There are five main ways to make money with a blog:

1. Affiliate Marketing – promoting a product with a special link unique to you. When someone makes a purchase through that link, you get a commission.
2. Sponsored Posts – being paid for writing a blog post promoting a product.
3. Products – creating your own products such as ebooks or online courses.
4. Services – offering virtual assistant services writing content, managing email or offering online consulting.
5. Advertisements – placing ads on your blog that generates money based on traffic and clicks.

For more detail, read how to make money with a small, medium or large blog and how to start a profitable blog.

• Your Passions: What do you love to do? What can’t you stop talking about?
• Your Strengths: What are you really good at? What do people compliment you on?
• Your Growth: What do you want to learn? Where do you want to improve in your life?
• Is it Profitable? And most importantly, what problem are you solving? People are willing to pay to fix a problem 🙂 So if you want to monetize, you need to provide a solution. What niche are you going after and how do you want to help them?

Read more about how to find your blog niche. When you are stuck on deciding a blog name, this post will help too!

So before you advertise your blog, I would advise having 3-5 pillar posts published. These are in depth, 2,000+ word articles that each address a certain main problem of your niche. They will lay the foundation for your blog and share very well on social media. People will see them as ultimate guides or resource tutorials.

Take your time crafting these and share all of your best advice. You want people to come to your blog and be blown away by your posts, even if there are just four.

For example, if you blog about breastfeeding, here are a few examples of great pillar posts:

1. The Ultimate Guide to Breastfeeding a Newborn – 6 Month Old
2. The 100 Benefits of Breastfeeding
3. The Pros and Cons of Breastfeeding vs Bottle Feeding
4. Everything You Need to Know about Breastfeeding and Bottle feeding
5. The Essential Products You Need If You Decide to Breastfeed

Below are the pillar posts I had on my site before I started pushing traffic to it. It took me about a month to complete them all and be ready to launch. It may be quicker or slower for you. But ultimately you want your readers to find a few really good posts on our blog when they stumble upon it.

1. How to get Traffic to a New Blog without using Social Media
2. How to Make Money With a Mom Blog from Small, Medium and Large Mom Bloggers
3. 25 Awesome Post Ideas For Your Blog

Lastly, before you launch here are a few other things that should be completed.

1. A clear blog menu
2. A good profile picture
3. An About Me page
4. A Disclosure Page – if you are using affiliate marketing
5. A way to contact you (you can add this to your About Me page)
6. Links to your social media pages

In Blog by Number, the beginning blogging course just for moms, I show you step by step how to do all of the above steps.

I want to share with you the 12 Month Plan I used to grow my blog from $0 to over $9,000 per month in less than a year. Of course, results aren’t typical, but if you put in the time and effort, I am positive you’ll be able to make a few thousand after 12 months of following this plan. Yes, it takes time, but so does anything worthwhile.

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