Take yesterday, for example, I checked some of my stats and what was the biggest link, by far, that readers of MMMM clicked on? Charley Uchea topless!
I shouldn't really be surprised because they - whoever they are - say sex sells. I'd go one step further and say that celebrity sex sells even more.
I've succumbed to this thought and am now trying an experiment with a couple of celebrity blogs to see if they will attract visitors and, more importantly, make money.
I think realism has set in and the fact is that you need something with high traffic to bring in any real cash. Sure I'm making some money, nearly $2000 to date - see last Money Making Weekly Report - but this isn't really worthwhile as far as I'm concerned.
So I'm now, therefore, dabbling in so called celebrities, which is a phenomenon that I don't really understand. Why are people like Paris Hilton in the USA and Kate Price (Jordan) in the UK celebrities? They don't actually have any talent, but it doesn't appear to matter. What they do know is how to sell themselves, and keep in the public eye. This earns them millions. Most odd.
Anyway, I'm getting sidetracked. I started these two celebrity blogs (Celebrity Insider and In Praise Of Konnie Huq) two days ago and the interesting thing is that Google is already sending referrals - 66 (now 91 at 14.30 UK 8 June) to one of them - and I haven't done a thing to promote them. It certainly looks, on first appearances, much easier than with money making blogs.
Publishing these two other blogs isn't going to make any difference to this one. They probably won't be long term. Mike's Money Making Mission will carry on as usual.
What I'm interested in is:
Is it possible to start lots of different niche blogs, build them up with say twenty plus posts and then let them run themselves? By this I mean if you splay the blogs with strong keywords will the search engines keep picking them up indefinitely?
If this would work it should be possible to have lots of blogs, all monetised, and bringing in an income without too much effort. It's actually the keywords and tags that are more important than the posts themselves.
I'll have a bash and see what happens out of curiosity.
Good luck,
Mike.
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P.S. I've got to really carry this on a little longer - sorry! Charley Uchea isn't going to be the first housemate evicted from the UK's Big Brother. That distinction will go to either Emily or Shabnan. The bookies got that wrong. Charley Uchea is now the favourite to be the next eviction.
