Starting a Blog in 2025:

We are in the year 2025 and most of us are addicted to social media websites- instead of blogs. Monthly active users for Facebook is 3 billion and for YouTube, it is 2.5 billion. It seems and many people feel that blogging is almost if not fully dead. However, blogging is not dead as new blogs are being created every day and millions of people read blogs and the number is not decreasing. 

I started blogging in 2006 and have seen many ups and downs. I have again decided to be a serious blogger in 2025. I am writing this post based on my own experience.

2025: Why Blogging is so Tough?

Blogging surely has become very competitive and becoming successful has become very challenging in 2025. Yes, there are at least 5 billion people in internet but when you start a blog, you may not find even five persons visiting your blog daily.

The first one year can be really daunting and challenging in every aspect. Most bloggers get frustrated and stop trying at all. That is why many people think that blogging is dead in 2025. While this is true for most bloggers, at the same time, there are millions of people who love to read blogs or even the reviews and information before buying anything or watching a movie.

Why do you want to start a Blog?

First of all, ask yourself why you want to open a Blog? Do you want to just earn money and take it as a profession? If this is the case, then remember that, most people hardly earn any money in the first year of their blogging career. The first one year is for learning and experiencing things in this field.  

Are you ready to accept the challenge and wait for one year for money to come? If not, then blogging is not for you. Many people have a rosy dream that if you start blogging, then people will start coming to your blog and praise you. Again, this doesn't happen for most bloggers in the first one year.

Many people start a blog just for fun or hobby. They mostly write about their everyday life. Such blogs rarely become popular unless there is something to learn or the content is enjoyable. Why should you be interested about my eating in a restaurant or about my pet cat? Some start a blog to write about their career updates.

So, first of all, try to find the reason behind you becoming a blogger or starting a blog.

What are the Things you need?

If you want a start a blog, then what are the things you need?  You need to have a name for your blog and domain. Here, you can find the name of this blog is Hobby Economists. I did not buy a domain yet. Then you have you to have to go for self-hosted blog running in WordPress. If you do not know the meaning of self-hosted blog then please, spend one full day about it and learn about it.

A Domain should not cost more than $15 and hosting may vary according to the plans. Again, if you are not familiar with these things- please, spend from 1 day to 1 week so that you can be familiar with these things. These are basic but vital information. There are tons of information available on such topics in Google and YouTube. The only thing that you need is to spend some time learning about them.

 

Blogger vs WordPress

99% people would vote for WordPress when it comes to blogging contenting management software or platform. Yes, WordPress has many advantages but it is a bit technically challenging. So, if you are a new blogger then you can start with Google’s Blogger or Blogspot platform. However, remember that you will have to move to self-hosted WordPress blog sooner or later.

 If you are not comfortable with using technology then I strongly suggest you to spend a few weeks learning about domain, hosting, WordPress, SEO etc. More than 90% professional bloggers use self-hosted WordPress. So, you have to spend a few days to weeks learning about it.

You might wonder why I am writing in a blogger blog and in a subdomain instead of my own domain with WordPress. I am doing it because I am trying to practice and learn the basics of blogging in 2025. I am spending a lot of time. I know that soon I will move to my own domain and perhaps will blog using WordPress. However, I would not advise you to do so because you may lose patience.

Niche Content

You have to find a topic to write about in your blog. There are two suggestions. Firstly, write about the topic that you love and know a lot and passionate. The second idea is that select a topic that has good earning potential and then write about it.

So, let me give you an example. Suppose you love cricket (a sport extremely popular in South Asia but not popular at all in other parts of the world) and you want to start a blog about it. You write posts every day and cover important matches and events. Your readers will mostly come from India. However, earning money will be tough because people do not buy cricket related products online that much outside of India.

On the other hand, if you do not have any passion about gadgets like iPhones but you try to know and write about gadgets then there is a strong chance of earning money because people spend a lot of money after smartphones, gadgets etc.  

So, select your topic carefully. Some niches have more money, some niches have less traffic, some niches are very easy to write and some are very difficult. Spend some time before finalizing your niche topic.

 

SEO

Do you know anything about Search Engine Optimization or SEO? If not, please, spend at least one month to know about it. You see when you want to know about something you just go to the home of Google then type the keywords like these:

iPhone

Who will win the UEFA Cup this season?

Movie Review

You normally click on the search results on the first page 1-5 positions in Google. You rarely go to the second page. So, SEO knowledge is crucial for your survival as a blogger and earning money.

Secondly, it is not that you publish a quality article and then it gets in the first page of Google. It takes time and sometimes it takes few months of time to be in the first page of Google. The more you learn about SEO the better you will become in getting visitors in your blog.

Have your own Voice

There are around 700 million blogs in the world now. So, there are hundreds of blogs on any topic that you can think of. So, if you just publish the news items by simply paraphrasing them people will not be enthusiastic about your blog. That is why, you need to have a voice of your own, give your own opinion and some people will love that.

Commenting and Collaborating

Try to find blogs that you like in your niche. They do not have to be popular. Just try to think why do you like the blogs. Put a quality comment in some posts and soon you will find some bloggers that you know and they know you. Then it will become easy for you to collaborate with some other bloggers.

Monetization

I have already stated that there is hardly any money in the first one year of your blogging life. If you can then you are really lucky. However, if you have a job then do not quit and start blogging with the hope of getting the money of a full time job. Blogging is not simply writing about a niche topic but you have to learn to sell your content.

In 2006, almost all the bloggers used to think of displaying ads from Adsense to earn money from their blogs. Now, there are far more options because of growing popularity of e-Commerce.

Learn the art of Selling

As I said earlier, you have to become skilled about the business side of blogging. You have to think that when you are blogging then yes, obviously you are a writer as writing is the primary skill and you have post content regularly. However, you have to become a seller or business person at the same time if you want to earn money blogging.

Who are your customers? Your readers are your potential customers? Are you selling something in your blog? My advice is that first try to have some decent amount of visitors in your blog. It will take some time to get that. In the meantime, try to read a lot about selling products and services, displaying adds and anything related to earning money in your blog.

 

Social Media is not your Enemy

Many bloggers feel that social media sites Facebook, YouTube, Twitter have destroyed blogging but this is not the case. Social media websites can help your blog in the level that you cannot imagine.

So, start a page in Facebook or if possible a Facebook group in the same name of your blog. Do it for a YouTube Channel too. That can help you to get more readers in your blog. It will take time but if it happens then you will get more readers, more sponsorships and more money with the same amount of time and effort.

Try to be patient

This is the most important thing in blogging. This is the secret behind blogging success. You have to be patient, hardworking and consistent. If you are not patient, then you will get frustrated with a month or two.

Remember that there will be many challenges and destructions when you become a serious blogger. You will not get overnight success, you may have relationship problems and you become sick. However, you have to sacrifice your time. Just spend time to learn about delayed gratification.

Just remember that it takes hard work and patience to become successful in anything in life, not just only in blogging.

Try to avoid AI as much as you can in Creating Blog Posts

If you have already used ChatGPT then you know that it can write an article containing one thousand words for you within just 10-15 seconds. However, no matter how tempting it looks, don’t do it. Google is totally after punishing sites that simply puts article or content generated by Artificial Intelligent or AI.

That does not mean that you should avoid AI totally. Instead, you should use it for generating title, finding a topic, finding information etc. Using AI will save a lot of time. Just, do not copy paste an AI generated content.

Instead, take idea, learn and gather information and stats with the help of AI. Then write the blog post or article in your own words. This will help you a lot to get many things done within a short time and will improve the quality of your blog posts. AI can be extremely helpful in content writing.

Final Words

Finally, this post has been written based on my own idea and experience. I am not an expert but that is why, I think that you should read this post seriously as I am someone like you. My only strength is that I can forget everything else and dedicate my time, energy, focus on something that I love. I do not mind spending 10 hours on writing a blog post. I do not mind thinking about a topic and search about it whole night.

Starting a blog is easy but becoming successful is quite a challenge. So, take the challenge seriously and try your best. I hope that you have liked this article. It was written on 16 March, 2025. I am hopeful that this post will be written by thousands of people in the coming months and years.