Blogging Tutorials

You’ve started blogging to make money online. But when do you actually monetizing your blog and how? Should you start monetization from day 1 or should you wait till you have a certain number of daily visitors or email subscribers? Those are very common but important questions you need to answer in order to successfully

Below is a list of examples of successful blogs. And I don’t mean successful as in they have a niche lifestyle business. Each blog listed in this article is earning 6 to 7 figures in yearly revenue. Some just make the cut. Some are way past it in the 8 to 9 figure range. There

One of the most common questions for beginners is: “How many articles should I be publishing on my blog every month? What’s the optimal number of blog posts for SEO?” The short answer is: Publishing frequency doesn’t matter. It doesn’t matter if you publish 20 articles in one day and none for the next month.

I started my first blog way back in 2009. And for the first few years, I failed constantly. I would continuously throw up new blogs hoping each time that “this was the one” – The one that would finally be successful and turn into a significant business for me. Time after time, I failed. I

You’ve probably heard this advice before: Write a comment on a popular blog and your blog will grow. Sounds almost too easy, doesn’t it? Even in 2020, blog commenting still works if done properly. One blogger experimented by leaving 3 insightful comments every day on the leading blogs in his niche. The result? His comments

The secret has been out for the best part of a decade now. Driven by its value in terms of content marketing, blogging has become serious business. A recent RankXL post highlighted some of the world’s most successful blogs, with each of them making in excess of $1m a year. A select few even generate

Niche marketing (or micro-marketing) is a form of strategy marketing that targets a specific group or subgroup of customers. Its goal is to target a smaller portion of a market by defining the needs, wants, and requirements that aren’t being addressed well by big brands. Ultimately, it’s what allows smaller brands to compete against giants

Are you starting a new blog but not sure how to come up with the right domain name? Then this detailed article is just for you. As you know, I currently run a number of sites and have run many others in the past. Choosing the blog name and domain is always my favorite activity.

Almost everyone who starts a new website for the first time asks this question: How long does it take before you start getting traffic to your site? I remember when I built my very first blog, I was checking my analytics everyday. Literally every single day I would log into my analytics to see if

Is it worth starting a blog in 2023? Recent studies suggest that there are more than 600 million active blogs across the web. Don’t worry, an Ahrefs study found that 90% of those blogs get no traffic at all because of poor content, weak SEO, and inconsistent publishing. If you can avoid those mistakes, you

Something I’ve been doing a lot lately across all my blogs is combining multiple blog posts together into one. And it’s been working out really well SEO traffic wise. Longer articles get more traffic, rank higher (usually), and rank for more keywords than shorter articles. But it’s not always the right move to merge articles

Writing content shouldn’t take a lot of time. But writing GREAT content does take a lot of time. According to a study by OrbitMedia, bloggers are taking more time than ever to write a blog post. If you’re wondering about the length of the content that takes so much time, the study answers that as

Making $10,000/month with a blog is everybody’s dream. That’s when you’re finally making the big bucks. 6-figures per year! You’re making a huge amount for relatively little work, especially when you compare it to most real-world careers. There’s no going into work 8 hours per day, 5 days a week. There’s no annoying office politics

Want to make your blog popular in 3 months? First, think about it in terms of real life situations. What’s the easiest way to get popular in real life? Answer: Get to know popular people. Hang out with the “in” crowd and you’re automatically popular by association. So how do you do this online? Answer:

Coming up with engaging content ideas and topics for your blog is one of the most important but difficult things about blogging. But it becomes easier when you know where you have an idea generation system in place and know where yo look for fresh content topics that also have the potential to drive massive

Why is it important to set blog goals? Running this blog for nearly 3 years now has given me the chance to talk with a lot of people in this industry, a lot of whom who are struggling and looking for help. Speaking with them, the biggest problem that I’ve noticed is that they don’t

When you start a blog, there are a few mandatory expenses that come along with it. For a lot of people, the thought of having to invest money into a what is usually a side-project (or hobby) is unattractive. However, if you grow a blog using the right strategies, then these costs should be returned

This is a very basic question, and one that doesn’t really warrant a long answer. So, I’ll give you the short answer, then the long answer. SHORT ANSWER = It doesn’t matter whether you use posts or pages. Technically, posts should be used for blog post style content, and pages should be used for more

What makes a good WordPress theme for a niche site? For me, it’s clean design, clean code, and very lean in features. I’ve tried a whole bunch of different themes over the years, but it’s been a while since I went browsing around the free section. A couple of years ago, there was a clear

One of the most frequently asked questions I get is: “Where can I find free stock photos for my blog or niche site?” There are hundreds of stock photo websites around the web, and just as many “lists” compiling all of them in one place. But there’s one problem: They’re usually a list of any