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How do I Start a Blog and Make Money Online?

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Last updated: July 1, 2021

This is a step by step and easy to follow guide that will help you setup your own blog from the start. This guide is not to motivate someone to start blogging. It is best suited for someone who already made the decision to start a blog and need some step by step direction of the whole process.

Who Should Use This Guide?

It goes without saying that the following information is for those that know that hard work generates reward.

This guide is intended for anyone who is looking for an answer to any of the following questions:

  • how do I setup a blog?
  • how to start a blog and maintain it?

Now, starting a blog is easy but in order to be able to successfully monetize the blog, you need to establish the blog. In this guide, I have also covered the topics that help you establish your blog so you can monetize it.

There is a lot of good content to go through, so it is a good idea to bookmark this page so you can come back to it later and go over the content at your own pace.

Blog Setup (Getting started)

  1. Getting a good domain name
  2. Getting a cheap and reliable web hosting solution
  3. Setup WordPress on your blog
  4. Selecting a nice theme for your WordPress blog
    • Things to know when selecting a theme
  5. What WordPress plugins to use
  6. WordPress system integration 101
  7. Creating your blog posts
  8. Creating your blog pages
  9. Adding images to your blog
  10. Using WordPress’s media library
  11. Video answers to top WordPress questions [New]

Creating Content For Your Blog

  • Leveraging Content Creation by Repurposing with Value
  • 6 Tips For Writing Blog Articles Faster
  • 6 Tips to Help Ignite Your Creativity and Increase Your Success
  • Finding New Blog Topics
  • How to Write Article Headlines to Attract More Visitors
  • What Can Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer Teach You About Online Business
  • Top 10 Ways to Write Attention-Getting Headlines & Content

Establishing Your Blog

  • Done Writing Quality Content – What’s Next?
  • Sherlock Holmes’ Approach To Building a Popular Blog
  • Tips on Writing Headlines for Your Articles and Landing Pages
  • How to Create Content to Attract Links
  • The 3 Ingredients of The Secret Sauce of Successful Blogging
  • Blog Commenting Strategy
  • 11 Effective Ways to Boost Your Blog Readership
  • Tips on How to be a Better Blogger
  • CreAction: A New Formula For Blog Success
  • 8 Steps for Building a Successful Internet Business Partnership

Site Optimization

  • Installing Google Analytics Tracking to Your Site
  • Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
  • 6 SEO Strategies That Can Generate Highly Targeted Traffic
  • WordPress Optimization Tips and Tricks for Better Performance and Speed
  • Plugins to Speed Up Your WordPress Site
  • Top 3 Common Reasons for a Slow WordPress Site
  • Web Analytics 101 – Learn Which Analytics Data You Should be Using
  • How to Do Split Testing on Your WordPress Site Using Google Website Optimizer
  • 5 Tips On How To Make Your Blog Visitors Stay Longer
  • How the Google Algorithm Penguin Update will Affect You
  • How to Select Keywords For Google AdWords

Security

  • Essential WordPress Blog security tips – protect your blog from attacks
  • Advanced WordPress Security Tips
  • What Would You Do If Somehow You Lost all Your Blog’s Content?

Making Money from Your Blog

  • PPC ad (Pay Per click)
  • CPM ad (cost per thousand impression)
  • Beginner’s Guide to Google Adsense
  • Sponsored ad
  • Making Money from Affiliate Marketing
  • Running a Blog to Promote Affiliate Products
  • Producing Content to Earn a Living Online
  • Adding PayPal Payment Buttons to the Sidebar of Your Site [New]
  • How to Easily Create a Simple WordPress Store Online for Free
  • Monetizing a Site Through AdSense
  • 7 Steps to Profiting from Niche Affiliate Adsense Sites with WordPress
  • Generate Income from Content Passively with Amazon, AdSense, and Donations
  • How to Make Money Online with a Cooking Recipe Blog
  • 10 Tips to Increase Your Sales Page Conversion
  • Write High Converting Product Descriptions for Your eCommerce Store
  • Should You Lower or Increase the Product Price to Increase Revenue?
  • How the Word “Leverage” Can Increase Your Blog’s Income
  • Business Idea: niche Geo Targeted Classifieds Newspaper
  • How to Make Money on YouTube

Marketing

  • Internet Marketing Sales Funnel 101
  • Developing an Article Marketing Strategy for Your Online Business
  • Facebook Promotion 101: How to Develop a Like Campaign
  • 8 Formatting Tips For Your Blog That Can Help Maximize Your Conversions
  • Choosing The Right Keywords For Your Ad Campaigns (Part 1)
  • Choosing The Right Keywords For Your Ad Campaigns (Part 2)
  • How to Increase Your Online Persuasion Abilities
  • Understanding the Importance of Landing and Sales Pages
  • 6 Things That You Should Avoid Doing on Your Landing Page
  • Attract Customers To Your WordPress e-Commerce Store
  • A Selection of E-commerce Platforms For Non-WordPress Sites [New]
  • Your Top Tips For The One Person Marketing Department
  • How To Generate Leads Online Without Spending Money

Email Marketing

  • The 5 Fundamentals of Email Marketing
  • 7 Creative Email List Bribes That will Rapidly Grow Your Email List
  • Using an Autoresponder and Email Marketing Software
  • Create An Email Newsletter That Makes Readers Want to Return to Your Blog
  • 10 Tips for Writing an Autoresponse Email

Good Practices

  • How Focus Can Help You Build a Successful Blog
  • Importance of Ethics for Your Online Success
  • Five habits to Becoming a Better Blogger
  • Are Your Habits the Barrier to Your Online Business Success
  • How to Handle Negative Comments
  • Stress Management Tips
  • Tips to Increase Creativity and Productivity

Useful Blogging Tips and Tricks

  • Tips to Reduce the storage and bandwidth usage
  • How to query and show a specific post in WordPress
  • Protect your WordPress site from comment spam trick
  • How to control access of the web robots
  • Use Favicons to make your blog stand out from the crowd
  • Separate Pingbacks and Trackbacks from Comments in the comments section
  • How To Add Google Web fonts To Your WordPress Theme
  • How to Link Your WordPress Site to Facebook
  • Tricks and Treats to Scare up Engagement for Halloween

Tools of The Trade

  • How to Add Favicons to Your WordPress Site
  • 8 Geeky tools every blogger must use
  • Top SEO tools and addons
  • How to Use Firebug to Modify Your WordPress Site’s CSS
  • How to Move Your WordPress Blog to a New Host
  • List of the Best and Must Use WordPress Plugins

To be updated…

We will be writing and publishing the bits and pieces of how to start a blog from scratch and make money online over the next few months as time permits.

If you have any questions feel free to leave them in the comment section below and we will follow it up.

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Comments (177 responses)

  1. Waheed Mughal says:

    That was an excellent article I’ve noticed over the years that advertising on my blog wasn’t the most profitable. You can still make money but it would be wise not to put all your eggs in one basket.

    Affiliate marketing can be a good money maker when properly utilized. Also, selling your own products such as an ebook is an excellent way to supplement ad income.

  2. Jody Heath says:

    This is a really thorough post. I think a lot of people get lost in the forest for the trees thought. Some how they end up thinking that the blog prints paper money. In reality, the email list is what prints most of the money. The blog just facilitates getting people on your list.

    Thanks for a great post!

  3. Ron Bray says:

    Very Detailed info you have shared how to setup blog and make money online from blog, It is useful post for all bloggers and for those who have setup your blog and earn money from blogging.

  4. Saver says:

    This is a great resource, and a very complete list! By far, the most difficult aspect of blogging can be getting traffic. I about pulled my hair out trying to figure out wordpress, but finding readers was even more of a challenge. Consistency, patience and good content pays off in the end. Thanks!

  5. rachit says:

    I feel skeptical writing blogs again as i never had a good experience earlier. Had some blogs and no traffic. Going by your narrative and very useful blog, i hope that i will succeed in my blogging deeds:)

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  7. Lawrence Hogue says:

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  8. Pexal says:

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  10. GetaGuru says:

    Great information all in one place. I am new to blogging and having a blast. Deciding on a niche was a bitch. I am interested in so many things that I had to follow all of them until I found my groove. It’s a big problem not settling in one niche. At the moment I am in two niches and celebrating the focus. Xx

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    Thanks

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    Really great post! Thanks,
    Nasta

  15. Peter Sunde says:

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  16. Gobinda says:

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  17. L. Richard says:

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  18. Bayu says:

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    Now, lot homework and learing to do, wish me luck!

  19. admin says:

    @Anurag, I would say start a standard WP blog with a news type theme. Each of your blog posts can be a news/update item. WordPress has come a long way where it is a very good CMS platform now. You don’t have to use it only for blogs. You can create a news site using the WordPress platform. This will be cheaper and quick to get going.

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    1. for this news site should i start a website or blog?
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    3. traditional website is costing around $800 from the designer and blog will cost around $80 only….
    4. I am already going to start a blog on a different niche…

    So, Kindly help me with this..
    Keep it up…
    Anurag
    p.s. if possible send ur suggestion on my mail…

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  22. Lisa says:

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    Thanks again
    Lisa

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  31. Edhen says:

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  32. Jezsen says:

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  50. Johan says:

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