Building a Successful Blog - Make A Living Blogging (Udemy.com)
Make a successful blog, using our step-by-step proven strategy! Passive and beginner friendly!
Created by: Forrest Townsend
Last updated August 2023
What you will learn
- The exact strategies I used to scale a blog to 6 figures in revenue in 18 months.
- How to build a blog from scratch using Wordpress, in less than an hour.
- How to setup your blog to be optimised for site speed metrics.
- My SOP’s used to create successful at scale and create your own repeatable processes.
- How to monetise your site to generate passive income.
- How and when to sell your blog for a profit.
- Generate evergreen content ideas for your blog.
- Harness AI tools to increase content production.
- Optimise blog posts for SEO, to bring organic search traffic to your blog.
- Select a profitable niche that will allow your blog to get real traffic.
How it compares
Against the other 112 rated Udemy courses in SEO on CourseDuck:
- Rating4.6 out of 5higher than 81% of them
- Reviews101#106 of 113 by number of reviews
- Length7 hourslonger than 67% of them
- Last updatedAugust 2023earlier than 58% of them
Course Description
Forrest is a blog owner, finding success with his first blog in the gardening niche which earned around 400 dollars per month. Following this success, Forrest built a blog in the finance niche and earned over $130,000 within 18 months - with 2 months surpassing 20,000 in profit per month.
Following this success, Forrest has setup a range of blogs for his own portfolio and business associates, in a variety of niches using his repeatable process to build, grow and scale blogs.
Are you looking to build a blog from scratch that can earn you a passive income each and every day? Is your goal to setup multiple blogs each earning you revenue and grow your passive income portfolio?
In this course, there are over 7 hours of lectures in which you’ll be learning ‘over the shoulder’ and leveraging Forrest’s 7 years of hands on SEO experience in one of the most packed blogging courses on Udemy.
By the end of this course, you will have:
Purchased/set up a domain and Wordpress web hosting.
Optimised Wordpress for a quick blog.
Tweaked your blogs design, based on preference.
Installed plugins to skyrocket your blogs success.
Conducted agency level keyword research.
Written SEO optimised content that actually drives traffic.
Used AI to increase your productivity.
Chosen and implemented your monetisation strategy to earn money from your blog.
A great understanding of your options for generating backlinks.
A clear picture of how websites are valued and your option for a future exit.
You’re obviously on the fence or seriously considering starting a blog, or you wouldn’t be reading this!
So, why should you start a blog?
Blogs are digital assets that can earn passive income for you each day.
Blogs are evergreen.
Websites sell for around 30x multiple of monthly revenue. E.G A blog earning 500 per month is valued at a sale price of 15,000.
Owning 2 successful blogs allowed Forrest to buy a property and change his life.
Blogging is a very low investment, with just 5 dollars per month on hosting fees!
Blogging isn’t ‘too technical’, thanks to the great tools on the market.
All subjects you’re passionate about can earn you money!
You’ll be following along over Forrest’s shoulder as you create a blog without all of the fluff and noise! You’ll be using tried and tested methods to get your blog live and on the internet quickly and without spending thousands. You’ll learn exactly how to bring traffic to your blog, which is what will be earning you passive income each month.
Instructor Details
- 4.6 Rating
101 Reviews
Forrest Townsend
My name is Forrest Townsend and I’ve been blogging for the last 6 years. I was recently featured on one of the worlds leading SEO podcasts to discuss one of my websites that reached 6 figures in profit in just 16 months!
Over the last 6 years, I’ve created a range of websites in many niches including Trading, Bonsai, Investing and Home Improvement.
I’ve always enjoyed monetising my sites through various avenues, so I started incorporating advertising and affiliate products into my sites in 2017.
I’m able to say that every website I have created has had a positive ROI and seen a great deal of traffic over their time.
Prior to moving to Udemy, I taught multiple members of my friends/family to build, grow and scale niche websites. It is probably the most fulfilling work I have ever been a part of. Being able to help others build life-changing websites is incredibly exciting for me.
I’ve got a very small team of part-time assistants that help me to manage the day to day running of my websites, whilst working on new projects.
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Reviews
By Martshal Kohn on 5/9/2024
This is content not even close to comprehensive. By video 14 the instructor is still doing video's that are about equivalent to YouTube shorts. There may be many reasons for putting off investing in, for instance, buying a domain to demonstrate certain principles by example. But, there are lot more reasons to be able to demonstrate how things are done: from look-and-feel to trouble shooting. This "course", so far, has the feel of a course that was set up because the owner was looking for a quick way to boost his income without really investing any work into it. I have purchased other courses on Udemy in actual development that have hundreds of hours of work behind them that I bought for exactly the same amount that I paid for this "course" which, so far, has delivered very little.
By John Hicks Snr. on 1/12/2024
The course is very helpful for me. I realize that there is much more to be learned and practiced so that I can really say that 'yes', I can make some money. Thank you very much.
By Wahbi on 12/23/2023
Not overly lengthy, has no BS, and has up-to-date information. Five stars all the way. I knew your information was the real deal when I found it on some of the biggest forums. Thanks to you, I'm ready and confident to start. Keep it up! PS: I DM'd you some questions, please check them out if you don't mind.
By Amonn AL-Mahrouq on 10/23/2023
So far, great information, nice use of whiteboard - could be a little more animated in presentation skills, however, happy to recommend.
By James Kremmer on 10/9/2023
Compared to some of the $500 course, you're not learning SEO. SEO does help a lot. I took this course to improve my blogs. This course has IMMENSE value at this price point. There are some tips and tricks in this course that isn't shared with $100 courses, even $500 courses. I ditched my Wix site that was getting 5k monthly visitors. I wanted to start monetizing my site, Wix was not a good choice. I made the switch to WP. There was a huge learning curve because I hit the nuclear button. I'm an intermediate. If you ever have a course on what paid tools you use, KW or SEO theory tips and tricks, or organic traffic tips to hit 20k per month, I'll buy your course! Beginners will learn how to create content, KW research with free tools, tips to beat procrastination, there is a lot to love about this course! I'm still working on my first big bite of that proverbial apple. I'm on the cusp.
By Alyson Ball on 10/3/2023
The creator covers alot of material that other's publishing on this topic dont. I already really appreciate the effort to provide visuals, so instead of just saying "this website is helpful" he shows us how to use the website. I've taken all or part of 6 udemy corses. I think i learned more from the variety but if someone only wanted to take 1, Id recommended this one.
By Suvi P. on 9/18/2023
This course was amazing! I loved everything about it! I builded my first new blog along with this course and it is already up and running. I am very excited about this! Thank you Forrest!
By Christian Lebe on 9/5/2023
Forrest’s course is detailed to the implementation steps (like plugin to choose, etc). I also like he mentioned a few things about expectations on when we should expect your first blog to earn money. It is not instant, but gives us the right mindset. Overall, love it.
By Benjamin James Baldwin on 9/4/2023
This course was awesome! It was full of useful, relevant and grounded information. I like how the concepts are broken down into manageable and logical chunks. He also gives realistic time frames and expectations to have as a blogger, particularly when it comes to ranking for competitive keywords. The roadmap to success is clearly set out with achievable objectives to chase down and great ideas on how to improve traffic on your website. I have a blog in the travel niche and plan to implement so much of your help and advice- Thanks Forrest :)
By Connor on 9/3/2023
I've started taking Forrest's SEO course and it has completely surpassed my expectations. He is giving away so much value here and it's been invaluable for someone like me who is just starting to blog themselves. I honestly recommend this to everybody who's completely overwhelmed by the amount of noise in the SEO space as Forrest just breaks it down, cuts the BS and gives you actionable advice. 10/10 course.
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Overall Score : 92 / 100






