How to Create a Money-Making Blog: A Step-by-Step Guide for Beginners ~ The Digital Cashier

If your intention is to make money from your blog, then you have to create it to make money.

A money making blog is just that! The definition is clear and simple to understand. You don't need a fancy degree to comprehend the meaning. And yet many new bloggers sway from the concept of making their blogs actually work for them to make money off of it.

But why?

The simple answer is that intention and purpose are not aligned and this creates a whole set of problems that the blogger cannot really explain. Let's get one things straight.

When you set out to create a money making blog, you do not wait till tomorrow, in six months time, or three years down the line.

You start NOW!

But how? How do you start a blog that eventually makes you money? First you have to understand a few things when you think of making money through blogging.

1-You must put in the effort to build your blog

If you have to make money with your blog you need to put in the effort necessary to build it and follow up on it with patience and persistence.

2-It won't be an overnight success.

Just because your blog is up and running today doesn't means that it will instantly become an overnight success.Rarely does a blog become successful in the first few months of it, up and running.

However if you've already had success building other blogs, then you're chances of having success with a new blog in the first few months is highly possible.

3-Understand that your passion and money making may not align

There are many opinions about the easiest way to monetize a blog. And one of them is to follow your passion. Why? Because when you are passionate about something,here is what happens.

-You will stay consistent, keep learning and never quit.

-You show the enthusiasm in you and it will reflect in your writings.

However, with all the enthusiasm in you, you may be confronted with the fact that you will need to put in more than just passion into your blog just to make money out of it.

What you need to do

When you set out to create a blog, you define your reasons for creating such a blog.This is where intention and purpose come in.

Intention

Intention, is the aim you already have in wanting to do something. In this case your intention to start a blog might be to,

-share valuable information.

-show off your expertise in a particular field of endeavor, or

-showcase what you are passionate about.

This is your desired goal at this level. Going further you may want to do more and here is where purpose comes in.

Purpose

With purpose there is a question asked which is,

"But why do you want to share such information?"

" What do you hope to achieve from sharing such information?"

When such questions are asked, the purpose becomes much clearer. So you may want to share information

-to create general awareness

Creating awareness is the purpose you put forward for wanting to share information. Because by sharing the information you have, you want to uplift people, motivate them or help them make lifestyle changes.

-to pass on technical information

If you are an expert in your chosen profession you may want to be sharing in-depth professional information related to solving complex technical issues.This way you can help people with similar knowledge, who are having difficulties, understand how to solve complex technical issues.

-to make money

You may also have as your primary objective, making money. This is because you have a product which you are trying to promote. A blog is one channel you can use to promote a product.

And so the purpose of the information you are sharing through your blog, is to eventually get people to buy the product so you can make money.But first you need to set up your money making blog.

Creating your money making blog

When you set out to create a blog, if you have put in place intention and purpose, this is the first step in the blog creation process. Do not skip this step because this first step will help you, when you want to set up your blog.

The following next steps will help you expand and add input to the setup process. Here are further steps to take.

-Choose a niche

-Create your blog

-Add content

-Get Traffic

-Monetize your blog

Choosing your Niche

When you want to create a money making blog, the best way to go about it is to look for a niche that has high earning potentials.Here are some niches with high earning potentials you can consider.

-health

-Lifestyle

-Technology

-Personal finance.

Once you determine your niche, you can easily define your target audience.And by defining your target audience, you can also develop a content strategy.

Developing a content strategy will help you keep your audience constantly connected to your blog. From there, you can also work out a monetization strategy to make your blog bring in revenue.

Create your Blog

Creating your blog is essentially the set up process you need to navigate, to get a fully functioning blog, up and running. To do this you need to put in place various things.

-Choose a blogging platform

This is the first step in setting up your blog and it consists of choosing which platform to use to set up your blog.You can choose to use a simple platform like Google Blogger, or use a more flexible platform like WordPress. You can also use other blogging platforms as an alternative to the two mentioned above.

-Give your blog a domain name.

Once you decided on a platform you can go on to set up your blog by choosing a name which in essence is called the domain name. This is the name which people will type into the search engine to find your blog.

-Opt for upgrade, paid hosting or free hosting.

Most blogging platforms allow you to create a blog and publish content freely.This is called free hosting, because hosting is managed by the platform.Practically all platforms allows free hosting.

Some platforms like WordPress.com,makes it possible for you to upgrade to a paid plan. But it also offers self-hosting where you manage all the hosting process yourself.

You can choose which hosting option is right for you depending on your blogging level and experience, and also taking into consideration your budget.

If you are just starting out and still don't know your way around, a platform like Google Blogger or WordPress.com is a good way to get started.

-Choose theme and customization

The theme is the template you choose for your blog. It gives your blog the look and feel that resonates with the niche you have chosen. Most blogging platforms offer free templates you can use for your blog.

However you can also buy templates from sites dedicated to selling templates.With customization, you choose how to make different parts of your blog easily accessible to your audience, through for example, the arrangement of menu, etc.

Adding Content

Your blog is not complete if after setup, you do not add content. Because to say the truth, content is why people will visit your blog. Content makes your blog complete.

Consider your blog as a physical store which you are about to open. After the necessary works inside the store, such as, painting, putting up shelves, etc, you now have to fill the store with items.

Without items your store will be an empty store.In the same manner, without content, your blog will remain an empty blog. To add content you can choose to present it in several ways such as,

-text only

-text and image

-text and video

-text and audio(music or podcasts)

-image or video only

Types of content

Setting up a blog, depending on the niche your blog is focused on, you can decide which type of content to post.

Let say you've set up a blog to talk about software,how do you present it to your audience? What type of blog posts should you create to present the information to your audience?

Since your entire blog is focused on talking about software, you can write a detailed post on a particular software program highlighting,

-what the software is and what it does

-the requirements need to run the program on your PC

-how it works

-features

-your personal opinion using it

-the pros and cons you think of the software in question, and so on.

This way of giving a detailed and personal experience is called a review post. With a review post you are expressing a more personalized opinion of a particular product that you have personally used and can talk about with authority and competence.

You can decide to make your whole blog focus on reviewing products. In this sense it is called a, review blog. But you can also choose to make your blog a

-News blog where you talk about current events in the news

-Fashion blog, where you can talk about trending fashions

-Lifestyle blog where you talk about travel, hobbies,etc

-Affiliate blog where the focus is on affiliate marketing

These and many other ways is how you can present your blog depending on what your blog is all about.

Monetizing your blog

After you create and set up your blog,the next step is to find ways to monetize it. And the steps to follow are,

-to fill your blog with content. Content must be useful and helpful and must also align with the purpose of your blog.This means that everything you'll talk about, in the posts that you will publish, must be wholly focused on the topic in your chosen niche

-add helpful and useful tools in your contents that will be added information to further help your readers. These can come in the form of

-Digital downloads

-E-books(PDF)

-Tutorials

You can offer these things for free, if you choose to. The purpose being to create awareness, garner interest and engagement in your blog, so visitors will follow your blog and subscribe for updates.

-create a subscriber list to help you grow your blog. A subscriber list is important because it helps you to understand who likes your blog and the things you talk about.

It can also help you to understand who will be interested in the offers you wish to promote once you make such offers available.

-make an offer that will align with what your visitors want. These are offers from which you wish to make money from and these can range from

-Affiliate products or,

-Product your personally create, or own, like physical products.

How you can fully monetize your blog

If you want to monetize your blog you have so many ways you can do it.What is important is that you have a functioning blog, which simply means that you need to have it filled with content,

that is of value, is helpful, and interesting to your audience and visitors.

A content filled blog doesn't mean having a blog that has about 2-3 posts. It means you have about 10-30 blog posts that are of great value to visitors.

But why is it important to have this much content?

It is important because when you want to take on offers, companies give more importance to the amount of content on your blog, and the value such content has to visitors.

Do understand that more content is better, but must also be of value. And once you have a functioning blog monetizing it becomes easy. here are three ways you can monetize your blog.

Display Ads

Display Ads are simply ads that appear within your blog, so while your visitors are going through your posts, they are also seeing the ads on display.

In order to have such ads displayed on your site, you need to apply to join a programs like Google Adsense or similar other programs.

Applying to join the program doesn't mean you will be accepted automatically.There will be a review of your site to see if it meet the requirements to display ads.

Once your site meets the requirements you will be approved and start seeing ads displayed on your blog.You earn when visitors to your blog click on the ads and engages with them.

Affiliate Marketing

Affiliate marketing allows you to earn a commission on other people's products that you promote through your own personalize link. Once people click on your link and go to the product page and buy it, you earn a commission.

This is by far the easiest way to monetize your blog since there are thousands of products you can promote as an affiliate. It is also super easy to start because for you do not need to create your own the product.

You job is to simply use your blog or whatever digital means you use-social media, to promote the product and get sales.

Offer Services

With your blog, you can offer services to help your visitors such as offering consulting services, coaching, teaching and so many other services that can help your visitors.

The important thing about offering services is that it requires expertise on your part, in the field you intend to offer your services.

Conclusion

Creating a money making blog is quite easy once you know what is involved and how best to go about it. The steps are simple as they involve knowing

-your intention and

-your purpose for stating a blog.

Once intention and purpose have been set out, then you go ahead to,

-set up your blog

-add content and then monetize it.

With consistency and a lot of persistence, the results will show if you don't give up.

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