hey guys ever since i started a blog and started making money i am always getting asked how do i
start a blog and make money so i'm doing this video for you guys and i am literally going to
give you the blueprint on how to start a blog and make money so by the end of this video
you will have a clear understanding on how to get started today now i like to be very clear
about how this whole blogging thing works and i want to make sure that you guys understand that
it takes a while to make money i only made five thousand dollars the first year i got started
and most bloggers i know they barely made that but after a lot of hard work and long nights i made
six figures the very next year and now i make five figures every single month now i've never dreamed
that i could make this much money ever especially being a stay-at-home mom with three kids four and
under but with blogging it is possible so i need to ask you are you willing to put in the work
for something you might not see a return on for an entire year or more if your answer is yes let's go
okay so there are six important steps you need to take when you want to start a blog and make money
the first thing you need to do is choose a niche now the only way to make money blogging is by
helping people and you need to think of one main reason someone will come to your website so you
should be able to fill in this blank i help people blank mine is i help moms find legitimate ways to
make money from home with kids you see it is very specific now i do write about other things on my
blog but that is the main reason someone would come to my website so you really want to think
about this and i just did a video on 18 profitable niches you can choose from that i'll put in the
description below so you can check it out after this video the next thing you need to do is get
a domain name so a domain name is simply the name of your website like the domain of my website is
triedandtruemomjobs.com so when you're thinking about what to name your website you want to make
sure it's easy to pronounce and spell you want to try and make your domain name short if possible
now i know my domain name is a little long tried and true mom jobs but if you can try and make it
shorter than that that's even better you also want to try and be descriptive so if you can try and
put a keyword into your blog name like i did mine without even realizing the benefit of it you see i
have mom and jobs in my domain name and i really do believe that that has helped me rank better
on google and it just helps people automatically know what they're gonna find on my website tried
and true mom jobs but if you're having a hard time putting a keyword in your domain name don't
let that deter you i mean look at forbes there's no keyword in their domain name and they're huge
remember you make the name so if you can't think of a keyword to put in your domain name don't let
it deter you from going ahead and get started and choosing a name so i use namecheap to purchase all
my domain names and i did a step-by-step guide on how to do all this stuff i'm gonna put it in the
description below so you can check it out and follow along when you're setting up your blog
next you're gonna need to get hosting so hosting is the home of your website so you know the
pictures on your website the words all the html css stuff that i still don't understand that needs
to live somewhere it has to be hosted by something now there are a ton of hosting sites out there but
i use siteground and that is what i recommend i have a step-by-step guide that's going to guide
you through all this stuff so don't worry about all this technical stuff now websites like wix and
squarespace it seems like they are very easy to use but i could go on all day about why you should
not use those platforms when you're starting a blog and trying to make money you need to use
wordpress and when i'm talking about wordpress i'm talking about wordpress.org the completely 100&
free version not wordpress.com but my guide will walk you through all this stuff so it's going to
start making sense once you get started the next step is that you're going to need to choose a
theme for your website now a theme is a pre-built design that's completely customizable and it gives
you structure on how to design your site without having any knowledge of this html and css stuff
and you can make it completely your own now these are a couple examples of themes or better known
as website templates where you can put all your information in there and just make it
your own and it looks very professional now i'm going to walk you through all this once again
through my guide so don't worry about all of this but this is where the fun begins the next thing
you want to do is to come up with things to write about now i recommend writing at least five to ten
articles before you're ready to hit publish on your website because when i launched my site i
wanted it to look established i didn't want people coming to my website thinking or knowing that it
was a brand new website now to find content ideas i always recommend writing content that people can
find on google because where is the one place that most people go when they have a question
it's google and what do you find when you search for things on google it's blog articles you want
your blog articles to show up on google so you can get consistent traffic to your website since most
people are searching for things on google now i have a video that walks through all this stuff
and how i write my articles to rank on google so i'm going to put those videos in the description
as well okay so now that you have a general idea on how to start a blog and create content the most
important part is now how you're gonna make money now my favorite part about blog is that most of
the income is passive like right now i'm filming this video and i'm making money so i'm gonna bring
my google analytics up right here and this is what you'll want to do as well so you'll find
out who's on your website and where they came from but you should be able to see right now my
real-time visitors so these are the people who are on my website right now and because i have ads on
my website i'm making money right now just from people reading my articles so the first way that
you can make money from your blog is through ads so when someone simply reads one of my articles
and passes an ad that is known as an ad impression and i make money from that so the more people that
you can get to read your articles the more money you can make the most that i have ever made in one
month from ads has been eight thousand dollars i cannot believe i've ever made that much money
in ads but it happened since we're going through a pandemic right now my ad revenue has decreased
significantly and right now i'm around like 4-5,000 per month so when you're just starting out
most people join the ad network google adsense because there are no traffic requirements now i'm
going to leave applying to them up to you because i have heard that it does slow down your website
and when i was with them i only made a hundred and forty seven dollars for the
three months that i was with them now i switched to another ad network that i'm still with today
mediavine and they pay like five to ten times more than google adsense when i joined mediavine i had
to have 25,000 sessions within the last 30 days to my website so i had to wait till i had enough
traffic to my website in order to even apply to their network get accepted and then go through the
whole process of them getting ads on my website they have now upped it to 50,000 so it's going to
take a lot of work to get accepted to mediavine but it is so worth it if you can if that is one
of the ways that you want to make money through your blog my friends at dollarsprout they took
ads off their website and only focus on affiliate marketing which i'm gonna talk about next and they
make a hundred thousand dollars per month guys so don't think that ads needs to be your main source
of income and it's actually what you don't want you don't want to depend on ads because when the
pandemic hit my ad revenue was severely cut and i would have suffered if that was my only source
of income you definitely want to diversify your income when you're making money from your blog
so the next way you can make money from a blog is through affiliate marketing and this is how i
make the most of my money now affiliate marketing is when you refer someone to a product or service
using a unique referral link and if they make a purchase through your link you earn a commission
now i did a whole step-by-step guide on how to get started doing this and how i make money doing
this so i will put that video in the description below so you can check it out after this video
the next way you can make money blogging is through sponsorships so once you start building
an audience companies will pay you to promote their products or services sometimes they'll reach
out to you or you can actually reach out to them with a proposal of exposure you can get for them
for a fee now that i get a consistent amount of traffic to my website i charge 1,000 for a
sponsored post i don't do too many of these because i like recurring revenue better the
next way to make money blogging is through selling your own products now a ton of bloggers do this
and they make really good money doing this they sell their digital products in the form of ebooks
or courses and they do really well they use their blog as a platform to promote their products it
just makes so much sense if you have a product to sell you should have a blog to support it alright
so now that you have an understanding of how to make money blogging let's talk about how you want
to get traffic to your website so you can actually make some money now i get the bulk of my traffic
from google and pinterest so as a new blogger i recommend to learn how to get your articles
to rank on google which i have a whole series on teaching you how to do this on this channel and
i'll put those videos in the description below so you can check those out and i also recommend that
you use pinterest as a way to boost your traffic as well i have literally tried all the different
ways to get traffic to my website and these seem to be the only two platforms where i can get
consistent massive traffic to my website where i get over 200,000 pages per month to my website so
i hope this made sense and don't forget to check out my free guide to walk you through all this
stuff so it can actually make sense and i'm gonna put that in the description below and i'm also
gonna do a video on the steps i took to get to six figures so make sure you subscribe and hit that
bell for notifications so you do get notified when i post that video now if you're going to start a
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you guys for watching and you can check out the video right now on how to find a profitable niche