6 Steps to Becoming a Successful WordPress Blogger & Make Money Online

Blogging is a money-making business, even as popularity in YouTube marketing and Instagram are on the rise. It is a fact that blogging is one of the oldest and most popular forms of content marketing. These may be a few of the reasons as to why you want to start a blog yourself? How do you become a successful WordPress blogger? This’s what I am going to explore in this post.

Blogging is one of the best ways of earning online. Lots of people try to earn money through blogging but very few get success. How Bloggers make thousands of dollars every month? Well, the answer is dedication, passion and most important they are serious about it. Blogging needs lots of hard work, research and long working hours.

We’ll start by discussing about what makes a blog successful as well as the many different types success has. I’ll also touch base on the basic formula many blogs use to find success before jumping into our list of the 6 steps you should take to ensure the success of your own blog. Let’s get into it.

The Formula for Success

I am going through six specific steps you can take to find your own path to success, but first, let’s take a look at a common path most successful blogs have taken. It starts with a problem to solve and a product/service or affiliate product to sell. Ideally, this product is designed to solve that problem. Next, these sites use their blogs to provide free, valuable, high-quality content and use things like SEO, social media, guest posts and even paid ads to drive traffic to their websites.

Next, they’ll use a well-designed website, social share buttons, their comment section and email forms to increase user engagement. Lastly, they’ll acquire some customers right off the bat but will acquire the rest through their email list where they’ll nurture them into customers.

That’s the basic formula you’ll see many blogs use. Let’s discover how you can recreate it yourself.

#1: Define a Niche for Writing

Everyone has their own set of problems and issues, and every blog is trying to solve one of them. What you need is a niche that will help you target a specific market in the broader topic your niche belongs in. It’s important for you to define your niche before you start blogging or in the early stages of your blog, at the very least.

Don’t simply start a blog about weight loss. Start a blog targeting people trying to lose weight with a juice diet, no equipment workouts or strength training. Don’t start a blog about gardening. Start a blog about roof top gardening. Basically, consider the broad topic you want to start a blog about, and find a niche market within that topic to target. This is very important for SEO and visitor traffic.

#2: Know Your Target Audience

Why is this important? People read blogs, watch videos and buy products to solve the problems they’re having. You can actually start getting to know your audience before you even launch your blog by becoming active where they hang out online. Try forums tailored to your niche, Facebook groups, Quora, Reddit, Stack Exchange and Instagram. Once you start blogging, take the time to ask your email subscribers what their biggest problems are.

#3: Have Something in Store to Sell

This isn’t something you necessarily need before you start a blog, but it is something you should implement as soon as possible. “Something to sell” may refer to your own products or affiliate products. It doesn’t matter whose product it is so long as it’s generating revenue for you. As a side note, affiliate marketing is the cheapest way for new and young blogs to start generating revenue.

Having something to sell will give you something to plan your content marketing and email marketing strategies around. Let’s say you want to sell a full recipe book for the juice diet. So, you publish a post on your “Top 5 Hacks for the juice Diet” and offer a seven-day juice breakfast plan as a lead magnet to attract subscribers to your email list. You send the breakfast recipes to your leads over a period of seven days and advertise your book at the end of it.

The best part about this? Because you knew the goal you wanted to accomplish (selling your book), you knew which post to write, which lead magnet to create and which post to offer that lead magnet on. This allowed you to build a segment in your email list full of leads who were most likely to purchase your book.

#4: Focus On One Channel at a Time

This relates to content marketing as much it does social media. You may see top blogs publishing blog posts, YouTube videos and podcast episodes every week while killing it on every social media platform imaginable. What you don’t see is the fact that these bloggers work full time on their blogs and hire employees or contractors to take care of the things they don’t have time for.

That means, once again, you shouldn’t try to replicate what another blog is doing. Instead, you should choose one channel to focus on and master it before implementing additional channels. You’re obviously reading this post because you want to start to blog, which means you shouldn’t move into YouTube marketing or Instagram Marketing until you’re publishing consistently and generating a consistent amount of traffic.

The same is true for social media. Find out which social media platform your audience uses the most and grow a healthy following there before trying to target additional platforms.

#5: Don’t Be Afraid to Offer Free Content

Some bloggers may laugh at the idea of giving away anything for free, but it’s actually one of the most effective ways to grow an audience. This is because most Internet users aren’t going to take a chance on a product from a blogger they’ve never encountered unless that blogger has some form of social proof. Instead, you should fill your blog with free content your readers can use as “free samples” of your products or affiliate products.

Start with your blog by offering plenty of free, valuable, high-quality content your readers have access to without needing to subscribe to your email list. When it comes to your email list, it’s best to offer free content in the form of things like ebooks and courses.

#6: Create Actionable Pages

This is a big reason why I recommend building your blog with WordPress platform and themes that allows you to build a proper, fully-fledged website rather than a blog with a few simple pages.

We can guide you on choosing a WordPress theme and installing it on a domain in our Advanced WordPress Website Design Training courses in Dubai. We will be able to guide you on creating the web pages, texts and images so that you can take full control of the website even in our basic website training classes.

Final Thoughts

That concludes our official list of the steps you should take to become a successful blogger, but let’s go over a few honorable mentions we couldn’t squeeze into the list. Next up is staying up to date with your industry. This means continuing to learn and grow no matter how much of an expert you become by following other bloggers, reading books and listening to podcasts in your niche.

Lastly, don’t be afraid or too shy to integrate your personality into your brand, and yes, your blog is your brand. Consumers want to buy products from brands they trust, and there are few greater ways to form relationships with them than by sharing your own thoughts and personal struggles in your niche, showing more of yourself, and generally being as authentic and transparent as possible. And last but not least, build your blog on a domain rather than sub-domains of WordPress.com. Get your own domain, website hosting and WordPress theme to reflect your brand and make huge money online. Are you looking for guidance and help on building your blog, here we go:

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