How To Start A Blog & Make Money
Create A Blog
To start a blog you need a platform because platform will connect your ideas and express your thoughts to the world. The most sort after platforms are blogger, wordpress, weebly, wix and a lot more. If you are a new bee to blogging then I would suggest first to go for free blog sites like wordpress.com and blogger.Make yourself comfortable with functioning and usability of these platforms and then move onto wordpress.org site. Register your account with your own domain name and host provider. You can get domain name from Godaddy and hosting from Bluehost or Hostgator. Create a stunning website with great graphics.
"The most important thing that you must keep in your mind is to always create original content and never do plagiarism by copying other sites content to your website."
Best Ways To Monetize Your Blog
1.Ad Networks
Once you have published 10-15 blogs in your website with good number of views then go and apply on Ad Network Sites. Once you get the approval for publisher accounts from this ad network sites, ads will be placed on your site. For every click on the ad you will be paid. That’s how Ads Network in blogging helps make money.
Top Ad Networks
Google Adsense
Media.net
Triple Lift
RhythmOne
Propeller Ads
2. Affiliate Marketing
In affiliate marketing you will be promoting product and services of different brands. Once the product or services gets sold through your link then you get the commision out of sale.
Top Affiliate Networks
Peerfly
Clickbank
Amazon Affiliates
ShareASale
Commission Junction
3.Selling your own E-book and Video Course
You can create your own content either writing a great course or making an video. Then you can sell those digital products on your own website.
4. Guest Posting
Once your site starts driving good traffic say 5K -30K per month then people will try to connect with you for posting their article or promotional content on your website in exchange of money. This is how Guest posting will help you generate money.
Once you start generating money from the above methods. Then your next objective should be to optimize your website for better ranking in the search engine page to get more viewers. You can learn SEO or hire a SEO person to rank your site in the first page itself. It will highly boost your sales.
Hope this post will help you to make your first move in the blogging world.