If you have come this far it is because you are thinking about starting a business on the internet, making money with your blog or you already have one and would like to get an economic return.
Well, welcome to the Club, there are several million people who are thinking exactly the same as you.
The first thing I am going to tell you is that, in this sector, the Internet, as in all the others, if you want to make money with your blog you have to work.
And a lot.
If you are willing to work to start or strengthen your blog and earn money, really, with him, keep reading.
Otherwise, if you are one of those people who think you can get rich without working, I advise you to sign up for any course-book-seminar-foo of any online fashion business guru and give away your time and money.
It must also be said that working in a mine, construction or a beach bar in the month of August requires much more effort, so do not be complaining and get down to work.
Find your passion
The best way to enjoy doing what we do, is be simply passionate .. So by blogging about your passion, you will find pleasure in what you do.
From now on, list all your passions and choose the one that is most popular on the Internet. For this it suffices for example:
- to see if other blogs exist on your passion (type on Google ” Blog your passion ” to get an idea)
- to look at the search volumes for the keywords of your theme in the famous Google keyword generator tool .
Create your blog with WordPress
And when I say that you create your blog with WordPress, I’m not referring to you going to wordpress.com and you create a free account, without your own domain or things of that type.
You must invest in your online project.
If you really believe in your project, will not you invest at least 150 euros a year in a good WordPress hosting and a domain of your own? If not, do not believe in your project and leave it in four days.
You will also need a WordPress theme.
Write every day
Well yes, this is where the work that really gives results begins.
Write every day on your blog, that’s your goal. If you mark that goal you may write three post each week, but if you mark the goal of two posts a week, you will not write one every fifteen days. Trust me.
If you do not generate content, google will not know that you exist and people who have to contract your services or buy your products will not find you among so many millions of websites.
Maybe not every day we have ideas about what to write, but you can keep in draft all those ideas that come up and expand the content of those posts little by little.
You can also program the days when the posts or post you are writing will be published, since one day when inspiration accompanied you and the muses visit you, you can write several post and advance work.
It is important that you share quality content that can be useful to your target audience.
Create a mailing list or newsletter
This is something you must do from the minute zero.
Create a mailing list or newsletter where people can subscribe to your blog and read all the posts and articles you post, without missing a single one.
If you create your own “tribe”, people who share what you like, who are interested in what you have, in your services or products, you will never lack customers. Never.
To do this you can do it through many services that offer plans adapted to all pockets, even free to start, such as the WordPress MailPoet plugin (I recommend this first) or more complex, such as MailChimp and the like.
Use social networks
Do not have an account in the main social networks?
I do not think necessary (moreover, I think it’s counterproductive) that you have a profile in each and every one of them, only in those where you think your audience, your clients, may be.
And it adds a clean and light plugin so that your visitors can share your publications on their social networks.
Monetize your blog
As you would expect, this is the hardest part. And to be perfectly honest with you, this is going to take time.
If you’ve just completed the steps above, your initial goal should be to personalize your blog, create content, and grow your audience, all before you start thinking about making money.
Here are some starting tips I can give you on a successful blog:
- Already start to research and understand the different ways to monetize a blog. Pick the ones you find interesting and start reading about those methods.
- Make sure you write in an easy to read manner. What do I mean by that? Be conversational, use short paragraphs and short sentences. Oddly enough, this is a lot harder than it looks, especially for new bloggers. The way you learned to write in high school and college is not the same when it comes to writing online. I cannot stress this enough.
- Your content should help people solve a problem. If not, you better be funny. If you don’t do any of these things, you’ll have a hard time convincing readers to stick around.
- Use social media to promote your blog posts. I recommend starting with Pinterest.
Give away knowledge
The universe is wise.
If you offer quality, useful and interesting content for free , your visitors will know everything you can offer them and that you are not a simple smoke seller.
Offer a free course, tips, write articles on what can help others get what they need.
You will receive it in return and multiplied by a thousand. Believe me, I belong to one of the best communities in the world, the WordPress Community and I have received much more than what I have given.
Well you know, get to work right now, do not leave for tomorrow.
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