hey guys in today's video i want to share with you how to start a blog in 2022 and show you
step by step how to turn that blog into a six figure blog but i first want to give a shout
out to taylor brands who helped me with this video and they are a company that will help kick start
your brand with a logo website templates domain name business mailbox and just help you build a
brand identity so when people see your website they're going to know that it's your website
i use them and that's why i recommend them so i'm going to put their info in the description
below so you guys can check them out after this video okay so i started my blog in january of 2018
and a year after putting in a ton of work i made six figures and i've been making six figures
every year ever since you know i just want to say that it did take some time because my first year
i barely made anything but i have finally found the right formula to make money blogging
and make it consistently and i don't sell any products or courses on my website so the way that
i want to do this video is to show you an example of how i would start a blog in 2022 and turn it
into a six figure blog so much has changed since i started my blog my approach would be different
today now i'm going to choose a different niche than the one i'm currently in just to show you how
you can start a profitable blog in any niche but you have to do the research first so step one of
starting a blog is to think about what you want to write about now i'm going to use the same example
that i used in my six figure blog formula video and that's do a blog for people who love dogs
yes dogs so i'm gonna do a blog about dogs but i want you guys to also pray for direction too i was
searching for months and after just praying about my situation trying to figure out what direction
i should go in i just woke up with my idea and i know it was the lord because the rest is history
all right so step two is to think about how you can help someone with your idea because the only
way to make money blogging is by helping people and you need to target a specific group of people
and i'm going to show you the importance of that shortly so just stick with me so i want you to
fill in this blank i help people blank in my example i help people with dogs come up with
things to do with their dogs so the specific group of people that i'm targeting are dog lovers so
step three is to determine if people are actually searching for what you want to write about
so you need to find out what people are searching for on google yes google because when most people
have a question where do they go it's google and what pops up in the search results it's blog
articles so you want to find out what questions people are searching for on google so you can
answer them through your blog articles and that is how you're going to get traffic to your website
now in my case i want to find out what dog related questions people are searching for on google so
i can write an article answering their questions so i can get traffic to my website i did a video
that goes more in depth about how to find out what questions or keywords people are searching for on
google so i'm going to put that in the description below so you guys can view that after this video
but i'm going to show you a quick example in today's video how i'm going to go about doing this
and i do want to tell you guys that i had to do some pre-work before this video because searching
for the right keywords can be very time consuming frustrating and sometimes honestly it would
just make you want to give up but this part is necessary okay so i would use this tool called kw
finder and i will use it to help me find out what questions or better known as what keywords people
are searching for on google so i can see if i can write an article answering that question and most
importantly to see if i could actually rank on google now my strategy is all about just getting
traffic to my website i need people to come to my website so i can make money i am not and i
will not depend on friends and family to support me in this now i use tools like kw finder so i
can know exactly what people are searching for on google so i'm not just writing my articles in vain
so i paid 49 for their monthly plan and using that keyword tool i start just putting in different
questions that i think people you know who are dog lovers will actually put in google so i put in
things to do with your dog and i found that 1900 people search for that specific question
each month on google now this isn't bad because i typically look for a monthly search volume
of a thousand or more you will also see that the keyword difficulty is 38 out of 100 which means
it's going to be kind of hard to rank on the first page of google for this specific keyword but it
is possible and just so you guys know you want to be on the first page of google for whatever
search term that you are targeting and you want to be at least in the top two search results if
possible because just think about the way that you use google do you usually scroll down to see all
the search results that pop up no most people just look at the first two search results that come up
unless you are just really looking for something very specific and you're not finding it so the
lower the keyword difficulty means it's going to be easier to rank on the first page of google
especially for a brand new website so i will put this keyword in a google sheets document
and write down the keyword search volume and the keyword difficulty so what i'm doing is
i'm basically building a case to see if this is a good idea for a website and i'm also building
out my content calendar now i also love kw finder because if you filter by keyword difficulty you'll
also find some other related keywords that people are searching for that i could also write about
now red is hard orange is kind of hard and green is easy so i like to go for the easier
keywords because for a brand new website like i said it's going to be easier to rank for so
i want to take advantage of all the easy ones since this is a brand new website
look at these other ideas they give you i also see that what to get for a new puppy is a keyword
and it also has a nice search volume and it looks like it's pretty easy to rank for on the first
page of google so i will also do an article on this and i'm going to add it to my spreadsheet and
this also would be a great affiliate opportunity because i would try and find some things on amazon
that would be a good idea for a new puppy i'd add them to my article so if someone clicked on
my referral link and made a purchase i would earn a commission and if someone is searching on google
for what to get a new puppy they are probably at the stage where they are ready to make a purchase
so i will probably do very well with this article as far as getting amazon commissions
now if you want to learn more about the amazon affiliate program i did a video on this and i'm
going to put it in the description below so you guys can check that out but kw finder is what i
would use to build my case to see if i had a chance at creating a profitable blog i would
see if i could find at least 30 keywords or better known as blog articles that i could
possibly rank for to say okay this is going to work now i do want to say the way that google is
if you want to write about anything health related don't do it not if you want to rank on google they
are extremely sensitive about health topics and they don't want misinformation getting out there
to their users so they typically only just show well-established websites in the search results
but kw finder they already know that and they're gonna let you know whether a keyword is easy or
hard to rank for and the way that i do it is by finding keywords that are easy to rank for
now after i've done all my research i'm going to cancel my kw finder subscription and just focus
on writing these articles now just you guys know i am an affiliate of kw finder only because i use
them and i love them and i know people are always saying oh whitney you are so helpful thank you
so much for giving us all this great information for free and i really just do it because i enjoy
helping people and i know god gave me this and i just i've been so blessed that i feel like it's
my duty to share it's at no extra cost to you if you sign up using my affiliate link for kw finder
so um if you want to sign up to kw finder you can just use my link and i'm going to
put that in the description below it does really encourage me to keep doing these helpful videos
all right so just by filling up my list of content ideas the next thing i need to do is say okay
this idea is going to work now it's time to get started creating my website and i have a complete
free step-by-step guide on how to start a blog from scratch so i'm going to put that in the
description below so you guys can follow that along when you're ready to get started
now once you do that i recommend watching my video on my blogging schedule because
this is going to seem like information overload and when you are given too much
information at once you end up doing nothing with it so you need to take one step at a time
so once you go through my guide set your website up you're going to need to get started writing
now you have to write your articles in a certain way if you want google to pick them up and i have
mentioned these two ebooks several times on my channel because these are a huge reason why i get
over 200 000 page views per month to my website so if you want to get your articles to rank on google
i highly suggest you get these ebooks to learn how to structure your articles to rank on google
and how to get backlinks you need both i'm going to put those in the description below so you guys
can check them out and just so you guys know for a brand new website it could take six months to a
year to start showing up on google so you will be writing for some time without seeing any results
and you have to be okay with that you know if you follow the tactics used in these ebooks you just
have to trust the process and of course you have to write the very best articles out there on the
internet if you have ever read one of my articles you will see how thorough i am i try to fully
answer my reader's questions and google loves that so let's talk about how i would monetize this blog
now the first way i would monetize this blog is through ads but i won't be getting much traffic
to my website for quite some time so i'm going to just keep this as a goal of mine now i will wait
until i could join a higher paying ad network like mediavine and this is the ad network that i have
today and in order to even apply to their company you need to have 50 000 sessions within the last
30 days so i'm just going to focus on writing a new article for my spreadsheet every single
week one article a week and i'm going to try to promote a product or service in my article so
i can make money through affiliate marketing and i have a step-by-step video i did that walks you
through affiliate marketing that i'll put in the description below so you guys can check that out
too now in my other videos i've talked about how i would use pinterest to get traffic to my website
but they have completely changed and they are not a source of traffic that i would use anymore so
i was strictly focused on writing articles to rank on google to get traffic to my website so
after writing an article every single week for a year on topics that i know people are interested
in and writing them in a way that i know will rank on google i should be getting well over 50
000 sessions each month so then i could go ahead and apply to mediavine and start having ads on my
website and monetize my website that way so let's just say after being accepted into mediavine i
start earning three thousand dollars per month with just ads now this is on the low end but i'm
just estimating and if you add affiliate marketing i will estimate that i would be earning at least
at minimum 5 000 per month because i found some dog related training courses and some other decent
affiliate programs that could be beneficial to dog owners that i would promote throughout my
articles and i would give them a reason to make a purchase so if i am getting over 50 000 page views
per month from google that should be very easy to accomplish now i'm also going to add a snippet to
all my articles to join my email list for more ideas on how to give your dog the best life or
something like that so i could build an email list and monetize that as well i will also do
sponsored emails or sponsored articles and add an additional two thousand dollars per month
that's why it is so important to target a specific group of people because when brands
want to connect with you it is only because your readers are who they want to get their products
and services in front of the other good thing about sponsorships is when companies see that your
articles are ranking on google for specific topics they're going to reach out to you i never once
reached out to a sponsor and they just came to me because they saw that i have articles ringing on
google and they want to get their products and services shown to my audience and just being
on google it adds a lot of credibility now i went very low on these numbers just to show you how you
could build a six figure website so do you now see how you could make ten thousand dollars per month
if you write articles that you know people are interested in using the techniques that i just
mentioned how could you not have a six figure website you know it's all about having a plan
and executing it and you just have to stick with it and trust the process this is what i did and
it has worked for me now if you're ready to get started i'm going to put my step-by-step guide on
how to build a website in the description below so you guys can go ahead and get started now if you
like this video i would love if you guys give this video a thumbs up and if you have any questions
just let me know in the comment section below i'm happy to answer any questions and if you just
got how i was trying to show you how to build a six-figure website just let me know in the comment
section and say i got it i've also had several people that have asked if i could create a course
or do blog coaching and the answer is no right now anyway because my kids they're all little and
i want to spend as much time with them as i can and i have just enough time to work on my blog
and on my youtube channel so i just don't have the time but if you're the type of person that does
want to take a blog course and think that'll help you a lot out the only one that i do recommend is
blog by number it's not very expensive but it's a great course and i definitely recommend it so
i'm going to put that in the description below if you guys want to check that out all right that is
it today this was a lot of information i hope you guys are able to follow it along if you're ready
to do keyword research to find out your website idea you can check my video out now on how i
do that to get over 200 000 pages per month all right thank you guys for watching have a great day