Entries fromMay 2007

I’ve previously mentioned that I was taking up a personal challenge to start seven niche blogs in a week. I thought it might be fitting to provide a brief introduction to niche blogging so everyone can get a clearer idea of what I am doing.

Simply put, niche blogs are blogs which exclusively focus on a specific subsection of a general and usually popular topic.

For example, gadgets and technology is a general topic field and a blog entirely about robotic pets can be called a niche blog.

One of my favorite ways to make money online is to build a flagship website and then extend outwards into relevant or topically different projects. I’m a big fan of diversity when it comes to making money online and I seldom focus exclusively on one niche or target market.

I have an voracious appetite for experimentation and I’ve had my share of unfinished projects due to a lack of time or interest.

What’s important however, was that I learned a lot from each of them.

Online job boards have been increasingly used by blogs as an additional monetization strategy. I was checking my Feedburner stats today when I came across an ad for Simply Hired’s Job-a-matic, a website which helps you to make money from your site through ready-made job boards.

Initially launched in January 2007, Job-a-matic might not be new to some of you out there. I’ve never written about Job Boards as a way to monetize a blog or website before and I’ll thought it’ll be interesting to examine their potential in general.

I started Dosh Dosh’s Technorati Favorites experiment on the 9th of April to measure the value of the Technorati Top 100 Most Favorited list in terms of traffic.

The experiment is now over a month old and I’ve finally decided it was the right time to draft up a statistical report on the nature and amount of visitor traffic from Technorati.

This detailed report was compiled using the Google Analytics stats package and its verity is demonstrated through screenshots of the specific Technorati referral traffic channels.

I am pleased to announce the release of Prosense, an Adsense Ready SEO Wordpress theme that is jointly designed by myself and Daniel from The Wrong Advices. A clean looking theme that reeks of professionalism and style, ProSense is created with optimal monetization, web usability and search engines in mind.

This fast loading and easily customizable theme is built to accommodate heavy contextual ad monetization: Its very infrastructure is designed to direct maximum attention to Adsense ads while preserving as much focus as possible on your blog content.

I wrote about not monetizing a blog too early in a previous post and also listed several benefits of avoiding monetization until your website receives consistent daily visitor traffic and a strong reader base.

Some of the advantages mentioned includes greater emphasis on content and increased potential for social media marketing.

I’ve decided to follow up with my original post and offer one very useful monetization tip which will allow you to subtly display targeted ads while maintaining the emphasis on content and traffic building.

del.icio.us is a popular online social bookmarking website which allows you to create web bookmarks of any websites you come across while surfing the web. You’ll also have the option of sharing these bookmarks with other del.icio.us users, friends and the general public.

One of the most widely used social bookmarking services on the internet, del.icio.us has a very large member base which actively tags and bookmarks a wide variety of websites.

I’ve only recently come across Explorer Destroyer, an interesting website which helps you to make more money from Adsense by switching users from Internet Explorer to the Firefox browser.

As you probably already know, Google’s Adsense referral program will pay you $1 for every person who downloads Firefox from your referral link.

Explorer Destroyer expedites the task of getting more Firefox referrals by offering a free script that allows you to automatically promote Firefox to IE users visiting your website.