Creating a Niche Blog
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Just simply being passionate about a topic isn’t enough for having a successful blog. I have found this out first hand. If you want a successful blog, you can always go with the trends. Pick a popular niche, and watch the traffic roll in. Well it’s not that easy… but it can be.
My Blog Experiment
Well, it wasn’t exactly an experiment, but it has turned out to be. If it’s not enough being busy with Blog about your Blog and several other blogs I contribute to, I have started two new projects you may or may not be familiar with.
I was definitely hoping for more interest in my poetry blog, however that hasn’t exactly been the case. The traffic levels and click-throughs on the ads have been very minimal to non-existent. Mind you I am not exactly actively promoting it, besides on forums.
It has been the complete opposite for my newest project. Apparently, everyone loves free stuff. It’s All Free Online has had a great jump start. In less than a week, the blog has received 1,000 unique visitors, with 11 RSS Feed subscribers. By finding a popular niche and delivering good content I have been able to drive traffic to the blog.
My Inspiration
That’s all good, however there’s been better. I have been following Mikes Money Making Mission very early in my “blogging career”. He recently launched Celebrity Insider which is about celebrity gossip, news and rumors. He has driven some great traffic to that blog, largely due to search engine referrals.
In only 47 days, the traffic he reports is 33,669 unique visitors. With some quick math that works out to be about 715 unique visitors a day. With the blog monetized by adsense, this could possibly work out to several dollars a day, just with that program alone. That kind of traffic is amazing, and as I understand it to be, he hasn’t had to really promote the site actively.
You don’t have to be exactly knowledgeable about the topic, however you have to be able to find information about it. If you simply want to blog about whats popular, you can see what top tags people are using on technorati, or the google trends. Google Trends is a tool I have found recently, and it may be pretty beneficial for any blogger to determine keywords to use within a blog post.
Whether your blog is about freebies, or celebrities, there is money to be made on niche blogs.
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Glen Allsopp said:
If you are passionate about your industry, writing good content constantly then you dont mind not having the bucks early on but you learn they will come
August 1st, 2007 at 7:28 am -
chrisblogging.com said:
I love posts like this! Keep these up, please. Reading about others success always gets me, as well as many others, motivated!
August 1st, 2007 at 8:46 am -
Matt said:
Sure thing chris, what other things are you interested in?
ways to make money online etc?
Ive got a few more posts about surveys coming
August 1st, 2007 at 12:15 pm -
Missy said:
I have a few niche blogs myself, and like Matt some are doing well, while others are not. I’m not too good with finding the popular keywords. I know how to find keywords related to my own niches. But how does one find out which are hot keywords, generally speaking? I want to start a celebrity type blog, like on country stars.
Matt: Maybe you can do a post on this on here.
Missy.
August 1st, 2007 at 1:43 pm -
Matt said:
well are you looking for hot keywords in your niche? hot keywords that people are using to already find your site? hot keywords in general? keywords that make you hot? lol
August 1st, 2007 at 2:53 pm -
Sheila said:
^ is this an R-rated blog? (Just kidding)
Sometimes I wonder how niche is too niche. GoVisitHawaii is going on 5 months old and I continue to wonder if it will ever be worth my time. Do you think it is too niche for eventually being worth my time?
Even though I’m not making diddeldee squat now, I really love blogging about Hawaii. I get to go there every day in my mind. So, the passion for my niche hasn’t diminished.
August 1st, 2007 at 6:26 pm -
Missy said:
lol. Matt. I’m referring to general hot keywords.
August 1st, 2007 at 6:31 pm -
Matt said:
i would definitely start looking at google trends
http://google.com/trends
you can search by date as which keywords were most searchedAugust 1st, 2007 at 6:49 pm