good ideas for a new puppy i'd add them in that
article so if someone clicked on my referral link and made a purchase i will earn commission and if
someone is searching on google for what to get a new puppy they are probably at the stage where
they are ready to make a purchase so i probably do very well that article as far as getting amazon
commissions so if you want to learn more about the amazon affiliate marketing be sure to watch out my
video that i just did on how to make four to five thousand dollars per month with amazon i also love
kw finder because of the many features it has so it also has this tool called site profiler where
you can actually check out your competitors top content and get ideas about what you could also
write about so i will look through rover.com and check out their top content because they will be a
competitor of mine now this is their content that did very well on social platforms like facebook
so this is how many times people have shared these articles on facebook it's really good to see just
what kind of articles people have liked enough to share so you see this one did really well so what
i would do is to see if i could also rank for this keyword on google so i would go back to kw finder
and put in this targeted keyword to see if this is something i could rank for if it is i add it to my
spreadsheet and rinse and repeat until i have a ton of article ideas that could last me months or
maybe even up to a year now after i've done all my research i will cancel my kw finder subscription
and just focus on writing these articles there are so many cool features with kw finder i
definitely recommend just playing around with it and exploring all the different features they have
now side note here i know people are always saying oh whitney you are so helpful thank you so much
for providing all this great information to us for free and i honestly do it because i really
just want to help you guys out because i had no one there just to guide me through all this stuff
when i got started and God has just blessed me so much i really just want to give back to you guys
but if you really want to find a way to just thank me you can just use my affiliate links
like if you are going to use kw finder it's at no extra cost to you you can use my affiliate
links that i'll put in the description below and it does really just help me out and it
makes me continue to want to help you guys out for free so i'll put my affiliate links in the
description below if you guys want to use it okay so just by filling up my list of content
ideas the next thing i need to do is to write my articles in a way for google to pick them up now
i've talked about these two ebooks in a number of my videos because this is what i use to help me
get my articles to rank on google and that is how i get over 200 000 pages per month to my website
so i recommend if you want to get your articles to rank on google to use these ebooks to learn how to
structure your articles to rank on google and how to get backlinks you need both and i'll put them
in the description below so you can check them out and just so you know for a brand new website it
could take six months to a year to start showing up on google that's why i didn't make that much
money my first year blogging because i didn't get these seo books until about june of 2018
and then about six months later my traffic skyrocketed because my articles started showing
up on google and that is how i was able to make six figures the very next year through ads and
affiliate marketing that's why i promote these ebooks because i implemented the strategies and
tactics and it gave me amazing results okay so let's talk about how i would monetize this blog
so if i wanted to put ads on this website i would wait until i could join a higher paying ad network
like mediavine now this is the ad network that i'm with right now and in order to even apply to their
company you need to have 50 000 sessions within the last 30 days so with a brand new website it's
going to take a while before i can get ads on my website so that is going to be a goal of mine in
the future but it won't happen overnight so i'm going to focus on writing a new article from my
spreadsheet every single week and try and find a way to promote a product or service in my article
so i can make money through affiliate marketing and i have a step-by-step video i did that walks
you through affiliate marketing that i will put in the description below so you can check that out
as well now after i have about 20 to 40 articles written then i would start promoting my articles
on pinterest now i have a whole video series on how i actually get traffic from pinterest so i'll
put that in the description below as well i also have a video on my blogging schedule because i
know this sounds like a lot and it is but if you can structure it in a way where it kind of makes
sense and taking us all step by step it won't be overwhelming so i'm gonna put that video in
the description below so it will keep you at ease so after like a year of writing an article every
single week on topics that i know people are interested in and writing them in a way that i
know will rank on google and using pinterest i should be getting well over 50 000 sessions each
month so i could go ahead and apply to mediavine so i can start having ads on my website now i'm
just saying a year just to shoot you know pretty far out there it can definitely be well before a
year is over so let's say after being accepted into mediavine i start earning three thousand
dollars per month with ads now this is yet again on the low end but i'm just estimating and if you
add affiliate marketing i would estimate that i would earn at minimum 5 000 per month because
i found some dog training courses and some other decent affiliate programs that could be useful
to dog owners that i would promote throughout my articles and i'd give them a reason to make
a purchase and if i'm getting over a hundred thousand page views per month from google and
pinterest that should be very easy to accomplish i'm also going to add a snippet to all my articles
to join my email list for more ideas on how to get your give your dog the best life or something like
that so i could build an email list and monetize that as well and i could do sponsored emails or i
could do sponsor articles and add an additional two thousand dollars per month and sponsor
content that's why it's so important to target a specific group of people because when brands
want to connect with you it will because your readers are who they want to get their products
and services in front of the other good thing about sponsorships is when companies see that your
articles are ranking on google they'll reach out to you i never once reached out to a sponsor and
they just come to me because they see that i have articles ranking on google and they want to get
their products and services shown to my audience because they know that i have their reader's
attention and just being on google it adds a lot of credibility i went very low on these numbers
just to show you how you could easily build a six figure website so do you now see how you could
easily make ten thousand dollars per month if you write articles that you know people are interested
in using the techniques i just mentioned how could you not have a six figure website
it's all about having a plan and executing you just have to stick with it and trust the process
trust the process it takes a while but you have to trust that you know what you're doing
and take my advice this is what i did to get to six figures so if you haven't started a blog now's
the time and i'll put my step-by-step guide in the description below so you can go follow that along
and get started now if you like this video i love it if you could go ahead and give it a thumbs up
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or my keyword research video alright thanks guys have a great day thanks for watching