Updated October, 2017: Do you want to create an authority blog in Nigeria ? Are you interested in building a blog that makes money for you in Nigeria? Do you wish to start your own blog and dominate your niche but you don’t know how to go about it. Calm down!  This post is for you!

In Nigeria, more and more people are creating blogs every day. Even company’s businesses have blog these days. Sure! Blogging is one of the lucrative means of making money online and equally means to send traffics to a company website.

If you’re wanting to get started with your own blog  in Nigeria or to build an authority blog niche, dominating all other niche related to your blog niche and making money on the go then this article will guide you.

Don’t border, even if you don’t have any knowledge of the internet. You’ll learn in the field!  Top Nigerian Millionaire bloggers like linda    ikeji, Jason Njoku, Emma Onwuka…to mention but a few are never internet guru but they are making six figures on monthly basis. There is that tendency that you will join them if you create your own authority blog niche today.

I don’t write to motivate you but to guide you on how to start your own blog that makes money for you.  So, in this mega post; I’m going to work you through 10 simple steps of creating a blog that makes at least $1000 (₦200, 000) in 2 months.

10 Steps  to Create Blog Authority Niche in Nigeria and makes $1000 in 2months

If you don’t own a blog yet and you are wondering how to create one that make such money, here are 10 steps  to create a blog authority niche in Nigeria you’ll follow:

1. Choose What You Want To Blog About and  Set your blog goals
2. Formulate your blog operational strategy
3. Research for a profitable blog niche
4. Get a domain name and hosting
5. Install WordPress as your blogging platform
6. Choose a theme and decide on branding your blog logos and colors.
7. Add SEO plugin like All in one SEO etc. to your blog to get your blog index by search engines.
8. Submit your blog to Search Engines for indexing
9. Start blogging – publishing quality content that people will find valuable and useful.
10. Build blog traffic, authority and  Make the money.

The content below will go into much deeper detail about creating a blog that makes money. I included bunch of helpful resources.

First, let’s look at why you may create a Blog?

• To turn passion into profit: This is why I created my own blog. If this is your ultimate reason for creating a blog then you are on the right track. If it is not, retrace your step. Period! Passion comes when you are being your authentic self and doing what comes naturally to you. When what you do is in alignment with whom you are, you get energy from doing it. I’m very fortunate. I’ve found passion in blogging and I’m living it out every single day. And let me tell you –it feels incredibly fabulous to be able to make a living doing what you love. Blogging is not “work”, to me because it exciting, rewarding and interesting to do. It is not a “job” but a passion.
• To meet new friends: Blogging in Nigeria or other parts of Africa can be fun but above all you will make a lot of friends from your readers who may turn out to engage you via comment.
• To perfect your writing skill: When you write often, you learn to perfect your writing skill.

Detail Steps  to Creating A Blog  in Nigeria,  Authoritative Niche that makes $1000 in 2months

If you are really sure you want to create a blog that makes money, here is an in-depth detail on how to start the blog

1. Choose What You Want To Blog About and  Set your blog goals

The first step towards creating a blog that makes money is to choose what you want to blog about and  set goals for the blog. Your success as a blogger is much more dependent on your blog goals. Setting goals and objectives when creating a blog gives you a clearer picture of your future blog. It provides you with both long-and short-term motivation. It helps you get focus, and to organize your time and your resources to make the very most of your blog. Your blog goals should be; Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Relevant and Time-bound.

2. Formulate your blog operational strategy

How will you run the blog so as to make money from it? By formulating and developing blog operational strategies, you can examine and implement effective and efficient method for using limited resources-capital, writers and work process to achieve your goals. One good technique adopted by many pro-bloggers today is blog model technique. A particular blog is studied right from the time of creation to the time the blog starts paying off in spades. That particular blog’s strategy will be adopted by another blogger who tries to avoid mistakes and errors made by the model.

3. Research for a profitable blog niche

Blog niche ideas abound! A little research can help you find a profitable blog niche.

• Visiting popular forums like nairaland.com, nigeriabestforum, and asking questions on nigeriaplatform.com  can help you discover what people are seriously searching for.
• Visit other blogs and check out readers’ questions and responses.
• Join different social media where users comments.
• Use your brain! You are not a dumb. List out twenty things you have search on the internet before. Start from there!

4. Get a domain name and Hosting

Get a domain name that is fairly short, relevant to your blog niche, easy to remember or memorize and easy to say. Online users must be able to easily find your blog and pass it along by word of mouth to others. These days it’s nearly impossible to get fairly short top-level domain name. Online users who search for different types of business will usually search with more specific terms. A domain that specifies what type of business or information they looking for should be your best bait. Once, you have succeeded in getting a good domain name; host it!

5. Install WordPress as your blogging platform.

A self-hosted WordPress blog is still best . Create and setup your own WordPress.org blog on your own host. I strongly believe that free blogs platforms like Blogger and even WordPress.com do not give you the control, ownership and branding options that you need. One thing I know for sure is that people using a free blog host will one day want to migrate it to their own host. The process can be an annoying often times as you may end losing your site contents. It’s much better to get it right from the beginning.

6. Choose a theme and decide on branding your blog logos and colours

Choose a responsive theme for your blog and customize it by adding navigations, unique logo and color. A responsive blog theme displays your blog well on mobile devices and this increases your blog’s Google mobile ranking. There are lots of free and premium responsive themes out theme.  Use whichever one you can lay your hands on. The only difference between them is theme customization support that you can receive from premium theme developers but never get from free responsive theme.

6. Add SEO plugin like  All in One SEO  to get your blog index by search engines

In other to increase the chance of Google indexing your blog pages and help search engines find all the articles on your blog, you need to add sitemap to your blog. You can do this simply by using Google sitemap plugin. Adding all in one SEO plugin to your blog will also help to improve blog’s search engine friendliness.

7. Submit your blog to Search Engines for indexing

You can also submit your blog to search engines such as Google, Bing and Ask search engines for fast indexing of your blog

9. Start blogging – publishing quality content that people will find valuable and useful.

To create a blog that makes money, one most important thing you need is high traffic. Traffic pays!  Build your blog traffic first and you will see the money rolling in. High blog traffic= high $$$. To blog build traffic, you have to be publishing quality content that is helpful to your readers. Write long content – Long content has been working for years  and will still be working. Neil Patel has talked about how well long content works for him and now even Google has launched an in-depth articles section on their search results. Forget about short little post updates you see on must blog and start working on longer content that solves problems and provides so much value that people can’t help but share it with their friends. Apply Search engine optimization (SEO) – SEO is necessary for helping people find your new post! Applying little SEO techniques like deep linking your blog posts when publishing new post will improve your blog post ranking. With Google search console you can discover broken links; so sign up for Google webmaster tool. Promote your blog and your new blog articles – For some reason bloggers hate the idea of spending money on advertising. Use social media like Facebook page, Google+, twitter, Pinterest to promote your new blog content.  One way to bypass your competitors is to spend a little bit of money promoting your best work to a targeted group of people who are likely to be interested in your stuff.

10. Monetize your blog

Don’t restrict yourself only to use of Affiliate marketing. Affiliates marketing alone will not earn you up to $500 in a months unless you are pro-affiliate marketer. Multiple stream of income is the ultimate. If you must create a blog that makes money, you have to monetize your blog using 3-4 different variable online income means such as;

• Creating your own information product like valuable eBook that you can market on your blog.
• Appealing for big time advertisers.
• Using Google adsense

With the combination of above means of blog monetization, you are sure of making nothing less than $1000 (200K) in 2 months as a beginner

 The content above can be adopted by anybody who want to create a blog that makes money. Your geographical location doesn’t matter. Whether you are in Australia, Uganda, Ghana, Russian, Europe, Saudi, Italy, Indonesia, Philippine, South Africa, India, UK, USA etc, you can still adopt the steps.

YOU CAN ALSO REGISTER NOW WITH US FOR LATEST TRAINING ON BLOGGING.

We are offering a complete training course on blogging. Some of the things you will be learning on this training include but not limited to;

Training course on  Blogging for Nigerians

1. WEEK 1
   • Introduction to blogging
   • How to setup a blog
   • Practical steps to creating a business blog
   • How to find profitable blog niche ideas
2. WEEK 2
   • How to research and choose the best domain name for your blog and business
   • 100 profitable blog niche ideas yet untapped 2017
   • How to set blog mission and objectives that will stand the test of time
   • Key blog operational strategic plans and planning
3. WEEK 3
   • Content and audience targeting (local and international audience)
   • Choosing a blog model and the must-know before choosing blog model
4. WEEK 4

• How to match blog content with monetization methods
• How to test blog layout of exact same content and ad placements to boost ad income
• How to apply for Google Adsense and get quick approval
• How to apply for Media-net and get quick approval
• How to apply for Taboola and get approval

7. WEEK 5
   • Fundamentals of SEOs
   • Keyword research and free keyword research tools
   • Blog on-page and off-page optimization
8. WEEK 6
   • How to avoid blog keywords cannlibazation
   • Use of plug-in for page optimization
   • Complete effective procedure for blog SEOs
9. WEEK 7
   • How to publish blog articles that are easily pickup by Newspapers
   • Personalization in blog content writing and Brand building
   • Pro and cons of Content marketing
   • Effective methods of blog promotion
10. WEEK 8 : Case studies

• naijaonlinebiz.com
• linda Ikeji blog
• mytopbusinessideas. com
• naij.com

We will take you through the practical process of starting a new blog to the point of making money with your blog. You can send us email at immax2005@gmail.com or use our contact form to send us email if you are interested.  For questions and comments, you can use the comment-form below.