In 2021, due to lockdowns and mandates, more people than ever started looking for ways to make money working from home. In particular, blogging was viewed by many as an online business. However, the problem was that many of them didn’t really know how to make money from a blog. So how can it be done?
Read on and I’ll walk you through the 3 steps you need to take to become an online blogger.
First, you need to find the right niche to work in. You need to find a “hungry market”, people looking for information to read and products to buy.
It should also be a niche that you are interested in because you will be writing a lot of blog posts about it.
Once you know what you’ll blog about, you need to create a blog. This is easy to do using all the blogging software available. You can even set up a blog for free through platforms like Google’s own Blogger service. Blogger has been around for years and is used by many successful bloggers including myself.
Once you’ve set up your blog, fill it with useful content, products to sell, and on-site advertising for additional income. Some bloggers make thousands this way, selling products online as affiliates and earning money through PPC advertising.
Once you’ve set up enough pages, it’s time to market your blog to get as many visitors as possible. And if you have an email subscription box on your blog, you can keep in touch with everyone who signs up.
Marketing can be paid or it can be done for free through social media and article directories. When you’re just starting out, it’s best to use free marketing, although you can go ahead and pay for it if you want and if you already have the funds. Personally, I have never paid for online advertising for any of my websites and blogs. Maybe I’m leaving the proverbial money on the table by marketing this way, but my online success over the years has been good without it.
And those are the 3 steps you must follow. Choose your niche, set up a blog, join an affiliate network to find products to promote, and market your blog in as many places as you can to get thousands of visitors. Just make sure you’re marketing in the right places to get the right kind of visitors.
So, what are you waiting for?
Set up and run your own blog to make money today.
