How To Make A Career In Blogging [12 Easy Ways]

Introduction:

Blogging is growing at a pacing rate. 

People either want to start a blog to make money online or to grow their existing business. So, if you fall in any of these two categories then you have come to the right place.

In this blog post, I’ll take you through 12 ways on how you can make your career in blogging and live a boss free life.

1) Start your own blog

Of course, to make a career in blogging, you need to start your own blog first. People think starting a blog is a tedious task. It required coding knowledge, good English and many other technical stuff.

However, this is not at all true.

Today, anyone can easily start a blog with zero knowledge of coding and technical stuff.

You can easily create a blog on WordPress, a content management system, specially made for non-techie people.

Before starting a blog, you decide the following important things:

• Your blog niche.
• Domain and hosting.
• Profitability of the niche.

Once you have decided on the above three points, you can go ahead and start your blog.

2) Learn SEO and content writing

There are billions of blogs on the internet, but only a few of them get a decent amount of traffic from Google. So, in order to make a successful blogger, you need to learn the art of SEO and content writing.

SEO and content writing go hand-in-hand.

Well-written content will hook your readers and increase conversions whereas, SEO will help you in driving traffic.

In order to learn both skills at the same time, I would suggest you enroll in any digital marketing courses in Mumbai. These courses will help you in learning SEO and content writing from scratch.

3) Take help from experts

Without having a mentor it is quite difficult to become a successful blogger. Mentors will give you the right direction, tips, motivation and skills required to become a successful blogger.

I know the fact that you can learn the basics of blogging from external sources with no help. But if you want to take your blogging game to a level of awesomeness, you surely need some help from an experienced and knowledgeable person.

This is where mentors come into play.

Mentors will collectively work with you and help you in improving your skills required to make a career in blogging.

4) Read other authority blog in your niche

If you cannot find a mentor or you don’t want to enroll in paid courses, then start with reading blogs. I personally started my blogging career by reading several authority blogs in my niche.

According to me, reading blogs is the best way by which you start your blogging career.

You can make a list of 5-6 authority blogs in your niche and start reading them. You can also subscribe to their newsletter or YouTube channel for better updates.

5) Network with other bloggers

In the blogging industry, your network is your net worth.

Try to make connections with other bloggers in your niche. A strong network will give you insights into trends and other information and movements within the blogging industry.

You can connect with bloggers on LinkedIn, follow them on social media or do a blogger outreach.

6) Be consistent

Hard work is important but consistency will take you the places you deserve. Majority of the bloggers quit blogging within 6 months because of the lack of consistency.

You need to understand that blogging is not a T20 or one-day international game. It is like a test cricket match where each and every day you need to put equal effort with consistency.

Once you understand the power of consistency no one can stop you from becoming a successful blogger.

7) Increase your blog traffic

In order to run a successful blog, traffic is the most important thing required. A blog with no traffic is just like food without salt.

Traffic will help you in generating sales, leads, income, profits and lot many things. The overall success of your blog depends on traffic. More traffic will simply give you more income and vice-versa.

So, if the order you increase your blog traffic you need to focus on SEO and social media marketing. Of course, you can also opt for paid advertisement if money is not your constraint.

However, I would suggest you to focus on SEO as organic traffic is the best source of traffic with the high conversion rate.

8) Build your community

Building a community is important because it is the best way to build relationships with your blog readers in a more personalized way. Building community will not just give you high conversion rate, but as you build your community you can monetize it by promoting various offers.

Another good thing about having a community is that you can understand your readers’ problems and provide them with quick solutions.

You can start building a community on Facebook by creating a group. You can also start your YouTube channel or build your email list.

9) Generate leads

Lead generation is another important aspect that will help you in making a successful career in blogging. Without lead, your blog will struggle to make sales, income and it will not expand.

Today, the majority of bloggers are focusing on generating leads as it helps them to create a community and drive traffic.

Another good thing about having leads is that it keeps in touch with the people who might be interested in buying your affiliate offer.

10) Monetize your blog

If you are serious about making your career in blogging, then I am pretty much sure that you also want to make money out of it. So, it’s time to monetize your blog.

When it comes to blog monetization, traffic will play a key role. 

If your blog is hitting thousands of visitors every day, you can surely make a handsome amount of money through it. 

Following are the ways by which you can monetize your blog;

• Google Adsense
• Affiliate marketing
• Paid post
• Paid guest posting
• Selling online courses
• Selling digital products

11) Learn from others mistake

Whether you agree or not, learning from your own mistake is not always necessary. It can be improvised and you can surely think of learning from others mistakes, right?

According to one research, you can learn more from others’ mistakes.

When you scrutinize the mistakes of other bloggers, you can think about how to avoid those mistakes in future. Once you have found the mistakes done by other bloggers, you just need to make sure that you don’t repeat those mistakes.

But the point is how will you find the mistakes done by other bloggers.

Well, it is quite simple. 

Many bloggers share their personal experiences, learning and mistakes done by them on their blog. You need to look out for those posts and start scrutinizing them.