2. Get your Blog Online (Web Hosting)

The second step in beginning a blog is to get your site up and running. A web hosting firm can help you with that. You'll choose the blogging platform and web hosting package you'll use to get your blog up and running in this phase.

What is Web Hosting?

How much does Web Hosting cost?

What's the best Web Hosting service to use?

—> To get started with Bluehost, go here and click the green "Get Started Now" button.

Choose your plan

To begin, choose a hosting package (inputting your blog name comes next). Personally, I like the Choice Plus package since it includes Domain Privacy, which prevents your personal information (complete name, email address, phone number, and home address) from being published online.

This is what selecting your plan will look like. Simply select your preferred plan by clicking the green "Select" button:

While I said above, I recommend going with the Choice Plus plan to receive the Domain Privacy feature, which will secure your personal information online, but either of these options will do as you start your blog—and you can add domain privacy later for roughly $1/mo during the checkout process.

Pick your Blog's domain name

If your preferred domain name isn't available, you can either attempt another alternative that comes to mind—or (as I recommend) take the option to choose your domain name later once you've finished setting up the rest of your account and have had a chance to consider it over. In addition, if you're still undecided, I go through how to select the correct name for your blog later in this article.

Here's where you may select your domain afterwards (it'll display as a popup if you linger over the page long enough or drag your mouse up near the top of the page):

Create your Bluehost account

Select the right hosting package

Which pricing plan is best to start a blog with?

If you want to lock in the lowest possible price for your hosting, I recommend going with the "Prime 36 Month Price." That's the method I employ. It also ensures your blog hosting for the next three years at their lowest pricing (along with domain privacy). Because the discounted pricing for new customers applies only to the first payment, if you pick the 1-year plan, your cost may increase after the first year.

As a result, if you pick the 36-month plan, your pricing will be guaranteed for three years. As a result, I propose choosing the plan with the longest length that your budget allows.

Choosing the right package extras (skip all but one)

I recommend maintaining the Domain Privacy Protection add-on, but the others may be skipped. Later in this article, I'll show you how to utilise a variety of free and low-cost plugins and utilities for things like SEO optimization, enhanced security, and site backups, obviating the need for most of the other package extras.

However, having the domain privacy extra keeps all of your personal contact information (your name, email, phone number, and address) hidden, as I indicated previously. If you selected the Choice Plus Plan on the previous screen, your Domain Privacy Protection will now be shown as "Free," as seen in the screenshot above—part it's of that plan.

If you choose a Basic or Plus Plan, tick the option to add Domain Privacy Protection to your order for roughly $1 per month.

The amount you'll pay today is the total you'll see now. Remember, depending on the package you choose, you won't have to pay again for 1, 2, 3, or 5 years. There's also a 30-day money-back guarantee if things don't work out with your blog.

Enter your billing information

Now enter your billing information, check the box indicating that you agree to Bluehost's Terms of Service, and click the green "Submit" button.

Woo! It's time for a small get-together.

You've now finished the first significant step in the process of beginning a blog.

It's time to move on to the next stage of having your blog properly created and optimised now that you've completed the initial signup procedure.

On the following page, you'll be guided step-by-step through the process of installing WordPress on your blog with Bluehost—and later in this guide, I've got a tonne of helpful tips for optimising your blog, as well as free and cheap plugins you can install to help get your blog looking great, and more.

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WordPress is your best bet if you want to build a blog and generate money from it.

What is a Content Management System (CMS)?

What is Wordpress?

Should I start a Blog on Wordpress (and is Wordpress free)?

One thing to keep in mind is that WordPress is available on two different platforms. WordPress.com and WordPress.org are two different websites. They have nearly identical names, however there are significant variations between them:

Choosing the best (free) Wordpress theme

Start with one of the free themes available in Appearance > Themes > Add New Theme > Popular without spending too much work on it for now. You may always modify it later if you want.

I propose Kadence WP, Elementor for WordPress, or Astra for WordPress (all of which are 100 percent free, fast and have the ability to upgrade later).

These three quick WordPress themes are my favourites since they're crisp, clean, and basic, and they'll get you up and running without the need to invest in a premium theme if you're just getting started with your site.

A well-designed blog establishes credibility. It shows that you care about your blog enough to make it appear beautiful. This does not need elaborate animations or a plethora of fonts and colours. In reality, the finest designs are straightforward, obvious, and simple to comprehend.

Once you've chosen the ideal theme for your WordPress site, it's time to explore the world of WordPress plugins, which may help you unlock even more adjustments and prep work so that your blog can grow into a viable company.

8 essential Wordpress plugins you should install on your Blog today

WordPress plugins are critical to the operation of your site, and having the most important plugins installed as soon as possible is a critical step that will benefit both your readership and search engines.

1. Yoast SEO: 

The greater the number of individuals who can locate your material, the more successful your blog will be. The Yoast WordPress plugin makes it simpler for search engines to find you by optimising your blog post names, descriptions, content length, and other characteristics throughout your whole blog.

2. WPForms: 

You'll want to make it easy for your readers to contact you, which I highly suggest since it will inspire other bloggers who want to cooperate with you to do so. WPForms is a simple plugin that lets you drag and drop contact forms into any of your blog's pages.

3. Google Analytics Dashboard for Wordpress:

This is a completely free Google Analytics plugin that displays all of your pertinent analytics data straight within WordPress. Connect the plugin to your Google Analytics account (you can get a free Google Analytics account here) to see who's visiting your site, how long they stay, and which blog entries are the most popular.

4. UpdraftPlus: 

Again, things will go wrong on your blog from time to time (and it won't always be under your control). It's always a good idea to have a backup plugin that will regularly preserve all of your hard work, and this free one stands out among the others.

5. WP Rocket:

Faster websites rank higher in Google and provide a better user experience for your visitors. WP Rocket is a plugin that caches your pages, decreases file sizes, and does a lot more to ensure that everyone can see your site.

6. MaxCDN:

MaxCDN also makes photos and other static aspects of your site load quicker, giving it high ratings as a compliment to WP Rocket.

7. Insert Headers and Footers:

You may need to add code snippets to your header or footer to make changes to your theme (it's not as terrifying as it sounds). However, doing so in your theme's code may cause problems. This plugin allows you to simply add tiny snippets of code to various spots on your site.

8. Lightweight Accordion: 

With this plugin, you can rapidly add collapsible FAQ box functionality to your WordPress site with only a few clicks.

4. Write your first Blog post

You don't read a blog just because it's pretty or because it's updated regularly. (Though they are both beneficial.)

You read a blog because you are interested in what it has to say. Strong content is what will attract you readers and help you make money blogging in the long run.

What is a Blog niche?

A blog niche is more than simply a subset of a topic. It's the strategy you'll use, the target audience you'll target, the manner you'll communicate with them, and how you'll position yourself. A specialty doesn't have to be your passion (though it helps you stay devoted to your blog if it is), but it does have to be something you're interested in. The finest niches are intriguing enough that you'll want to keep writing, but yet accessible enough that you can grow an audience.

Does my Blog need to have a niche right now?

The sooner you can designate a specialty after your blog is up and running, the better. Your blog need a specialty since it gives it emphasis. Your specialty will determine how you plan your content schedule, design your blog, and advertise it. It also determines how your target audience will find you and how you'll network with other bloggers.

It's fine if you're hesitant or can't think of a specialty right immediately. With a few inquiries, we can elicit it.

Ask these questions to determine a smart niche to start a blog in:

• What is a childhood fascination or dream that you find fascinating?
• What is the most enjoyable portion of your day?
• Do you have any interests or would want to learn some?
• What is one of your most sincerely held values?
• What is one accomplishment of which you are particularly proud?

You should have a few ideas for a defined topic you can start blogging about right immediately. It's fine if your specialisation expands, changes, and evolves over time.

To monitor the Monthly Search Volume, I like to utilise a free tool like Twinword Ideas (how many people are searching for this term each month).

Take a look at the results for each of your keywords. You've found a potentially successful niche if all of your top keywords have a Monthly Search Volume of 5,000–10,000. If you're getting close to that number, in the hundreds of thousands of Monthly Searches, you might want to narrow down your focus rather than compete with much larger, well-established websites on more popular topics.

Brainstorming smart Blog post ideas (using keyword research)

Even once you’ve established the niche you’ll be blogging about, you have to do smart keyword research in order to generate the right blog post ideas that’ll actually bring you readers.

So, what about the actual articles you'll be writing? The good news is that you can write anything you want! After all, this is your blog, and one of the key advantages is that it gives you a platform to talk and discuss. Ideas, on the other hand, do not always come easily.

6 ways to come up with clever blog post ideas

Here's how I come up with the specific blog posts I create for my personal blog using a simple procedure.

• Observing what other bloggers in my field have written about (and what did well).
• Examining my most popular blogs to determine what my readers enjoy the most.
• Doing more quote roundup pieces that don't take a lot of creative thinking and work on my part (like my blogs about business advice and internet business tools).
• In my office, I'm chatting with bloggers and coming up with new ideas.
• I'm going to talk about some recent lessons I've learnt (and my advice).
• I'm thinking about the blogging blunders I've made and the strategies that work now.

Now you're ready to write your first blog post

Once you’ve decided on the first blog post you want to write, you’ll navigate to the “Add New Post” section from your WordPress Dashboard.

Go to Posts > Add New which will look like this right here:

Next, you’ll be taken to a brand new article page that’ll look like this (a totally blank canvas 

Writing a blog post headline that encourages readers to click through

Isn't it true that one of the reasons you blog is to attract readers? Well, understanding how to craft a title that will interest readers and, more importantly, deliver on the promise of what your post is actually enabling them to do pays off.

So, let's assume you've decided to start your hiking blog (like Hike with Adil) by delving into some of Yosemite's lesser-known hikes. Next, on your new post page, click the "Add title" tab and write in a title like...

Learn to write a great title by looking at the headlines of other successful bloggers in your field as a starting point:

• Do they frequently begin with a number?
• How many of their article titles have parenthesis in them?
• Do you think it's a good idea to capitalise the initial letter of every word?

If you're still stumped on how to title a new article, run a Google search for the target keyword phrase you're pursuing and get some ideas from other bloggers' titles—don't duplicate them verbatim, but it'll get you thinking in the right direction.

Choosing an SEO-friendly blog post URL

It’s extremely important that you customize the URL of your new post, if you hope for it to rank well in organic Google search results.

How to set an SEO friendly URL for your blog posts

Crafting a compelling introduction to your new blog post

You have one or two sentences to convince readers your new post is worth their time. Here’s a sample blog post introduction I just wrote in less than two minutes for our hiking example:

The do's and don'ts of writing a blog post introduction

Answering the who, what, where, when, and why as soon as possible is the simplest technique for creating an engaging introduction. Another strategy is to start with your conclusion. This may seem paradoxical. People have gotten bored of wasting time on clickbait blog postings that lead nowhere in this age of short attention spans.

The faster you can create relevancy with your reader and offer them cause to believe they'll find what they're searching for in your blog article, the more likely they are to read it and share it.

Improving the look and feel of your blog post

Finally, what looks "good" is subjective and entirely up to you, based on what you believe your (future) readers would find most appealing. But one of the most essential lessons I've learnt from launching my own site is that design is really crucial.

5 rules to structuring the perfect blog post layout

1. Make sure your blog postings are easy to read.

Crazy colours, various typefaces, and a slew of pictures aren't what design is all about. It's all about making your reader's experience as pleasant as possible. Negative space is essential for your blog's legibility and readability, so don't start by cramming design components everywhere. Look for methods to help the process move more smoothly (a good WordPress theme should do this for you).

Next, make sure your font is large enough (for a blog, you'll want to go with a font size of 16pt or greater). You should also be cautious with line length. The optimal length of a sentence on your blog, according to most designers, is 50–85 characters since it keeps readers moving through the piece. For a more in-depth explanation on customising your visual typography settings, see my instructions on how to change font size and font colour on your site. Then check out my guide to determining how lengthy a blog article should be. for additional information

2. Always add a featured image at the top of your blog article that is relevant.

Our brain recalls information in two ways: audibly and visually. You'll have a greater chance of readers remembering your blog if you mix the two at the top of your article with a striking image.

Tip: Don't be concerned with custom-designed photos at first.

Take, for example, the guide's prominent image (at the top of this post). I strengthen my reader's connection with me by placing a relevant image at the top of the post (and superimposing the title on it).

3. Use subheaders often to split up your material.

Looking at a large wall of text might be overwhelming, and it may cause visitors to abandon your blog. Every 300-500 words, I recommend inserting a heading or sub-header. I also aim to incorporate photos around each header in my article to break up the flow of text, like I've done here.

4. Use style to draw attention to essential points in your content.

Your visitor will be guided through your topic by a great blog design. One of the simplest ways to achieve this is to use bold or italics to accentuate crucial points, as I do throughout this article. However, you can't state everything in your post is crucial, so use it selectively.

5. Make certain that others are aware of their whereabouts.

It's a good idea to include a small paragraph about yourself in the sidebar or bottom of your blog to establish a lasting connection and make visitors feel at ease.

These five tried-and-true design concepts will come in handy when creating a beautiful blog layout (that's simple to read).

Hitting publish on your first blog post

You're almost ready to publish your first blog article once you've written it (preferably in the 1,000+ word range).

Take a few minutes to double-check the Yoast SEO recommendations and make sure your blog post is SEO-friendly, which will help you rank higher in organic search.

After your SEO settings are dialed in, choose which “Category” this new post will fall under and tick that box. Then, you’re ready to hit publish!

And boom! It’s that easy if you allow it to be 🎉

Now, if you, like me, value good design, there's one more thing you can do before publishing your first blog article.

According to studies, blog articles containing photographs receive 94% more views than those without. When it comes to social media posts, tweets with photographs receive 150 percent more retweets than those without, while Facebook posts with images receive 2.3 times more interaction. Adding a few aesthetic components to a blog article may virtually double the number of views and increase the number of shares it receives.

Free blog photo resources

Beautiful graphics and designs are one of the simplest ways to add visual flare to your blog entries. Thankfully, a lot of high-quality sites that offer fantastic imagery that is absolutely free to use for your blog have emerged in recent years—my personal favourite is Unsplash:

Unsplash (for free blog images and stock photos)

For fully free, user-uploaded photographs for your site, Unsplash is the greatest online resource. Unsplash's crew carefully selects each photo to ensure that it is of excellent quality. You don't even have to credit the photographer under the Unsplash licence (though they do advocate it), making Unsplash the most convenient alternative for free blog pictures.

Other great free blog photo resources worth mentioning

• Wikimedia Commons: 21+ million photos and images from throughout history that are now in the public domain and free to use.
• Life of Pix: Awesome free-to-use photos donated by an advertising agency in Montreal, Canada.

Bonus: Creating a blog content strategy

Here’s how to create a basic blog content strategy today:

1. Define your blog's objectives: What motivates you to start a blog? What are your goals for your blog's content? This purpose may alter as your blog grows, but it's still crucial to know what it is from the start.

2. Get to know your blog's followers (and where they hang out) by doing the following: Your blog's success will be determined by the number of visitors it receives. To write for them, you must first understand them, which is why writing for yourself is beneficial. It's a good idea to do some research on the audience for whom you're writing. Consider your target audience's demographics and psychographics. Demographics refers to your readers' quantitative characteristics (age, gender, location, and job title), whereas psychographics refers to their non-quantifiable characteristics such as values, interests, attitudes, and belief systems. You may start creating an audience persona—a fictionalised representation of your ideal reader—once you've laid down these attributes.

3. Decide on the primary content pillars for your blog: It's helpful to have a few guiding categories to go to when determining what to write about. I prefer to refer to these as content pillars since they serve as the framework for the remainder of your site. For example, if you're launching a personal finance blog, your pillars may include personal financial tips, expert interviews, industry news, debt repayment, and so on. Hundreds of blog entries may be written about each of these pillars. They also function in tandem to demonstrate that you're a thought leader in your field.

4. Plan out the stuff you'll write as soon as you start your blog: It's recommended taking some time soon after you begin your blog to plan out your content pipeline for the next weeks (possibly months). It's impossible to predict when your first blog article will become viral. In that scenario, you'll need at least a game plan in place to immediately engage any new readers that come your way. It's OK to start with just one or two blog entries under each of your primary content pillars, preferably in the form of evergreen content that will survive the test of time.

In this tutorial, we've gone a long way. You've progressed from studying the fundamentals to writing your first blog article.

It's time to speak about what occurs after your first blog post is published... marketing your content, increasing traffic, and eventually making money from your site.

5. Promote your Blog and get Readers

Here are a few of the most effective techniques to begin sharing your blog entries and attracting new readers.

Using social media to promote your blog

When you're looking for readers, the natural first place to look is social media. Today's most popular social media platforms are Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Pinterest, LinkedIn, Reddit, Instagram, Snapchat, and TikTok. You should choose whichever platform best matches your specialty and audience's interests. That's a crucial point to keep in mind. It's pointless to try to promote your blog entries across all social media platforms.

Look for the social channels that give you the best return

How to choose which social networks to promote your blog on?

Each social media platform caters to a certain audience and reader. Although this is a broad generalisation, the following is what works well on each social platform:

Videos and curated content on Facebook

Instagram has a lot of high-resolution images, quotations, and Stories.

News, blog entries, and GIFs are all available on Twitter.

Video material on YouTube (2nd largest search engine in the world)

LinkedIn is a social media platform where you can find professional information and learn about new job opportunities.

Infographics, step-by-step pictorial instructions, and visual information may all be found on Pinterest.

Reddit: Discussions on subjects relevant to your niche

3 tools to help manage your social media promotion

The most important takeaway here is that you'll have to experiment to determine which networks work best for you.

Luckily, there are lots of tools that can help you manage your social media posts. With the right tool, you should be able to promote all your posts in just an hour or two a week. Here are my favorites:

1. Buffer: One of the simplest methods to plan Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Pinterest posts in advance. Their browser plug-in is also useful for swiftly adding intriguing posts to your social promotion queue when you come across them.

2. Hootsuite: Hootsuite is a strong social sharing, scheduling, and monitoring application if you want something a little more in-depth. It's definitely a little too much for a new blogger, but it's worth looking at once you've established yourself.

3. Gain App: Gain is an excellent tool for coordinating and regulating who writes what from your account if you collaborate with numerous individuals on your site. Their processes are a little more expensive, but they may save you a lot of time.

Guest blogging on other relevant blogs and sites like Medium, Quora & Linkedin

One of the nicest aspects about beginning a blog is that you'll be joining a community of other bloggers that like assisting one another. The greatest method to connect with an already established audience is to guest blog on other comparable sites.

How to land your first guest blog post?

My first guest article on the blog of the social media scheduling platform Buffer gave me one of my greatest breaks. Not only did I gain access to their 1 million+ readership, but I was also linked with a brand that others in my industry admire.

Getting a guest post on a blog like Buffer's isn't simple, and I was only able to do so because I spent weeks cultivating a connection with their blog editor through strategic blogger outreach—by first prominently highlighting them on my blog (providing value first).

How to republish your content on other blogs?

Try reposting your material on Medium if a huge guest blogging campaign isn't in the cards right now. You may also hunt for a prominent Medium publication in your niche and publish your piece there to reach a wider audience.

There's also Quora, a question-and-answer website where anybody may answer a user's query. Look for relevant subjects in your field and then respond to any queries you've already addressed on your blog.

Finally, if your blog entries are more business-oriented, you could wish to share them on LinkedIn, where that audience spends a lot of time.

The essential takeaway from all of this is that you should hunt for locations where your audience is present—whether that's other blogs, communities, or social media platforms—and be active there.

Forums and message boards for bloggers

Often, simply spouting your thoughts into the social media blank is ineffective.

Instead, if you discover the proper ones, participating in focused forums and online communities may provide you a much higher return on your time. Look through related Facebook groups to see if there are any active communities that might serve as a suitable starting point.

How to find the right forums and message boards?

There are alternative choices if your search doesn't turn up any Facebook Groups with a large number of members (5,000+). On Facebook, LinkedIn, Reddit, or independent forum websites, look for more generic groups that pertain to your expertise.

My Favorite online groups for entrepreneurs

Remember that message boards and forums aren't merely for posting links to your blog entries. Before you ask for anything in return, you must first create value. As a result, begin by establishing relationships and interacting with those who are already present.

Using an email newsletter to grow your blog audience

One of the most effective ways to promote your blog is to promote it to your own readership (over time). An email newsletter is the most effective approach to keep existing readers involved in your work, and it's one of the first things you should do.

It's also possible to build a simple email list. Include a registration form in your posts and on important pages of your website. To manage the 150,000+ email subscribers I now have on my site, I use ConvertKit, although Mailchimp is the greatest free email marketing service to begin started with.

Other ways to promote your blog and get more traffic

Aside from social network advertising, guest articles, forums, and email, there are a few more ways I've personally employed to fast build my blog following.

Keep in mind that the only thing standing in the way of your blog's growth is you. It will take some creativity and a willingness to try new things, but it will be well worth the effort.

Let’s talk about how to (eventually) make money from your blog.

6. Make Money from your Blog

Making money from your blog is towards the conclusion of this guide to creating a blog for a reason. You can't expect to generate money right away unless you already have a large following somewhere—monetization should not be your primary priority right now, but rather something to strive towards.

Even so, when you embark on this new journey, it's a good idea to have a rough notion of how you'd like to make money blogging. While your readership is still increasing, some of these monetization tactics will be easier to adopt than others.

1. Freelancing (Selling your Services)

Offering your skills (by obtaining blogging jobs, freelance writing projects, or otherwise selling your knowledge as a service) is by far the easiest way to start generating money from your blog as soon as feasible.

All you actually need to get a freelancing client is a compelling pitch, which is where starting a blog (first) may be really beneficial. Build up your essential sections (About, Contact, Hire Me) and include at least a couple samples of the sort of work you've done that you'll be pitching freelancing clients on.

Don't allow the fact that you don't have those work samples deter you. Create those sample articles, designs, or other deliverables and publish them on your own blog as if they were a paid assignment.

You're already prepared to pitch potential clients if you have a talent that you can market as a service. That ability may be anything along the lines of...

1. Writing

2. Design

3. Photography

4. Marketing

5. Public Relations

6. Social Media Management

7. Virtual Assistance

8. Community Building

9. SEO or Paid advertising campaigns

10. Business Strategy and Project Management

The list goes on.. because any skill can be monetized.

2. Affiliate Programs

The majority of the most well-known businesses offer affiliate programmes. Consider Amazon, as well as significant players in categories such as online education, where CreativeLive and Udemy offer profitable programmes.

Once you've established a modest following, you can go out and negotiate a better affiliate contract with firms who sell things that are related to your audience.

3. Sponsored Blog Content

It will take some time to increase your readership to the point where sponsored content is a realistic income option unless you already have a sizable audience on your blog (or social media profiles).

What is sponsored blog content?

A blog sponsorship is when a business, corporation, or individual pays you a fee in exchange for getting their content (or offer) in front of your audience.

4. Online Courses

When you have a talent (or experience) that others want to acquire, it's quite straightforward to bundle your best advise, techniques, tactics, and tutorials into an online course that others can pay for to accelerate their learning far faster than they would if they learned via trial and error.

How to launch a profitable online course?

Encourage your blog's visitors to interact with you by asking questions, providing free downloads, sharing advice, and encouraging them to either join your email list or personally reach out and connect with you.

Learn about their most pressing issues (as related to the broader topics covered on your blog). Identify the ways you can help them in a unique way by drawing on your own skills, expertise, and experience. After you've figured out how to help a few of your readers solve a real problem they're having, pitch them on pre-ordering your course and getting direct coaching from you while you work on the actual course material (individually, in a very personalised manner either over email or ideally on the phone).

If you ask people to give you their hard-earned money, you'll know if you're fixing a genuine need for them. You'll also get real-time test subjects to help you create and select your course material.

5. Traditional Blog Advertisements (Ad Networks)

Mediavine, Monumetric, Google AdSense, and Propeller Ads are some of the top blog ad networks to apply to. There may be a few specialist ad networks giving better payments than the competitors in your niche, depending on the area you're blogging about.

Overall, typical CPC or CPM advertising isn't particularly successful (at least as a feasible source of significant blog revenue) until you have more than 1 million monthly visitors, so it's not a good monetization channel to focus on in the short run. However, when you're first establishing a blog, it might be one of the simplest methods to profit from your audience without putting in a lot of effort.

6. Podcast Sponsorships

Launching a (basic) podcast for your viewers is another wonderful method to start monetizing your site. You may arrange sponsorships from marketers who want to target your sort of readers and listeners using your traffic and early listener stats.

7. Physical Products (eCommerce) and Software Tools

Another fantastic approach to monetise your blog readership is to offer a physical product or software tool to the people in your community—especially if you'll be opening an eCommerce store (with the correct eCommerce website builders) to sell things that are linked to what your readers require.

12 Best eCommerce Website Builders (to Sell Products Online) in 2022

1. Shopify

2. BigCommerce

3. Zyro

4. Wix eCommerce Website Builder

5. Squarespace eCommerce

6. WooCommerce + Wordpress

7. Shift4Shop

8. Weebly eCommerce by Square

9. Square Online

10. Big Cartel

11. Ecwid

12. Volusion

8. Business Partnerships

This is the most nebulous of all the strategies to monetise your blog. As a result, who knows who you'll meet. What about your podcast's upcoming guests? The prospects for stumbling into a partnership are limitless here.

Apart from building your brand and the reach of your blog, there aren't as many methods to legitimately engineer the establishment of these sorts of connections as being attentive to the creative individuals and ideas that come your way when they discover you.

On the other hand, if there's someone in your industry with whom you'd like to cooperate and work, think about how you might offer value to their company.

How to Start a Blog in 2022: Final Takeaways for New Bloggers

Ultimately, growing a successful blog all boils down to being excited and engaged with your new blog. If you want people to read what you’re writing, you need to give them a reason to.

Write exciting content, connect with people in your niche and enthusiastically share what you’re working on.

The traffic, monetization and everything else will follow.

And I hope that by now you feel confident enough to go out there and start a blog of your own.

Thank you for reading!