How to Monetize a Blog and earn $10,000+/mo. in 2022. Here's how I do it..

 hey guys and welcome to blog tip tuesday where 

i share helpful blog tips every single tuesday  

in today's video we are going to talk about how 

to monetize a blog and build it into a six-figure  

website now for those of you who don't know who 

i am my name is whitney bonds and i run the blog  

tried and true mom jobs i started my blog in june 

of 2018 and i had no idea what i was doing i just  

wanted to be able to stay at home with my kids and 

i needed a way to make money now for me the only  

thing that i could find was blogging it was just 

the only thing that i could think of that i could  

actually do i had no plan b so my blog had to work 

after seeing other bloggers making one thousand  

to fifty thousand dollars per month i thought 

well why can't i do that so after a year of a  

lot of work and long nights i was able to make six 

figures with my blog now the way i want to do this  

video is to show you how i would approach a brand 

new website and turn it into a six figure website  

now there are many different ways that you 

can actually monetize a website but this is  

the way that i would do it and i want to choose 

a different niche than the one i'm currently in  

just to show you how you can make money in other 

categories all right so step one is to think about  

what you want to write about now the example that 

i'm going to use today is to do a blog for people  

who love dogs now i don't own a dog my family they 

want one really bad and that was like the first  

thing that came to my mind when i was trying 

to think of an example for this video so i'm  

gonna do a blog about dogs 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 now i'm going to show you the 

importance of this shortly so just stick with me  

now you should be able 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 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 because  

when most people have a question where do they 

go 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 get consistent traffic to your website  

now in my case i want to find out what dog 

related questions people are asking on google  

so i can get traffic to my website now 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 will link that video  

in the description below but i'm going to show 

you a quick example of how i will go about this  

and i do want to tell you guys that i did do 

a little pre-work before this video because  

searching for the right keywords can be very time 

consuming it is a lot of work but it's necessary  

okay so i would use this tool called kw finder i 

would use it to help me find out what questions  

or better known as what keywords people are 

searching for on google and just so you know  

my strategy is always about getting traffic i 

love getting traffic to my website because the  

more traffic i get to my website the more money 

i make so i use tools like kw finder to know  

exactly what people are searching for so 

i'm not just writing my articles in vain  

so i paid 49 for their monthly plan and using 

their keyword tool i started putting in different  

questions that i thought people would search 

for on google so i put in things to do with  

your dog and i found that 1800 people search 

for that specific question each month on google  

now this isn't bad because typically i look for 

monthly search volume of a thousand or more you  

will also see that the keyword difficulty is 35 

out of 100 which means it's going to be kind of  

hard to rank on the first page of google for 

this keyword but it is possible just so you  

know you want to be on the first page of google 

for whatever search term that you are targeting  

and you want to be 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 pops up in google  

no most people at least they look at the first two 

search results unless you are just really looking  

for something specific so the lower the keyword 

difficulty number is the easier it is to rank for  

on google especially for a brand new website like 

this one would be so i would put this keyword in a  

google sheets document and write down the keyword 

search volume and the keyword difficulty so i'm  

basically just like building a case to see if this 

is a good idea for a website and building out my  

content calendar i also love this tool because if 

you filter it by keyword difficulty you can also  

find some other related keywords that people are 

searching for that i could also write articles on  

now red is hard orange is kind of hard and green 

is easy so i like to go for the easier keywords  

since they are easier to rank for on google so you 

see here i would actually prefer to do an article  

on fun things to do with dogs because you can see 

that the search volume is 2100 and it's pretty  

easy to rank for it's 29. so i would rather do 

a keyword on this and so i would add this one to  

my spreadsheet i also see that what to get for a 

new puppy is a keyword that people are looking for  

and it has a nice search volume and it looks 

like it's pretty easy to rank for so i will  

also do an article on this this also would be 

a great affiliate opportunity because i would  

try and find some things on amazon that would be 

good ideas for a new puppy i'd add them in that  

article so if someone clicked on my referral link 

and made a purchase i will earn 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 probably 

do very well that article as far as getting amazon  

commissions so if you want to learn more about the 

amazon affiliate marketing be sure to watch out my  

video that i just did on how to make four to five 

thousand dollars per month with amazon i also love  

kw finder because of the many features it has so 

it also has this tool called site profiler where  

you can actually check out your competitors top 

content and get ideas about what you could also  

write about so i will look through rover.com and 

check out their top content because they will be a  

competitor of mine now this is their content that 

did very well on social platforms like facebook  

so this is how many times people have shared these 

articles on facebook it's really good to see just  

what kind of articles people have liked enough to 

share so you see this one did really well so what  

i would do is to see if i could also rank for this 

keyword on google so i would go back to kw finder  

and put in this targeted keyword to see if this is 

something i could rank for if it is i add it to my  

spreadsheet and rinse and repeat until i have a 

ton of article ideas that could last me months or  

maybe even up to a year now after i've done all my 

research i will cancel my kw finder subscription  

and just focus on writing these articles there 

are so many cool features with kw finder i  

definitely recommend just playing around with it 

and exploring all the different features they have  

now side note here i know people are always saying 

oh whitney you are so helpful thank you so much  

for providing all this great information to us 

for free and i honestly do it because i really  

just want to help you guys out because i had no 

one there just to guide me through all this stuff  

when i got started and God has just blessed me so 

much i really just want to give back to you guys  

but if you really want to find a way to just 

thank me you can just use my affiliate links  

like if you are going to use kw finder it's at 

no extra cost to you you can use my affiliate  

links that i'll put in the description below 

and it does really just help me out and it  

makes me continue to want to help you guys out 

for free so i'll put my affiliate links in the  

description below if you guys want to use it 

okay so just by filling up my list of content  

ideas the next thing i need to do is to write my 

articles in a way for google to pick them up now  

i've talked about these two ebooks in a number of 

my videos because this is what i use to help me  

get my articles to rank on google and that is how 

i get over 200 000 pages per month to my website  

so i recommend if you want to get your articles to 

rank on google to use these ebooks to learn how to  

structure your articles to rank on google and how 

to get backlinks you need both and i'll put them  

in the description below so you can check them out 

and just so you know for a brand new website it  

could take six months to a year to start showing 

up on google that's why i didn't make that much  

money my first year blogging because i didn't 

get these seo books until about june of 2018  

and then about six months later my traffic 

skyrocketed because my articles started showing  

up on google and that is how i was able to make 

six figures the very next year through ads and  

affiliate marketing that's why i promote these 

ebooks because i implemented the strategies and  

tactics and it gave me amazing results okay so 

let's talk about how i would monetize this blog  

so if i wanted to put ads on this website i would 

wait until i could join a higher paying ad network  

like mediavine now this is the ad network that i'm 

with right now and in order to even apply to their  

company you need to have 50 000 sessions within 

the last 30 days so with a brand new website it's  

going to take a while before i can get ads on my 

website so that is going to be a goal of mine in  

the future but it won't happen overnight so i'm 

going to focus on writing a new article from my  

spreadsheet every single week and try and find a 

way 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 will put 

in the description below so you can check that out  

as well now after i have about 20 to 40 articles 

written then i would start promoting my articles  

on pinterest now i have a whole video series on 

how i actually get traffic from pinterest so i'll  

put that in the description below as well i also 

have a video on my blogging schedule because i  

know this sounds like a lot and it is but if you 

can structure it in a way where it kind of makes  

sense and taking us all step by step it won't 

be overwhelming so i'm gonna put that video in  

the description below so it will keep you at ease 

so after like a year of writing an article every  

single week on topics that i know people are 

interested in and writing them in a way that i  

know will rank on google and using pinterest i 

should be getting well over 50 000 sessions each  

month so i could go ahead and apply to mediavine 

so i can start having ads on my website now i'm  

just saying a year just to shoot you know pretty 

far out there it can definitely be well before a  

year is over so let's say after being accepted 

into mediavine i start earning three thousand  

dollars per month with ads now this is yet again 

on the low end but i'm just estimating and if you  

add affiliate marketing i would estimate that 

i would earn at minimum 5 000 per month because  

i found some dog training courses and some other 

decent affiliate programs that could be useful  

to dog owners that i would promote throughout 

my articles and i'd give them a reason to make  

a purchase and if i'm getting over a hundred 

thousand page views per month from google and  

pinterest that should be very easy to accomplish 

i'm also going to add a snippet to all my articles  

to join my email list for more ideas on how to get 

your give your dog the best life or something like  

that so i could build an email list and monetize 

that as well and i could do sponsored emails or i  

could do sponsor articles and add an additional 

two thousand dollars per month and sponsor  

content that's why it's so important to target 

a specific group of people because when brands  

want to connect with you it will 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 they'll reach out 

to you i never once reached out to a sponsor and  

they just come to me because they see that i have 

articles ranking on google and they want to get  

their products and services shown to my audience 

because they know that i have their reader's  

attention and just being on google it adds a lot 

of credibility i went very low on these numbers  

just to show you how you could easily build a six 

figure website so do you now see how you could  

easily make ten thousand dollars per month if you 

write articles that you know people are interested  

in using the techniques i just mentioned 

how could you not have a six figure website  

it's all about having a plan and executing you 

just have to stick with it and trust the process  

trust the process it takes a while but you 

have to trust that you know what you're doing  

and take my advice this is what i did to get to 

six figures so if you haven't started a blog now's  

the time and i'll put my step-by-step guide in the 

description below so you can go follow that along  

and get started now if you like this video i love 

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or my keyword research video alright thanks 

guys have a great day thanks for watching