Financial Freedom Through Blogging by Lidiya K

What if you could find a way to work from home and make a full-time income doing something you enjoy?

What if that side hustle pays you enough to quit your 9 to 5 a year or two from now, and live life on your own terms thanks to your new income stream?

What if that income stream was mostly passive, and it was as easy as starting a blog?

What if the blog you start today earns you $5K/month for the rest of your life, even during recession?

Introducing Financial Freedom Through Blogging

Starting a blog today might mean crushing it a year from now with your side hustle, and getting to $5K a year later only so you can quit your job, reclaim your time, and start blogging full-time (from home or while traveling).

That’s why I created the roadmap for you – to save you the need for tens of hours of research, the mistakes, the confusion, the unanswered questions, the moments of wanting to give up.

Financial Freedom Through Blogging is for new, intermediate and even advanced bloggers and it covers it ALL! From outlining your blogging strategy and building discipline as a blogger, launching the website with the best tools out there and designing it, to mastering marketing, blog traffic, content creation and sales.

You get 10 modules with over 100 lectures, tech tutorials, video lessons, step-by-step guides, and a whole bunch of bonus materials included.

This Course Will Teach You 4 Key Things

1. How to Start a Blog The Right Way, Fast and on a Budget ‍

It’s okay if you aren’t tech-savvy, don’t have experience, aren’t sure how blogging works, don’t know what platform to use to create a website or how to run it once it’s live.

Don’t worry. I will walk you through this step by step and give you only the information you need to actually create a blogging strategy, find your niche, set goals, find the right hosting provider and install WordPress on it so you can launch your blog.

Together with that, I’ll show you how to design it professionally with a few clicks, what pages to add first, what steps to take to have a great platform ready to welcome your first visitors and earn you money down the road.

In fact, I’ll even build a whole new blog myself so you can see how the process works and simply follow my steps.

2. How to Drive Huge Traffic to Your New Blog and Build an Audience

The next modules of the course are all about building your brand, growing your email list, and driving a ton of traffic to your site.

You’ll learn how to start a newsletter (because the money is in the email list) with a free email marketing provider as well as with a more professional tool that will help you take things to the next level. You’ll see exactly how to get your first email subscribers, create opt-in forms that get noticed and give people the content they want so they can subscribe to your newsletter.

In addition, you’ll learn how to turn readers into subscribers and nurture your email list, create welcome email series and sell your products to your subscribers.

Module 5 and 6 are where the magic happens in terms of SEO, as you’ll learn all you need to optimize every single page on your blog as well as your whole website so that search engines can love it and rank it high.

I show you how I write content that ranks on top of Google for certain keywords, how I choose blog topics and outline the articles that are the cornerstone content of my blog, and more.

I share with you ALL you need to know about SEO as a blogger so you can get 100K page views per month and increase the earning potential of your blog.

But that traffic won’t be coming just from Google. There’s another magical place for bloggers and that’s Pinterest. After dedicating a whole year to master it, get half a million page views there and bring thousands of Pinners to my blog on a monthly basis, I now want to share the exact steps with you.

Many successful bloggers get 90% of their traffic from Pinterest. And it’s indeed easy to get to 50K monthly page views on your blog simply thanks to having great Pins and pinning strategically.

However, the rest of your traffic should come from SEO as you should never rely on a social media channel to bring all of your site’s traffic. If you combine long-term results (organic traffic from Google) and the quick weekly spikes in traffic thanks to Pinterest, you can be sure your blog will be getting 100K page views a month and earning you enough to be able to call yourself a full-time blogger.

I added Module 10 of the course (which is all about Pinterest) just recently. First, I wanted to make sure I learn all I can about using Pinterest for bloggers from different sources. Now, I combine my best tips, share my exact results and give you clear steps on how to master Pinterest, create viral Pins, and get tens of thousands of people to your blog.

This is what I saw in my Google Analytics when I had one of my first viral Pins back in the days (this image shows only traffic from social media):

You can easily get 1,000 visitors from Pinterest per day even if you have a new blog with just a few articles on it. But for that, you need to have the right content and topic, the right Pin design, the right boards to add it to, an optimized Pinterest profile, and more.

Once I started using Pinterest smarter and my Pins went viral, I analyzed exactly why that happened and replicated the process. Now, my Pinterest traffic is consistent month after month and when organic traffic goes down (which happens naturally some months), I still get enough people to my blog.

3. How to Make Your First Money Blogging 

Many of the aspiring bloggers who reach out to me are confused about the possible ways to monetize a website. Some don’t start a blog because they don’t believe it can earn them money, while others have been blogging for a while but can’t monetize strategically so they are leaving money on the table.

With the next modules in Financial Freedom through Blogging, I aim at clarifying the best ways to make money from your blog and turn that into a recurring income.

Once your site is set up and you’ve included the main elements, you can think about the most practical way for you to earn your first dollars blogging.

In Module 7, you’ll learn all you need about the 2 income streams you should start with – advertising and affiliate marketing.

Advertising is based on traffic so once you have content on your site and promote it on Pinterest following the strategies I’ve shared, you can gain traffic to your blog in the first weeks and months. Then you can partner with a professional ad network and earn a few hundred dollars a month.

The more page views you get, the more your ad revenue will increase. That’s also going to be your first passive income stream.

Here’s a screenshot of my ad revenue from Mediavine in July 2019:

Affiliate marketing comes next. You’ll see lessons on how to choose your top affiliate products and start promoting them on your blog in multiple ways, how to write affiliate content and avoid some major mistakes bloggers make.

Affiliate marketing isn’t easy to get started with. Once you get the hang of it, though, you’ll be amazed at the results.

For example, here are my sales of the courses of other popular bloggers in my niche (I’ve taken these courses myself, enjoyed them, become an affiliate and now recommend them to my audience).

You can see there’s more than 1 sale through my affiliate links almost every month, commissions are high, and sometimes my earnings are over $250 (as shown in the last column).

And that’s only for the products of 2 people online. There are so many others you can learn from and become an affiliate for so you can share their resources with your blog readers.

That too is passive income as the sales happen once someone clicks on your affiliate links, which can continue for years after you’ve published a good post containing these links.

4. How to Turn Your Blog into a 5-Figure Business

Many newbie bloggers start a blog only to give up a few months after that. They lack consistency and discipline because they never had a strategy in mind and weren’t really sure about the ‘why’ behind all this.

I will help you define these before you even start your blog. Once you do make some money each month, it’s time to get to the next level.

That means understanding how to write content that drives visitors but also sales, how to encourage Google to rank your site higher, how to negotiate prices with sponsors and earn hundreds of dollars for one article on your blog, how to choose what digital product to build first (and make sure it will be profitable), and much more.

I cover all this because it’s what I’ve personally been through. You’ll get access to all the information in detail but also in an easy to digest way.

Module 8 is all about sponsored posts, which is where the biggest part of my monthly income is coming from.

With Module 9, you’ll be able to create your eBook and online course (just like this one) and start earning the big bucks. Here is where the income can double once you add these 2 income streams to your blogging strategy.

Every month, I receive earnings from sales of my products (which I sell via Teachable, this website):

You won’t just become a full-time blogger after completing this course. Follow all the steps and you will earn enough and be able to call yourself a business owner.