How To Start a Blog | How I Make Over $30,000 A Month Blogging
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How To Start a Blog | How I Make Over $30,000 A Month Blogging Ashswan Apr 26·22 min read

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In today’s article, I’m giving you my top tips on how to start a blog and how I was able to sort of love that earns me thousands of dollars a month as a full-time college student last year when I was making over $9000 a month on my website I posted a video give me my top tips on how to start a blog that earns you money and I mean you all had blown up and now that it’s been a year.

Later my website has grown even more and I’m making over $30000 a month so I figured I would come back on here and that kind of revisit some of my top tips and expand on them tell you what I agree with what I saw that well with what I don’t agree with anymore and then it tell you the tips that I’ve learned within the last year and I know that this ARTICLE is going to be super helpful for anyone looking to start a blog or that already has a blog. Because I wish I would’ve known these things when I was first starting or even like last year so this ARTICLE is with my top tips on how to start a blog that earns you money. Update on me and my blog so I started my blog by Sapele when I was a sophomore in college and over the last 3 years I have grown into what is now my full-time job.

So I just graduated college 3 weeks ago but for the last 3 years of me starting this blog I’ve been juggling being a full-time college student and working full time on my website which I’m kind of just telling you that in case you are a student yourself or you have a job and want to sort of look that makes you money. It is 100 percent possible obviously I did it but it is hard work like I treated it like a job from beginning to end it takes a lot of time but it is totally possible. You can definitely do it so in this BLOG I’m going to be going over my top tips on how to start a blog that earns you money and a lot of the TIPS that I am going to be talking about are from my previous article but I’m going to be expanding on them even further so this is almost like an advanced version of the previous blog post. I’m also going to be including more tips that I’ve learned recently and a lot of these I mean basically I would recommend if your brand new blogger to check out my previous blog post, read this article too. This will be loaded with tips also but then I have a how-to start a blog guide that goes through every single step that I did on starting my own website and you can do it really easily.

I have broken it down so it’s super easy to understand and that is linked in the description will take you directly to my website.

My first TIP before starting a website that makes money is so important and I 100 percent agreed with my last ARTICLE on what I said about this and that is that you need to have a self-hosted WordPress website if you are looking to start a blog that makes you money. If you’re looking to start a hobby but you do for fun this is not necessary but if you want to have a blog that generates an income then this is an absolute must so the only reason that I started a self-hosted website when I was first 3 my blog, was because the bigger bloggers who were on a self-hosted website. I was seen that that was really important and I also saw that you could do it for like $3 a month so I was like this isn’t going to.

Tell me or anything but now that I’ve been in the blogging aim for a while I know exactly why it is so important and I’m gonna try to keep it really really simple because it can get a little confusing but basically if you are on a hosted website versus a self-hosted website, so a hosted website would be websites like Blogspot or wakes or Squarespace like anywhere that you have your blog name and then is so like, for example, would be like by FLYINGSWAN.blogspot.com. That is just an example of a hosted website so that means that blocks that own what’s on my website and they could do whatever they wanted with it if they wanted to.

But more importantly, is that ad agencies and brands will take you a lot more seriously if you have a self-hosted website and a lot of their application forms to get on these ad agencies or brands or whatever actually require that you answer the question is your website a self-hosted website or is it a hosted website so this is just something that if you’re looking to take this seriously it’s really important and the exact to host that or it exactly what I use for my self hosted websites are Bluehost and then it big scout so I actually if you are just starting out and you want something that is extremely cheap I highly recommend Bluehost.

That’s when I started out with you know I have a blog post that goes step by step through exactly what I needed to start my Bluehost website you can do it in like 30 minutes and I think it’s like $2.95 a month it is so cheap and that’s why I went with Louis because they didn’t have money to spend on my blog so I want the cheapest thing I could possibly. We get first hosting but I love them for 2 reasons one cheap, okay I know I’m harping on that so much too is it because their customer service is amazing so that’s what I started out with and then I want my blogs are to getting a substantial amount of use so once I was at like 250000 I had to upgrade my host and I’m now with big scout so big guns is it a lot more money than Bluehost is which is why I still recommend Bluehost if you’re just starting out but big Scott is amazing I’ve only had great experiences with them if you are more of an advanced blogger who’s looking for a faster website and you’re getting a ton of use like I would say if you’re going over 200000 views and then I would highly recommend big scouts I’ve had I have I’ve had nothing bad happened with them so highly recommend that if you’re serious about getting into blogging and earning money from it you need to have a self-hosted website. my S. second tape for you is one that I still agree on from my previous video and that is that having a professional-looking website is really important if your website looks professional your readers are automatically going to think that you are more credible and while they’re reading your post they’re going to think that you know what you’re talking about and the easiest way to get a professional-looking website is by using a theme so I have used my same theme for last 3 years and it is from seventeenth Avenue designed you can go check out my website and see what it looks like but it has given me no problems it’s beautiful and it’s really easy to use I also would recommend it checking out at sea they have all different types of themes the end they have all different prices to but they start at $10 so you can get that first super affordable and it’ll just make your website look a lot more legit like I said before I have had the same thing for the last 3 years. But I am finally getting my website custom designed so that is happening in September. and I’m really excited it’s also costing me a lot of money so it be.

It’s the cheapest way to get a website that looks really good is by using a theme my third tab before starting a blog that earns you money and this is honestly probably via blogging tips that have changed the absolute most since my previous blog post is knowing which social media websites are worth your time in which ones are a waste of your time when a starting a blog so for the last 3 years my blog has only been on Pinterest. I didn’t have an Instagram I didn’t have you too well actually had all of them like seeds under my name but I had not posted one story in Instagram I know post on Instagram I had this a single video through the blogging video that I posted last year so I nothing related to like my actual blogging topic like I had nothing I need to buy only had that one video.

What other social media once it’s out of Facebook I don’t have a Facebook, Snapchat doesn’t have Snapchat anyways the only social media website I was on was Pinterest that as of 3/20/21 SO 3 weeks or 3 months ago has it changed. I am now on Instagram and YouTube and that is just because of my business plan that’s where I am going but that just proves that for the last 3 years I was able to generate substantial income just by having my website on Pinterest and me knowing that is where it should be put in my time earned me a way bigger following and a lot more money because I wasn’t wasting my time on the other social media websites that you, I personally believe you don’t need right away. so I am going to be going through the different social media and kind of give you my quick input on if I think that they are worth being on in the beginning if they would generate a high amount of traffic or not.

The first social media website that we’re gonna be talking about is Pinterest when starting a blog Pinterest needs to be your biggest priority or for marketing and that is because this is the only social media website that is specifically made to have their readers or followers or viewers go and click onto a block so just think about yourself when using social media when you’re scrolling through Instagram how often do you actually go and click on to someone’s blog. Probably not very often but Pinterest is specifically made to click on someone’s website which is why it is so important and it will be by far your best use of time to focus, your time on Pinterest instead of the other social media websites which is why if I was to go do it my whole blogging life again I would do the exact same thing that I did before and I would focus all my time on Pinterest and I would not even worry about Instagram or YouTube until you have a solid Pinterest strategy it down so finding a Pinterest try to G.

If that works for you is really important I have a Pinterest ready that I saw whereby and love it gets you over 600000 page views a month and it takes me about an hour of time but it is really important that you find one that works for your own website and I just can’t Harbin hot step beyond interests and focusing your time on that is crucial to getting traffic and the beginning of starting a blog.

Second is Google SEO and SEO is something that you should also be focusing on really early in at your website but it is a lot more confusing than Pinterest and takes more time to build up but once you do figure out SEO then Google will trust you a lot more and they will rank your posts on the first page so if you don’t know who what as he always is search engine optimization and you have to be very specific about how you write posts for it to rank in Google and obviously you want to rank on the first page of a search. I don’t know what I would search how to cook food okay you have to make your blog post very specifically for how to cook food for it to come upon one of the first pages of search is for people to actually click on but like I said it is a lot longer lasting and Pinterest which is why it is important to focus on in the beginning but it takes more time. So do with that what you want but interesting Google SEO is what I recommend focusing on first when starting your blog.

Okay now let’s talk about Instagram so I just started Instagram on 3/20/21 and I have almost 5000 followers which I’m really really happy about because that’s really good for Instagram because Instagram can be a pain full to grow on and it takes a lot of time so on Instagram you have to be present every single day you have to be making stories doing posts and I knew it would take a lot of time out of my day I did not know that it would take this much time so like I said I just started it so I’m hoping that it after this year’s over they’ll start to see the positives of using Instagram and some revenue possibly generated off of it.

But because of how much time it takes and how hard it is to grow on Instagram I would recommend it. Save me not if you can’t tell from my other suggestions and also I want to kind of come back here after the years over and give you an update of my strategy is working or not because as of right now I feel like whatever I have an exact right did you dumb but what I’m doing on Instagram is working I mean it’s pretty unheard of to get 5000 followers in 3 months with a brand new account so I will report back after the year over.

Tip number 4 is to start your website. Thinking about the reader and not about yourself okay I’m repeating this again no one cares about you they only care about yourself and that is something that I focused on in the beginning and I still think is extremely important however what I’m finding is that as you get bigger the people or the people your readers will start caring about you more so I’m almost I think I’m nearing that point I don’t think for me I am personally there yet especially on YouTube I’m not quite there yet that no one really cares about me like no one cares about my life and what I’m doing what they care about is what can I get from watching my videos that will help them and so when I contemplated every single month I am constantly having that same going through my head no one cares about you they only care about themselves so I always focus my post to help the reader and I do this in every single aspect from the title to how a word things and for example if I was to write a post on my skin care routine if I titled it my skin care routine I can guarantee you that that post will not get a lot of use however if I it title that post the. I’ve written down for example okay if I title that post to 12 insanely good skincare products you need to know about which is what essentially be the same exact post as my skincare routine that title automatically is gonna get me way more views because it’s about the reader it isn’t about you

This leads me into my next blog intact and that is a blog post titles horror so important go to BuzzFeed go to other big websites and study their post titles there is a reason that they have a lot of posts with very similar titles and that’s because they work I have a free principle on my website that you can download it with all of the blog post title templates that I personally use when writing a blog post and you won the titles tend not to be click Baity and not be too far fetched but you also want them to be interesting enough that your Webber’s viewing the title will want to click on it and it is one of the first things that your readers will read so it needs to be marketed correctly which is why you need to have such a good title also. Readers love numbers so add numbers in it to your titles tip number 6 is to invest in courses and I invest. In a lot of courses and I seriously think that the reason my blog has grown so quickly and is so large is that I take courses and I started it when I started my blog I started it with cheaper courses in asthma income is growing I will buy more expensive courses. But by taking a course from someone that knows what they’re doing eliminates all of the time and that I would have needed to spend on learning how to do something so when I am starting anything new on my blog whether it’s just starting my blog or affiliate marketing or emails or Pinterest works.

I don’t know anything really I will find someone that has been extremely successful in that area I will take their course and I will follow their steps exactly until I can confidently change their steps like lead to work specifically with my own blog I have a list of the courses that I have personally taken on my website and again I’ll have the link below you should everything is like below so that it is is as easy as possible but I highly recommend taking courses it will save you. So much time and it will really help us character the growth of your website tip number 7 is how do I meet personally and make money from my blog and that has changed since my last video so my last video I was making a 50 percent of my income from ads and 50 percent of my income from affiliate marketing. Now I have also gone into my own products and next year I’m hoping to expand even further into working with brands and the reason I’m expanding into these different areas is that it is never good to have all of your eggs in one basket so I’m gonna be breaking down in these different.

Revenue streams for me even further so that you can know exactly like how I make money no sections so I’ll do that right here okay ads ads are a huge way to make money from your blog and I personally am with media fine you have to apply to them and have a certain number of pages so when you’re just starting out I recommend using Google AdSense and you’ve if you have any questions about getting Google AdSense the set up on your website Google it for you to read it because there are so many resources out there and I can tell you the exact steps on how to do it basically I’m told the army I see how to do it because I don’t remember how to do I don’t remember how to answer them on my website anymore I did it like 3 years ago but what are you 2 met it is it’s really easy to do and I’m just getting ads on your website one will generate a small income for you in the beginning but I’ll also get your readers used to seen ad so then once you do get into the bigger ad agencies and it pays you a lot more because it’s a huge money maker to have ads on your website so you’re going to want them on there then your readers will be in shock that he went from 0 adds to that having a decent amount of ads the second way I make money is a affliate and come in simple terms affiliate income is basically when I recommend a product is someone will then have a reader will then go buy their product or anything from that store I will get a small commission off of it and when you’re getting a lot of readers reading your post those commissions add up. Affiliate income can be really really powerful and really really huge but I’ve learned is that you have to be careful with it because the store has full control for example Amazon is one of my biggest affiliates and I do love working with them is by far the biggest converter on my website. But Amazon just cut commission rates from 8 percent to 3 percent so my commissions were cut in half which is when you’re making the substantial income that’s a huge number so you just have to be really careful and that’s kind of my whole thing what with put your eggs in different baskets because if you do or if I was to rely on Amazon for my entire income the end of my income just got cut in half so that’s something that you just had to be really careful with.

But like I said it is really powerful and you can make a huge substantial income from it in right now affiliate income is one of my it is the biggest money earner for me so you definitely want to do it you just have to be careful with it. Once you start getting more page views then you can get into some of the bigger affiliates that will earn you more money.

Lastly, products so it took me about a year to build up my Products but realizing that products are sold in 14 and that’s for 2 reasons why not I have full control over my products I can make them look the exact way I want them to look and I can say exactly what I want to end them into I get 95 percent of the income from it whereas my affiliate products and the ones I recommend I get like a 10 percent usually at most Amazon 3 percent so for me to get 95 percent of the income to 3 percent in income is giant Ormus and. Most importantly I can make it be exactly how I wanted to be I personally have all digital products as of right now because it’s basically passive income so it takes a lot of work upfront to actually make them but once they are made I just need to go update them. Every so often in otherwise I don’t really need to do anything with it I don’t need to worry about shipping or actually getting products are holding products or anything so that is why I specifically focus with digital products okay now I’m moving in it too tapes that I did not talk about in the last video and I think are really important to know when I’m starting a blog that will make you money the first time I have for you is to know your R. O. Y. and knowing they are a why it was one of my most important things that I focused on when I first started my blog if you don’t know what R. why is it’s return on investment so since I was a full time college student in doing this full time I had to be a laser focused on what was worth me doing and what wasn’t worth me doing so basically anything that didn’t make me money I would put it no time to or very little time to you and the things that I knew were making the money I would put a lot of time to do so in the beginning focus your time on getting page views once you get page views you can apply it to ad agencies and ad agencies will bring probably your first substantial income it which is why I tell you and I harp on it so much that start with Pinterest versus Instagram or YouTube because Pinterest you can get page views a lot faster than Instagram or YouTube and now that my book has grown so much and I have paid you is already in place and I have that side of my business going I’m now able to focus my time on things that don’t make the money right away for example YouTube and Instagram I am putting a ton of time into Instagram and YouTube right now and I am barely I’m making pennies on it probably but I know in the future with me spending a year on it and not making a lot of money on it I know that next year. YouTube and Instagram are going to be huge parts of my business in are making me a lot of money well hopefully are making a lot of money but just so. Rephrase I would’ve never done that in college because I was struggling too much I did that would be stupid of me I wouldn’t I don’t have time for it so when you’re first starting out.

kNOW, you’re R. O. I. and know what is worth you’re doing and what is not worth you doing the second thing your readers are smart if you are just recommending a product to make money from it they’ll be able to tell if you’re starting a blog. To simply make money. They will be able to tell you needed to be able to have blog posts and content on your website that is extremely helpful for them otherwise you won’t have a successful website and every single thing that I do I literally try to make it as helpful as possible whether it be principles I have I have links to excel sheet that people can use you need to make your content as helpful as possible for readers otherwise they will read through it and be alone okay this BG and you can tell that you are in it for the wrong reasons the next thing is that Google and YouTube are your best friends starting a blog is a soul confusing and hard I remember feeling so overwhelmed with all of the different questions that I had when I first started my blog from the technical side of things I don’t know anything I had a question for we started a blog I would answer or I would ask them on Google or you tube and 99 percent of the answers are out there you have this resource in front of you use it it will make your life a lot easier.

Whatever number temper on right now is that belonging is hard work. People have no idea how much time and effort goes into starting a blog and I mean like I said before I treated it as a full-time job in the game the first year that I started my blog with the number of hours they spent working on it I probably made pennies and I kind of always explain it this way blogging isn’t hard work it’s just a lot of work but now after 3 years of putting that many hours I’m 22 years old and making $30000 a month like that’s insane so. The work is worth it’s just a small percentage of people that don’t give up and stick with it especially that first year are the ones that succeed next up is once you have an established blog hire out the things that you don’t need to be doing yourself and this is something that I have done in the last year and it has been huge for my website so basically, I hire out anything that I don’t need to be doing so like all of the dirty work that I don’t need to be right in front of doing and it’s basically just a time sucker I have someone else do that for me and obviously right away I could not afford that and when you’re first starting out you probably won’t be able to afford either but as your blog income grows this is. Really important and an easy way to again your RO I know it seems are worth you doing and what things aren’t worth you doing and so now I have 2 employees that work for me we are growing even more. I still make sure that my blog is very personal I am a part of every single step of my blog but I put in extra time with things that make me money versus the things that don’t make me money and now like I said before also is that because I have those people doing those things for me I can spend time on the places on things that I know will generate the income in the future like Instagram and YouTube so there are a lot of freelancers out there that you can get for really affordable and virtual assistants whose job is literally to help bloggers so if you’re at that point I would recommend looking at hiring someone to help you with some of the tasks that you don’t need to be doing yourself and the elastic I have for you is that your email list it is a really important so. I always knew that my email list was important because the big bloggers preached it so much but I didn’t start focusing on the email list until. Probably a year point 5 ago and then really really started focusing on it last like in the past year and just yesterday I had over 50000 email subscribers. And that is really important because you can see a direct impact on how much money you’re making from your email subscribers and your email subscribers is one of the only things that you actually own so you on your list you have those email subscribers whereas Instagram or Pinterest or whatever god forbid could take off your account so that is just the eggs in your different baskets and I did not focus on the Millicent beginning I would not recommend folks don’t email us, in the beginning, get your Pinterest strategy is yours. Your strategy in place and then you can focus on it. Things like your email list that wraps up all my tips on how to start a blog and that make you money I have a post on my website that goes through every single step that you need to do to start a blog that makes you money it is really helpful and I highly recommend checking it out I have been getting so many requests for more bloody videos so I hope that was really helpful in those truly are my top blogging tips stick with it don’t give up in anyone can start a successful blog it is not too oversaturated I hate when people say that because the internet is how you do everything you can start a blog. On any topic, I also have all of my blogging recommendations all of those different products I use for my blog how I take my photos how I edit my photos where I get my photos from the different courses I’ve taken everything is listed. On my blog, I don’t have it linked in the. more so I hope that helped and. I hope you learn how to start a blog it makes the money.

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