--- title: 'How to Start Blogging in 2026? | Blogging for Beginners' source: 'https://youtube.com/watch?v=y4gJ21J0bgE' video_id: 'y4gJ21J0bgE' date: 2026-08-06 duration_sec: 1096 --- # How to Start Blogging in 2026? | Blogging for Beginners > Source: [How to Start Blogging in 2026? | Blogging for Beginners](https://youtube.com/watch?v=y4gJ21J0bgE) ## Summary The video addresses the common belief that blogging is dead in 2026, arguing that while the era of copy-pasting AI content is over, blogging remains a viable income source for those who provide valuable, humanized content. The creator outlines a step-by-step roadmap covering niche selection, domain and hosting, keyword research, using AI as an assistant, modern SEO, diversifying traffic sources, and multiple monetization methods. ### Key Points - **Why Blogging Seems Dead** [00:42] — The speaker explains that blogging appears dead because many people started copy-pasting AI-generated content and keyword stuffing after ChatGPT launched in 2022. This era is over, but Google still ranks valuable content. - **Valuable Content Still Ranks** [01:35] — Even in 2026, blogs that provide valuable, non-repeated information rank on Google. If you post repeated content, visitors will leave within 5 seconds, and your site won't rank. - **Old Model vs New Model** [02:17] — The old model involved mass-producing copy-paste content and relying solely on Google AdSense. The new model uses AI as an assistant to solve real problems, adding human value, personal experiences, and screenshots. - **Diversify Traffic and Income** [03:11] — Traffic can come from Google, YouTube, Medium, and Pinterest. Income can come from affiliate marketing, sponsored posts, digital products, online courses, and email marketing, not just AdSense. - **Roadmap: Zero to Earning** [04:38] — The blueprint includes: select a profitable niche, get professional hosting/domain, do keyword research, prepare articles with modern SEO, and follow the steps consistently. - **Golden Opportunity** [05:31] — 80% of people have given up blogging, reducing competition. This is the golden time to enter blogging. - **Niche Selection Criteria** [05:44] — Choose a niche with high value (money) and traffic. Examples: affiliate marketing (best laptops), digital marketing, AI tools, forex, crypto, freelancing skills, education abroad. - **Domain and Hosting** [07:35] — Domain is your website's name; hosting makes it live. The speaker recommends Hostinger via dskills.online, with a discount code 'Mentor90' for 10% off. WordPress is used by 44% of websites. - **Reverse Keyword Research** [09:51] — Instead of traditional keyword research, look at 'People Also Ask' on Google, Reddit, Quora, and Pinterest to find questions people are asking. Target low-competition topics. - **Use AI as an Assistant** [10:59] — Use AI to generate catchy titles, but include personal experiences, images, screenshots, case studies, and FAQs. Prompt AI to incorporate real experiences. - **Modern SEO** [12:14] — Use H1, H2 headings, ensure readability, fast website, mobile-friendly, simple URLs, helpful content, and proper interlinking. - **Don't Wait for Google Traffic** [13:11] — Repurpose articles into videos using AI voice, post on Medium, create Pinterest pins, start a newsletter, and share on social media to get traffic from all sources. - **Monetization Methods** [14:21] — Google AdSense is basic; also use affiliate marketing, sponsored posts, digital products, online courses, and email marketing. - **Common Mistakes to Avoid** [15:43] — Don't use AI for copy-paste; humanize articles. Stick to one niche, maintain consistency (at least one blog per day), and don't expect results within a month. Blogging is a marathon, not a sprint. ### Conclusion Blogging is not dead in 2026; it has evolved. By providing valuable, humanized content, using AI as an assistant, diversifying traffic and income sources, and staying consistent, beginners can still build a successful and profitable blog. ## Transcript blogging. Somebody else does work and there is a lot of work. If you people are also thinking the same and hearing the same thing again and again, then the question arises that who are those people who will be sitting in 2026 also. He is also doing blogging and housewife, a student and want to take your first step in blogging. But after watching such videos, you are not able to take your first step in blogging because there is no work in blogging. Money is not made. So let me tell you here. Blogging is still alive in 2026 and people are making a lot of money from it. Today a full presentation has been prepared for you. I am going to clear each and every thing. See, blogging is really over by 2026. But which blogging is over? It is important for you to know this. In 2022, when Chat GPT came, what people did was that they started copying and pasting with AI. Ok? Wrote the title of the article and copied and pasted it. Keyword stuffing done. That era is now over. Now 3 years have passed. Have arrived in 2026. Now see here that Google is still ranking the valuable content. Yes, come to Google only. For example, I write best laptops here. Ok? I write Best Laptops in Pakistan. I want to know about laptops. Now look here, you people must also have seen that the review of AI comes the review of AI. That's why people say blogging is dead. Brother, he replies to everything. But you pay attention here. Here I am giving you the attention here. Here I am giving you the blog as references. blog is giving you references. There are still people who are writing good content and have their own websites. Look here at the top of the site, it is still providing blogs to you people here. blogging is dead. You are diverting people's minds and blogging yourself and making money through it even today. So your mind should become clear here. Just copying and pasting content will not work. If you give valuable information and not repeated information, then your blog will still rank on Google. If you post repeated content, then within 5 seconds the person will leave your website and go somewhere else and your website will not rank. Now look at the old model versus the new model. See, within 2023, as I told earlier, I will start generating 100% copy paste content and will start writing thousands of articles. I stuffed keywords into it saying that I am doing SEO. And I was totally waiting for Google to rank my website. If ads come on this then I will make money. Made only Google Adsense the source of revenue. But here the model has changed a little by 2026. You will use AI whether you use GPT Gemini but you will use it as an assistant. Ok? Now I will use it as an assistant. Ok? Now I will solve the real problems of the people. See, when you help people and provide solutions to the questions they are searching for, then you will have valuable information and those blogs will also rank and are still ranking today. And then the source of traffic is not just Google. Here you can also get traffic from YouTube. You can also get it from medium.com. Google Ads is not the only source of earning. You can also affiliate your product here. There are different AIDS programs, you can also join them. They can also get AIDS. Simply you guys have to take your first step here. Let's go a little further. Let me make it clear to you here that how you can use AI as an assistance. You will give the task to the AI. Will make you have a brain stall. We will take ideas etc. from him. You can also get the formatting done from him. can also get the formatting done from him. But you must add human value to it. You must add your real experiences. Hakiki spices, screenshots you guys must add. Which AI cannot create. And along with that, empathy means finding solutions to people's problems. When you have your own personal freelancing. What are the issues in freelancing? How to do client hunting? What is my own personal experience? I can add inside it. In , how should you handle children, how should you teach children? You can also create a blog on all these things. If you are painting, what ? How to draw a sketch? You can add all these things. You can create a blog in every niche and every category. If you solve real world problems even today, your valuable information will still rank and in this way people are still earning money sitting at home through blogging. Let's go a little further. Look here I will give you the entire road map. What a blueprint for the journey from zero to earning. First of all you have to select the right niche. Now which niche should I select? I will tell you guys later. Some may also be your personal niche i.e. it may also be your hobbies. But we will go into that niche which has more money and which has higher CPM rate. After that you need professional stock. Which one do you want? Because this is the base. This is very important for you people, I will tell you this later. After that you have to do keyword research. How to do this and after that how to prepare the article and how to do modern SEO. If you do all these things step by step even within 2026, which is not a very long process, then you will rank even today and blogging is not dead for you people. See, 80% of the people have already moved ahead by calling blogging dead. I have given up blogging. 20% are left. The competition has reduced considerably. Therefore, this is the golden time for you people to come into blogging. Let's move a little further. Now let's talk about knee selection. See, within the selection you have to look at the value and traffic. Ok ? Value and traffic will have to be seen. What kind of value? That is, the one which has more money. Instead of writing a simple news blog or a poetry blog, you can write one. It is better that you write an affiliate marketing blog in which you can refer different products. Like now I took the example that just like I searched for the best laptop, similarly people search for the best mobile. This is how we search for the best accessories etc. categories. You can do their affiliate marketing. You can do blog writing related to it. Apart from that, digital market and AI tools, which digital market and AI tools, which can see their usage etc. You can write its reviews etc. What's even gold prices are going up. You can cover the Forex market. You can cover the crypto market. Apart from this, there if you get fewer visitors. If you are providing value addition then your revenue will increase. Freelancing As I just told you graphic designing or video editing, you can write a proper blog about it also. You you can write a proper blog about it also. You add on affiliate marketing, all these programs that you see, all these things that you see. You can definitely merge affiliate marketing within each category and each niche. In this way, you can do blog writing only for technology software reviews etc. and education related problems and education for example, for those who want to study abroad. education for example, for those who want to study abroad. what will be the entire process. You can also do blog writing like this. I am repeating it here again. Whatever number of visitors you are bringing, you must provide value to them. If you give them solutions to their problems, your blog will rank and you will also make money in 2026. Let's move a little further. Look, I am telling you all the things in the second step, which is the proper road map. you will require domain and hosting. What is a domain? The name of your website like www.g.com, similarly see here like amazon.com, the name of your website is registered above your name. It is your property and to make it live on the internet, you require web hosting. Ok? Let me tell you where you can get it and after that you simply have to install WordPress on it. WordPress is still the king of blogging even in 2026. 44% of all the world wide websites are still being built on this. If you are thinking that get, then it is not difficult. You simply have to come to dskills dot online. This is my landing page. What will be the benefit of this is that I will setup your blog website myself. You have to come here dskills. Note it again. Click on the Simple Claim button. You will directly land on the official page of Hostinger. Hostinger is by far the best and fastest hosting in Pakistan which is also within reasonable prices which even students can afford , housewives can also afford. This is required to make your website live on the internet. Look here, if you go under the premium plan, you are also getting domain for free here. Click on the claim button. This window will appear in front of you. Look here, this plan is available for Rs 28,000 something. You are a student. It may be a little expensive for you. You have to choose a simple 12-month plan. 10,000 of something. But here you guys are my favorite audience. You guys have to add Mentor 90s Mentor, you guys have to add the code. You will get an additional 10% discount on this price. You will domain name will also be free. Because you will build your website on this. After this you have to create a blog here and write down all this information. When you press enter, this blog will start creating a website for you. Your professional work has also been completed. That means step two has been completed for you people. Now we move into step three. This is where keyword research comes in. But you guys have to do reverse keyword research here. First of all, look here, if you ask anything on Google, then look at Ask People here to see what other things people are researching and searching for on Google. You can also do blog writing within these. But the niche categories that I told you in the beginning are like affiliate marketing, best laptops or any specific skill related to freelancing. You people have to search questions related to that here. And what are people researching? What are you searching for ? You guys have to research it. Apart from that, you people should not depend only on Google. Ok? Google is not the only one. Head over to Reddit. What questions are people asking RedIT ? What questions are you asking on Quora ? What are people searching for on Pinterest ? You guys see all these online threads etc. From there also you will get good number of keywords within your category. And you should always go for low competition topics on which it will be easy for you to rank. Ok? After this you people have to start writing first and then look for keywords. Your third step is also complete. The fourth step, which is very important, is that you have to use AI as an assistant. Using the assistant means that you have to put a catchy title. Personal experiences also have to be included. Images also have to be uploaded. Screenshots should also be uploaded if available. Case studies and FAQs etc. Now how do you guys write all these things You simply go inside Chat GPT. You should You must definitely check this body. You simply go. means I will also give you a complete road map. You can do all these things inside Chat GPT. Make him a prop that I want to add all these things in my blog. Real experiences. Ok? Real experiences are very important. According to that, when you get the writing done, then this content will not come and then your blogs will also rank. I will give you the entire road map as I go forward. Wherever you download it from, you can simply download it and follow it. After that comes the fifth step which is very important. You people have to do modern SEO. You guys just did not enter keywords. also have H1, H2 headings here. The readability of the blog also becomes easy. Must have a fast website. Mobile Friendly See Simple URL Fast solve all your problems. As soon as you buy hosting from Hostinger, I will set up all these things for you. We will also create your website. Your URL will also be excellent and after that your website will also be mobile friendly. After that helpful content. I am again telling you about helpful content in which you are solving real word problems and giving real questions. If you have experience then you are adding it inside it and interlinking also has to be done properly. That means and interlinking also has to be done properly. That means can get it interlinked inside your website. Now let's move on to the next step which is important. You people are just waiting for traffic on Google. Again I am telling you not to wait for traffic on Google. You see, in today's times, if you have written any article, Simply put AI voice offer and that same article inside it. Your video will be made. Even Google Alum also makes the same video for you based on your script. You make a video and post the same article on Medium and interlink your website with your blog. and interlink your website with your blog. You can also create a small pin on Prest and get traffic from there. You can get your blog interlinked. Also you newsletter okay? You Also you newsletter okay? You And similarly, on social media like Facebook etc. and apart from this, Facebook etc. and apart from this, can add links to your blog. So you have to get traffic from all sources. Google is a big platform. You will get it from Google. You have to get traffic from these things also. Then you will enjoy it. Your traffic will be more based on your content. Now let's move a little further. Look here, today I have to clear all the things for you people. not get stuck anywhere. How are bloggers who are earning a good amount earning? Now look here, Google Adsense will be one of your basic things. When you get traffic, you can get ads displayed through Google Adsense. The second method is that you by referring different products to your blog, you can earn commission from there as well and sponsored ad sponsored post means that when traffic comes to your blog, post means that when traffic comes to your blog, sponsor them and you simply put the picture of their product there. Let's give a review about it. You can also do sponsored posts. Apart from this, you inside your blog. Inside, you can Apart from this, I have also made a lot of videos on digital products, in which you can make any small product, digital downloadable and you can also sell online courses etc. If you can teach well, you can earn money by uploading videos on your blog and can also do email marketing. You should look at email marketing for specific products. When traffic comes to your blog, you can collect people's emails and send them proper newsletters. You a blog becomes a good source of income within 2026. Let's move a little further. Here are the then repeat. We just get the articles written by AI. AI is to be used only as an assistant. He has to get humanized articles written. people should not make this mistake. Don't just do copy-paste work. I am telling you again. Writing on every topic, when you are writing on every topic, today you are writing on health. Tomorrow you will write on tech and then after that you are writing on travelling. This way you do not have to work on multiple niches. Work on a single niche. Not working on zero focus niche. Ok? You don't have to be a jack of all trades, master of none. You have to work on a niche. And you people do not maintain consistency. You have to avoid inconsistency. You must start a blog at least once a day. See, when you keep a daily blog once a day, you post 30 blogs in a month and along with it, you post valuable content, then you will not have to wait for Google only because you people only wait for Google's Adsense, there are many other ways of earning as I told you earlier and this is the most important thing, in my opinion, you make a mistake by expecting results within a month. Doesn't happen like this. you step into. Work with your expertise and gradually you Look here, this is not a sprint. This is a marathon. This means that you will not go like this directly from the first month. Ok? You can do everything here as I have told you. We will learn from this and implement it. Ok? Then you will gradually develop your assets and the people who are sitting right now are providing valuable content. That's how they're making money from it. fixed bugs ? You have given me immense pleasure, trust me and you have to do professional writing with your personal experiences. As I told you, if you need a road map of all the content that I have discussed, as to what things you have to follow, then I can give you this road map. Ok? I have created a proper road map for you all regarding knee selection. road map for you all regarding knee selection. I will give you the link to the road map. Simply follow this and then you can run your own successful blog within 2026. So friends, this was today's video. I am sure that every single thing must have become clear to those who think that blogging is dead. You are making people ignore you by putting you behind a truck light and making money from blogging yourself. They are following this road map. If you want live practical series then I can make it for you guys. But only if you How will we know that? You will comment below this video that a proper series of it should be made. Step by step keyword research is done, blog setup is done, SEO is done, how to do proper blog writing, I will teach you all these things.