Would love to see your blogging websites, would appreciate if its a personal blogging page!

UPDATE: OMG IM SO EXCITED TO SEE ALL UR PAGES!!

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For reference, my blog makes about $250k a year which is pretty good for a hobby blog.

I actually hit $1M last year, and for proof, Gumroad (the selling platform I use) made a post about it here.

Now you can make chicken shit like $100 a month without following these tips, but if you want to pull in some real cash, you need to follow them.

1) Focus on social media. Don't waste time on SEO.

Social media is where all the people are. This will be your main source of traffic, leads, and growth.

You MUST pick one platform of your choice and grow it. If video is your strong suit, go with YouTube. If you speak well, go with podcasting. If you can write, I recommend X.

SEO is not very important anymore. It does not bring you many readers no matter what anyone tells you. I have been doing this for 7+ years so I know what I'm talking about.

I'm friends with dozens of writers and NO ONE gets a lot of traffic from SEO. Google simply isn't that relevant anymore for the small publisher. (There is a Housefresh article about this but this Reddit does not allow external links)

Google only sends major traffic to the big mainstream outlets.

2) Build an email list

Your email list is the most important asset of your business. Any product you build, anything you create, any ebook you write - the best way to get it out to all of your readers is email. Your email list is your source of leads.

There is no other platform with a near 100% delivery rate. Even on X, you can have 100k followers but your average tweet will be shown to maybe 6000 people. On YouTube it’s even worse.

Email is the undisputed KING of marketing.

Not to mention that it is the only good way to retain readers. Most people are not going to refresh your website every 3 days to check for a new article being posted.

With email everyone gets a notifier and can check it out. No need for constant refreshing.

Remember, your blog should have one main purpose – to get people to sign up to your email list. If your content is good, your email list will constantly keep growing.

How much money you make will correlate very strongly with the size of your list and how good your content is.

3) Focus on customers

Focus on getting customers. Focus on helping customers. Focus on keeping customers.

This is very important.

Getting customers: Remember, it’s not a business unless you’re getting customers. So focus on building good products and marketing them well.

Helping customers: I’m not just talking about customer service, but also on taking feedback. If you are popular, then you will get lots of feedback from readers.

If you’re actually taking feedback from someone who hasn’t taken out their card and supported you with their money, you’re wasting your time.

There will be countless people who will email you saying they’ve been reading you for 5+ years and will have “advice” for you.

Advice from someone who has never considered you helpful enough to spend money on your products (despite having read you for a while) is worth exactly as much as the revenue from that person… zero.

Anyone who’s built an online business is nodding in agreement. It’s good to have readers but you cannot make any business decision based on the word of a non-customer.

Non-business people find this “arrogant” simply because they’re used to having to listen to everyone who speaks (employee mindset). They do not understand the realities of business.

Keeping customers: What is the sign of a good business? REPEAT CUSTOMERS. Make sure any product you release is very high quality. Offer generous refund policies. Keep your products up to date.

I know it takes time to update products and there’s no additional revenue you get from it, but you should strive to make your customers delighted with their purchase. They must be so happy that they’re thanking their stars that they purchased something from you.

This is VERY important. So many people have good free content but mediocre paid content. This is not the way to go. You will not have repeat customers if you do this.

Invest time and energy in your products to make them as good as possible (or affiliate with people doing that). Don’t sell mediocre stuff you’re not proud of.

4) DON'T RUN ADS. Do this instead.

Because ads barely make any money and make your website look cheap. The $50 a month is not worth it.

To make money from ads, you need a ton of traffic, and if you have a ton of traffic, you can make so much more money with affiliate marketing.

Instead of letting Adsense decide what ads to show on your website and pay you pennies per click, find well fitting high quality affiliate products and weave them in the content itself.

You get a commission of the sale (which will be in the tens to hundreds of dollars) and your readers get a high quality product that is vetted by you.

It also incentivizes you to create high quality content and get long term readers who like and trust you and know that you know what you're talking about instead of just producing clickbait nonsense to get clicks.

5) Network with other creators.

Reach out to other creators ON YOUR LEVEL and say hello. Do this on social media.

Make sure you stay in your league here otherwise you will get ignored. For example, if you have 2000 followers, someone with 1000 to 5000 followers will be happy to interact with you. Someone with 100,000 followers will probably not even open your DM.

Another way to make friends is to buy a few products from the creator and email them and send them a review (if they are actually good). It works incredibly well and I've made many long term connections this way. The downside is that it costs some money which you may or may not have.

The advantage of networking is that it helps you get testimonials for new products as you need them, more eyes to your content if you get backlinks/retweets/reposts/etc., and many of them might even become affiliates for you (or you for them).

6) Re-purpose your content.

It is simply impossible to create content for EVERYTHING at the same time. You can't be writing articles, making videos, Instagram posts, X posts, TikTok, etc. all at once.

At least, you can't make unique content for everything.

What I recommend is that you pick one main thing and re-purpose your content for other platforms.

For example, write a blog post and then turn that blog post into a video essay for YouTube. Extract the audio and upload that as a podcast. Take snippets from the post and turn them into posts for X. Take screenshots of your X posts and turn them into Instagram posts.

You get the point. Your ability to create useful and interesting content is limited. You cannot do everything at once so this is the only way to be everywhere without going insane.

The more platforms you are on, the more traffic you get, and all things being equal, more traffic = more money.

7) Don't be scared to be honest. BE YOURSELF.

The problem with political correctness is that it is a lie. It is BORING and dishonest.

If you want people to read you, you have to write from the heart. You have to be honest about what you truly believe and publish it for the world to read.

If you are afraid of what people will think of you when they read your words, you are in the wrong business.

Do you know how they decide which TV shows to make and which to kill? They start with making 1 episode called a "pilot" episode.

Then they have test audience watch it and fill a survey talking about how much they like it from 1 to 10.

If most people say it was a 7 or 8, the show usually gets scrapped.

But why is the show scrapped? Isn't 8 a good score?

NO. Because the show can't compete with other shows that are 9s and 10s.

On the other hand, if most people say the pilot episode was a 4 (bad) but 10% of people said it was a 9 or 10, the show is made.

Why? Most people ranked it at 4!

Yes, but 10% of them ranked it at 10. This means that the show has a niche and some percentage of people will watch the show over everything else.

You want to be the blog that is a 10 for some people. Not a 7 or 8 for most of the world.

Always be 100% authentically yourself. If you are a boring person with vanilla thoughts and opinions, you are not a right fit for this business.

8) Keep your content readable.

Long paragraphs are for textbooks and novels that you can bring close to your face and read. When you read on a screen, the text is small and the screen is far away.

This is why you must use short paragraphs that average one or two lines each.

Three lines is maximum. Keep each paragraph very short so it's easy for people read. Don't worry, your high school English teacher isn't going to score your blog.

9) Authority and expertise matters more than traffic numbers.

Do you know how much traffic these clickbait sites like Buzzfeed get? They get more traffic in a month than I get in years.

But how many people buy books and products from Buzzfeed?

NOBODY.

Because clicks are not authority and trust.

If you want people to buy from you, you have to build a relationship with them. They have to get a tremendous amount of value from your blog. They have to know that you know what you're talking about and aren't just another AI content creating huckster.

I've made tens of thousands of sales of my products. Most of them come from guys who read the blog for MONTHS AND MONTHS before they decided to make a purchase. You can read the reviews on my products to confirm this.

Create high quality content that brings people back and eventually they will buy from you. Don't be in a rush to get paid.

10) You have to enjoy writing.

Because you're going to be doing a lot of it.

Blogging is a relatively slow business. It takes a lot of work to build an audience and the money is slow (the good thing is that it is automated).

If you're just trying to make money online, there are many easier and faster ways out there.

To make money with a blog in the long run, you have to enjoy writing. If you hate writing, you will give up within 3-5 years. I GUARANTEE IT.

I've seen it over and over again. Guys think they will make a $100k a year from a blog in their second year, and are disappointed that they're only doing $1k a month.

Yeah, keep expectations realistic and know what you are getting into. Do not become a blog writer if you hate writing. This is not a get rich quick business.

Remember blogging originated as a hobby that slowly became monetized by people. It was never intended to be a full time business.

If the goal is JUST making money, there are so many things you can rather do that make money faster and easier (like selling services online, or ecom, or whatever).

Keep that in mind.

If you have any questions, leave them in the replies/comments below and I'll answer them.

I have been blogging on and off for almost twenty years at this point, never anything super valuable or insightful, but rather a web diary of sorts that I can look back on at different points in my life. So many people come to this sub scared of doing the wrong thing; what should I do, can I write this, is this okay? Yes, yes, yes!

My blog gets maybe thirty views a week, but the act of writing out my thoughts is enough to keep me motivated to continue. You can write anything you that pops into your head. You can write about yourself, current events, fiction/poetry, write about the weather happening right outside your window. I love reading about daily life from strangers on the internet in corners of the world I'll never get to explore. Write, write, write!

Sorry for that Sunday soapbox. Please leave your personal blogs below, I'd love to read about what you're doing. Mine is moonstainedwaves.blogspot.com

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So I've seen all over people starting up blogs which I love the idea of getting away from social media and written down your thoughts and interest I recently started one on blogger if you want to check it out girlfairyworld.blogspot.com I also would like some recommendations for others sites that are free to use that may be a better platform to reach more people alongside some any advice from people that have been blogging for a while would be appreciated.

It was something I wanted to do since a long time (ever since I learned HTML in middle school) and few days back I finally made up my mind and bought the domain mappeep.com (check it out *wink*). And I'm having so much fun just documenting my life or writing whatever I want to write and customizing my page. As someone who used to play games or watch youtube every waking hour when I'm home, I've never had this much fun in a long time!

It's like I don't even wanna play any games anymore and I just keep thinking about what I should add to my site next or what should I write about next. Its like you're a kid again and you can't stop imagining yourself as a character in your new favorite cartoon.
Well that's how I feel atleast cuz its been a long time since I have felt this much excitement and motivation to just do something. Even if no one ever reads it I'm actually still going to continue doing it as a hobby of mine.

I think this is something I where I have genuine interest and no other ulterior motive like earning money or being famous. I'm just journaling my life and I'm happy doing it!
So yea if you've ever thought about making your own blog or website, just do it. Doesn't have to be anything crazy or perfect. Just start and see where it goes!
Also let's atleast not let the bots completely take over the internet and keep a human side on the internet, even if it's a small one. Let's make internet great again!

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Are you a blogger? I attempted to blog on blogger.com. In the early 2010s I had a somewhat successful Disney thrift blog. It went by the waste side when I lost interest in Disney.

I tried blogging on Tumblr. It got too political, just like all social media websites. 😢

I remember when social media used to be fun. Now its just a crap show with politics and current events etc.

Anyway... I got off topic. Do you blog? If so, I would love to read some. Post your links here.

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My Blog**

So, I blogged pretty consistently awhile back, and I am trying to get myself motivated to do it again. I realized that I enjoyed so much the interaction with other bloggers, giving them feedback on their posts and getting feedback on mine. It was a very fulfilling experience and I miss it. So please feel free to post a link to your PERSONAL blog. Not so much interested in big popular blogs. I want to read the blogs of all you creative people out there who can use words effectively. If you're like me and have under 50 followers, this post is aimed at you. I am very interested in a great number of things. My blog is mostly my attempts at writing poems and other short pieces. I would greatly appreciate you taking a minute to check it out if you so desire. I promise that if you take just a few minutes to read a post or two and give me your honest feedback, either on the post, or the blog as a whole. I will do the same for you. In fact if you post your blog here, and even if you don't look at mine at all I will still take a few minutes to browse it and leave my thoughts.

My Blog

Also just transferred my stuff to Wordpress to try and compare both and see which I prefer. so here is the wordpress one also.

Wordpress Blog

EDIT: Had no idea this post would get so many replies for so long. Seems like the number of comments is keeping it in the top posts :) Thanks everyone for sharing. I'm trying to check out and follow as many as I can as time allows. Keep them coming.

Was just wondering whether I should try it. I don't really think people read anymore

Seeing a lot of mixed takes on this lately. Some people say blogs are dead, others are still growing traffic and making real money from them.

For those who started recently, would you go self-hosted WordPress, or is something like Wix or Ghost more practical now?

Genuinely curious what people who are actively blogging right now would choose if they were starting from zero today.