So you want to start a blog & make money from blogging, but more importantly, you have a mission… A mission to make money blogging in 3 months.
Can it be done? Can you make money blogging in 3 months?
And how the heck do bloggers even make money anyway?
If those are some of the things you’ve been wondering, you’ve landed in the right place.
In this blog post, we’ll be explaining exactly how bloggers make money & outlining our step-by-step guide for making money blogging in just 3 months.
And the good news is that with some hard work, it can be done.
So let’s dive in & get to it, starting with the most important thing first.
How Do Bloggers Make Money?
If you’re looking to make fast money by blogging, the most important thing you need to know is how bloggers actually make money.
And whilst we’ve covered this topic in detail in another blog post, we’ll give you a quick rundown here to bring you up to speed.
So, essentially, this is the process of how bloggers make money:
- Bloggers leverage something known as keyword research to figure out what people are searching for in search engines like Google, Yahoo & Bing.
- They then create content that’s relevant to those keywords (the things people are searching for).
- The search engines like Google, Yahoo & Bing automatically discover the content & they begin listing it within their results when people search for things related to it.
- Visitors start arriving at the blogger’s blog from the search engines
- Once the blog has begun getting visitors, the blogger can make money from the visitors in several different ways
The 2 most common ways bloggers make money are affiliate marketing & display advertising.
Affiliate marketing involves promoting third-party products or services online in return for commissions paid out for successful sales (and it’s what we teach here at Commission Academy).
Display advertising involves placing relevant advertisements on the blog & getting paid for views or clicks on the adverts (and that’s something else we also teach in our free training).
So, now that you’ve got a better understanding of how bloggers make money let’s take a look at how you can actually put all that into action & start making money from a blog for yourself.
How To Make Money Blogging In 3 Months
In order to make money blogging fast, there are 4 very important things that you need to do.
Those things are:
- Find a great niche for your blog
- Perform excellent keyword research & focus on longtail keywords
- Create high-quality content
- Leverage great affiliate programs
And, well, there’s actually a 5th thing – which is that you’ve got to repeat steps 2 & 3.
You see if you want to make money blogging fast… Especially if you want to make money blogging in 3 months, you’ve got to be prepared to create lots of high-quality content.
1 or 2 blog posts simply won’t cut it. Blogging daily would be the best option.
But let’s take a closer look at each of those steps in more detail so that you can see the exact process required to make money blogging in 3 months.
1. Find a Great Niche
To make money blogging fast, it’s vital to pick a great niche.
In case you don’t already know, a niche is a narrowed-down segment of a larger industry.
As an example, you have the vacuums industry, but a narrowed-down niche topic within that industry could be “robot vacuums” (and that would be a great affiliate niche, by the way).
The reason a niche is vital is that by honing in on a specific topic, you essentially portray yourself as an expert on that subject (even if you’re not) & that results in you getting higher rankings in search engines like Google, Yahoo & Bing.
The higher your rankings, the more clicks you can get to your blog & the more money you can make as an affiliate marketer.
And as well, focusing on a really narrowed-down topic makes it easy for you to know what to promote to your audience, which results in higher conversion (more sales & more money in your pocket).
So a great niche is a must & starting a niche blog is one of the fastest ways to generate revenue blogging.
Once you’ve got your niche sorted, it’s then time to perform keyword research.
2. Perform Keyword Research
To make money blogging, you need to have traffic, otherwise known as visitors coming to your blog & reading your blog posts.
So, to get traffic to a blog, you need to get your content ranked in search engines & to do that, you need to know what people are searching for.
This requires something known as keyword research.
So, by leveraging a tool like Mangools (our favourite keyword research tool), you can type in things related to your niche & find keyword ideas, as shown below:
As you can see, following on from the robot vacuum niche idea example, I’ve typed in “robot vacuums” into the keyword tool & it’s given me several keyword suggestions.
In the “Search” column, you can see how many average monthly searches the keyword receives & in the “KD” column (which stands for Keyword Difficulty), you can see how difficult the tool thinks it will be for you to rank for that keyword.
Generally, the higher the search volume the keyword has, the more difficult it will be to rank for.
So, all you need to do is simply narrow down your search & a good example of that would be by typing something such as “do robot vacuums work in the dark”, as shown below:
As you can see, straight away, we found 2 keywords that are easy to rank for.
Yes, they may have lower search volume, but it’s better to easily rank for multiple lower search volume keywords than it is to struggle to rank for high ones.
So, if you’re trying to make money blogging in 3 months, your mission should be to find as many of these low-competition, easy-to-rank-for keywords as you possibly can. That’s goal number 1.
Then, once you’ve got a ton of easy-to-rank-for keywords, your next mission is to create high-quality content.
3. Create High-Quality Content
Once you got some keywords at the ready, your next step is to rank in search engines for them, which is done by creating high-quality, relevant content.
This process is technically known as SEO which stands for Search Engine Optimisation & many people overcomplicate it, but in reality, it’s very simple.
All you need to do to rank for a keyword is put yourself into the shoes of the person searching for it & create the content that you’d expect (or want) to see.
Make it helpful, relevant & high-quality & you will rank. It’s as simple as that.
And make sure the keyword that you’re trying to rank for (or a very close variation of it) is towards the beginning of the title of your blog posts.
Those are 2 very simple keys to success when it comes to getting content ranked in search engines.
And if you want to make money fast by blogging, then the important thing you’re going to need to do here is regularly post on your blog.
To make money in 3 months from a blog, you will really need to blog daily. If you can blog more than that, such as twice a day, even better.
Eventually, your posts will begin to rank & that’s when you’ll start getting traffic (visitors coming to your blog).
As soon as that happens, you can start making money & the easiest way to do that is by leveraging affiliate programs.
4. Leverage Affiliate Programs
As soon as you start getting traffic to your blog (visitors), that’s when you can start making money & the easiest way to do that is with affiliate programs.
By leveraging affiliate programs like the Amazon affiliate program, you can simply promote third-party products or services in return for commissions.
All you need to do is simply sign up for an affiliate program, add the affiliate links to your blog & then if anybody clicks through them & makes a purchase, you get paid commissions in return.
And the good news is that if you’d like to learn how to make the most money as an affiliate marketer, our free training course will show you how.
How Much Can You Earn From a Blog In 3 Months?
Whilst blogging can make you a millionaire, the reality that you’ve got to face is that you’re not going to become a millionaire from blogging in just 3 months.
And the amount you do earn will depend entirely on how hard you work, your chosen niche & the competition/search volumes of the keywords you choose to target.
But generally, what you should expect (if you work really hard at it) is to just start earning by the end of month 3.
It’s generally months 6 to 12 when the real results start coming in & that’s when you can begin making $500 per month (or more).
After just 3 months of blogging, with a lot of hard work on creating high-quality content, you shouldn’t expect more than $100 per month.
But after month 3, that’s when things will generally begin to grow much more quickly. So don’t give up!
The Bottom Line
There you have it. Step-by-step, that’s how you can make money blogging in just 3 months.
And we’ve purposely kept the guide as simple as possible because one of the biggest things that slow people down is an overcomplication of the process.
The reality is there’s no need to overcomplicate it.
- Choose a great niche
- Perform keyword research
- Create high-quality content
- Leverage affiliate programs
- Repeat steps 2 & 3
- Profit! 💰
And if you’d like to get step-by-step video training that walks you entirely through the process of building an affiliate marketing business in the shortest time possible, then be sure to sign up for our free training.
But overall, whatever you do, we hope that this guide has helped you out & of course, if you happen to have any additional questions or comments, feel free to leave them below.
