[00:00] So in this video, I'm going to show you how to build a blog empire that can make you thousands of dollars per month utilizing AI. This is going to be a full in-depth tutorial showing you every step of the process of creating an idea, launching blogs, scaling those, and then profiting from those AI blogs all in this video here today.
[00:19] So it's going to be a little bit of a longer video, but I really want to provide as much value to you as possible because we are making thousands of dollars per month in affiliate commissions from some of these different affiliate marketing strategies that you can use with blogs.
[00:33] So let's go ahead and get started with it. Here's what we're going to talk about first of all in this video. I'm going to show you not only how to create incredible websites and then create multiple ones of those so you can have dozens of different blogs that are running, that are generating clicks,
[00:46] that are getting readers, that are generating income for yourself, but I'm also going to show you how to automate those articles so that you don't have to write them yourself, how to embed affiliate links inside of that, how to create AI content, not only for blogs,
[01:00] but also for video content to funnel into your blog. There's whole strategies behind this, so let me share it with you right now. Okay, so let's first talk about how much money you could potentially make from scaling blogs and running them in 2025.
[01:14] Now, Google search is off the charts. It's still growing. People are searching more and more on Google every day. And so there is a space for websites to rank on Google search. when someone looks something up, you can have your website show up towards the top and end up making
[01:28] money from that. And so I'll show you one prime example of this. I'm looking at this site here where I typed in what are the best mattresses, and I found this website called goodhousekeeping.com. All right, and so this site reviews some of the best mattresses, and as you go through here,
[01:42] this can be really important so you can understand this, so when you go to your blog, you're going to know how to do it. When you go through here and you're reading over the best mattresses, all of these links that they have that are linking to these different mattresses are what we call affiliate links.
[01:54] And so they are making money whenever I click on one of these links and then I purchase something through this link. They're going to make money on that, right? So if I click on this and I buy a Tempur-Pedic, there's going to be an affiliate link here,
[02:06] and this blog is going to be making money from that. And so for this one, for example, if this mattress is $1,400, they might be getting, say, a 5% or 10% commission from selling a mattress.
[02:19] and this could be upwards of $100 commission for basically getting someone to click on their blog article and buy a mattress through their website. They're not actually selling it. They're just marketing the mattress and getting paid by Tempur-Pedic here.
[02:31] Now what we're going to do is I want you to go through and analyze some different websites. GoodHouseKeeping.com is one that I find to be really interesting. I have a trusty tool that I use called StemRush. I'll leave a link to it down below in the description of this video.
[02:45] What you can do is you can analyze websites. You can look at other blogs and get a lot of information from them. So this is what we're going to do right now. And you can see that goodhousekeeping.com gets about 27 million readers per month.
[02:58] Okay, so 27 million people per month are coming to goodhousekeeping.com. And just from some other Google searches I can find, it looks like Good Housekeeping actually ends up doing about 9.6 million items that are purchased through their product reviews on their website.
[03:13] Now, this was in 2021, but I'm sure it's still pretty close to that number. So this company is probably doing hundreds of millions of dollars per year from their blog. Okay, now I'm not promising that you could do that yourself,
[03:26] but I do think that there's room to make $5,000, $10,000, $15,000 a month from making some of these blogs and automating them with AI. Okay, so I just wanted to show you some of the potential there, even in 2025, for running websites.
[03:39] And the beauty of this is that you now don't have to write these articles yourself. There's all kinds of different things to help you do that, especially when it comes to making a website. There's ways to automate that as well. So what we're going to do here is I'm going to show you how to build a basic site so you can get this up and running as soon as possible.
[03:53] You can do this literally today alongside me as I show you in this video. Okay, so if you're wondering what category of a blog you should create, well, it's a whole lot easier now. Because we have AI, you can create dozens of different websites all in a very short period of time.
[04:08] All right, so for this example here, let's say that I want to create a full blog and website around mattresses specifically, okay? There's a lot of money in mattress affiliate marketing. If you have a website that reviews mattresses, you can make a lot of money with that.
[04:23] What we're going to do is we're going to go over to Hostinger.com slash Santrell. When you're signing up for this, there's a special code you can use, which is Santrell10, and it's going to save you some money when you sign up for Hostinger. Now, this is where we're actually going to be building our website.
[04:35] this is by far the best deal we've found because you can build a website for $2.49 a month. They have AI that will help you make this website for you. So you can literally make this in 20, 30 minutes. I'm going to show you right now as I make one for a mattress blog myself. So you can
[04:52] just go to hostner.com.central. I'll leave a link to it down below as well in this video. If you want to follow along, it's going to get you the best pricing. Okay. So I'm going to click on start now here and we're going to have a few different options for building our website but you're going
[05:06] to see here that when you get these plans and this is why we love making a website on Hostinger you can have up to 100 websites per account so you don't have to make just one blog you can make
[05:18] 5, 10, 15. Now I do suggest you start with one and really focus on that for maybe the first month and then after a month or two once that one gets going you can make another and another and another and this is what's great about Hostinger,
[05:30] especially compared to something like Squarespace, which is pretty expensive, you're getting this for the best price possible. So $3.49 a month, plus we're gonna get some discounts in there when you use that coupon code. So let me choose the business plan here and you see all these other features that we get on here as well We get a free domain We get free pre templates for our website We get a free email with that for a while as well So lots of great reasons to choose Hostinger to make our website
[05:55] on. So let's just choose this plan here and I'll show you how to make this site super quickly. Let me think of a name for it. Let's call it Mattress Mania or something. Let's see if we can get that. And so when you're choosing your plan, we can get this locked
[06:09] in at a price of $3.49 per month for 48 months, which is four years. That's plenty of time for us to get our blog off the ground. I want to make sure I don't overpromise on this because it does take time to build websites. I've built a number of blogs in the past, and usually in the first
[06:24] month or two, it's going to be very slow going. You might only have 10, 15, 100 people on your website per month in the first month, so it does take time to get started. You're not going to become a millionaire overnight with this and so being able to lock in this price
[06:38] for 48 months is pretty great but you can also you know toggle around and you'll see that if you do 12 months it's going to be a little bit more expensive plus the price could go up later so I would rather lock in at that better deal for that period of time and then continue on with the purchase here and
[06:52] now don't forget when you're on this page you can enter in the coupon code right here Santrell10 click apply and you're going to see that it will save you some money right here. Great. We just paid $17 on our four-year plan. And now we can click on
[07:06] continue. So now we're going to create our account. I've entered in my email and I've created a password. And so now we're going to make a website super quickly here. I just have to enter in some of my billing information and then I'll show you how to make the site. Okay. So I've just entered
[07:18] my billing information and now I am getting started with this website. So let's go ahead, click on get started here and I'll show you how to make this website very professionally, super quick. Okay. And so they're going to ask you a couple of questions. So I'm creating this
[07:33] website for myself or for my business. I'm going to click on next. And then we are going to create a new website. Now, if you already have a website somewhere else, you can easily migrate your site to Hostinger, especially because it's a great price. I know a lot of people want to do this.
[07:48] And then you could hire a professional to build it for you. But honestly, with some of the features on this platform, you can just make it yourself pretty easily. You don't have to know how to code. You don't have to know how to be a designer in order to do this.
[08:00] So let's click on Create a Website. Let's click on Next. And then we are creating our login details for our WordPress account. So maybe you've heard of WordPress before in the past. Basically, Hostinger works off of WordPress. I know it can sound a little bit confusing, but Hostinger is the actual server.
[08:15] That's where the site is hosted, but it's built off of the WordPress framework. You don't have to know too much of it. We're just going to create our WordPress account here. Click on Next. And then we're going to decide what type of website we want to build.
[08:27] I want to make a blog. You can also, you know, skip through this as well and just go to the Hostinger dashboard. But we have two big options here. We can either create a website using AI or we can look at pre-built websites and themes that are available on Hostinger.
[08:40] So what I'm actually going to do is I'm going to create a website using AI thanks to Hostinger. They've really made this a lot easier. I'm going to click on next. And now we're going to try to find a domain name. Now, remember, with the plan that we got, because we got a multi-year plan or at least a 12-month plan, we get a free domain for our website.
[08:57] So let me try something like Mattress Mania. All right, so we're going to have a lot of different options here for the ending part of the domain. I do recommend finding one that is ending with .com because there's a lot of factors that go into this.
[09:11] But when it comes to consumers clicking on a website, they tend to trust .com endings a lot more than if there was some random one like mattressmania.fun or .help or .host.
[09:23] It kind of looks like it would be like malware or something. So make sure you choose this carefully. You might have to think of a number of different names. You can always go to ChatGPT and ask it for, you know, give me 20 different mattress-themed blog name ideas and see what they come up with.
[09:38] But for the purpose of this tutorial, I'm going to go with mattressmania.io. I actually do like the .io ending, but once again, I would stick with something that's .com. .net can be okay. .org can be okay sometimes.
[09:50] And then remember for your actual domain here, you want this to be nice and short and sweet. You don't want this to be like Nate's Mattress Reviews something something something .com, and it ends up being like this long, and it's going to have to type into their browser.
[10:03] So keep it short and sweet. We're going to go with mattressmania.io, and then click on Next. All right, and then we're just entering in our information a little bit more. They want some other info on us for registering our domain, so let me do that now, and let's move on to the next step.
[10:15] And now our domain is getting registered for our website, and then we can start building our actual site here. Now, let's also choose where our target audience is located. This is because they have data centers or servers in a variety of different countries.
[10:30] So if you're creating a blog for the United States, you probably want to make sure that it's located in the U.S. If you're in South America, you know, you can choose. If you're in India and you want to reach Indian viewers, then I would suggest having the servers there in that country.
[10:42] But this looks good to us. Massachusetts looks great. And now WordPress is being installed. This could take a few minutes, but it's a great time to get up, stretch, walk around, and then come back to your computer in just a few minutes to build this site.
[10:54] Now, in the meantime, while this is getting built for us, we're going to go over to ChatGPT, and I want you to type in, create a summary of a blog around a mattress blog, okay?
[11:06] And you'll see why this is important when we start building out this site using Hostinger. So let's go to ChatGPT right now. So I'm just asking ChatGPT to make a summary description of a mattress affiliate blog named Mattress Mania, and this is perfect.
[11:18] So we're going to come back to this and use this later. So let's just copy that there. Let's go back to Hostinger, and they're almost finished here. Okay, and so now we're just typing in our information here. so Mattress Mania is the name of our brand the website type is going to be a blog and remember what we just did we went to chat GPT ask for a description we going to paste that in here right now Now you can also just type this in
[11:40] yourself to describe your website but this is going to help hosting to actually create your site. So now all we have to do is just click on create and they're going to generate the entire framework of the blog for us and then all we have to do from
[11:53] here is just modify some things add some blog articles and we are good to go. And And there we go. Now we have a website framework to build off of that Hostinger AI created for us. So we have the top tabs here, home reviews, guides, and our blog.
[12:07] We can put articles directly into here. And you can also, if you want to, go down here and just click create again. And you can have the AI basically make you a new website template if you don't like this one. But you can also modify this yourself as well.
[12:21] So if we go down here and we click on confirm and edit, we can start to edit this entire thing. maybe we don't like the colors we want to put our own logo in there we want to swap out this photo here and we want to you know look around we can go to upload
[12:34] a photo ourself or we go to the media library as well so we can make modifications to it here throughout the site and then don't forget to go up and click on save in the upper right corner and then anytime you want to get back to your hosting your thing you can just go back in the upper left corner and click
[12:47] on open navigation and you can go back to here and you can find all of the different templates and things that you have available for yourself so you can You can change the style here, right? Let's say we want to change the typography.
[12:59] We want to change some of it to monospace, for example, and we can do that. We can install our own fonts as well. We can change the buttons if we would like to. So everything is customizable, and you don't have to code this.
[13:12] If you do know how to code, you are welcome to do that as well with WordPress, so feel free. But this is going to be the basics of our website. Now, let me show you how to insert blog articles and how to get those blog articles created, okay?
[13:24] So right now we're on the editor section here. If we go and click on the W up here, it'll take us out to our WordPress dashboard where we can have more customization and we'll actually create our articles and our pages and everything else that we're going to need.
[13:36] If you go up here, you'll see this Hostinger tab. You can click on onboarding and this is going to help us to, you know, make sure we're doing everything properly. We're connecting our domain, how to get found on Google and everything else, right? This is really helpful for us. We can go to Hostinger right here and this is where we're going to be able to manage more of our site.
[13:52] So it's hpanel.hostinger.com and make sure you're logging into your account for it as well. This is where you can add more websites. You can make sure that your domain is looking good as well. You can do all of that here. So we have to verify our domain in our email to make sure that everything is up to date
[14:07] and that it actually goes live for our site. All right, so how do we actually add blog articles to this new website? So what we're going to do is in the past, you would write this yourself. And I've spent so much time jamming my fingers on the keyboard, writing hundreds of articles for blogs myself.
[14:24] And that was kind of before ChatGPT came out. This was years ago. And so now what we have is we have lots of great AI to help us do this. So we're going to use two different approaches here. The first thing we're going to do is we're going to go to ChatGPT and ask it to create 50 different blog topic ideas for mattresses.
[14:42] Then we're going to take those ideas and we're going to use something called Koala AI to actually write those articles for us. Because ChatGPT, it's great for ideas, but it's not the best as a writer. You can kind of tell it's created by AI.
[14:55] Whereas if we use Koala AI, which I'll show you in just a minute here, this takes things into consideration that GPT doesn't do. So it thinks about search engine optimization and makes sure that the readers are engaged. And it makes it feel a lot more human or human written versus ChatGPT.
[15:10] Let's go back to GPT and let's ask it to create 50 different blog ideas or blog topics that we can then feed into Koala AI. Okay, so now it's spitting out 50 different ideas. And seriously, you should be using AI for so many things in your business.
[15:25] I neglected it for like the first year that AI came out. I wasn't using it. And it's amazing how much you can do. This would probably take me three hours to come up with a list like this. And this is taking instead 30 seconds. So then all we have to do, let's copy the first one here.
[15:39] So top 10 mattresses of the year. Let's copy that. And we're going to go to Koala AI. All right. So I will leave a link to this below in the description as well. So you can see here that the pricing is really not bad.
[15:52] For $7 a month, you get all these different features. You can do 180,000 words per year and you get other things as well. Like it will help you to create images as well, which is super cool. So let's say we want to just go with the basic plan here with the essentials just to get started.
[16:07] So let me do that now. All right, so I've signed up for Koala here, and now we're going to basically create this article, and it's going to be so much faster than anyone could ever write it, and honestly better than people could write it as well. So we can choose what model we want to base it off of.
[16:22] There's ChatGPT 4.0, there's 4.0 Mini, there's CloudSonic. I actually really like CloudSonic. I think it's probably the best one, and it's great that we have that option to use that. And then we have our target keyword, so remember that list we just made from ChatGPT.
[16:36] I'm going to just paste in the first topic there, which is top 10 mattresses of the year 2025. Then we have SEO optimization capabilities. So we can have this default. We can do this manually. So what other keywords do we want this article to target so we can rank better?
[16:52] But let's just do it default because I do trust Koala for creating this article. And then it can even create AI images for us and even YouTube videos for us, which is really cool. So let's have it auto-generate some images for us for this website.
[17:04] We can have these a little bit lower quality. We don't need them to be crazy, but that's pretty good. Max images, let's say we only want five images in this article. It SEO optimized perfect countries United States We can even decide if we want this written in the third person or first person second person So let go with third here And then we can just click on create articles You can even make like an FSU section as well which is super cool or like key takeaways Let
[17:28] say we want that and improve readability and then click on create article. And so right now, Koala is spinning up this article for us. We're going to take this, what this created, and we're going to put it into our website that we made with Hostinger. So we can see here that
[17:41] Koala has made this beautiful blog article for us for our website even with these images that I created using AI to help the readers decide the best mattresses for themselves. Now you should go through this and read through it and make sure that everything looks correct but this is how you
[17:55] can see like this made this in literally less than a minute and so you can see how you can quite literally make 100 blog articles per day on a number of different websites and it's going to save you a ton of time. Okay so we can click on download here or we can just copy it and we can
[18:09] go back to our website and we can insert this into our website to create our first article. And so the way to do this is we just go to post here. We're inside of our WordPress dashboard. We click on posts and we go to add new post and you
[18:23] can just paste it right here inside of it. And so there we go. Let's just make sure that the title is in a proper location here. So add the title there and then we want to make this the heading for example. And we can change the size
[18:35] of this. We can make it bold. We can make it smaller if we would like to. It's pretty easy to do all of this and to customize it and then all we have to do is click on publish you can also just save it as a draft if you would like but now we've just posted our first blog article on the website right and so here
[18:51] it is I know it's not perfect we could you know modify it a little bit better we can change this banner as well but for you know just doing this in like five minutes you can see it's pretty solid right and so if we click on blog you'll see our article will show up right here this is our first article
[19:04] that we have written, and they will all show up in this blog section for us for our website. And so now the whole goal of this is just rinse and repeat, and the way that we're going to make money with this is by embedding our affiliate links inside of these articles.
[19:18] So, for example, for mattress number one here, right, so we'll talk about mattress review number one, right, we can get an affiliate link from DreamCloud Hybrid. So let's go to Google, and let's see if they have an affiliate program, and it looks like they do, right?
[19:33] So DreamCloud has an affiliate program. You can find this by literally just going to Google and typing in whatever brand it is, affiliate program. And we can see that they have a program. Let's see how much it pays. It's probably going to pay us at least a few percent commission for that.
[19:48] And we can join it. Click on join now. And then go through the process of becoming an affiliate partner with each one of these brands that we talk about in our blog articles. And then we take that custom link, right? Because we become an affiliate marketer with specific brands.
[20:01] They give us a custom link, and we take that custom link, and we paste it inside of these articles. We basically hyperlink it so that people can click on it. So when they're reading through this and they say, hmm, the DreamCloud, it sounds pretty good.
[20:13] Let me go to the website. They click on the link, and it takes them to your website, and now if they end up purchasing that mattress after clicking your link within a certain period of time, you will get paid by DreamCloud Hybrid for sending them that customer, okay?
[20:28] And so it's really just a numbers game. Going back to SEMrush, where we were analyzing this website, goodhousekeeping.com, this company, you know, they're doing 27 million people per month are going onto their site.
[20:40] There's probably tens of thousands of people per month that are buying something through their affiliate links every single month. And I would estimate that they are probably making at a minimum millions of dollars per year,
[20:52] but probably a lot more from their affiliate website. And so the best way is to just analyze your competitors, right? So if this is good housekeeping, let's see, what other articles do they have, right? We can look at their other product reviews.
[21:05] What else are they reviewing? You know, not just mattresses, but also the best sofas, the best sheets, right? The best rollaway beds. You can get really niche into this and start ranking on Google for some of these different categories. And another great way to find different categories you can rank in is to go back to this tool, SEMrush,
[21:22] which is a little bit expensive. It's over $100 a month. But if you want to take it seriously, it's probably worth it. And you can do research on organic research to see what are some terms that are doing really well. So go to housekeeping.com.
[21:35] We can see what they're ranking for. They're ranking really well for the term like air flyer or how many steps in a mile and lots of other things on here as well. So we can see their positions here. For twisters, they're doing really well.
[21:47] They're even ranking really well for some of these other terms like love quotes and coals and other things that are kind of random. And we see the top-performing pages all with this tool as well, which estimates on how well those pages are doing.
[22:00] So I would recommend utilizing this tool alongside Hostinger to make this website. And that is basically the blueprint for creating affiliate websites, affiliate blogs that can make you money in 2025.
[22:13] Now, I really would recommend also to make video content around this to push people to your website. You can have this video content running on YouTube Shorts, on Instagram Reels, on Pinterest, and all of those videos funneling people to your blog instead of solely relying on Google
[22:29] Search. Because the goal is to get them on your website to read your reviews so that you can make money as an affiliate marketer with your blog. So I hope this video was helpful for you. You can continue building out your website.
[22:41] We have a full tutorial. It's about an hour long showing you how to make a host on your website if you're having trouble modifying it or you know making it look really pretty you can go to that video I'll leave a link to it down below as well in the description as always if you have any questions leave them
[22:56] down below in the comment section I try to read comments every day and respond to as many as I can so thanks for watching I hope everyone has a great 2025 wishing everyone the best of luck