How To Start A Blog And Make Money In School

Have you ever wondered how to start a blog and make money in school? You’re in luck because that is what I’m going to show you in this article. I will walk you through the process in a moment, but first, let me tell you this.

How To Start A Blog In School

Like I said earlier, starting a blog isn’t so difficult. You don’t need to be a programmer or an expert in writing codes before you can start a blog. In fact, you can set up a blog within 24 hours. All you need is to follow the steps on how to start a blog below:

1. Identify Your Blog Niche:

Blog Niche means areas or topics you wish to cover in your Niche. It should be based on what you’re good at or interested in. If you like to write about students, colleges and universities, stick to education niche.

Choose an area or target Audience. Example, Flashlearners Targets Young Persons and it is about Education and Career. Mixing topics is only good for a personal blog. What impact do you want to make and what problem do you want to solve?

Like I pointed out earlier, blogging requires passion and it is all about making an impact. Action needs passion or it will be sanctioned. You cannot be writing about everything.

Common Blog Niche:

News Blog
Politics Blog
Education Blog
Sports Blog
Tech Blog
Relationship Blog
Gossip Blog
Health Blog

Choosing A Blog Niche:

Choose a niche that you really love or enjoy.
Make sure the niche audience has at least 300,000 people online.
Choose a niche that is widely accepted.
Some niche are already saturated, choose less common ones.

2. Pick A Nice Name For Your Blog:

You have heard of or visited google.com, wikipedia.org, Quora.com, Facebook.com Flashlearners.com and so on. Google.com, Facebook.com, Quora.com, Wikipedia.org, and Flashlearners.com are what is called Domain Name. It is the URL of a blog which a visitor will use to open it.

Even if you don’t have a blog yet, you can start picturing the name you want your blog to be called.

Choosing A Domain For Your Blog

Choose a domain name that is easy to recall and type.
It should relate to what you want to blog about (your niche).
Your blog name should be short.
Use the .com or .org extension.
Don’t use wordpress.com or blogger.com free domains

There are over 359.8 million domains currently register

When you start a blog on free blogging platforms, you get an address like blogname.wordpress.com or blogname.blogspot.com. It is better to get a custom domain name. Example of custom domain name is flashlearners.com.

There are hosting companies that offer free domain name when you host with them; an example is iPage. More will be discussed under hosting.

3. Decide Which Blogging Platform To Use:

Harsh of Shoutmeloud usually advice new bloggers with no money in pocket to start blogging on Blogspot platform for the first month to learn the basics of blogging. Once your basics are cleared, you are ready to start blogging on the most popular blogging platform in the world.

For me, I suggest you start by writing two or more guest posts for sites that accept guest posts and see reactions from viewers. Share the post with friends and see their reactions as well.

Once you are sure about going fully into blogging, buy a domain name and get the cheapest hosting from Namecheap or iPage. That should be enough for you to start off. There are free blogging platforms but I don’t recommend them. Start with very cheap paid ones.

Recommended: Full WordPress blog tutorials

If you need help creating a WordPress blog, you can contact me.

4. Host Your Blog:

This is where the real business begins. Hosting means to install your blog on your own server, In this case, you will have full control over your blog. It makes your blog available to the whole world.

For a start, I will recommend Namecheap and iPage shared hosting service. Namecheap offers very cheap hosting fee ($1.44/month) and $17.28/1st year. iPage offers a free domain name alongside $35 per year hosting. FlashLearners is hosted with iPage. Another good cheap hosting you should consider is a2hosting shared hosting.

Recommended: Factors before paying for hosting

5. Content And Design:

Now, it is time to Design Your Blog, add Important pages, Write Your First Post and Learn how to rank higher in search engines.

The best Themes for bloggers is the Genesis Theme. It is the most popular theme in the world and it goes starts from $59.

I have many of them and can assist you if are really serious about blogging. You can see A to Z guide to start your blog yourself by clicking here.

How To Make Money Blogging As a Student

You have learned how to start a blog in school. The next thing is how to make money blogging in school. The following are two of the ways bloggers make money.

1. Google AdSense

Google AdSense is a program by Google that helps you make money from your blog. I completely explained how to get google AdSense approved in my article on Google AdSense Second Review Process. Read it here.

2. Affiliate Marketing

You can make a huge amount of money via affiliate marketing. Do you want to know about affiliate marketing and how it really works? If yes, read the ultimate guide on affiliate marketing here. You can as well be Selling Your Own Products online.

3. Others Ways

Apart from Google AdSense, Blogging and Affiliate Marketing, there are over 30 other ways you can make money online. Check here to go through them.

Conclusion: It is easy to start a blog and if you focus very well, you will earn more than you expect. I designed my blog and got AdSense approval within two months. Feel free to get in touch with me for more questions on all platforms @iamflashisaac or @Flashlearners.

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13 Comments

Gbenga says

Thanks to this awesome guide, with your useful blog post, I was able to launch my own blog
- Isaac Inegbenehi says
  
  I am glad that I could help
Tega says

I need help,and i want to create blog,so that i can help my self in school,
Saheed says

Less than 20? Wow, that’s good
fabz says

hi. I started a blog about 2 months ago. It was supposed to be a personal blog and to get adsense aprroved but traffic is low, so am thinking of making it a commercial blog but am not. very good with design. kindly check out my blog http://www.Jonome.blogspot.com
- Isaac Inegbenehi says
  1. Person blog doesn’t stop you from getting AdSense approval. As a matter of fact, Flashlearners is a personal blog.
  2. Your traffic or number of post is not a factor in getting Google Adsense approval. I got my acocunt approved with less than 20 posts. Work on your SEO And create quality and unique articles.
  3. I would advice you use a top level domain (.com) and host a site yourself. It is not very expensive (You may want to contact me personally for more details).
  4. All you need is a very simple and mobile friendly design.
  Read: How to get Google Adsense approval with a new blog.
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- Isaac Inegbenehi says
  
  Thanks dear! I am glad you find it helpful.
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Godwin says

How do u get ur google adsense approval cos back then u do not meet the webmaster policy according to the message u recive
- Isaac Inegbenehi says
  
  Yeah… You will always be given reasons for the disapproval. It is your duty to fix the issue(s)
Emeka Uba says

Thanks fotr this

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