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How To Start A Blog About Pets – Complete Guide To Make Money

When a potential blogger is looking for blog topics, the best place to start is with what they know. This means that someone who has experience with pets for years would be more likely to have success on the topic of their expertise than if they were trying to do something alien to them, like sports.

To help get you started and give you some ideas for successful pet blogging, here's your guide!

How To Start A Blog About Pets


How Do I Start My Own Pet Blog?

You should start your blog by finding a topic you are passionate about. Make sure you'll have fun with the topic. This will make everything more enjoyable.

Next, create an imaginary profile of a target audience. As a beginner, your target audience should be specific.

It cannot be a little bit of everything like people passionate about pets, or newbie pet owners, or those looking for some light reading on topics related to owning a pet (like training tips).

This will make your blog scattered all over the place, which will give you slow results.

You need to have one person in mind. This person is the center of your blog. Every content you produce should be dedicated to him/her.

For example, here's an imaginary profile about Jam, and her pet poodle, Cupcake.


As Jam and her poodle Cupcake are sitting in the back of their car on a hot summer day, Jam suddenly had a wild idea.

"I need to make you famous," Jam says to her dog.

"I bet if I start my own pet blog, your popularity will skyrocket."

She then starts brainstorming ideas for how she can get Cupcake into advertising."


From the example above, you are going to be helping Jam make Cupcake famous by going into advertising!

What can Jam do?

Should she take cute photos of Cupcake every day and post them on her Instagram with hashtags to attract advertising agencies?

Should she use SEO or Search Engine Optimization to reach out to a global audience who are using keywords looking for cute poodle outfits?


How Do Pet Blogs Make Money?

The fastest way of earning money as a beginner is by doing Amazon affiliate marketing.

With Amazon affiliate marketing, Jam can earn commission from all the products she recommends through her blog.

However, Jam should remember not to be distracted and stay true to what she originally set out to do - make Cupcake famous.

She can let Cupcake model some dog clothes and point her readers to dog clothes in Amazon.

  1. dog shirts
  2. dog cold weather coats
  3. dog sweaters
  4. dog dresses
  5. dog hoodies

All these categories have best-selling products on Amazon that you can take advantage of! Promote the clothes by making Cupcake wear them as if she is already a celebrity!

Even if your audience does not end up buying the clothes, any click on your affiliate link that leads to any purchase in Amazon, even if it is a totally unrelated item, such as a laptop, can earn you a commission.

In the future, Jam can start to reinvest her Amazon earnings to slowly build her pet brand, probably by starting to DIY cute clothes, so that she can eventually start her own fashion clothing specifically for poodles.


What Pet Products Sell Best?

If you type "best selling pet products" on Google and go to Amazon to check, select the "dog" sub-category on the side (since Cupcake is a dog). You'll see that these are some of the products.

  1. Food
  2. Treats
  3. Apparel & Accessories
  4. Beds & Furniture
  5. Cameras and monitors
  6. Carriers and Travel Products
  7. Collars, Harnesses, and Leashes
  8. Crates, Houses, and Pens
  9. Doors, Gates, and Ramps
  10. Feeding and Watering Supplies
  11. Flea and Tick Control
  12. Grooming
  13. Health Supplies
  14. Health and Housebreaking
  15. Memorials
  16. Toys
  17. Training and Behavior Aids

Based on the above products, you can have

  • apparel and accessories
  • carrier and travel products
  • grooming
  • collars, harnesses, leashes and
  • toys

to incorporate in your content production ideas.

All these 5 categories have products that have thousands of positive reviews you can leverage on!


How Do You Make Your Pet Go Viral?

You need to be creative and original!

For example, you could make a video of your pet doing tricks or singing. You also need to be charismatic and engaging.

You could even write a blog post about the funniest thing your pet has ever done and the likes.

Hint: If you're starting out as an amateur blogger, do not expect instant success!


Advice For Beginners

The really important thing about starting a pet blog and making it a success is having patience.

For starters, learn how long-tail keywords work. Create content with value, even if it's just entertainment value in this case.

Join targeted Facebook groups about pets so you can have ideas on what your audience are looking for.

Don't forget to learn Content Marketing!

The easiest way to reach your target audience is by optimizing your content and website thru SEO.

If you keep at it for long enough (and gain more experience), then you'll start seeing results.

There are many different blogging platforms, but if you're just starting out, I would recommend going with WordPress since it's easier for beginners. It provides some templates that can help get your content started quickly without all the technical aspects involved.


Conclusion

To start on the right foot, I recommend starting from the very start.

Consume my free blogging for beginners course before diving in too deep. Doing so will eliminate some of the common mistakes and misunderstandings people have when starting their blogs.

The number one mistake I see bloggers making is spending too much time creating content but not enough time participating in other blog activities like commenting, sharing on social media, or collaborating with other pet bloggers to create opportunities.

A lot of it just comes down to being consistent and doing something new every day - whether that's taking photos of your pets playing outside or writing a post for your site.

You don't need any fancy equipment either. Oftentimes what makes an article work is just you! So remember why you started blogging in the first place: because blogging is fun! 😉 Everything else, like traffic (visitors) and money will follow!

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  1. This was such a great introduction to the online world of dedicating your time to blogging. So many people are pet owners, myself included, I have a mixed pup called Olivia and I’m always trying to find helpful and reliable information to help me better understand her and how she acts. Thanks to so many pet dedicated blogs I had the opportunity of training her myself – even though she only knows sit, lay down, and no. But that’s a starter. 

    1. Hi Stephanie,

      Dog Training is a very profitable niche! 🙂 The best resources are always going to be the people who have had personal experience about what they’re blogging about. Who knows someday you might make your own pet training blog. 🙂

      Cheers,

      Pitin

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