Start a Blog, Grow it, and Monetize it in 2024

Blogging is a life-changing career option for everyone. Everyone wants to generate income, especially online. When it comes to money, "blogging" popped up in mind. Whatever the genre, style, or way you blog, it is obvious that blogging means profit.

Stop wasting your time, and start blogging right now. By the end of this year, let's make yourself able to talk about your blogging success story.

Now, let's come quickly to the point. How to begin blogging? What do you need to know? And what direction do you have to move in?

Worry for what? When I am here to tell you everything.

Let's begin!

What do you need for blogging?

#1: Website

For blogging, of course, you need a blog or website.

The most popular options for building a website are WordPress, Wix, and Blogger.

My recommendation is WordPress. Why? Because it has a variety of space and options for growth. It is a much more professional and huge platform. Though it's paid.

For WordPress, you need hosting. There are many hosting sites, but you should go with Hostinger. Why? It's cheap and easy to go.

Don't want to go with WordPress? Ok! You can do it all on Hostinger. Get hosting and build a website there.

Which blogging platform do you want to choose, the choice is yours. I am suggesting to you what I feel is the best.

#2. Choose a Niche

Must brainstorm and do homework on what niche works better. As algorithms keep changing, the profitability of niches also changes as online trends fluctuate.

How to choose a niche?

• Choose a niche that has low competition and high traffic.

#3. SEO skill

Blogging is nothing without SEO. Blogging requires the right strategy, skills, energy, and assistance tools. Learn SEO because it is crucial for blog growth.

Before jumping into the field, learn some SEO skills and practice them.

Keep the right tool by your side as your superpower. SEO superpowers are Ahref and SEMrush.

You have chosen a niche. Got a hosting plan, built a website, and prepared SEMrush to leverage for SEO.

Now, here is what you need to do next:

• Write well-optimised articles every day

• Publish one or two articles in a day

• Be consistent

• Track your website's stats or growth

• Focused on quality and quantity.

• Track your growth

Some Blogging Essentials

SEO and Growth Strategy:

Use SEMrush for 👇

• Keywords research

• Check website competition and rank

• Track website growth

• Heading optimization

• Backlink building

Creating article essentials:

• Write a 1000-word article. (It is considered better for an AdSense approval and SEO perspective.)

• Check grammar on Quillbot (better and more efficient than Grammarly)

• Write two articles a day or one (check for plagiarism before publishing). Check out QuillBot. Plagiarised articles are considered low-quality content. Thus, Google crawlers don't allow them to rank.

Secret: You can paraphrase with Quilbot and convert any content into new. There are fewer chances of detection of content paraphrased by QuillBot. It paraphrases like a human.

Wrapping it Up

If you follow the right strategy and take smart steps, you can monetize your blog in a month or two. Monetization is not tough, but generating potential income is challenging. You can monetize your blog soon after its creation, but earnings come from traffic. So, you must have the right equipment for your assistance to grow. I am telling you again that SEO is a must. Use SEMrush, or hire someone who is an SEO writer and is well-versed in SEMrush.

Want to learn SEO yourself? Go to SkillShare (number of courses)

Want to learn WordPress? Again SkillShare! You can find thousands of classes there.

Whatever skill you want to learn is available on SkillShare, from art to technology.

📌Learning is the first step of success! Consider that!

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