Well they're trying to start a freelance business have fun with a hobby or a
passion or even start a personal brand in 2018 the best way or one of the best
ways to do that is with a blog in today's video I'm gonna give you 10 easy
steps to start your blog in 2019 and show you how to make money with that
blog so stay tuned here we go all right welcome back everybody and thank you for
joining me my name is Jordan Steen also known as Cereal Entrepreneur and at this
channel we talk all about starting a marketing agency or in your case
starting a personal brand otherwise known as a blog or YouTube channel or
starting a building a business online so if you're interested in any of those
topics make sure to hit that subscribe button and the notification bell in the
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free trainings or free giveaways that we do here at my channel so seriously guys
in 2019 and beyond starting a blog is one of the coolest ways to build a
business online and really just to build a passive form of income the reason why
it's great is because all you have to do is find a topic that you're either super
passionate about you have a hobby around or maybe you have a skill set from
profession that you had and basically put it down on the internet on paper
right and that's what people will read and then you learn a way to monetize off
of that content right so let's talk about how you're going to build the blog
and then how you actually can actually build one that pays by the end of 2019
or actually way sooner than that if you put the work in so let's go ahead and
get into it now guys a key to actually making money with a blog is making sure
that it shows up on search engines because that's really the only way you
can get blogs out there other than promoting it on social is to make sure
that you show up in search engine results when someone does a search
around your topic or your industry or your niche right and so how do you do
that well if you stay tuned to the end of this video we'll show you a video
that we put together it's a free training that we put together on how to
actually get your blog to rank number one on google alright so just stay tuned
to the end we'll talk that too so guys the first step is
really just to find your niche or your topic that you want to talk about okay
and this is important because you can't just go out there and pick any old topic
you have to pick something that you are particularly passionate about you're
skillful with something that you have a lot of experience with because if you
don't no one's gonna listen to you now the second thing is to find and purchase
a unique domain and the domain though it seems kind of you know not relevant it
really is because that domain should be short sweet to the point it should be
very direct about what your blog is going to be about a lot of the time I
can't say every time because some people do it based around a brand which is also
fine because people are looking for that brand the third thing you need to do is
find a hosting service and this hosting service is going to take your website
and actually put it out there for other people to see on the Internet
you can't have a website without a domain or a hosting service right so
those two things that's step two and three right so you're going to want to
get a hosting service there's plenty of them out there I'm sure you guys have
heard of GoDaddy a lot of you may have heard of Hostgator we personally like to
use Bluehost they have the best customer service the most uptime the fastest run
speeds which is super important when you're running a blog so if you want to
learn about Bluehost we're gonna include a link to their website down below in
the description definitely check out Bluehost they're top-notch hosting
service but ultimately guys the biggest thing that you're going to want with the
hosting service is looking for things like speed their track record in the
past security is super important so make sure that you talk with the sales
representative or the support person about the speeds and the security that
they offer and how they compare to the competitors like Hostgator and like
GoDaddy if you choose to go with Bluehost and as I mentioned Bluehost
really does have one of the best support teams and they will answer all of the
questions and stay on the phone with you as long as you need to until you feel
comfortable which was really really great for me not being a web developer
hosting background kind of guy the fourth thing is that blogs are built on
a content management system also known as a CMS and a content management system
is something like Wix or WordPress for example is what we use and we really
like WordPress like a lot of people like to use Wix and Weebly
and all of that which is great it's a it's a good way to start if you want to
build it yourself but in my opinion if you're going to do it you might as well
do it right and WordPress is the best way to go because they have the best CMS
system with regards to ranking on search engines and as far as just managing a
website is concerned it is a little more technical but it really isn't that
different than using something like Wix or Weebly now for those of you wanting
to monetize I should go ahead and tell you if you're gonna use WordPress make
sure to go to WordPress stop or to set up your site not wordpress.com
because the only way you can actually monetize in the future is with
wordpress.org and speaking of wordpress.org have you ever known
someone to start a blog that has been successful that they actually you know
quit their job or not even necessarily to that they quit their job but they
were making you know maybe a couple thousand dollars off of a blog that they
were running if so definitely right yes I know someone like that or no I've
never met anybody else who's made money off the blog before I'm curious to know
if you guys have met people just like that or not the fifth thing is to build
your blogs essential pages and these are things like the contact us page the FAQ
page the about me page or any other page that's just kind of its necessity almost
number six is to build content and quality content that actually addresses
your audience's problems are things that are causing them stress and the reason
why is because if you only focus on generalized content that they can get
from any other competitor they're not going to watch or read your content
right and that is important if you don't get people to read and read the majority
of that content Google understands that they have something on your site that
says hey Sally just spent four seconds on this website John also spent three
seconds on this website it's probably not important number seven is to stay
motivated and consistent with your posting one of the biggest things that I
see people do is they start to not get maybe the results they were hoping for
or they start to see maybe a drop-off in traffic and then ultimately they just
stop being consistent with their posting and that's where they mess up guys the
biggest thing that you can do with your channel is to stay consistent you
shouldn't change when you're posting too often right it should be very rare that
you ever change when you post if anything you should be adding more
content number eight is to make sure that you have at least five blogs
together before you actually start publishing and the reason
being is because you don't just want to have a website with just one blog you
want to actually put out five blogs or if you're not going to have five to
start then five need to come out very very quickly right it shouldn't be
something where you get five over the next six months right it should be like
five within that first month the ninth thing is to post promote and drive that
traffic to that blog and the biggest thing you have to understand is if you
don't get traffic to the blog it is it's non-existent it never even happened
right you have to have people watching and actually reading and engaging so
that's why it's important to understand that if you do not produce quality
content if people do not go there and actually read all the way through and
scroll down and spend a decent amount of time on that article Google will
understand that Yahoo and Bing will do the same and then they're not going to
keep showing that content to people as they search for those types of topics if
you go to google the best and highest ranking articles are always a minimum of
a thousand to twenty five hundred words in length every single time so the
longer form articles actually outperform the short form articles right so put
time into your articles make sure that people are reading through them and that
it's something that's new and fresh and then once you have that new quality
content that you put it out there for people to view so if that's posting it
on social media if that's putting it out to your friends and making sure that
they know and they're sharing it with their friends doing other things like
going to Quora and medium to post on those types of
sites which are called social bookmarking sites and these types of
sites are perfect for putting your information out there in communities of
people who already have an interest in that topic so it's a great way for you
to get new viewers finally you'll want a sign-up spot on your site somewhere so
that way you can get people who want to see more about the content right they
sign up and now you can email them that content or at least updates to let them
know you have new content out some other ways that you can grow that audience is
to work with other bloggers trust me people get like scared to work with
their competition I work with my competitors all the time because I know
that I'll be able to get some of their audience that maybe they didn't invite
as well with them but they vibe well with me now finally step number ten is
to monetize your blog the first thing though
you have to Alstead this so I want you guys to understand this the first nine
steps were all about planning the blog and making sure that it was a quality
blog the tenth step is the only one talking about making money off of the
blog okay and I want you guys to see the importance that means you should spend
90% of your time creating quality and the other 10% should be focused on
monetizing the blog I promise if you take that break down that ninety ten
break down you're going to build better quality blog content for your audiences
and they're going to love you for it which means more revenue ultimately for
your brand so step 10 is monetizing your blog but there are six different ways
that I want to go over with you really quickly that you can use to monetize
your blog now a lot of people use multiple methods of these six to make
money and six different ways not six different ways but multiple different
ways you can use several of them together to make money off of the same
blog and that's why this is so lucrative so let's talk about the six options very
quickly now the first option is selling ads like you see on a youtube video that
you watch of mine right YouTube places an ad before that video same concept
happens with the blog on a blog you might have seen sometimes the little
banner ads on the right or in the middle of the blog article that's actually how
those web pages are making money they're showing ads to you as you read through
their blog and this is something that you can do now take keep in mind that a
lot of people don't like to see ads within their blog content that they read
especially if they read regularly right so maybe you upsell a subscription to
remove ads or something of that nature but ultimately I think in the end it's
best to remove ads completely from your site so that way it just adds for a
better experience the second thing is offering services so from your blog you
can actually use that to maybe start another blog for someone else or you
could even offer constant consultation services the third one and my favorite
is creating a product or a course and an information product or an information
course and what this does is it teaches the audience about the topic that you're
covering so a lot of people like to write about a professional you know
service that they used to provide that they became an
expert in and the reason why is because they're an expert in it so it's easy to
write about right but other people also want to learn how to perform that
service right and so that's a way for you to monetize by teaching others how
to do what you do and so that's a really cool way and honestly one of the most
lucrative ways the profit margins are anywhere from probably seventy to ninety
percent depending on the industry and it's insane because you don't have to
spend a ton of money to keep a business like this running cuz once you create
the course all you have to do is keep selling it and from there you're not
doing anything else other than maintaining it and optimizing it maybe
adjusting a couple of the videos every now and again number four is affiliate
marketing and I'm just going to be completely transparent with you guys I
told you guys at the very beginning that we would leave a link below this video
for Bluehost our hosting service that we recommend that's also a way to make
money through affiliate marketing and though we definitely still recommend it
even if you didn't purchase it from us or through our link we still recommend
Bluehost but ultimately they offer a platform for us to be able to monetize
if we promote their brand there's people making millions every single month or
year just off of affiliate marketing from a blog or a vlog just like this so
a question for you guys have y'all ever taken part in any sort of affiliate
marketing program or have you ever been an affiliate for a specific product or
brand if you have I would like to know what product or brand you were an
affiliate for below this video just leave a comment really quick the fifth
way to make money off of your blog is to do sponsored content and this is where
someone like another business in your industry or niche can come in and say
hey you know Cereal Entrepreneur we run HootSuite and we would like you
to do a video on HootSuite and how great it is and we'll pay you this much and
we'll give you HootSuite for free for five years the sixth way would be to do
some sort of business partnership and this is a way where you could maybe I
don't know work out something with another blogger in your industry or
maybe another business that does a vlog in your industry and you work out some
sort of mutual partnership where both of you have an audience and you both feed
customers back and forth to each other so that way both of you are making money
it makes both people happy and you have a bunch of new happy customers right but
if you guys have any other ways that you know of
to make money off of a blog that maybe I didn't address I would love to know what
those are so please leave them below this video in a comment and I would
greatly appreciate it but guys like I said in the beginning 2019 is one of the
best years it's not the best year to start a blog technology is pretty much
advanced to where it needs to be to where anybody out there can build a blog
as long as they're passionate enough and willing to put in a little bit of work
to make sure that that blog is quality and that it succeeds oh and since you
stayed till the end we promised you at the beginning that we would show you how
to rank your blog number one so all you have to do is click this link up in the
top right hand corner and that will take you over to our video where we actually
go through the step-by-step training on what we do to rank our blog content and
our YouTube videos but that's it for today's video guys thank you so much for
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