How to Make Money Blogging in 2019: Free Beginner Guide

Blogging is one of the best method to make money online. You can start blogging as a passion but the moment you decide to use your blog to make money, you're no longer a blogger. At that moment you also become an entrepreneur and your blog becomes a small business.
                            Well anyone who has patience and some good writing skills can make money blogging. Before starting a blog you need to know everything about starting a blog. But if you are a newbie and don't know anything about blogging. No problem, I'll go step by step on how to start a blog and earn money from it.



Setup Your Blog

The first step is to setup your blog and if you don't know where to start then let me tell you that if you want to invest some money on your blog then self hosted wordpress platform is the best to start with and if you don't want to spend a single penny then blogger which is a google's product is the best platform to start a free blog. 
                           Now you must be thinking why to spend money if we can start a free blog. So, your answer is that on self hosted wordpress blog you have full control over your blog while blogger is owned by google and there are chances that they can delete your blog without giving you any warning if there is something wrong with your blog like invalid clicks or the spammers use feature flag and report your blog as spam.                             
                            While wordpress offers more options to optimize your blog for search engine and getting traffic from search engines than blogspot. Moreover, it is becoming tough to get your adsense account approved with blogspot whereas getting your blog approved for adsense on self hosted wordpress is quite easy.
     Lastly, upload a good looking, SEO Optimized, mobile-friendly and responsive theme, so that your blog looks professional. You can download free themes available online.




Write Good Informative Content

To make money blogging you need to write a good content that draws a lot of traffic. Focus on quality of the content not the quantity. For that you need to SEO optimize your content. Go to google keyword tool and research with keywords that people are typing into search engine to search related to the content you are writing. You have to choose keywords that have high search volume but low competition. Try to include those keywords in your content 
                             Share your blog posts on facebook, twitter and other social networking sites you are handling. There you can get a lot of visitors and if visitors are attracted to your posts, they will come again to see your new posts.




Convert Visitors Into Email Suscribers

Once your blog is getting enough traffic, it's time to build an email list because you don't just want the visitors, you want visitors to come back again to read your new posts and share every post you write.
                              But you won't remind them unless you get their email addresses. So, for that you need to offer a sign up form at the side or bottom of your posts. Try to offer them something valuable for free because they won't easily part with their email address. So, give the visitors a compelling reason to subscribe your blog. 
                              The important thing is that you have to gain trust by sending them valuable content for free and when they see that your advises works they will trust you and then you have to follow the next step given below.




Go For Affiliate Marketing And Adsense

Now when you have gained their trust, you have to look for affiliate marketing and Adsense. Affiliate Marketing is a type of marketing where you promote an online product and when people buy that product on your suggestion, you get a commission depending on the product.
                            There are many online companies which sell products or services, usually offer an affiliate program such as flipkart, amazon and so on. You can simply join their affiliate program and make money by promoting their products. Many companies use an affiliate marketplace like Share A Sale, Commission Junction or Clickbank. These are free to use and you can create a free account for marketing products on your blog.
                             You can also monetize your blog through Google Adsense and other various ad programs like Infolinks, Propeller Ads, Pop Ads, Chitika, Media.net, etc.
                            
                              I hope this beginners guide on how to make money blogging will help you get started. If you have any questions, feel free to ask me in the comment section below. Be sure to subscribe my blog to get latest tips and updates. If you found this article informative, do share it with your friends!