In the modern era, where there are multiple ways to earn money online, blogging is a great way to start your passive income journey. It doesn't require a lot of effort like typical online earning methods and also it is a very flexible way to earn money.
What is Blogging?
Blogging means writing about a certain topic, news, or events or a person can also write blogs to share their personal opinions, journey, etc. In blogging, a person writes articles about their niche on their website which is called a blog website. The article written is called a blog and the person who writes a blog is known as a blogger.
How to start Blogging?
To start blogging, you have to go through some steps which are mentioned below:
1. Finding your niche:
First, you have to decide, around which niche you will write blogs. A niche refers to the category around which your content revolves. For example, if you write blogs about news then your niche is news blogging. There are many different niches in blogging like travel, food, sports, personal experiences, and many more. Find yourself a niche that you love and go on to the next step.
2. Creating a website:
After finding your niche, you will have to create a website on which you will write blogs and where people will come and read them. Don't worry you don't have to know coding to create a website instead, there are many platforms which are discussed below on which you can create a website without any coding knowledge.
3. Choosing a Platform:
Although there are many platforms for creating a site for your blog, the most popular and efficient platforms are only two:
- Blogger
- WordPress
- Blogger:
Blogger is a platform created by Google itself and is a very user-friendly and easy-for-beginners platform. The main advantage of Blogger over WordPress is that you don't have to purchase hosting in case of a blogger instead google provides you hosting for free and also blogger gives you a subdomain for free which comes like yourwebsitename.blogspot.com but if you want a custom domain you have e to purchase it from a hosting/domain provider like hostinger, GoDaddy, Namecheap, etc. If you don't know what hosting and domain are read below:
Hosting:
When you create articles the content you are writing needs to be stored somewhere online on a server so that users can find it. In the computer world, it is referred to as hosting.
Domain:
Domain is the name of your website which will appear to users. For example, Google has the domain Google.com, Facebook domain is Facebook.com, etc.
Now that you know what hosting and domain let's go on to the second platform WordPress
- WordPress:
Which platform to choose?
See if you have a budget and have some experience with website designing and different concepts go with Wordpress if you are a beginner who is just starting with all this website and online stuff you should go with Blogger. Understand that both platforms are very good and that is why they are on the top 2 list. Do your research, there are numerous tutorials online watch them and choose a platform.
4. Start writing blogs:
Now with all the technical stuff, once you have your website ready, start writing blogs. Some important things that you have to keep in mind while writing blogs are:
- Blog length should be 600-1000 words.
- Do not copy content. Write your own content
- Do not take content from AI chatbots
- In starting, write blogs regularly to improve SEO.
How to Earn Money from Blogging?
Now the topic you were eager for that how we can earn money by just writing. See you have a website on the internet and you have traffic on your website means people are visiting your website. We will discuss below how to get traffic but understand that Google earns money from advertisements and where they display ads on different websites on the internet. To have ads displayed on your website you have to get approval from Google which is called adsense approval. Once you have adsense approval, you can start making money. People will visit your website and Google will display ads for them and you will earn money from it.
How to get Adsense Approval?
There are a few things that you have to do to get Adsense approval from Google:
- Your Domain should be at least 2 months old
- Your website should contain 25-30 unique blogs
- The articles must be written by you. They should not be copied from anywhere
- An article length should be 600-1000 words. The more words the better it will be
- Your website should have a great theme. It should be easy for users to go from one article to another
- Your website should have some pages like Home, About Us, Contact Us, Privacy Policy, and Disclaimer.
These are the few points that you have to follow to get adsense approval.
How to get Traffic on your blog?
Now the main part is how to get people to come to your website because if there are no visitors, there will be no one to watch ads and you will earn nothing. So, this is an important part. You can do the following things to get traffic:
1. Doing Proper Seo of website:
Seo means Search Engine Optimization. It means what position your article is being displayed to search results when people are searching about your niche. Doing Seo is a bit difficult in the longer term you will get a lot of organic traffic by doing proper Seo.
2. Building Backlinks:
When a link on any other website redirects to your blog it will be the backlink to your website. Building more and more backlinks will increase your domain authority and will help in getting traffic as well as improve the Seo of your website.
3. Getting traffic from Social Media:
You can share your blogs on social media like on Facebook groups, interests, quora(best), YouTube, and Instagram.
On YouTube, Instagram, and TikTok you can make content around your niche and can send traffic from there. On Facebook groups, you can post a little part of your blog and give a link to the full post below. Similarly, on Quora, you can answer people who have questions about your topics and leave a link below.
Social media is a great way to get traffic as it requires a little effort but for long-term growth, you should do proper Seo of your website to get organic traffic.