Building, Promoting, and Monetizing for Blogging

Build Your Blog

1. Bluehost Web Hosting

Bluehost is the company I use to host my website.  They are affordable, and they have 24/7 support.  I did once have an issue where my site went down, and after contacting them, it was fixed in under an hour.  They were professional and courteous.  Great company to look into if you are planning on beginning blogging.

Bluehost also works seamlessly with WordPress.org which makes it easy and pretty intuitive.

 

2. Build and Launch Your Blog

This is a course from Create and Go

Launch Your Blog Business is a course that teaches you how to set up your blog as well as prepare it to be a money-making business.

 

Promote Your Blog

3. Pinterest Traffic Avalanche

This is a course from Create and Go

This course focuses on setting up your Pinterest account to bring in traffic to your blog.  This course shows you how to apply for rich pins, create eye-catching graphics, verify your website.  It teaches you what is important to focus on to drive traffic from Pinterest to your blog!

4. Tailwind

Tailwind is a service where you can schedule your pins to pin ahead of time, so you don’t have to be constantly worrying about getting your blog posts pinned.  You can set up your pins in advance, make it, so they don’t post too close together, there are places where you can join groups with other blogs and share each other’s stuff.

Monetize Your Blog

5. Six-Figure Blogger

This is a course from Create and Go

The Six Figure Blogger course teaches you how to take your blog to the next level.  Alex and Lauren at Createandgo.com show you how they made their blog into a business that brought them in over $100,000 in their first year.

6. Share A Sale

Share A Sale is a website that allows you to connect with companies that are looking for affiliate marketers.  They have over 4,500 merchants across a wide variety of categories.

7. Convert Kit Email Marketing

Email marketing is the best way to grow your following and create better relationships with your customers.  I tried a few different email marketing services and decided that ConvertKit’s tools are leaps and bounds above the rest.

Also, Check-Out:

How to Turn Your Blog into a Side Hustle

How to Drive Traffic to Your Blog