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So the first question is a guy that is going to be leaving for the military soon
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And he's been working on a website, creating articles, it sounds like
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He hasn't actually started a website. He's just been writing the articles for it. And so far, he has 40 articles
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And by the time he needs to leave, he should have up to 60 articles. So his question is, should he post his website with those articles before he leaves
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Or should he post them when he gets back six months later? Because he won't be able to go online and check his website and see what's happening
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And in my opinion, if I was him, I would go ahead and publish them before you leave
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That way your website has time to rank because as you probably know already, websites and articles take a long time to rank
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So they usually take about 6 to 12 months to reach their maximum potential
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So if you went ahead and posted all 60 articles before you left, when you came back, you might have a pretty successful website
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But if you wait until you come back and then you publish them, then you're just going to have all your articles published, but they're not going to do anything
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because you're going to have to wait anyways. Might as well just publish them. I don't see what the benefit is to waiting
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Then you can publish them, see what happens, and then if you need to edit them from there, then when you come back, you can edit them
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and fix whatever you need to fix. So this guy is just starting out blogging. He's wondering how much it should cost to start blogging
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So when I started, I used Bluehost Posting. I got a really good discount
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so I got three years for $200. However, you can go monthly
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which I think is like $10 a month, and I think they have a discount. when you first start you can get it for like two or three dollars per month and then other things
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you need you need the hosting the wordpress is free you need your domain name so that 10 bucks per year that pretty much all that you need you need the hosting which would be about five ten bucks a month and then your domain is ten bucks per year so you looking
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at maybe ten bucks a month it's really cheap that that's pretty much the answer
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that question it's about ten bucks per month if you want to buy a three-year package which is what I did it cost me 200 bucks with Bluehost and I mean it
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doesn't get any cheaper than that this guy is asking if five to seven years is enough time to take his blog to a point where he can do it full-time it really
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depends how much money you would consider to be full-time. For example, for me, I would probably
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need to be at the point where I'm profiting probably about $4,000 before I would consider it
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enough to work full-time. But $4,000 a month wouldn't be the full picture because there's
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expenses. When you get to that point, you're going to be outsourcing content and you're going to
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probably be using different plugins and other things that are going to cost money. So for me
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full-time income online to where I would consider quitting my day job is I'd want to be making $6,000
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per month. That way I would have at least $2,000 per month or like $2,000 or $3,000 per month I would
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spend on my expenses and then I would live off the $3,000 to $4,000 for my bills and stuff. So for me
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I would need $6,000. But for somebody else, depending on where you live, you might be able
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to live off $1,000 or $2,000. It really depends on you. But my first year blogging, in my previous
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video, I made a site that was worth $25,000 in my first year blogging. And so that website alone
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is making a close to 800 bucks per month so if I can do that in one year if you
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multiply that by five you do 800 times five if we continue with that logic then
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I would be making four thousand per month on my fifth year if we did 800 times seven you making five thousand six hundred So in seven years according to me I would be making a full income But with websites just like with the stock market
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it shouldn't be a linear path. It should more be exponential. So I make $800 this year
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but maybe next year I'll be making over $2,000, and then the next year maybe I'll be making $4,000
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You can't really know. It all depends on how much work you're putting into it, what you're doing
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but if you're posting maybe three at least three articles per week for five years five to seven
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years I think if you do your keyword research right I think you'll be making plenty to be
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working full-time it's a lot of work but it's definitely possible so this guy's asking if it's
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better for SEO if you have a longer article and a lot of people ask this is more words better
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and more words give you more chances to hit a certain different keywords so you won't rank for
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just the main topic, you'll rank for a bunch of other topics, which will make that article
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generate more traffic. However, if you're writing a 5,000 word blog post on how tall is the average
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person, that's really just a one sentence answer. There's no reason to write 5,000 words. And so
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you're not going to rank, you're not going to help yourself out for the main keyword. But you might
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rank for other keywords, which makes that seem like it's a good idea. It all depends on the topic
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Some topics need to be longer articles. Some topics just need to be short and to the point
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there's really no extra benefit other than possibly ranking for other keywords
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but if you're trying to rank for other keywords I think you should just make those different articles and then you can just you can interlink those things
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actually has more of a benefit to you if you into interlinking articles than to just ramble on on a different article about random topics that aren even have to do with the Article you talking about so basically just if it makes sense to make it long make it long
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If it makes sense just be 500 words then do 500 words So this guy's asking if it's a good idea to try to create YouTube videos based on his blog articles
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So he just started his blog about 10 days ago, and now he's thinking about doing a YouTube channel
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Personally if I was him I would focus on a blog at first first. YouTube is definitely a great place to bring in traffic, but if you're just starting
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blogging and figuring it out, it's going to make it a lot harder if you're trying to do
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multiple things at once. If you're trying to learn about YouTube and try to learn about blogging
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at the same time, you might get overwhelmed. So I would focus just on blogging for maybe
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the first year, six months, six to eight months, a year, get that going. Then you can figure out
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which ones of your posts are ranking the best and bringing you the most traffic. And then you can
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make YouTube videos on your best blog post, which will help bring in traffic to your videos
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and then your videos can help bring in traffic to future articles. That's what I'm doing on my main
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site. I'm finding my best blog post. I'm making a video about that blog post, and then I'm embedding
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the video from YouTube onto the blog, and the blog's actually bringing me traffic. Most of my
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traffic on YouTube was coming from the blog originally, and then over time, my YouTube
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YouTube channel has been picking up and now most of my traffic is coming from YouTube search
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So it seems to have been a good idea but I just wouldn't do that at first when you are
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still trying to figure out blogging and you might just get overwhelmed. If you think you can handle it, you can
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There's definitely a lot of benefits to having a YouTube channel but that's just the only
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thing that I'd be worried about is overwhelming yourself
