How To Start a Blog Website And Make Money From Google AdSense in 2022
Are you a fan of writing, reviewing entertainment, or sports, and want to take it further by publishing it on the internet to showcase to the world your passion and at the same time make money out of it? Then this post is worth reading.
At RICT Consult our mission is to help people earn a living by using technology, as now the world thrives on technology each day to find or share information. Statistics show 4.4billion people worldwide are active users of the internet and this is a huge pool to draw readers from and make money out of it or monetize it.
What is a Blog
A blog is a tiny website, made by one or a handful of people, with the goal of creating information that can be beneficial to people. Blogging can be a full-time, part-time, or hobby kind of job, and anybody at all who loves writing can do it.
Who is a Blogger
A blogger is someone who writes regularly for an online journal or website or on a platform own by themselves. This post will focus on creating a personal blog and managing it yourself
Steps in Creating a Blog
Identifying a Niche
First of all, you have to identify a niche or an area of interest or topic of interest to blog about. There is a whole range of broad topics one can choose from and blog on. Listed below are some of the areas one can look at to start a blog.
- Technology
- Politics
- Entertainment
- Sports
- Fashion
- Life style
- Article
- Religion
- Health
- Finance
- Agriculture etc
There are a lot of people who want to read on the listed topics and make informed decisions from it, so if you love writing or have knowledge in any of the list above you can successfully create a blog on them.
Technical Tools
A Computer / Smartphone
You need to have a desktop or laptop computer or a smartphone depending on your budget.
Website
One needs to create a website that is hosted on the internet which will serve as a store for the published files and allow access by other people worldwide. This is technical and if you cannot build one for yourself you can employ a professional Web developer or spend some time to get training on how to develop a website using Content Management Systems (CMS) (RICT Consult can sort you out).
Content Management Systems are easy-to-use tools to create blog sites or even professional websites with less or no knowledge in hard coding. A lot of multinational companies nowadays even use Content Management systems to create their websites for easy management.
Domain Name
A domain name is simply the name you want to use for your blog site eg. google.com. One has to carefully choose a domain name to reflect on the niche, he or she intends to blog about and should not be too long or complex. Domain costs between $10 -$15 a year. NB: Some Hosting companies offer a free 1year domain name when you create an account for the first time.
Hosting (Paid/Free)
This is where you will keep your web files or content to be accessed by people over the internet worldwide. There are a lot of hosting companies and different types of hosting options. As a beginner, shared hosting is preferable and can cost between $1.99 to $5.00 a month depending on the resources allocated. When going in for a hosting company do well to check on the offer they have in terms of resources.
There are free hosting companies that allow you to create blogs on their servers for free at no cost, but the disadvantage is most of them don’t allow you to monetize/make money from the blog, and also you have to include their name in your domain name such as alex.wordpress.com instead of just alex.com. Examples are wordpress.org, blogger, Wix etc
But if you really want to make something out of your blog site, then I prefer you go in for a paid host plan
Monetizing or Making Money from blogs (The real deal)
There are a lot of ways to make money from your personal blog site, but the most popular ones are the Google AdSense Program, making Third-parties run adverts on your website, and Charging for Publications
Google AdSense Program
Google AdSense Program is a program that allows Google to place adverts from their clients on blogsites or websites owned by other individuals and they payout a threshold to them depending on certain factors such as page views, clicks, impressions etc
In a layman’s term, google take advert from other people and advertise it on other people’s website and pay them part of the fee they charge their clients to advertise.
As a blogger, you can enroll or apply for the Google AdSense program and when you meet all requirements google approves your request and start delivering adverts. Notice that when you visit certain websites including https://rictconsult.com you see some snippets of adverts that run in between posts or sections on the website, these adverts accumulate revenue for RICT Consult anytime users visit the website
Before you get enrolled in the program, you need to have done the following
- Create a Gmail account,
- submit your website to Google Search Console https://search.google.com/search-console/about
- Visit Google Analytics (https://analytics.google.com/). When you do so google will generate some codes for you to put in the header section of your website to allow communication between google and your website
- Visit Google AdSense (https://www.google.com/adsense) and add your website.
When your Website is finally approved into the AdSense program, you will see google adverts showing on your website.
Third-Party Advertisements
As a blogger, you can request other businesses to advertise on your webspace or blogsite and take a fee
Charging for Publications
When your blog is in good standing and you have the popularity and views you can charge people to publish their news or articles on your website or blogsite
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Endnote
This is not a get-rich-quick kind of business but requires dedication and hard work to reach that feat. The following are to be noted before you can start making money from your blogsite or have a successful blog site;
- Your website should have enough content. That is not less than 20 posts, so do well to post regularly
- You should have enough visitors on your website
- Try to create a website that is user friendly especially on mobile devices
- Create well-structured menu and site maps for your pages
- Submit your sitemap to Google search console
- Try as much as possible to create content that will draw the attention of readers
- Use catchy phrases for post headings
- Use keywords where necessary but should not be packed too much with keywords (You can read more about google keywords on the internet)
- Create links within posts and use alternative words for images
- Choose a domain name that relates to your niche or area of interest
- Last but not least share your posts as much as possible on social media and with friends and family
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