How to Make Money With WordPress in 48 Hours or Less

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You want to make money with WordPress in 48 hours or less, right? That’s something within reach. The good news, I will show you how to build a blog with income potential in less than 48 hours.

And you must be ready to put in the extra work required to achieve this type of success. If you’re unwilling to go the extra mile, all our efforts will go down the drain.

But before we continue this journey together, let me make some disclaimers. So we’re on the same page, and things won’t fall apart or you feel disappointed at the end.

• This article will teach you how to create a WordPress blog with great income “potential.”
• There is no guarantee whatsoever that you will earn a single dollar even after following all the steps described in this post. Making money from blogging depends on many factors – some are within your control, and others are outside your custody.
• If you have never created a blog before, your chances of making money with WordPress in 48 hours are 1 out of 100.
• Theoretically, it is possible to make money blogging in 48 hours, but in practice, it is very difficult to achieve such if you’re starting with a brand new WordPress blog.
• More often in this guide, I will refrain from boldly claiming that this advice will help you make money with WordPress in 48 hours.

I hope we are clear now. If you need more information, feel free to reach out. I’m always here to help.

Now that we’re good, let’s follow the step-by-step guide to building a WordPress blog. A blog to generate income as fast as possible. 

Note: If you have an existing blog, you can skip to the blog monetization section of this guide. But if you’re just starting from scratch, continue reading.

Steps to Make Money With a WordPress Blog

If you want to build a WordPress blog that will make you money as fast as possible, you need to follow these steps. 

These are the steps I followed to create a blog. And it has been proven to be one of the fastest ways to quickly get a blog to a good start.

Pick a Niche

Picking the right niche is the first step to a successful online business. You need to target a specific market or audience.

How big or small the niche also determines the blog’s success or failure.

If the niche is small and few people blog in that direction, that could signify an industry with minimum spending power.

But if the niche is big and many websites blogging on the topic, that’s a positive sign of a valuable market. 

We can’t distinguish a profitable niche from a not-so-good niche with our two naked eyes. We need a keyword tool to help us out. 

I have used a few keyword tools in my online career; Semrush and Rank Tracker from SEO Powersuite are my favorites.

You need one of these tools to research the market and pick the right niche for your WordPress blog.

How to Pick a Niche With Keyword Research 

First, list things you’re good at in real life. These could be talking, arguments, jokes, laughing, traveling, carpentry, nursing, mathematics, sports, etc. 

Don’t bother if something on your list doesn’t make sense to you at this stage. Just put as many possibilities down on paper.

When you explore your options, head over to the Semrush keyword magic or SEO Powersuite Rank Tracker. 

Note: Rank Tracker is a desktop-based software. You download and install it on your personal computer. Both Semrush and Rank Tracker offers a forever free user account, so you don’t have to worry about the financial cost.

Enter your list of options in the keyword tool, select your target location, and hit the search button. Here are the keywords metrics to pay attention to:

• Search volume
• Cost per click
• Search trend
• Competition in search results
• Keyword difficulty

At this stage, we are not looking for a content topic to write about but to get an idea of how big and profitable our niche could be.

If the search volume is trending upward, that’s even better. And if the cost per click is high, we are in a lucrative industry.

If these two metrics are as expected, the competition will be high. And there will be lots of websites writing on relevant niche topics. 

The more competitive a niche is, the more difficult it will be to rank your content on SERP. But as you explore more keyword opportunities, you will begin to discover easy-to-rank keywords you can target with your content.

Domain Name and Web Hosting

The next step is registering your domain name and purchasing a web hosting plan. There is no big deal here, and registering a new domain name and hosting does not cost much.

Picking a good domain name is not rocket science; you can use your name if you’re comfortable with that. And if you want to build a personal long-term blog business. Alternatively, you can use a niche keyword + a word.

For example, www.blogginglion.com – in this example, “blogging” is the niche keyword, and “lion” is a supporting word. You can use these tips to come up with a few domain names. And check for availability from Namecheap.

If you purchase web hosting from any of the web hosts I recommend in this post (NameCheap or Bluehost), you get a free 1-year domain name registration. 

Yes, your first-year domain name registration fee is on the web host. And you get even more hosting features for free:

• Free SSL certificate
• Website Builder
• up to 51% discount on your first invoice with Namecheap
• CDN
• Unmetered bandwidth 
• SSD storage
• One-click WordPress install
• Unlimited websites for the second-tier hosting plans 
• 24/7 supports

Install WordPress theme

Next on our list is to install a fast WordPress theme like Astra. 

You can download the free Astra WordPress theme since you’re on a tight marketing budget.

There are many free and paid WordPress themes in the market and even in the WordPress theme directory, but you can save time and energy searching through endless pages.

Astra is a multipurpose WordPress theme, fast, SEO optimized, and has many outstanding features you won’t get in many WordPress themes.

Astra comes with starter templates that allow you to build an incredible website in minutes without being a designer.

Here are some of the features you get in Astra:

• Hundreds of Starter templates
• SEO Optimized
• Astra is less than 50kb 
• Custom header and footer
• Woocommerce ready
• Custom font
• Google font
• Custom link, typography, buttons, and font.

You can check the full Astra Theme features on this page here.

Install WordPress plugins

You need to install WordPress themes that help extend the functionality of your WordPress blog. The plugins you download and install will depend on the type of blog you set up.

But for many WordPress blogs, these plugins are the must-have:

• JetPack
• AIO SEO
• Akismet
• Wordfence
• Yoast
• WP Rocket

You can check what your competitors use by searching through the page source code or doing a simple Google search for your niche keyword + best plugin.

For example, the best WordPress plugin for a travel blog and the best WordPress plugins for tech blogs. As you do this, note common plugins on all the pages.

This is how you discover new plugins to try on your blog.

Write Your first content

We are progressing at a fast pace and are about to get your blog on the internet. 

Once you’ve set up your blog design, installed relevant plugins, and are good with the look, it’s time to publish your first content.

If you’re confident in your writing skill, you can do this task yourself, but outsourcing is a better choice if you’re not a good writer now.

Since starting this blog to earn money as quickly as possible, you need to start with quality content from day 1.

This is why I would advise that if you have not written a WordPress blog before, consider hiring someone who can write a good copy for you on relevant niche topics.

A good place to find freelance writers at an affordable price is Fiverr. Fiverr is a marketplace for freelancers to offer their services for hire. Go to Fiverr and research the gig to find a suitable profile you can work with.

Promote Your Blog

If you don’t promote your blog, no one will find it. You must develop a content marketing strategy to get people to your website.

For a start, you will need to leverage the social media platforms, forums, competitors’ websites, your social circle, etc.

Remember to also add social sharing buttons to your website. It helps and makes it easy for your reader to share your content with their followers.

If you want to go big on driving traffic to your money pages, investing in paid ads might be a better option.

You can start with Facebook ads to test your audience and content. If you target the right audience, Facebook ads are cheap and drive better results.

You won’t get traffic from the search engines at this stage, so your only alternative is the social media platforms and referral traffic. So share your content as far as possible to extend your reach.

Monetize Your Content

If you will make money with WordPress in 48 hours or less, this is where it all lies. The monetization tactics you explore will depend on several other factors.

For example, there is no point in running Adsense or any other display advertising network on your blog if you’re going to make money in 48 hours.

You can not earn a decent income from advertising on a brand-new blog in 48 hours.

On average, it takes many blogs 6 to 12 months to generate meaningful income from anything displayed in advertising. So we’re not going out look in that direction for this purpose.

Let’s explore other options that are more realistic to our goal of making money with WordPress in 48 hours.

Affiliate Marketing

Affiliate marketing is more realistic for our goal, but you must work harder and think upfront before creating your blog.

Many affiliate programs are more likely to accept blogs with decent traffic, engagements, and a good number of posts.

Since you’re starting new with fewer blog posts, and less traffic, you need to search for affiliate programs that don’t require establishing blogs as part of the acceptance policy.

From experience, in-house affiliate programs are better options here. Some merchants automatically accept paying customers into their affiliate programs, irrespective of whether they have a blog. These are the type of affiliate programs you should look out for.

Here are some options I have experience with:

• AI Copywriting vendors – sign up with relevant AI copywriting vendors and enroll in their affiliate program. Most AI vendors don’t ask for your blog URL during signup.
• Tourism industry – If you run a travel blog, you can sign up with companies to help promote their business. In some cases, this does not require having a blog.
• Events – If you’re part of an upcoming event, you can sign up for the affiliate program and help promote it.

Selling a Product

You don’t have to create the product yourself; you can partner with marketers in your niche and directly sell their products on your blog. How you go about this depends on your existing connections.

But it could help you make some decent income from the blog if done right. If you’re promoting an existing popular product to a new audience, it will certainly take some effort on your side to get people to buy it, but give it a try.

Offer a Service

Offering your services to your audience can be a good way to earn as fast as possible. People who are interested in your service will contact you and make inquiries.

If you position yourself as an expert and clearly explain how you can help solve a particular problem, you can get clients quickly. Your blog is a better place to showcase your expertise and convince potential clients to work with you.

I recommend you have an about me page and a hire me page.

The about me page should give a detailed background of who you are, how you discovered your online passion, and how you’ve evolved over time to reach this level.

The hire me page will clearly explain your area of expertise, how you intend to work with clients, your working rate, price, job description, requirements to begin the job, and every other necessary detail.

FAQ – How to Make Money With WordPress in 48 Hours

Conclusion…

You need to set a realistic goal of making money with WordPress. Trying to do this in two days if you’re a beginner to blogging is not even close to getting it right.

You need time to get used to your blogging environment and master the art of writing good copy. 

Also, you need to learn content marketing, as this is one of the biggest factors that lead to success or failure in online marketing. But you can always outsource content marketing tasks to a better capable hand.

I have given you the road map to making money with WordPress in 48 hours; it is now for you to take on the challenge.