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Ever thought about launching your own blog? Ever wondered what it takes, not only to start up that blog but also to successfully build it over time to\u00a0make money from blogging or\u00a0generate a\u00a0passive income online?<\/p>\n
Clearly, you\u2019re not alone.<\/p>\n
There are numerous\u00a0reasons why people venture into blogging\u00a0and making money online is one of them!<\/p>\n
Millions of people try their hand at blogging, but so few actually ever generate a substantial income from all efforts made.<\/p>\n
However, if you\u2019re\u00a0starting a blog for the purposes of making money<\/strong>, and you\u2019re not actually passionate about writing in the first place,\u00a0then you\u2019re largely wasting your time<\/strong>.<\/p>\n The art of blogging isn\u2019t simply scientific or rocket science.<\/p>\n Without a deep-seated passion for your craft, you\u2019ll face a tide of frustration and upset.<\/p>\n Why?<\/p>\n While it\u2019s relatively easy to set up a blog, it is important to generate substantial traffic and profit from your arduous efforts.<\/p>\n You need focus, persistence, and perseverance to build that massive audience you need to make money blogging. It takes time and it takes hard work earning real cash online.<\/p>\n Take it from me. As an online marketer who understands the rudiments of online business, I can bask in the warm glow of success.<\/p>\n However, I can\u2019t sit around for too long enjoying the freedom and passive income that my business has created. Without constantly adding insatiable content, any website can die off.<\/p>\n So, what does it take to\u00a0start a successful blog and actually make money online?<\/p>\n I suppose that depends on what you consider successful and what you consider making money. But if you\u2019re willing to put in the time and the effort, and you can stay persistent over the years (and yes, I said years), then you can most certainly generate a substantial income online.<\/p>\n In fact, your blog is quite possibly one of the best hubs of passive income generation, and if done the right way, it can attract the right clients and customers no matter what industry or niche you might be in.<\/p>\n In today\u2019s guide, I want to show you\u00a0what it takes to start making money blogging in Nigeria<\/strong>\u00a0or anywhere you might be in the world.<\/p>\n Contents<\/b><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n<\/div>\n 1<\/span>\u00a0How to Make Money from Blogging (Step by Step)<\/span><\/p>\n 1.1<\/span>\u00a0SETTING UP YOUR BLOG<\/span><\/p>\n 1.2<\/span>\u00a0ENHANCING YOUR BLOG<\/span><\/p>\n 1.3<\/span>\u00a0PREPARING YOUR BLOG FOR SEO<\/span><\/p>\n 1.4<\/span>\u00a0PREPARING YOUR BLOG FOR LEAD GENERATION<\/span><\/p>\n 1.5<\/span>\u00a0MARKETING YOUR BLOG<\/span><\/p>\n 1.6<\/span>\u00a0MONETIZE YOUR BLOG<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Okay, if I haven\u2019t dissuaded you just yet, and you\u2019re serious about launching the next\u00a0Gistlover<\/em>,\u00a0Gistnaija<\/em>\u00a0or\u00a0Linda Ikeji Blog<\/em>\u00a0or whatever other blogs you might think is wildly successful in your eyes, then here\u2019s what you need to do in a step-by-step guide.<\/p>\n The more you prepare and plan, the more likely you\u2019ll be to succeed in the long term.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Get clear on what you\u2019ll write about. Define a topic or niche, and design all your content around those things.<\/p>\n This will help you to not only laser-focus your writing but also to build digital products and services that compliment your content.<\/p>\n This allows you to attract customers in, enticing them with your highly-informative posts, then tempting them with a lead magnet before dropping them into your sales funnel (more on that shortly).<\/p>\n webpages.<\/p>\n In the beginning, this might not seem as important. But as you\u00a0grow and your traffic\u00a0increases to thousands of visitors per day, this will be critical. Use\u00a0Google\u2019s Page Speed Insights<\/a>\u00a0to test things before and after the installation.<\/p>\n It\u2019s also important that you set up a CDN, which will speed up the global delivery of your content.<\/p>\n For example, your page might load relatively quickly in the South Africa, but what happens when someone in Nigeria tries to load your content?<\/p>\n CDNs replicate data across multiple repositories\u00a0around the world and make content delivery ultra-fast.<\/p>\n This is important for the user\u2019s experience because\u00a053% of mobile site visits leave a page<\/a>\u00a0that takes longer than three seconds to load.<\/p>\n W3 Total Cache integrates with Amazon\u2019s AWS and MaxCDN, two very good options when it comes to CDNs.<\/p>\n The\u00a0Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP)\u00a0Project<\/a>\u00a0is an initiative by Google to speed up mobile accessibility to a large degree of their content. The\u00a0AMP specification, which you can read more about here, helps to thin down a webpage to its basic structural components with scaled-back JS and minified CSS code, makes for lightning-fast page speeds.<\/p>\n Install Google Analytics so that you can keep track of your efforts while building out your blog. This is a great way to keep track of your results while using the\u00a0URL campaign builder\u00a0when dropping links in social media and other places so that you can effectively determine where your traffic is coming from.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n In WordPress, you should enable permalinks before getting things off the ground, which will give you nice canonical URLs that are SEO-friendly. Permalinks are located within the\u00a0settings > permalinks<\/strong>\u00a0section of your WordPress admin and select the\u00a0post name\u00a0option.<\/p>\n Anyone who\u2019s serious about building a blog and making money, needs to leverage\u00a0Google\u2019s webmaster tools<\/a>\u00a0to see what keywords they\u2019re ranking for and any messages that would impact their ability to rank.<\/p>\n This will also allow you to submit an XML sitemap and track keyword impressions along with click-through rates. Although you shouldn\u2019t start a blog with the intention of optimizing it to oblivion, you most certainly should understand the fundamental principles of\u00a0Search Engine Optimization (SEO)\u00a0so that you pay attention to the key aspects that will impact your ability to\u00a0rank on search engines\u00a0like Google.<\/p>\n Begin with\u00a0Google\u2019s Webmaster Guidelines mentioned above, and digest and implement that information.\u00a0Learning SEO\u00a0is a long and drawn out journey. You should always be increasing your knowledge and\u00a0expanding your skill set.<\/p>\n Should in case you need somewhere to learn and master the science of SEO, then\u00a0click here to contact us<\/strong>\u00a0to learn how you can leverage our world-class digital marketing training to jump-start your SEO skill.<\/p>\n If you\u2019re serious about succeeding with your blog, you need to build useful anchor content. It needs to be engaging, keyword-centric, insightful, unique and well written.<\/p>\n Don\u2019t write your content for search engines. Rather, write your content for humans while also paying homage to search engines and what they want. any keyword if\u00a0it\u2019s done the right way. There\u2019s most certainly an art to this as well as a technical outline and to doing it the right way. Content marketing can be done with articles on sites like\u00a0Medium.com<\/a>\u00a0or\u00a0Scribd.com<\/a>, it can be done by answering questions on Reddit or Quora, and it\u00a0can be done with videos on YouTube or Vimeo, along with a variety of other means.<\/p>\n The point is that all of the content has to be useful, period. Don\u2019t try to do the least amount of work for the greatest return. You need to do the exact opposite if you want to succeed.<\/p>\n Affiliate marketing is when you recommend a product or service to your audience using special tracking links, and then get a referral commission for every time someone buys after clicking your link. (Click here to learn how to start affiliate marketing<\/a>)<\/p>\n Google Adsense<\/a>\u00a0is an easy way to make money from your blog. Directly selling banner ad space on your website can be more lucrative. Instead of having to rely on an intermediary who takes a cut of the money, you negotiate the price and terms on your own.<\/p>\n Some bloggers aren\u2019t interested in displaying ads to their audience and wonder how to monetize a blog without ads.<\/p>\n With ad networks, you lose some control over the content displayed on your site. Some readers will get annoyed or offended by ads, and more and more people are using ad blockers.<\/p>\n An alternative way to monetize a blog is through sponsorships.<\/p>\n A sponsorship works just like it does in sports, TV shows, or other industries. Basically, a company pays you to represent their product, talk about it, and promote it to your readers.<\/p>\n To get started, it\u2019s a good idea to put together a one-page media kit that details your traffic stats, social media following, audience demographics, and any other data that will make your site more appealing to advertisers. Similar to sponsored posts, you can also make money by writing paid reviews on your site.<\/p>\n This is a slightly different monetization method than a\u00a0review site with affiliate links, as mentioned above. Let\u2019s face it, starting and running a blog can get costly. Don\u2019t expect to get rich overnight. Be sure that you remain topical with your content and that your lead magnets help to drop people into a sales funnel that will eventually sell your high-ticket items.<\/p>\n However, aside from that, you can always opt to generate small amounts of cash flow by doing other things such as creating articles that will lead people to courses or audiobooks that you\u2019ve developed, or building out video tutorials that will ultimately sell some big package or system that will help to teach people whatever it is that you\u2019re really good it.<\/p>\n There are numerous ways to monetize your content and make money blogging, but don\u2019t try to take shortcuts along the way. Don\u2019t look for the fast-buck if you\u2019re serious about your long-term results. <\/p>\n <\/p>\n To Register Or Login On SubBase Register<\/strong><\/a> OR Click here to Login<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n
\nIf like millions of other potential bloggers out there, you\u2019re looking to rake it in, you\u2019ll have a long road ahead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n1.1.1<\/span>\u00a01. Pick a Topic<\/span><\/div>\n1.1.2<\/span>\u00a02. Select a Platform<\/span><\/div>\n1.1.3<\/span>\u00a03. Pick a Domain Name<\/span><\/div>\n1.1.4<\/span>\u00a04. Find a Good Web Hosting Company<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n1.2.1<\/span>\u00a05. Caching and Content-Delivery Networks (CDNs)<\/span><\/div>\n1.2.2<\/span>\u00a06. Install the AMP plugin<\/span><\/div>\n1.2.3<\/span>\u00a07. Install Google Analytics<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n1.3.1<\/span>\u00a08. Enable Permalinks<\/span><\/div>\n1.3.2<\/span>\u00a09. Setup Google\u2019s Webmaster Tools<\/span><\/div>\n1.3.3<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>10. Learn SEO the Right Way<\/span><\/div>\n1.3.4<\/span>\u00a011. Regularly Build Useful Content<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n1.4.1<\/span>\u00a012. Sign Up for an Email Marketing Platform<\/span><\/div>\n1.4.2<\/span>\u00a013. Build a Lead Magnet<\/span><\/div>\n1.4.3<\/span>\u00a014. Build a Digital Product and Position Your Offers<\/span><\/div>\n1.4.4<\/span>\u00a015. Create a Sales Funnel<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n1.5.1<\/span>\u00a016. Get Social<\/span><\/div>\n1.5.2<\/span>\u00a017. Market Your Content<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n1.6.1<\/span>\u00a018. Make Money With Affiliate Marketing<\/span><\/div>\n1.6.2<\/span>\u00a019. Display Google AdSense on WordPress<\/span><\/div>\n1.6.3<\/span>\u00a020. Use a WordPress Advertising Plugin to Sell Ads Directly<\/span><\/div>\n1.6.4<\/span>\u00a021. Sell Sponsored Blog Posts<\/span><\/div>\n1.6.5<\/span>\u00a022. Get Paid to Write Reviews<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\nHow to Make Money from Blogging (Step by Step Guide)<\/span><\/h2>\n
SETTING UP YOUR BLOG<\/span><\/h3>\n
1. Pick a Topic<\/span><\/h4>\n
6. Install the AMP plugin<\/span><\/h4>\n
7. Install Google Analytics<\/span><\/h4>\n
PREPARING YOUR BLOG FOR SEO<\/span><\/h3>\n
8. Enable Permalinks<\/span><\/h4>\n
9. Setup Google\u2019s Webmaster Tools<\/span><\/h4>\n
\nThis is one of the most useful tools for growing your site or blog through constant analysis of your efforts.<\/p>\n10. Learn SEO the Right Way<\/span><\/h4>\n
11. Regularly Build Useful Content<\/span><\/h4>\n
\nSimply put, it\u2019s a skill that develops over time with practice. It\u2019s also important to regularly publish your content on a weekly basis.<\/p>\n
\nDon\u2019t try to spam or overstuff keywords in an effort to market your content by any means.<\/p>\nMONETIZE YOUR BLOG<\/span><\/h3>\n
18. Make Money With Affiliate Marketing<\/span><\/h4>\n
19. Display Google AdSense on Your Blog or Website<\/span><\/h4>\n
\nAll you need to do is add a script from Google to your website and start displaying ads. You will get paid for every time a user clicks on the ad.
\nThese are called CPC ads.<\/p>\n20. Use a WordPress Advertising Plugin to Sell Ads Directly<\/span><\/h4>\n
21. Sell Sponsored Blog Posts<\/span><\/h4>\n
\nThen, you can approach companies to negotiate a sponsorship deal.<\/p>\n22. Get Paid to Write Reviews<\/span><\/h4>\n
\nInstead, you get to try out products related to your niche for free, and even get paid for writing a review.<\/p>\nIn conclusion:<\/span><\/h4>\n
\nHowever, you can take certain measures to monetize some of your content along the way.<\/p>\n
\nTake action and\u00a0stay persistent\u00a0if you want to succeed and achieve your goals.<\/p>\n
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