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title: 'If I was starting a blog with AI in 2026, here’s what I’d do'
source: 'https://youtube.com/watch?v=kWiadC2Lflc'
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date: 2026-09-15
duration_sec: 3222
channel: 'Adam Enfroy'
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# If I was starting a blog with AI in 2026, here’s what I’d do

> Source: [If I was starting a blog with AI in 2026, here’s what I’d do](https://youtube.com/watch?v=kWiadC2Lflc)

## Summary

The video is a comprehensive guide to starting a profitable blog in 2025, based on the creator's personal success of earning over $500,000 in a single year. It covers modern strategies, including using AI for content creation, building a personal brand, and focusing on selling your own products. The creator emphasizes a shift from traditional SEO to a more holistic, business-oriented approach.

### Key Points

- **Proof of Income** [00:00] — The creator made $517,000 from blogging last year, with over $500,000 from affiliate marketing alone.
- **2025 Strategy** [51:16] — The strategy for 2025 involves treating the blog as a sales portal, building a personal brand as a teacher, and using a secondary traffic source plus Google.
- **Low Startup Costs** [49:54] — The total cost to get started is under $50 a month, including ChatGPT, domain, and hosting.
- **High Profit Margins** [50:48] — Blogging can have a 90% profit margin, compared to 7-10% for a typical business.
- **Scaling Strategy** [51:02] — The creator recommends maintaining a 50% profit margin and reinvesting the rest to scale, including hiring help.

## Transcript

From January 2019 to December 2024, my single blog, adamantro.com, made me $5 million. Pretty hard to believe, that's not typical, but what I did to launch it back then is not exactly what I was doing today.
I made a lot of change. There's AI content, either algorithm changes, new stuff with affiliate marketing and SEO. So if you're just starting out, I'm going to go through everything that I would do in this video to get to $10K a month. I'm also going to share some AI prompts with you, so a bunch of free frameworks you can use for keyword research, content writing,
all kinds of stuff if you're interested in getting my top 10 of those make sure to click the link in the description below so that that in my free master class so let's get into this course how to starting a blog in 2025 this is what I do the full 0 to 10k a month guide so I want to teach you a lot in this free
course we're going to cover what I would actually do to make money blogging today the different paths you can choose from in order to make money based on your niche and some other factors how to create content quickly and efficiently with AI the tools you need to get started everything the exact step by
that thing to do and then growing to 10k miles without burning out or having to go viral so let's get into it so i just want to show you real quick this is last year's profit and loss statement i made 517 000 blogging over 500 000 from affiliate marketing and just the first two months of this
year i've made 130 000 of affiliate revenue so still about 65 000 a month with some new updated strategies we're actually working even with not that much traffic to my blog still here's the
to say what worked when I first started does not work this year because like me I didn't start this blog until I was like 30. I worked at a pizza place until I was 26. I learned enough about affiliate marketing and SEO to finally make it work. I learned about passive income 12 years
before I made my first passive income dollar but in 2019 I actually figured it out to create one of the most profitable blogs fastest growing blogs ever made. Current life I make between 50 to 100k per month. My best month I ever had was over $800,000. Worst month I had was 22K on this
business. I teach 5,000 students how to start blogs and successful online businesses. And I've made over $14.5 million online since 2020. That's an average of $170K a month for the last five years. So scaling a personal brand through simple content with a website.
But however, I've learned that this has changed a lot. The online world is very volatile. out you have to adapt to what actually works today. So what would I do to make money blogging? This is what I would do. I would treat my blog like a sales portal, not an affiliate SEO site only.
I'd build a true personal brand with a blog plus a secondary traffic source, Pinterest, YouTube, Instagram, and then three main income streams that I will show you. So why do you need a blog anyways?
Well you need a website because a website is central to all the monetization tactics you're going to have. There's affiliate links on your blog. You can sell your own products on your blog. You make ad revenue on your blog. All of those different things. So if it's a solar system, the blog is like the sun.
And then all of the traffic sources are like planets. So there's Google, organic. Most people would only focus on that at the beginning. But there's other things too. LinkedIn, Pinterest, Instagram, YouTube. All of these different platforms.
So you need a website to send the traffic to. And think of it like a sales portal. Not only a Google-driven thing. Now real quick, when you're ready to launch your blog, make sure to click my special blue host link below this video.
It's my affiliate link, and you'll get 75% off. It's $1.99 a month to get started. So basically, you go to this page. It's normally $12. You can get it with my link for just $1.99 a month. You click Get Started Now. So take you to this.
You just choose Basic. The Basic plan is fine. And then you can just go to this. You can either put in a domain name if you already own it, put in your own name because I recommend personal branding, or just choose it later.
You can choose a variation of your name, like AdamsAdvice.com or something broad enough to keep it good. But I would say just choose a domain later to get the deal. And then it takes you to the checkout page where you can get basically a year of hosting and free domain for the year.
And you'll check out for $23.88. So a lot of other hosts, like, are they faster? Are they better? Maybe, but they're also like $200 to $400 a year, whereas Bluehost you can get for just $23 a year. If you're going to start a full business for a year, you might as well do it.
But the cheapest way possible. So again, go to the YouTube description, click the Bluehost link, and you'll get that $1.99 a month web hosting to start your blog. So I'm going to show you three quick examples of personal brands that kind of stand out in the niches of finance, gardening, and yoga, and why it works.
So here's the first one. This is Rob Berger, and this is a finance website. Now you'll notice he is an author, so he has a book here that he's selling. He has, you can buy it on Amazon. So his platform is also YouTube, so he has a YouTube channel where he has three, you
know, video on the portfolio trackers. He has articles, simple articles, like retirement calculators, mental alternatives, and all these different nice looking simple articles. But you can see, this is a personal brand.
He has a YouTube channel. He has articles. He has a newsletter. He has a book. So there's multiple things going on here. One of his main calls to action is joining a newsletter. So there's multiple things going on. Another one is charlesdowding.co.uk.
So he is a gardener. Now you can see this is a nice looking site. He has a gardening, his own product, a garden planner app. He has a main call to action. You can join his free newsletter. He has a shop.
So you can see he's actually selling physical products here. He has seeds that he sells, books, wall charts, growing guides, all of that. He also has blog posts, right? Blog is a component of your personal brand, but it's not just the one and only thing.
He has that. He also has a YouTube channel, courses, his own courses, skills for growing, no-dig gardening, seed harvesting. There's a lot going on, right? It's not just a simple, the days of just affiliate SEO where you can just blast a bunch of affiliate articles are over.
It's not easy to do that anymore. Google made it a lot more difficult, which we'll show in the future. But really, you need to think of it as a marketer. Think of it as a well-rounded marketer. If someone's landing on you, on your personal brand, what are you going to say?
What are you going to teach? What are you going to sell? You have to kind of have multiple traffic sources. Here's another one, Yoga with Adrienne. So this is, you know, subscribe to the weekly newsletter. She's got her blog here.
She's got a calendar. She's got free yoga videos. She's got a shop. So there's a lot going on, right? This is a personal brand. Again, a sales portal blog. That's what I view it as. So there's videos.
There's blog posts. There's ways to interact and buy things. So notice how these are multi-traffic stores, personal brands. And the blog is the central place to get all of the information. It is central to the monetization strategy here and it kind of looks like this.
So there's a unique brand of you, your personal brand. You are only you and you are a unique person that has something to teach and something to share with the world. Your website and blog is central to that. You have content creation.
So this can be WordPress, this can be a blog. I'll show you exactly what to use for that. Or YouTube or Instagram or things like that. Content creation plus your own products, courses, coaching, guides, creates growth and profit.
the actual output of this. So this is the big driver here, all content creation. And yes, you can have affiliate links to products. Yes, you can have ad revenue and different things that we'll cover. But the main thing here is this is a formula creating new content for yourself with
the help of AI to funnel people to your own products, your own services, and also affiliate links. So with that said, let's talk about the different paths to make money blogging today. Well, first we have to think about how do you actually make money with a website? Well,
there's a couple of different ways to do that. So these are the different main blog revenue streams that we can talk about. This is a chart here that has the level of passiveness of the income, one being not passive at all, ten being very passive income, and then the
time it takes to get to that income. So first is affiliate marketing. This is kind of the bread and butter of the blogging world. However, it's getting more difficult on its own to just focus on this through Google. Passive level is seven. It can be quite passive. I'm
still making money passively from articles that aren't even ranking anymore because of recurring affiliate commissions. So that's good. However, it takes a lot of work to create the articles to add the affiliate links to monitor traffic to make sure that they stay
ranking, to update it, to get links to it. All of that stuff can take time. So it's past the level of seven, and it's about six months to get there. Then there's ad revenue, so banner ads on your blog. You can join an ad network like Mediavine. You get banner ads at the bottom, sidebar.
These are just ads that are thrown around. You get money every time that someone views your content. However, it takes a long time to get there, 12 plus months at least to make any significant revenue. I'll show you the math on it, but you need a lot of traffic to make any decent amount
of money with ads. Next is sponsors, so you can get sponsors to either do sponsored content on your website or pay you to be added to articles. Passive level is fourth, so you're actually talking to people, emailing, getting back
and forth, talking to them, put them into articles and get paid, and invoicing. That should be probably 12 plus months as well because brands aren't going to pay you if you don't have traffic. Next, we have courses and coaching, which is a passive level of three.
So it's not passive at all to active income. If you're running a course or coaching business, you are creating a course with video content, right? And then once it gets passive, it can be quite passive, but you want to update the course. You want to have live Q&As.
Maybe you can hire a coach and get it really passive. I've done that where it's quite passive for me over time, right? We have multiple coaches within programs and things like that and live Q&As and whatnot. But the thing about this is courses can take 12 plus months because you need a decent sized audience to get started and start selling courses.
Coaching can only be one month because when you think about it, I'll get to the math on this. Coaching is more outreach, making just a few sales, high ticket sales that can actually make that 10K a month a lot faster.
And then services too. So services is probably the fastest way to make money blogging out of the gate is what I started with. I was just doing some simple link building and SEO for clients. I had three clients and I quit my full-time job. I was making about $9,000 a month or something like that with three clients paying me $3,000 each.
So I was working. It wasn't passive. I was doing work for them, but it was pretty easy, to be honest. That can come a lot faster. And then we have PPC affiliate, which is another way to make money by bidding on Google AdWords keywords to funnel traffic to affiliates.
That way, I just put the risk. The passive level is quite passive because once the ads start working, it can just start making a lot of money. However, it's risky to spend your own money and you need to negotiate really high commission
rates to make that work. Like, think, you want to make at least a $300 to $500 CPA and you spend, you know, $100 to $200 on keywords and clicks to make that money. So, these are all the different ones to think about.
Now, we want to really think about the math behind this. So, what do we actually do today? The first problem, though, is that most people start with a passive income first approach. They want to get to passive income. That's fine. However, it takes a lot of active work to get there, so why don't we just think about
that active work as something that we can do and make money a lot faster. Plus, passive income can take a long time because it requires a lot more traffic, a lot more clicks on things in order to make money. We have to make active income a good thing again.
It's fun to do this stuff if you can take it full time. With the right revenue streams, we can get to 10k a month a lot faster. Let's take a look at this with the different income streams. marketing getting to $10,000 could be if we if we're doing affiliate marketing we get a 10%
commission on a $500 product so you're sending links to a $500 product and that affiliate program is paying you 10% you will make $50 per sale so to get the 10k a month you would need 200 sales at $50 with a 2% conversion rate to get those 200 sales you would need 10,000 clicks to
those products in order to make 200 sales. And in order to do that, you would need about 40,000 visits to high-intent affiliate articles per month to do that. So out of those 40,000 people that visit those high-intent affiliate articles, about 25%
usually click the affiliate links near the top. Like if you have an article like the five best online course platforms, 25% of people will click the affiliate links in there. So you need 40,000 visitors a month to high intent, probably competitive articles in order to make money, make 10K a month with affiliate marketing.
Ads, the average RPM or revenue per 1,000 visitors is around $10. So maybe it could be $20, but for our purposes, we're going to say $10. Even with AdSense, it could be like $2. That's why, you know, in Mediavine, mine was like between $15 and $20.
So you're getting paid based on the niche you're in and then just an RPM that is really you know between 10 and 20 bucks. We're gonna say 10. So to make $10,000 you would need 10 times 1,000 times 1,000.
So you need a million visits a month to make $10,000 a month to add. So this is a huge website with hundreds of articles and that sounds like a lot of work. I'll skip the courses so this is simple math.
That could be 10 sales at $1,000. So that would be 500 people in your email list with 500 people opt-in, 2% convert. And then from there, about 2% of people typically will join your email list from like an extra 10th off.
So that could be 25,000 visits to related helpful content, internet. So a little bit less traffic than the other two. But it's still a decent amount of traffic. It's not easy to come by necessarily. Let's look at YouTube sales comparison. So again, you could have a low-ticket course, 10 customers at $1,000.
You could have 500 leads for that. That would be 50 views on YouTube Or what about coaching And this can be true through blogging too Two customers of 5 is only eight booked calls or about 8 views on YouTube
So the lowest amount of traffic you need, the smallest audience that you would need to make money is through coaching or services. Because just think about it. Less traffic, you charge more, you can make the same.
So we have to kind of shift our thinking when it comes to blogging that we should be coaching. We should be teaching things and coaching people with live Q&As, a course, and a community and things like that because we can build a 10K a month and much bigger business if we're selling our own products that are actually a little bit more expensive than worrying about making a $10 affiliate commission.
Now, certain platforms lend themselves better to certain revenue streams. YouTube is better for courses and coaching. I've seen this firsthand. The same amount of views on YouTube will sell a lot more courses than that amount of traffic through a blog.
Probably by at least five or ten times. But blogging can be better for affiliate revenue. People are Googling things directly looking for the best products and the best baby solar. You're going to be Googling that.
You're going to be looking at articles and going for it immediately. Now, this can work also through YouTube, but Google is good for that too. Now, here's what 10-10 months blogging could look like. So, a purchase has to be made somewhere when we think about making money blogging.
Unless you're just waiting for millions of views and ad revenue, somebody has to buy something. They have to buy an affiliate product or a product from you. So, again, if you want to make $10K a month, you could do courses, 10 sales at $1K.
You could do coaching, 2 clients at $5K, or that could be like 3 clients at $3K. Affiliate, that could be 100 affiliate product sales at $100 commission. Or ads, again, it could be a million visits.
So do you want to make two coaching sales or do you want to make 100 affiliate sales? So you just start thinking about it. You use 50 times more sales through affiliate links than you would just selling your own coaching program. So again, if you only have a blog with SEO traffic, there's a real business risk.
There's a reason that big brands don't only rely on organic Google traffic. They have other marketing streams. And bloggers have to become marketers now. You have to have a secondary traffic source. Because really, bloggers, you know, we tend to be mediators of purchase decisions.
People Google things, they search for products like best laptops, credit cards, camping tents, anything. The millions of products out there that exist and all of those keywords to an affiliate article to make affiliate revenue.
It's really that simple. However, personal brands are more than that. We have to kind of get outside of just that little bubble and realize that that doesn't work anymore. It's getting too competitive in that space. There are a few niches that it can work, but why not just make a lot more money and do something a little bit different?
So there can be Google searches, but also helpful info content leading to courses and coaching sales. Yes, there can be affiliate revenue, but then what about a secondary traffic source like YouTube and Instagram with both affiliate link clicks and then people joining the email list here
through your content to your course and coaching sale. It can all funnel the same way. Basically, you can send all traffic from YouTube, from Instagram, in your bio, from blog traffic to the same email list, the same landing pages, into your same coaching program.
That's where a lot of bloggers struggle with is that the offer can be good, but the way to get there is really difficult. The navigation is confusing on the website. We don't have one clear call to action.
I see a lot of bloggers have this work. Like, my courses, my coaching programs, my articles, this and that. It's just really hard to understand. We need one clear place to go if you have a course or your own program so that people know where to go.
Now, we have to cover this with the Google algorithm, the big elephant in the room. Can we trust Google anymore? There's been tons and tons of Google algorithm updates over the years. I've seen my traffic go up, traffic go down, up again, down again.
And at this point, you know, people are getting sick and tired of it, to be honest. Vlogging is completely different than it was. Take it from me, you can no longer trust Google to run an entire business. Google is struggling in the last year. I mean, they're not struggling.
They make billions of dollars. But with AI, they're really having a bit of an identity crisis. They're really rewarding sites like Forbes and Reddit and big media sites and really screwing over the small independent publisher when it comes to ranking.
So we have to adjust our strategy where, yes, organic traffic can be a part of a blog strategy, but it shouldn't be the only part. It could have been the only part before. When I first started, it was the only thing I focused on, which was SEO.
But is SEO dead? for small bloggers, I'm going to say yes, it is. By itself, it is. I don't trust it anymore. Unless you're just a maniac that's really amazing at AI content and scaling publishing,
or you're just really, really, really, really good at SEO. You're one of those 1% people that can make it work in a very non-competitive niche. I would not go for that only. You have to step outside of this whole affiliate SEO blogging Google world
and think of it as marketing and personal branding. You need a secondary traffic source. And here's the truth. Everything has its own challenges. So if you want to get a following on X, you have to publish a lot of content.
You have to post all the time. You have to have unique little takes and things. If you want to build an Instagram following, you need to create useful, helpful videos and image content, a TikTok following, a YouTube following, a blog.
It's all somewhat challenging, right? I wouldn't say one is easier than the other. Is it easier to start a YouTube channel than a blog? There's technical aspects that are easier, but if you're an introvert, it's probably not.
Everything has its own unique set of challenges. The key is just to stay consistent with something that you enjoy, that you can actually do, where you can stay consistent publishing content over the course of months and years and not quit.
And most importantly, help people. Because we're not just writing to entertain, we're writing to teach something. Teaching opens the door to all revenue streams, including your own products. Instead of just creating entertaining content and random things, if you can teach, you can make money selling your own courses, you can send people affiliate links to the products that they actually need to do the things that you're teaching, and you can build a lot of trust.
So first you have to think of yourself as a teacher if you're a blogger. Even if you're not an expert, you can be a 3 out of 10 in the expert scale and you can still teach 1 and 2s how to become 3s. And over the course of time, as you're doing this and staying relatable
and just telling the story of where you're at, you can eventually become a 5, 6, 7 and continue on. You don't have to be the best in the world at anything. Your job is not to be a guru. Your job is to be a guy who has walked a path even if you're one step in front of the beginner.
The internet is full of beginners. When people are Googling things or searching on YouTube or getting recommended videos, they're all beginners for the most part. 90 plus percent of people. There's very few advanced people in different topics.
So if you solve this problem, I'll show you how to help others win faster. That's how you want to really think about it when you're choosing your niche and you're coming up with your content plan and what your future course could be and what affiliate products you want to add when you're thinking about blogging this year.
So let's take a look at how this would work in different niches. So, for example, if you're in the niche of camping, you could focus just on affiliate revenue as a blog. You could just talk about the best camping tents and hiking poles and all the different gear that you need
and the best trails and all kinds of info content, and you could just keep it as a blog there. Sure. Now, if you're in fitness, I wouldn't really recommend it. The main revenue stream I would focus on is courses and coaching. That's the main one that would make the most money, and I used to have a blog plus YouTube,
or really just only a YouTube channel into a coaching program. I make a lot of money faster that way. And really when we think about it, blogging is a good way to get from 0 to 10k a month. Scaling a personal brand with YouTube and selling your own products is the way to get to 100k a month.
It's really that simple. I've had an 800k month back in August of 2023. We had high ticket sales, we had course sales, we had affiliate sales, and it all stacked up to this crazy month.
That wouldn't have been possible without YouTube and a secondary traffic source. So spirituality could be Buddhism, witchy stuff, pagan stuff, whatever it is. The best thing for that would be courses and coaching.
There's not like, unless you're selling herbs or books or something like that, the biggest path is courses, coaching communities. So that could be a blog, that could be Instagram. Some of that could be like women-focused Instagram accounts showing a lot of really cool stuff
and day-in-the-life kind of footage going into, or Instagram ads most likely, going into a community for that. Fashion could be affiliate plus ads, and that could be a blog plus Pinterest.
So that could be having a Pinterest account showing all the different clothing that you want to recommend and then blog posts with those two revenue streams. Food. So you want to talk about food. Mainly ad revenue. That's why recipes are so long because if someone Googles a recipe, they're not going to buy something.
So the last resort of monetization is ads. That's what I call it, the last resort of monetization. There's nothing that this person is going to buy necessarily. They might buy a cookbook, but how many times have you Googled chicken recipe or something and then actually bought a cookbook on that website?
Pretty rarely. Maybe join an email list, but that's even rarer too. So it's mainly ads. But it could be a community. It could be a course on cooking. That could be your blog post to Instagram or blog post to YouTube. And then finance. So teaching anything from investing to crypto to any number of things of what to do with your money.
It could be affiliate because there's a lot of big affiliate programs like credit card programs, banking programs, and things like that to recommend. But it is courses and communities, and that would be blog plus YouTube. There's a lot of YouTubers teaching that. So really, you have to think about, in your niche, where do people consume content?
So, yeah, so people that consume camping content on Instagram. But if camping isn't more male or female oriented, slightly male maybe. And where do they consume more content? Well, YouTube probably more than Instagram.
spirituality or let's just say witchy things are probably more women they're probably on instagram more fashion they're going to be on pinterest so think about what kind of goes down to like what niche do you want to be in where do you want to teach but also where does that
audience go and where do they consume content i was getting how to actually create this content with the help of ai in the right way so instead of you know spending a bunch of money on fancy keyword research and seo tools which we can't necessarily rely on they cost 100 to 200 a month
What if we could do this for free? So I'm going to give you the free way. Now, with all that said, how do we do this? Well, we use AI in the right ways. So method number one is free. Let's call it our chat GPT. So we're going to use a system prompt to find your niche, develop your keyword strategy,
create an outline, and then get your content almost published. So I'm going to show you this. If you want this prompt, make sure to click the link in the description, enter your email and all that. You'll get that plus nine other prompts that are free.
you can use them to do all these things I've got a couple different prompts here to show. This is the first one. So this is good for finding your niche we have two versions. One can find affiliate keywords and one will find 15 info pieces of content and 5 affiliate keywords
so we're gonna put this one, copy and paste this in alright alright let's get started. Choose your main niche. What is the main niche you're interested in? I'll generate five relevant sub-meshes and five content ideas.
I'm going to say yoga. Yoga is a broad popular name. So then it gives you five sub-meshes. So this is like five content categories for any well-rounded blog to have content on. So yoga for beginners.
This would be all kinds of different articles about yoga targeting the beginner. Yoga for specific health benefits. Yoga for athletes and fitness. Meditation and mindfulness in yoga. And let's keep going.
And then the fifth one is yoga for special needs. So yeah, prenatal yoga, chair yoga, senior yoga, postpartum yoga, all of that different stuff. So from there, I'm going to say which, it says choose one of them.
So choose one and it's going to give you 20 article ideas. So I'm going to say, I'm just going to do yoga for beginners. Let's see what that comes up with. So here are 20 article ideas, 15 info, 5 transactional, and 2 pillar posts for long-term SEO success.
So if you have a yoga blog and you're targeting beginners, obviously you're going to want the keyword yoga for beginners. Another good pillar post, transactional affiliate content, best yoga match for beginners, top picks.
And then look at all these other helpful informational pieces of content you can create. Beginner yoga poses, how to start yoga at home, breathing exercises, 10-minute yoga, morning yoga, yoga for inflexible beginners, yoga mistakes, yoga for strength, yoga versus stretching.
So all of these are really good keywords that you would use. So one target keyword per blog post will show you exactly where to put it and how all of that will work. But I think this is pretty good. So then transactionally for affiliate revenue, you could have yoga programs and apps, yoga blocks for beginners, yoga clothes, yoga classes, yoga starter kits.
So then it'll tell you, start with the pillar posts, all of these things. So it's a good keyword strategy. You don have to use an expensive SEO tool because it getting less SEO getting a little bit less technical more focused on personal branding getting traffic from multiple sources and just creating really good helpful content this is the second prompt I have this is
going to take it a little bit further so let's put this one in it's going to ask us I put this whole thing in very long and then they're asking me drop in your target keyword I'm going to say best yoga blocks from here it's going to
create an outline so what's cool is it's going to give us a title best yoga blocks of 2025, Top Picks for Stability, Comfort, and Performance, a really good title, meta description to add in. I'm going to write the intro.
I kind of gave it some humanized elements to use exclamation points, write in certain ways, long and short sentences, ways that aren't always AI. And that's going to give us our main headings. So headings are really important. The way that you structure and organize your blog content is going to dictate the search
intent if people stay, if they keep reading. So this is kind of trained to do that. So the first thing is, well, why are yoga blocks so essential? Why do you need them? the different types, foam, cork, wood, and then the best overall.
So you'll see here, this one is going to give you, like, you pick this. I do not want you to get in the habit of making recommendations based on what an AI tool says and not having your own recommendation.
Right, so you put in, this is a good outline, it puts in the best yoga box topics, you put in the information on the different ones, kind of ends how to choose the right one for you, tips to use them, an FAQ. It's very in-depth in a conclusion and it writes the conclusion. So you can take
this whole thing, copy and paste this into WordPress and then fill in the blanks. So you're filling in the information. Now do you have to buy every single product? Not necessarily, but in the niche that you're in, you should at least have some experience and know what's good. Do some research. Look at what's best, what kinds of things are better
here and put that information in based on your own knowledge, not just what the AI says. So this is a really quick way to find your niche, find five sub-niches, all your content categories. Pick your first 20 articles that you're going to write and then get outlines for
every single one for free. Second method here is with make.com. So this is an automation software that you can connect multiple apps to. You can set up a custom make.com scenario to automatically publish content. So let's say you wanted to take all those 20 keywords, have them in a spreadsheet,
and then automatically with the prompts, instead of copying and pasting and using it, just have it in a way where you hit a button and then it automatically gets it into WordPress, either as a public post, which I don't recommend, but as a draft that you can then edit.
There is a way to do that. This requires attaching to your Cloud AI a developer account so that you're paying a little bit of money every time that it runs those API calls and makes that count. I have a full tutorial on this.
I can't go over the whole process. In this video, it takes a little bit, right? It's kind of in-depth. You can search my channel for it. I'll link it here. If I remember, it's a 50-50 chance that you'll find it. And then another one is other tools, right?
The most expensive option is using one-click tools. So something like Surfer AI or Machine.AI or Content at Scale are these. You put a keyword in and it writes the whole article for you. Now, again, I don't always recommend that approach, although it seems the fastest.
You can write it for some articles, maybe, but I think that you should really put your own human elements into this. Be a teacher, not just a random AI bot. A teacher that is giving your own recommendation is going to have much more valuable content.
really when I do it, like, there's two types of articles. There's the really kind of important articles. So, again, let's say you have that yoga blog, and it's like, well, any product you recommend is going to be important. How to, you know, yoga for beginners,
that's going to be a really important article that you should write mostly. But then if you have a really, like, I call it almost glossary content, like this ancillary keyword-based content that's not as important, like certain things on yoga stretches for seniors
or something like that. Maybe some of those not as important articles that are there you can lean into AI a little bit more heavier on. But still, I recommend just in case
that you write everything, for the most part yourself, you're using AI to speed up the process, create the outlines, create the stuff, but then you are the person. You're the blogger. You're the teacher, not random AI
because people can just use ChatGPG now. They can just look that up. You know, people are looking for real perspectives. The question is, can we just publish AI content lazily, not fact-check, not use the products, not contribute our own thoughts?
Obviously not. No. We are using AI to speed it up, but you need your own unique perspective. That's what people follow. That's what builds trust. That's what makes money. Now, we do have to take these, and, you know, you create the yoga article,
you put all the information in, you hit publish. Well, there are a few little tweaks we want to add just for Google's sake to make it a better chance of ranking on Google. So here's a little checklist. I'm going to cover this as well and go over an article of mine.
But you need the main keyword. So one keyword, one article. Keyword in your H1. That's the main title of your article. An H2 heading, so the secondary headings. In the URL.
And then you want some semantic keywords, so some semantically related ones. You want to format it correctly. We'll define in a minute what is and isn't helpful. But you want readability. When you're writing on a blog, you don't want really long paragraphs.
You don't want four or five sentences per paragraph. You want one to three max. You want images. You don't want to just use stock footage or stock images only. You want to have your own images. So with images, if you're in a hobby niche like yoga, for example,
you would just take some time one day and take a bunch of helpful pictures of yourself or around the house of different items. You can take 100 pictures in one day, You can just upload them to your blog and use them over the course of time.
If you're in gardening, you take a ton of pictures of the garden. If you're in business or software, a lot of your images are going to be more screenshots of your computer showing stuff. Like I was doing software, I would show the trial dashboards and things that are helpful.
So you need helpful images as well. User experience, you can use table of contents things like easy table of contents plug-ins. You want easy internal navigation, internal links, so link to related content.
Topical authority is one of the most important things. If you have a yoga blog, but you only have two articles on yoga, Google is not going to see you as its authority. If you want to have 20, 30, 40, 50 articles, and more over the course of time on yoga,
the more you have, the more keywords you cover, the more topical authority you have, which is a better chance of ranking. And then, of course, humanizing your content. So here's an example article of mine. I've shown this article before, but it's just the simplest example to show for an on-page SEO tutorial.
So you'll see the keyword is best online course platforms. That's the keyword. It's in the URL. Now, you don't want to have a really long URL with the whole thing in here, because this could say, like, the best online course platforms of 2020.
When I wrote this, it was 2020 or 2021. So the URL is the only thing you can't change, because if you're going to point internal links to this, you're going to need to get links to it. This is the only thing you need to keep the same. Everything else you can change. The title, the text, everything in there you can change as much as you want.
Target keyword is in the title. The H1. I have a featured image, which you don't really need that. I show a little social proof here. So one of my courses, Blog with Engine, has, this is over $5,000 now, and it's called AI Income Blueprint, but it makes money. It has over 20 employees.
Here's where I went. Finding the right online course wasn't always easy. So there's a lot of hook psychology when writing an intro. Like you want to show your own experience, your own take, how you're ranking this thing if it's a listicle,
and also like why you should trust this person. But you also need to add page SEO. So you'll see we have variations of this course platform in the intro. And then we get into the first H1, H2 heading.
What are the best, target keyword, what are the best online course platforms? So you put your keyword here in the form of a question. for transactional posts. If this was an article on how to start a course business, then you're just H1B.
How to start a course business is five steps. Step one, do this. But with a listicle, the H2 is here in the form of a question. The H3 is the answers to the question. So this is paragraph text, and I use it again right here.
And then this is paragraph. This is H3. A second of the... I usually just use H2s and H3s. I don't go down to 4, 5, or 6. So your H1 is the title. H2 is these big headings.
And H3 is answering the questions to the headings. I have a box here. You don't need this. This could just be text. So you'll see I have an affiliate link here in the first mention of the brand. I have a quote here.
I've got another affiliate link. Another affiliate link. Some key features. All that. So when the lists are cool, you're going to go over the main. This will be different for everything.
So if you're recommending kayaks, for example, there's going to be things people want to know, like the weight and the length and the comfort and things like that. But for software, they want to know the user experience, the pricing, the features. So what you're talking about in each item of the listicle will be dictated by your niche.
And it really is just like look at other example articles in your niche to get that idea of what's currently ranking. So we get there, and then here's another couple affiliate links here and a button at the bottom. And then you'll see, blogging is more about assembling content the same way every time because we get to number two and it's the exact same formatting.
So what's kind of nice about listicle formatting is that you can do it this way. You just keep doing it per product. Maybe all the way down. This is a really long article. This is like years ago work and some images and blah, blah, blah.
And then if I go all the way down, I end it with a conclusion and the top pick. So ultimately, this is not overly complicated. when you're creating content and you're writing helpful content. Just put the keyword in the URL,
put it in the title, put it throughout a few times. Don't go crazy with it. That stuff doesn't work as much anymore. And just write really helpful stuff from your own perspective. So how can we make it more personal? Well, we can humanize it. It should be in the first person perspective.
I learned this when I did that. I struggled with yoga for years. I couldn't touch my toes for a decade. I couldn't even meditate for more than five seconds. And then I finally started yoga, and I learned all the poses, blah, blah, blah.
So first-person perspective, active voice, share your own personal stories, use unique images, use real-life examples, and communicate your authority. You can do all of that pretty much in the introduction. So it's like, you know, I've been doing yoga now for 10 years. I'm a yoga trainer, blah, blah, blah.
So why should they continue reading? People skim content now. They skim blog posts. They're not going to read every single word. People's attention span is like a mouse or a goldfish when it comes to content these days. Thank you, TikTok, for that.
but people will scan the article. With an affiliate article, the good thing is they just scan it, they find the product, they click the affiliate links, and they go. I'd rather have them do that. If it's a helpful info-based article about yoga, for example,
they're going to kind of scan, look at the main headings, look at the poses you're talking about or whatever the article's on, and then hopefully interact with you more. Those are just some simple ways to humanize AI content. But also, if you're going to be using the tool to write some of the stuff,
you want to replace overused jargon, so AI can be very generalized in its language. You can include burstiness, which is already included in the AI prompts. Again, link below. Short and long sentences, questions, bullet points to mimic how humans talk.
Fact check it. If you're going to say any stats or any facts, you have to fact check. Make the content relatable. And add empathy. AI does not add empathy. It doesn't really have empathy. It's starting to. It's starting to kind of seem like it does when it says stuff.
But, you know, you really want to say, like, I struggled. Like, if there's a beginner, you're always talking to the beginner, so you put yourself in the beginner's shoes. For example, when I first started gardening, I looked at this patch of dirt and I was like, what the heck even is this? I don't even know what a seed is. How am I going to get started?
I can barely even bend down to pick up a seed. Why would I even do this? Obviously, I'm joking, but if you add empathy, you understand from the beginner's perspective, they're more likely to continue reading. So write like you're speaking to a friend.
Again, give your own take on the topic as a real teacher. Teachers, it's kind of funny, but you want to make a lot of money, you become a teacher. You're not necessarily a teacher at a school because those teachers should be paid more.
But if you are a teacher on a specific topic and you can sell your own products on that topic, then you can make a lot of money. So in 2025, how do we actually make money blogging? Step by step. Just give me the answer, please.
What is the checklist? First, you set up web hosting and use WordPress. So I have a blue host link in the description. It's the cheapest web host out there. They have a promo going through that affiliate link of mine. It's $1.99 a month. Basically, you can go through and check out.
You get a free domain for a year, and you get hosting for a year for $23, I think is the total cost when you go to check out and buy it. So it's like the cheapest thing. You can get into WordPress with that, and then you'll get into your WordPress dashboard.
You can use Cadence AI to design your blog. So this is a theme based on AI. So you can just put in prompts now, just as like what's your site about? you can say my site's about yoga or my site's about gardening and I want to teach beginners
how to plant these plants whatever whatever your site's about and then it will literally give you images it will create images will create your website your home page and all that will already be done for you I also have another video on that on my channel and then you want to get the right
plugins so again we're using wordpress because that's for seo you want to use rank math it's for seo so you can submit your site map to google so that going to be key you want google to be to find find your site You need to submit a sitemap to tell Google hey these are all the articles that are on my site It always being updated for you So you
submit it to Google Search Console. That's going to be key to get your website indexed and to tell Google that you even exist. WordFence is a free security tool. WP Rocket is a speed
tool. ShortPixel is an image optimizing tool. So you might have huge images. They need to be scaled down and short pixel makes them smaller. And then Thirsty Affiliates is an affiliate link cloaking tool. It's an affiliate link organizer. So if you add, for example,
in an article, 10 affiliate links, instead of having to manually change them if the link changes, you can just change it once in this settings spot, and it'll change all of them for you. So it's a good organization tool. What I would do, though, and this is kind
of technical. I have other videos on this topic, you know, setting up a website. It's pretty simple especially with AI now. After that you would use the free AI Niche Hunter framework from the email to create your first 20 blog posts.
Then you want to create your core four pages. So this is pretty much done with Cadence AI, home about, blog role is done, and a contact page if you want that. You don't need it. Plan your secondary platform based on your niche and personality.
So you start thinking, all right, I've got 20 articles now teaching in this area, what other platform, where are these people at? Now use AI in the right way. This will free up your time to focus on other traffic sources. So we'll get into this in a second.
But we want to begin your second traffic source strategy. That could be YouTube. That could be Pinterest. So this is what this could look like. So your blog is up and running. You publish 20 articles. 15 informational, maybe 5 affiliate, like we showed you in the prompt.
Next, you have to find the time in your week to actually do this. So if you have a full-time job, if you have kids, if you have responsibilities, you need to find what is the time that you're most productive. Is it in the morning, early, early morning?
Is it at night? Is it the afternoon? when can you sit down with a coffee for two hours and get a block of time done? Right, so you want to set a schedule to publish at least two blog posts a week.
You want to get this to be eventually four hours a week where you're spending two hours per article. It might take you four or five or six hours per article at the beginning because you're learning this, you're figuring it out, maybe you haven't ever written before but you can use something like Grammarly to make it a lot easier and better
and have no errors in your writing so you don't have to worry about it. You have to create a monthly plan and stick to it. So you can have that 80-20 ratio of informational to transactional content. 80% info, 20% transactional.
Let the AI guide you. Really think of it. This is less finding the perfect hidden keyword in a tool like Ahrefs or something, and it's more about if I'm creating a well-rounded personal brand and website about yoga, for example,
what would those articles be? It's like an intuition thing. It's just like that's, you know, yoga blocks, obviously. Stretches, poses. It's pretty obvious if you know the niche decently well.
So if you're spending about four hours a week on your website, with that remaining time, think, you know, I want to spend 10 hours a week on the side, at least, you need to at least set 10 hours aside if you really want to build and make money online.
At least. The more the better, honestly. Set aside 20 if you can. With your remaining time, you learn the skills of your secondary platform, and start building your personal brand. So that's very different. So the YouTube algorithm is very different than the Google algorithm that we just discussed
with the on-page SEO stuff. Instagram is very different. So, again, I have other videos on that too, but I can't cover it in all in one video. But you want to start learning the skills of that within three to six months and to make your first affiliate revenue.
And really, I would say create your course or coaching program as soon as you possibly can. So, for example, if you just start a website and it's about spirituality, if you want to start teaching that,
then start creating your content. Start really planning this. Again, I have a lot of videos on my channel, hundreds, but there's some recently that I did really about creating your offer, how you're going to sell it, the transformation that's going to occur for your students,
how to price and package it, how to shoot the course, or it could just be coaching. It could be as simple as getting some Zoom calls. But there's some tech stuff behind it. It's not that complicated. But I would say the sooner the better. A lot of the times it's like, well, you need a big audience to sell a course.
You need this huge thing. Well, if you're thinking only through the lens of a blog, you're never going to sell a course. But if you can think of a secondary traffic source, like I started my YouTube channel with a course. So every video I could link to it at the very beginning, I could start building my email list instead of waiting.
So the sooner the better. It can take time to build an audience, but you want to just start collecting email leads at first. So you can use an exit intent pop-up on your blog from something like ConvertBox and just start giving people.
You know, if it's yoga, I'll keep using the example for this video. I've used tons of different examples over the years. If it's that, then, you know, your lead magnet could be something like the five free yoga routines or something like that in your inbox.
Or some weekly, you know, this is the yoga you get every week. Something that is low-touch at the beginning when you're just building up your email list that is very valuable to people. So you want to give something really valuable, but maybe it's not weekly because if you only have three people in your email list, you don't want to update it every week.
So something that's automated through an email series over the course of seven days. Now, AIC is just a whole process. So what took me three years could take me three months. As far as this content goes, I used to write every single word myself.
I would publish like one blog article a week, and I wrote every single word. Some of those articles were like 10,000 words long, so it took me a long time. So it could be sped up a lot. You can make a lot less mistakes than I made.
However, it is more competitive now than it was when I first started, especially in competitive niches. So that's why bloggers are marketers now. It's really personal branding. Use AI to speed up blog post creation.
You can also use AI to speed up video creation. So, for example, I have another YouTube idea engine here. So, if I do that one, I'll show you that. So, again, you can use this to come up with a YouTube idea.
So, again, yoga is my niche. niche, however you like to prefer it. It will give you YouTube content ideas. So again, video ideas for yoga for beginners. The 10, perfect 10 minute routine. I did yoga for 30 days. I would change my life. So those really interesting title and thumbnail formulas.
Again, we can use this to come up with an entire content strategy in minutes for an entire thing. And then it's just down to, all right, I'm going to shoot these in my house. One set up. It's really easy. Publish a video, link to my course. That's the people that are making a lot of money
They are willing to do those things. They're willing to create videos. They're willing to actually market themselves. If you're not willing to market yourself, if you want to kind of stay behind the scenes as a shadowy affiliate site, it's just going to be a lot harder over the course of time.
You have to create a content machine. You have to create something where you just have a consistent schedule and you stick to it over the course of months and years, linking to affiliate products, eventually linking to your own products and all of that. So this app with a blog,
if you're doing eight blog posts a month, that's 96 a year. If you're doing YouTube videos, one a week, that's four a month, that's 48 a year. That's lots of pieces of content that can then get to all the different sources of revenue. Affiliate revenue through the blog, ad revenue through the blog, joining an ad network like Mediavine.
Once you get to like 50,000 visitors a month, there's really no point. You're going to be making pennies before that. YouTube videos, YouTube ad revenue, courses and coaching, affiliate revenue, you can get sponsors.
All kinds of different things, but it's really the brand is you. You have to market yourself. A realtor can't make money without marketing themselves. A brand can't make money without marketing themselves. A blogger can't make money without marketing themselves.
And all that is is really just creating content and putting it out in the world and hopefully enjoying the process as you do it. And then over time, outsourcing. So what's really nice about blogging is what's crazy to me is my traffic went way down after random Google penalties and updates and things like that.
But I'm still making $65,000 a month from affiliate marketing with barely any traffic and I'm spending literally no time on the site. That's very rare. You can't say that about YouTube or Instagram or any other platform or podcasting
or any other way to make money or e-commerce or any of that. Blogging is the one way where with recurring affiliate commissions, somehow I'm still making that money every single month. So what's nice about it too is it can be outsourced. You can hire an AIO writer from a site like ProBlog or JobBoard
to start doing some of the updates for you. Maybe not the main important posts, but some of the ancillary ones that aren't as important. And on YouTube, you're freeing up your time with video editing. So YC Jobs, you can find a video editor anywhere from $250 per video up to $4K plus a month.
I pay a lot more than this, but you can find these different things. And then all of a sudden, you're treating this like a real business. So you're directing the strategy of your own personal brand.
So right now, I have a full team behind this business. So you see me on YouTube talking. There's marketing people. There's a video editor. There's another business partner that's like kind of the back end CEO running a lot of the course community kind of stuff.
There's content creators. There's a lot of different things behind the scenes. And now I'm kind of in a leveraged position where I'm able to create videos on YouTube, teach things, have a blog that's kind of automated, and make a good amount of money every month with not that much time compared to my old 9 to 5 job.
So it's a way to scale up and just really strike this process because this is the economy of the individual. This is the authority economy. You can only do this for yourself It's all about building leverage into your life in the online space and only you can do that for yourself
Now again, the total cost to get started here should be under $50 a month Chat CPT is free. You pay the $20 a month for unlimited access and all that domain is 10-15 a year Bluehost is $1.99 a month. You can get free domain for a year with the Bluehost link in the description
What you want to do is scale up. You can keep profit margins above 50% and continue hiring So let's say you make your first, you could close a coaching client for $2,000. You make $2,000 that month. You're like, all right, well, what's my cost?
Well, I have no cost. It's just me. It's $100 a month for software, let's say. All right, I've got some wiggle room here now to hire somebody up to $1,000, keep my profit margin at 50%, and then continue scaling from there.
So what's really nice about blogging is a typical profit margin for a business is like 7% for a restaurant or 10%. So you have to generate $100 in revenue to make $10 that you keep.
Well, a blog could be 90%. You could make $100, keep 90 of it. So that's the power and start it for a lot less money. No inventory, no employees to start with, no rent, no supplies, equipment.
So really, it's a low cost to get started. But you want to have some startup growth principles in your approach. You want to think about how can I grow this thing and scale it up over time. I would recommend a key profit margin of about 50% and everything over that just starts spending it to scale.
So, again, to confirm, in 2025, I treat my blog like a sales portal, build a real personal brand as a teacher using a secondary traffic source plus Google, and selling my own products as the main income stream, worry about affiliate and stuff down the line.
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