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I have written a very detailed guide on why would anyone start blogging and I have also written a detailed guide on how to create a free blog.

First if you want to start a blog a free blog there are two platforms i recommend mostly for creating a free blog

1. WordPress.com
2. Blogger.com

These two platforms are well known for their good performance mainly blogger.com which is been owned by Google

But once you decided to turn it into a paid blog which you can always make money from then you should go straight to WordPress.org

Note: In a free blogging platform like those that I have mentioned, no expenses will be done except when you are trying to buy a domain, all the hosting are free.

Reason To Move From A Free Blogging Platform To A Paid Blog

The reason is simple – customization and flexibility. Free blogging services like Blogger and WordPress.com don’t allow you to add all of the features available with paid hosting. Such as:



• shopping carts
• advertising
• speed enhancements to improve the user experience
• free add-ons to make your site look better
• access to thousands of free WordPress plugins (custom functions and features so that each blogger can tailor their site to their specific needs)

I’ve been building online businesses. I would never in my life start a new website with a “free” blogging or “free” website platform.

If you do, within months your website is going to start growing, and you’re going to have to switch to a paid platform anyway. You will have thrown away all that time (and lost money in the process).

Unless you are going to stick with the free blogging platform

I’ll give you another analogy. With free hosting, it’s like renting an apartment that has steel walls. You can’t use a hammer and nails to hang pictures, install shelves, put up wallpaper or hang a TV mount.

With paid hosting, your apartment is like a modular office space you can customize however you want. You can move the walls around, put nails in to hang pictures everywhere you want, install shelves, mount five TVs around the place, etc. Heck, you can even cut a hole in the wall and stick in a new window if you want.

You need to be able to customize your site if you want to make money with your blog.

For example, if you want to make money from:

Advertising, advertisers prefer professional looking websites. A professional looking website is much harder to get with the free blogging services, which is just one more reason to go with a hosting platform like Bluehost.

Why Use Bluehost To Create Your Paid Blog?

 

Here is why I trust and recommend Bluehost to new bloggers:

• Amazing 24×7 support via phone, e-mail, or chat. If you have questions on getting started or setup, you can get help quickly and easily

• It’s easy to get started. My 15-minute tutorial walks you through step-by-step how to get started blogging. It really is that easy to start a WordPress blog.

• FREE blog domain – Bluehost will give you a domain name for free such as www.kellymarketingcpa.com.ng

• 100% Money Back Guarantee – Bluehost has a 30-day money back guarantee

• FREE WordPress setup. WordPress is the blogging software used by the majority of bloggers. Bluehost includes an easy setup for adding WordPress.

• Reliability – Bluehost websites are up 99.9% of the time. Reliability is important because if your blog is down, you don’t make any money! A friend lost over $5,000 in one day before when GoDaddy was hacked and his website was unavailable.

• Self-hosting. If your goal is to make money from your blog you have to have a self-hosted blog. Self-hosting just means you are paying to host the blog yourself using a service, as opposed to using a free service that hosts it for you.

• You’ll look professional – Free blogs like Blogger, Tumblr, or WordPress.com limit you in various ways and appear less professional than self-hosted blogs.

• It’s cheap! Price matters. And when you have quality and price, it’s a win-win for you. Bluehost starts at just $2.95 per month (a discounted rate available through my link) which is less than a cup of coffee!



When you are ready to get started. There are a lot of blog hosting companies you might come across.

As someone who has been in the online business and has started three successful companies using Bluehost, invest in yourself and check them out.

Naming Your Blog

What if you can’t think of a name for your blog?

One challenge of getting started blogging has nothing to do with writing or setting up the blog. It’s figuring out what to name your blog!

You might think all the good names are taken! It just takes time to find the right one for you.

Even if you can’t think of one yet, you can get your blog setup and finish up the name later.

Action Items For Creating A Paid Blog

 

1. Sign up for a blog host (Bluehost is the one I recommend) and get WordPress installed. You can follow my step-by-step instructions.

2. Start thinking about a name for your blog

How To Make Money Blogging With Ebooks

Now we’ll talk about how to make money blogging with eBooks. I’ve been creating eBooks since 2017. The best part about eBooks is they are easy to create, and you can sell them for a long time.

Here are some common questions and answers about creating an eBook.

How Long Should My eBook Be?

As long as necessary.

Your book should be at least 40 pages so the buyer will see the value in it. That doesn’t mean it has to be 40 pages, single spaced, a 10-point font in an 8.5“x11” page size. Format it how you like – big fonts, pictures, charts, lots of white space.

Ask yourself this question:

If I bought this book, would I feel like I got a good deal?

How Do I Format An eBook?

eBooks are delivered in PDF format.

You can do it yourself by printing a Microsoft Word file or Google Doc to PDF format.

It takes about 2 seconds.

If you want a nice cover you can hire a graphics artist on Fiverr or Upwork to create one for you.

You will pay anywhere from $5 (Fiverr) for a simple cover to $299 if you use a service like 99Designs.

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I used 99 Designs for the cover of my book.

I was very pleased with the service. If you have the money to spend (which you will someday if you keep blogging) – they are worth checking out.

How Much Should I Charge For My eBook?

I’ve paid $10 for eBooks that were 30 pages long. I’ve also paid $29 for eBooks that were 100 pages long.

How you price your eBook is based on the value you provide, and how your book compares to similar products (if there are any).

A good price point is less than $10. Most people are willing to part with $10 for a book.

If you are an expert in a particular field, you can get away with charging more. For example, the $29 book

How Do I Sell An eBook?

Selling an eBook is as simple as setting up an account with PayPal and slapping a PayPal button on your website.

Thankfully technology has improved since then. Here are a couple of great choices:

Gumroad is a popular service that connects to your blog and allows you to sell digital products.

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It’s only $10 a month for the service, and they take a small percent of each sale to cover the credit card transaction fees.

e-junkie is another great service which can have you up and selling in minutes.

Can I Make Money Selling An eBook?

Have you ever bought an eBook or a Kindle book?

There’s your answer.

Which brings me to my point – yes, it’s possible to make money selling an eBook on pretty much any topic.

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Someone out there is willing to pay you for your expertise if you can do one of two things:

1. Solve their pain
2. Bring them pleasure

Turning Your Blog Into an eBook
Here’s something else to consider – people don’t necessarily want to read all your blog posts.

You may write one blog post on a topic and then six months later write something else on a similar topic.

People will pay you if you consolidate your blog posts and turn it into a book.
Of course, you’re probably wondering –

why would anyone pay me for an eBook when they can get it on my blog for free?
One word – convenience.

You’re saving them time because they don’t have to dig around your site for all of the information. It’s no different than if you’re searching the Internet to learn about something. What’s easier – searching out ten different sites, or finding the one site that has all of the information in one place?

Tiffany “The Budgetnista” Aliche took all of her blog posts on budgeting, and rolled them into a best-selling book on Amazon! It was the same content, but people wanted something that had all of the information in one place that they could easily read front to back.

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Action Items

1. Start writing! If you haven’t started writing in your blog yet – start writing. Sit down and write 500 words today about your blog topic.

The eBook you’re going to want to create for extra income can come right from your blog posts.

1. Monetize With CPC Or CPM Ads

One of the most common ways bloggers make money is through placing ads on their site. There are two popular types of ads:

• CPC/PPC Ads: Cost per click (also called pay per click) ads are usually banners that you place in your content or sidebar. Each time a reader clicks on the ad, you are paid for that click.

• CPM Ads: CPM Ads, or “cost per 1,000 impressions,” are ads that pay you a fixed amount of money based on how many people view your ad.

Perhaps the most popular network for placing these types of ads is Google AdSense ( https://www.google.com/adsense/ ). With this program, you do not need to be in direct contact with advertisers; you simply place the banner on your site,

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Google chooses ads relevant to your content, and your viewers click on the ads. There are countless similar programs available if you find that AdSense doesn’t work for you, such as Chitika, Infolinks, and Media.net.

2. Sell Private Ads

Working with advertising networks isn’t your only option when it comes to selling ads.

If you end up with enough traffic, advertisers may come directly to you and ask you to place their ad on your site. You can also contact advertisers yourself.

The biggest difference from the above mentioned option is that there is no middle man, which means you can set your own ad rates.

Selling private ads can come in the form of banners, buttons, or links. You can even make money writing sponsored posts where you write about or give a review of an advertiser’s product or service.

Another option is to write an underwritten post or series, which is where you can write about any topic, but the advertiser pays for a “Brought to you by” mention in the content.

The ways you make money with this can vary. For instance, you might charge a one-time fee for a link within a post. If you are hosting banner ads, you might charge your partner monthly.

3. Include Affiliate Links in Your Content

Affiliate marketing is also another great tool for monetizing your blog. Here is how affiliate marketing works

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1. An advertiser has a product she wants to sell. She agrees to give you a commission from each sale if the buyer is coming from your site.

2. She gives you a unique link that tracks your affiliate code. That way, she knows when a buyer used your link to make a purchase.

3. You include your affiliate link on your site. You can do this directly in the content or through banner ads. If a reader clicks on your unique link and buys the product you have recommended, you earn a percentage of what she purchased.

You can utilize affiliate marketing through ad networks like Amazon Associates ( https://affiliate-program.amazon.com/ ), or you can create private partnerships with advertisers and businesses with an affiliate program.

4. Sell Digital Products

If you would rather not advertise other people’s products on your site, or if you are looking for another stream of income, consider selling digital products. This can include items like:

• eBooks
• Online courses/workshops
• Images, video, or music people can use in their own content
• Apps, plugins, or themes

Just remember that if you are going to choose one of these avenues that you make it relevant and useful to your readers.

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A lot of bloggers make the mistake of assuming they are developing a product their readers need; listen to your readers first, and then create a digital product that will meet their needs.

5. Sell Memberships

Another option to make money is to sell memberships to exclusive corners of your website. For instance, a career blog might charge $10 per month for users to gain access to their job board. A startup business blog might sell memberships to their forums where people can get personalized advice about their business.

The key here is that your exclusive membership has to be more valuable than something your visitors can find for free somewhere else, so be sure you’re developing something of value and worth the price.

6. Sell Online Courses

Selling an online course is another great way to make money online.

Courses usually sell for a much higher price point than ebooks. You can charge a premium for your expertise.

You’ll need to create the lessons for your course, plus any supporting materials that you want to include such as downloads, slides, checklists, templates, etc.

You will also need to decide whether you want to offer personalized support for your course. Some sites offer two tiers of each course: a basic version without support, and a premium version with email support.

Offer Freelance Services

As a blogger, you’re already an expert on your niche. You can start earning an income by offering your skills and expertise as a freelancer.

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Freelancing is a popular way to make money online because it doesn’t necessarily require any upfront investment of time or money. You can just start offering your services to your current audience.
Once you start freelancing, you’ll need a way to invoice and collect payments from your clients.

How To Make More Money with Your WordPress Or Blogger Blog in 2018

Blogging has become an integral part of marketing and a very infamous way of earning.

Who doesn’t like sitting at home and working as and when they please?

Well, as nice and cosy as it seems, you just don’t get paid for having a blog.

A considerable amount of work and time is needed in order to bring your blog to a payable position. Get the entrepreneur out and let the blogger take a back seat for a while.

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1. Advertising Spaces:

One of the most basic approaches to making money online is advertising. The more the movement as much it attracts crowd and you are probable of getting advertising organizations. No one invests on advertising with someone with a low following. If this method works out well for you can also advertise your own products and ideas. Considering the fact that you have more options to profit, the advertising space can be put to use for self-publicity reasons too. It’s proven that marketing your own products earns a better profit than selling advertisements. If you want to cut yourself some slack on taxes, you can also use calculators for small businesses.

2. Email Subscriptions:

With so many blogs to compete with and create a rock bottom for your blogging business, it’s very important for you to be able to gain trust. You start with setting up a blog, focus on content that creates traffic or attracts crowd and give email subscriptions for free. This creates a niche for you.

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3. Know What People Want:

This is one of the most important aspects. You must know what you want to write about and is it something that’s getting you good traffic.

Creating a niche is an important part of being able to earn through blogging. The more the traffic at your blog, the more crowd it attracts and other dimensions come into action.

4. Affiliate Marketing:

Instead of waiting for your product to advertise you can take up other products and do affiliate marketing, where you can get a good commission without having to invest anything. The commission can go up to 50% and more and is very worthwhile.

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5. Everse Sales Funnel:

It’s a tried and trusted marketing strategy. Instead of starting with a cheaper product, start selling the more expensive and then unfold your sleeves, giving away the cheaper ones later.

Sales funnels are currently being used by many of these top bloggers who are converting their regular site readers into high-value leads and sales.

6. Membership Sites:

This can actually help you increase traffic at your site. If you offer email subscriptions, download options or providing free content.

After a couple of times you can charge them for customized content, exclusive for the person who ordered. This might not hit it at the begging but is an amazing idea as everyone needs academic articles, essays etc.

7. Freelancing:

If you think that you cannot get through with the above mentioned steps, go for freelancing. Almost every MNC or online merchandise store has a blogging section in their websites and are always on a lookout for writers, content developers and advertisers. Grab the chance and sit at home making money.

f you ever wanted to make money with a website or blog of your own, these are just a few of the most effective ways for you to get started.

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Google Adsense and Affiliate Marketing are two of the most effective forms of revenue generation, As they don’t require any upfront costs or have the need to hold inventory of process orders for your customers and site visitors.

How to Make money from blogging is one of the most searched questions by bloggers on internet but many do not find a proper answer to this question. My definition of practical way is, there must be a good number of people who are making money from this method.

WAYS TO MAKE MONEY FROM BLOGGING.

1.Google AdSense: 

This is the most common ways of making money. Almost 90% of the blog on internet use Google AdSense on their blog to make money. Any blogger find it easy to earn by placing AdSense ads on their blog.

2.Affiliate Marketing: 

Affiliate marketing is one of the best option to make money on internet but still lots of people who want to make money online but does not have idea what is affiliate marketing.
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What is affiliate marketing?

Affiliate marketing is a way of promoting the product & services of other companies and website on internet. You will earn commission for each and every successful lead for eg: you can become an affiliate of Amazon and then promote and advertise any of their product from Amazon website through a specific link known as referral link. Whenever any visitor click your affiliate link and buy something from Amazon then you can earn up to 4% to 15% commission depending on the product.

POINT IN AFFILIATE MARKETING.

1.Find the best affiliate program
2.Join its affiliate program
3.Promote the merchants product through that affiliate link
4.Collect cash

3.Selling Ad Space: 

You have a blog and you have lots of visitors on your blog, why don’t you sell some of your space on your website to the advertisers. They will bring you real monthly income without any headache

4.Selling A Product: 

Selling a product means you can sell anything you own. You can create an eBook and sell it on your blog, you can sell your services or physical products.

5.Create A Membership Site: 

If you know your content are worth thousands of dollars, then why don’t you create a membership site. There are thousands of bloggers who charge either one time payment or monthly subscription to access their premium content

6.Donation Button: 

This is one of the best way of making money from your blog you can put a PayPal donation button on your blog and ask your readers to donate if they liked your contents.

7.Sponsored Review: 

This is writing paid review of other product & services. There are thousands of advertisers who want to review their product or services on famous blog and they pay huge for single review

8.Website Flipping: 

Website flipping is nothing but buying and selling of website to make profit in most cases,people make blog on their own and make it to be popular for a period of time after which they sell it. The more you grow a website, the more are your chances of selling them at 10x if it’s monthly income.

9. Pay Per Click Site:  

There are many site like AdSense who pay per clicks for running their ads on your blog. Some of them pay even better than AdSense and many people are making good money through their pay per click sites. Some of those popular sites are adbrites,infolinks,yahoo publisher network.

10.Amazon Associate: 

Millions of people worldwide are making money through Amazon associate program. Amazon program is one of the best program to make money by displaying Amazon’s hot selling product in your blog sidebar. You can even use some good plugins which can rotate the product on each sides, so that you can make most of it.