How To Start A Blog And Make Money Online

On this article, we will be teaching you guys on how to start a blog and make money online from it. As you know, there are people around the world who’s earning $10,000 a month or more just by blogging. An amateur blogger can earn from $100 to $5,000 a month through their blogs and for the experts some earn from $10,000 to $450,000 a month through their blog.

Maybe you might be wondering if you can earn such amount, why there are still people working and why aren’t they just blogging instead? Good question but the reality is, blogging is not for everyone. It may take some time, mostly 4 to 6 months before you could see a result. 99% of people who start a blog ends up quitting even before they see results. That’s why blogging is not for everyone.

Now if you are really serious on blogging and you want to make money online through it, then here’s the step by step procedure on how to start a blog.

How to start a blog?

Starting a blog is very simple and easy, there are free blogging platforms that can be used such as Google’s Blogger and WordPress but for serious bloggers who want to make money online do invest for the hosting and template/theme of their choice.

Let’s talk about the free platform first as 99% who’s less serious on blogging will choose this as the risk involve is almost at zero.

Starting a blog with Google’s Blogger Platform

To start a blog with Google’s Blogger Platform, you need a Gmail account. If you don’t have one yet, you can register at gmail.com for free. Go to Blogger.com and register a blog. Just click the “New Blog” button to create one then input your desired blog title and blog address URL and then choose a blog template, once you are finished choosing one, just click the create blog button and you just created your first blog for free.

Starting a blog with Free Wordpress Platform

To start a blog for free with Wordpress, you need to go to Wordpress.com click the create website then choose a template (if you already have a template of your own, you can just click the skip button). Next step would be choosing your blog URL. After choosing your desired blog URL, you now need to create a free account with WordPress and you are done.

Note: If you choose a .com domain extension you’ll be paying $18 per year for it on Wordpress.com and

Pros and Cons of Free Blog Platform

Starting a blog using a free blogging platform is indeed incredibly easy and a little to no risk involved. While we really don’t recommend using a free blogging platform if you want to make money online because it gives you a little to no authority to customize your blog for your needs, you can’t even use plugins that can help your blog grow and target the right audience. That’s why 99% percent of bloggers who uses free blogging platforms fails and quit even before seeing the results.

Starting a blog with a hosted blog platform

Why do we recommend this over the free blogging platform available on the internet for serious bloggers who’s serious about making money online through blogging? It is simple, it’s because you have total control on your blog.

To start a blog with a hosted blog platform, you must first choose a web hosting company that will host your blog. There are many web hosting company out there and usually starts at $8 per month and usually comes with a free domain name with a .com extension.

If you already got a hosting and domain, just log in to your web hosting account’s Control Panel and look for the quick install button. Choose Wordpress as a blogging platform and click install Wordpress button and you are done.

Blog Themes and Templates

Now there are free blog themes and templates on the internet but if you are serious about making money online through blogging check ThemeForest.net they have thousands of premium themes that would surely get your blog going for the aesthetic feel.

That’s all and you are now ready to start your first blog post.