you are seeing these articles all over theweb about these kids who are making a ton of money by creating a blog. sometimes these kids are generating thousandsand thousands of dollars a day. sure, that's rare, but there's a lot of peoplewho are generating five, 10, 20 grand a month from their blog. i'm going to teach you today how you can createa blog that generates income. the first thing you need to do is go to neilpatel.com/howtostartablog. once you go there, you'll start seeing thearticle. the article will break down how to get startedwith your blogging platform.
but first it teaches you that you need topick a niche. how do you know what to blog about? well, one, has to be based off of your passion. if you're really passionate about something,you should probably consider blogging about that versus something that just makes moneysuch as mesothelioma. mesothelioma and legal related keywords arereally lucrative, but who wants to blog about that stuff? it's boring. and if you don't love what you're going todo, you're going to eventually quit.
so blog about something you love. you have to be passionate about it. when you're on that web page on neilpatel.comyou can type in keywords, and it'll break down what industries have a big enough marketsize. now you're like, all right, i'm passionateabout this subject such as clothing or fashion and i know enough people are searching aboutit so now i can create a blog about it. but you don't want to go too broad, and thattool on neilpatel.com, that how to start a blog page, it'll tell you if the niche you'repicking is too big or too small. now that you got that out of the way signup for a hosting account.
you can use bluehost, hostgator, godaddy,whatever you want. i would recommend that you use bluehost becausewith one click you can install wordpress and then it's up and running, you don't have tobe technical. once it's up and running, you can even picksome themes and the design, they'll give them to you, and then you want to start writingyour articles. once you start writing your articles, there'sa few things you need to know. the first is if it's not appealing, peoplearen't going to read it. think about it. i'm writing this article, but i myself wantto read it.
if you don't, don't write it then. if other people also want to read it, great. you have to be willing to read it and otherpeople want to read it. ask people, survey them, just talk to yourbuddies, friends, people that you know, be like, 3hey, would you like to read this articleabout men's fashion and how you can match colors? yeah, all right, that sounds cool.4 great,then write it. now that you got your topic there's a fewthings you need to know. first is your headline.
your headline has to be appealing. go to copyblogger. they have this headline formula. they'll teach you how to write really persuasiveheadlines. they even give you a formula and a tool thatyou just have to plug and play keywords in there, and you'll be able to create reallycool headlines from that. now that you got your headline, outline whatyour post is going to be about. just think about those high school days whereyou think, write the introduction, you write the body, and then the conclusion.
the body has subheadings, so just write yourintroduction, write the conclusion, add in your subheadings, and then fill the rest out. that's how you get started with writing yourfirst blog post. when you're writing your first blog post,each paragraph can't be more than five or six lines. if it's more than five or six lines what'sgoing to happen is it's going to be too overwhelming for people. no one wants to read a 10 line paragraph. it's just too much.
also, use the words you and i within yourblog post. that way it's like a conversation. people will interact, engage with you, andthen they'll leave comments. why? because your content is engaging. you can also ask a question at the end ofyour conclusion, which will help create more engagement because that will spur more peopleto leave comments. and when they leave a comment, respond tothem. don't be a prick.
if someone asked you a question in person,you would respond to them. do the same with your blog. once you got your blog post out, you of coursewant to link to people within your blog post to back up the main points you want to makeor any other cool blogs that you think would benefit your readers. once you figure that out, you want to startdoing this on a consistent basis. write at least one post a week, but ideallyyou should be blogging three times a week. over a course of six months to a year you'llbuild up a big base of readers. as you build up a base of readers you canuse a tool called subscribers.com and hellobar.com.
they're free. hello bar offers email subscriptions wheresomeone can subscribe to your blog by just entering in their email and get notified everytime you release a new blog post. subscribers lets people know as they're browsingaround on their computer in the browser that, hey, you got a new blog post, and they shouldgo back to your site. so the people will start keep coming backto your site. then from there you can monetize in a fewways. one you can put google adsense. it's a quick way to make money from googlein which they'll pay you every time someone
clicks on one of your ads. you can also use affiliate links. there's sites out there like clickbank.comin which they'll let you promote products and services within your space, and everytime you generate a sale for someone else you'll get paid a commission. that's called affiliate marketing. that's a really simple way to start makingmoney from your blog. the third way, and this is my favorite, whynot sell your own products or services. let's say you have a site about fashion.
you can actually do let's say a box wherethey get mailed fashion tidbits, or they get mailed fashion items once a month, and youcan charge a premium for that. that\'92s a quick way to make money. it's kind of like birchbox. or you can sell a guide or an e-book aboutmen's fashion or how to be swag on a budget. whatever it may be, you can sell an ebookliterally for $5, $9, whatever it may be. this will all start generating you income. and if you want, you can do a mixture of everything. as you do this from the ads to the affiliatemarketing to selling your own products, you'll
notice that over time your income will goup. just be patient and give it a good six monthsto a year before you start making any decent money from your blog. just like anything worthwhile it takes time.