If You Want to Make $2,815 Per Month Blogging, Do These 7 Easy Things Immediately

As a blogger, you don’t want to wait — you want to make money as quickly as possible.

But where do you start?

Your first three months of blogging will be painful if you don’t do certain things right from the get-go.

You may get bogged down finding the right hosting company and picking a fast theme.

The brutal truth?

Neither will put a dime in your pocket.

According to Income School — an internet marketing company passionate about helping people monetize their content — a hundred blog posts generate on average $2,815 per month in ad revenue and affiliate commissions.

And you can make this in as short as eight months to as long as 24 months.

But, of course, it depends on your strategic approach to blogging.

Your ultimate goal?

You’re blogging to make money — not to write about your opinions. At least not at first.

For example, writing about your dog probably won’t get you traffic.

But writing about how to get a dog to stop barking — will.

To be a successful blogger, in the beginning, you must only write about keywords people search for, and your content must be relevant and useful to your reader.

After working on your blog for two months, you don’t want to look back in hindsight and say, “Why did I waste all my time doing x when I should’ve been doing y?”

Unfortunately, this is the outcome for most bloggers if they don’t stick to a frugal plan.

However…

When you do things right from day one, you can earn as much as $2,000 per month in as little as six months.

But if you do everything on this list…

You can make your first affiliate commission as early as next week.

Table source: Income School — expected monthly income for websites with 100 blog posts

1. The golden rule: use easy keywords

If your site is new, and you try to rank for difficult keywords, for example, with a search volume of 3,000 per month and a keyword difficulty of 50, your article will land on page 3 or 4 of Google.

And no one will see your post.

The golden rule?

If you want to rank on page 1 of Google quicker, the keywords you choose to write about should have a search volume under 250 searches per month and an SEO difficulty under 15.

And you can find easy keywords with Ubersuggest in under 3 seconds (and it’s free!)

Terms

Difficult keyword: many websites compete for the keyword, and therefore, the keyword is competitive.

Easy keyword: only a few websites compete or rank for the keyword, so it’s easier to rank on page 1 using the keyword.

Search volume: the number of people searching for the keyword.

· Browse to Ubersuggest

· Type in your keyword

· Check the search volume and difficulty score

· If the search volume and SEO difficulty are low, use the keyword as an article title, or, if the keyword has a high SEO difficulty, pick an alternative keyword with a low search volume and an easier SEO difficulty

For example, in the screenshot below, the keywords “Pinterest tips” have a search volume of 140 (perfect) but an SEO difficulty of 70, which is too high for a new site to rank for.

Using Ubersuggest to find the search volume and SEO difficulty for the keywords “Pinterest tips.”

But if we scroll down to keyword ideas, we will see alternative keywords recommended by the tool…

As an alternative, the keywords “Tips on Pinterest” also have a search volume of 140 but a much lower SEO difficulty.

As you can see from the screenshot above, the keywords “tips on Pinterest” have a search volume of 140 and an SEO difficulty (SD) of only 14.

This is our longtail keyword (a keyword consisting of more than one word).

So, the title of our next article could be… 37 Tips on Pinterest.

I know what you’re thinking: “37 Pinterest tips sounds better.”

And you’re right, it does.

But, unfortunately, you’d never rank for a keyword with an SEO difficulty of 70 with a new site.

Goal: your first ten posts should use the golden rule. Your next ten (11 to 20) can have a slightly higher search volume and difficulty index.

If your site has one hundred posts, at least 30 posts should follow the golden rule.

Note: A keyword with a search volume of 250 and an SEO difficulty of 6 has hardly any competition, and you’ll land on page 1 of Google quickly.

Also, never try and rank for a one-word keyword like “dogs,” “firearms,” “phones,” “kitchen,” “Pinterest,” etc.

One-word keywords are too competitive, and your article will rank 1,398 534 on Google — page 99!

Your keywords should mostly be how-to’s, questions, or statements.

For example:

· Can dogs eat ketchup?

· Best firearms for women

· Best phones for seniors

· 2022 kitchen cupboard ideas

· How to get traffic from Pinterest

Tip: While the first 30 keywords you write about should follow the golden rule, the next 30 can have a higher search volume and SEO difficulty.

Competitive keywords are usually better keywords. For example, “best couches to buy in 2022” versus “couches which best 2022.”

Which one sounds better?

The first one, right?

And yet, people use an array of strange keywords when they search for information, keywords that don’t make good blog titles (like “couches which best 2022”).

Tip 2: Link from your first 30 articles, which use easy keywords, to articles that are more difficult to rank.

2. Writing epic headlines WILL land you on page 1 of Google

“90% of people suck at writing headlines.” Marie Forleo

Do you want to know the secret to clickable titles?

A little-known trick will persuade readers to click your post on the search results page over other websites. In fact, if you use this technique, people will bypass the articles ranking at the top of page 1 and click a little lower down, on your article.

You see, a powerful headline consists of certain types of words. You need a balance of power, emotional, common, and uncommon words.

But how do you know, for example, what words trigger emotion in readers?

The secret?

CoSchedule’s Headline Analyzer. A free online tool that’ll help you craft the perfect title for every blog post WITH your keywords at the front of the headline.

And you can do this in 1 minute.

For example, I want to rank for the keywords: “Can you love two people at the same time?”

Below you can see Headline Analyzer breaks down the headline into common, uncommon, power, and emotional words. And the tool determines the correct balance of words.

Image source: CoSchedule’s Headline Analyzer tool

Our current headline consists of:

1. 44% common words

2. 22% uncommon words

3. 0% emotional words

4. One power word

Now, a headline score above 69 is good — and a score of 79 is excellent — but the tool will show you what type of words to add to raise your score.

A HEADLINE SCORE ABOVE 69 = MORE TRAFFIC

So, since our headline consists of no emotional words, if we add one, our score will improve.

To do this, let’s tag on a few extra words after the keywords. This will still allow us to rank for the keywords at the beginning of the headline, but our title will be more clickable.

So I’m going to add “God says it’s forbidden” after our keywords.

Tweaked headline: “Can you love two people at the same time? God says it’s forbidden.”

By tagging on four extra words after our keywords, we’ve improved our headline score by six points. The word “God” is another power word, and “forbidden” is an emotional word.

Of course, the words you tag on at the end must make sense in relation to your keywords at the beginning of the headline.

Sometimes I play around with a headline for 10 minutes before I get a score above 75.

“The Headline Analyzer will score your overall headline quality and rate its ability to result in social shares, increased traffic, and SEO value.” CoSchedule

Another example:

Remember the golden keywords we found with Ubersuggest, “Tips on Pinterest”?

Now, on their own, they get a dismal headline score:

Blah, right?

But…

If we tag on a few more words after our keywords…

We have a winner!

Tweaked headline: “37 Tips on Pinterest. Most Popular Ways to Get Traffic and Make Money.”

(Journalists and copywriters use these word tricks on us EVERY day!)

Headline Analyzer has a paid version, but the free version works great. Unfortunately, the free version doesn’t allow you to see the lists of emotional and power words after you’ve used the tool a few times, but I’ve got you covered…

Check out the links below for an endless supply of emotional and power words!

Resources

A wack of power words

Emotional and power words

Uncommon and common words

3. You cannot write all 100 articles yourself

100 BLOG POSTS = $2,815 IN REVENUE / MONTH ON AVERAGE

One word: outsource.

A big mistake you can’t afford to make in the first three months of blogging is trying to write all the content yourself.

If you do, you’ll become a crazy, irritable person and quit. And this is because, sadly, there’s little reward when you first start a blog.

The solution?

A drop servicer is a person who advertises a service on a freelance network, for example, Fiverr or Upwork, and then outsources the work to someone on SEOClerks at a much lower rate, thereby making a profit.

But you, being smart, can go straight to SEOClerks or WordClerks and buy a decent article for $8. And trust me — it’s worth it. Not because the article will be great, but because you need A LOT of articles on your site. And you won’t have time to write them all.

Alternatively, you can post a bulk writing job on Indeed, paying as little as $10 per article for 1000 curated words.