Entries fromMay 2007

Networking with your fellow niche bloggers is by far one of the most important factors when you are trying to grow your site audience. The main reason is this: Established blogs in the same niche have exactly the type of readers you need.

These readers are very likely to follow your blog because the content you offer is relevant to their interests.

Another explicit benefit of networking with other niche bloggers is that you’re likely to receive consistent referral traffic and links from them as well.

Picking the right domain name is a very simple process that often involves a mix of personal preferences and the construction of a public image for your website or business.

As I’ve mentioned in my introduction to niche blogging, the emphasis on a tight content focus is very important and your domain name can reflect your overall commitment to the field either through keyword relevance or effective branding.

In terms of niche blogging, picking a domain name simply requires you to align your choice of a domain name with your overall niche blogging masterplan.

At the end of most blog posts you’ll often come across empty space. A gap between the last word and the opening comment. This area is often unexploited and unjustly so, because it’ll definitely help make more money from your blog.

If you want more monetary benefits from your content, you should probably spend some time optimizing what I call the Gap or the space between your blog post and the comments section.

In this article, I will outline four methods you can use to effectively monetize this untapped space, while correspondingly increasing both your profit potential and your reader base.

In my previous article, I’ve wrote a short primer which teaches you how to create your own niche blog masterplan. Now in this post, I’ll touch on one of the most important parts of any niche blogging strategy: Choosing your blog niche.

Picking a profitable blog niche that is of personal interest can be a difficult process, not to mention that you’ll have to single out a niche amongst an almost infinite number of unique topics.

Not all blog niches are inherently profitable because the topic you choose, often determines the future size and profitability of your blog to some extent.

Payperpost has finally taken a big step forward in the paid blogging arena by bringing on some features that its immediate competitors, ReviewMe and SponsoredReviews, have had for some time.

Just launched yesterday, PayperPost Direct allows bloggers to sell sponsored posts directly to advertisers visiting their site, through the placement of badges which allows advertisers to immediately order any specific paid posts without leaving the site itself.

This builds on the setup that ReviewMe pioneered, which allows advertisers to contact any specific bloggers they want to target instead of running broad campaigns in paid review marketplaces.

According to TechCrunch, Google has just acquired Feedburner, a web feed management company for $100 million. This was previously a rumor but now has been confirmed by Michael Arrington, who says that the deal mostly involves upfront cash payment by Google.

Interesting news for publishers currently running Feedburner’s advertising program because it’s likely that Google might integrate its Adsense contextual ad network with Feedburner.

Feedburner has a large inventory of publishers currently using their services and it would make sense for Google to tap these current users instead of relaunching or promoting Adsense for Feeds, Google’s RSS advertising program which has been in a perpetual closed beta since 2005.

I’ve given a brief introduction to niche blogging and now I’m going to write a little about the process of actually creating a niche blogging masterplan you can follow for coordinated efficiency and overall success.

Reviewing my experience with niche blogs, I’ve realized that you need to have a clear personal goal as its easy to be sidetracked by factors that are not a priority at all.

Having a long-term perspective is essential as well, especially if you want to make these niche blogs a profitable source of revenue.

ProSense, an Adsense Ready wordpress theme was quite well received when it was made available last week on Dosh Dosh. Following its release, we’ve taken your feedback into careful consideration.

The theme has already been downloaded over 1,000 times and requests for different color schemes was by far the most prevalent, hence the release now of both grey and blue versions of ProSense.

These two versions remains the same as the original but the rectangle Adsense code within the post is now aligned to the left for better ad spacing.