Yess! You heard it right. Before you even think of clicking away, let me inform you that this is a NO-BS guide for you to help you start blogging and earn online like a pro. Whether you’re aiming to build a passive income stream, or being a full-time blogger, or you are here just to understand how online earning really works, this post has everything that you should know. If you’re serious about achieving financial independence through blogging, you’re at the right place. So let’s dive right in without any further waste of our valuable time!!
1. What is Blogging?
So, Starting of, Blogging is the act of writing and publishing content on a website which are referred to as ‘blog post’. It is usually written in an informal or a conversational style without any formal things in use. The word ‘blog’ comes from the word ‘weblog’ which refers to an online journal, or a log of information. This post which you are reading is also an excellent example of a blog post.
2. Purpose of Blogging?
People write blog, for a various reasons, which include, to maintain their online presence, to provide correct information, to share their expertise and knowledge with everyone, to generate an extra source of income (we will talk about it in further headings), to generate leads for their businesses, to promote their own business or products, to promote their services and convince people to buy them, some people also consider it just a hobby.
But we are here to cover the topic, how you can earn like us in the field of blogging.
3. How can you start Blogging?
Starting your own blogging channel is not hard, it is as easy as just eating a piece of cake, but what really hard is maintaining the consistency while publishing the blog posts, with the same enthusiasm, same energy, even if you don’t drive any results. Before you start to conclude blogging as your primary source of income and go to resign from your job, let me clear up a few things for you, blogging does not only involve one single skill that you think is blogging, it involves a set of multiple skills if you’ve decided to start it alone you as a single person has to master that each and every skill. While there are many skills like, grammer and proofreading, branding, adaptibility, social media marketing, photography, analytics, niche understanding etc. but the skills which you’ll need to learn in order to start blogging and already get ahead of 90% of the bloggers are as follows:
Writing Skills
As you have to excel in this field of blogging and earn a good amout of money, you have to learn the art of writing, you have to develop basic writing skills. Your skills will enhance with time, but in the initial phases you have to develop a good foundation. In this era of Artificial Intelligence, you can easily write an entire blog with the help of AI, but it writes so thin content (not very informative). Writing skills is the first skill you should learn and eventually master it.
SEO (Search Engine Optimization)
Many of you many be aware of this skill, but for some of you, who are not let me just clarify it for you. Search Engine Optimization better known as SEO, helps the audience and the search engines like google, bing etc, to easily find and understand your content. Let’s understand it with an example: ‘Imagine you drew a masterpiece painting, but you didn’t wrote your name on it, so no one would be able to understand that who made this masterpiece. So, you would write you name on the painting to make it easily accessible, and undertandable that who made it.’ THAT’S SEO!
Keyword Research
It is also one of the major factors affecting the traffic (the number of people on your blog posts) on your blog posts. Keyword research is understanding and seeing what are people exactly searching on Google. I think you can understand it better with an example: ‘Suppose you want to open a lemonade stand, but you don’t whether people want leomanade, orange juice, or chocolate milk. So you’d go out, and ask a couple of people, what would they like too have in this whether, is the majority of the answers say lemonade, then you’d go for a lemonade stand! It means you look for what poeple want and you provide them with it’ as easy as that. THAT’S KEYWORD RESEARCH!!
Headline Writing
As by the name it says it all, it the act of writing excellent, attention grabbing, catchy titles for your blog posts. As the title is the first thing that the audience reads on your blog, and decides whether to read it or not. It’s all about how can you make people curious to click on your blog, how can you make the audience click on your post. After seeing the title they should say immediately that ‘Wow! I have to read this blog!!’
Consistency and Discipline
There’s no question that this should be on the list or not, i am not saying this in the perspective of blogging alone, whether you do content creation, whether you do study, whether you are in tech and stuff, or any kind of thing that is available in this entire universe, you can’t succeed in that thing, if you don’t have consistency and discipline within you, and even with some amount of skills, if you do your work with complete consistency and discipline you can achive anything in your field. There is a saying that if you add up the number on which the position the letters of the word discipline are placed you get 100! Which is true! Which is 4+9+19+3+9+16+12+9+14+5=100!
Which effectively translates that, do your work with discipline and you’d get a 100% result!!
4. Where to start?
To start blogging, you’d need a website where you’d start writing and publish your blog posts, and to run a website you’ll need a hosting plan, which hosts the website for you, that is provides you a server. (that’s the tech part, we’ll discuss that in later posts) There are a variety of platforms providing really good hostings, and domains at a very affordable rate, like hostinger, godaddy etc. The one that I personally trust the most is hostinger, as it provides extensive customization features, security features, and other necessary things to make your website SEO ready.
If you have to start your blogging journey, you may consider hostinger as you primary hosting partner, as it also provides you with a domain worth of $9.99/year or ₹800/year for free!!
You’ll get an extra 20% off if you make your purchase via this link, we don’t wanna earn through you just helping to reduce your cost: Hostinger
You can learn how to operate hostinger, wordpress, elementor, and other plugins of wordpress on youtube for free!!
The videos of the channel that I suggest you to follow to learn hostinger and wordpress for your website are as follows:
A video to clear the baics: Code With Harry
A step-by-step guide to a bit advanced level: Code With Harry
You can follow these videos to start your journey, and you can also explore and learn, blogging is all about exploring and learning new things, you won’t get anywhere if you stop exploring and stop gaining new experiences!
5. How can you start earning from blogging??
Here comes the actual question, that ‘How can you actually start earning from blogging?’ well, despite the fact that you can’t ‘directly’ earn money from blogging, you can do it in various indirect ways some of the ways are as follows:
- Google Adsense
You can monitize the content that you write, that implies that, you can show advertisements on your site with the help of google to get paid, this requires first getting the approval of google adsense, which involves having atleast 12-15 quality posts on your account, and properly structured pages, this involves many other important factors which can be discussed in a post dedicated entirely to this topic! Google will pay you, after the approval of your site and residential address. - Affiliate marketing
Suppose you wrote a blog post related to a product, or you wrote a blog which just mentions about a product, so you can just find the product online on amazon and get an affiliate link of that product through your amazon affiliate account, and everytime a person makes a purchase through your link you receive a commission according to the genre of the product. - Offer services
You can offer services like, writing blog posts for other persons, you can write as a freelancer, you can consult peoples on SEO of their own website, and also help them with development of their site, and charge them with a fees for the sevices you provided them. - Sponsored posts
Once your blog posts gain enough popularity and a descent amount of visitors on your site you can start writing sponsored posts for brands that approach you, or the one that you approach via cold emails, the charges may vary according to the visitors on your site but for a rough estimate, if you have 5000-10,000 visitors per month you can charge $50 or ₹5000 per sponsored post.
6. Conclusion
We saw that blogging is a way to share your knowledge online and maintain your presence, we saw that we do it for our business, earning a side income or just as a hobby. We saw the five most essestial and significant skills to learn in order to polish your blogging skills, which are Writing skill, SEO, Keyword research, Headline writing and Consistency. We saw how we can start our own website via Hostinger, and we saw the channel and video that you should follow, in order to start your blogging journey.
At last we also saw the various ways from which you can make money from your blog posts that are, Google adsense, Affiliate Marketing, Offer services, Sponsored posts, etc.
We’ll discuss more about it, if we get enough comments for a particular topic. Suggest us which topic you want next us to write on!
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