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Kamis, 12 Juli 2007

To Make Money Define The Niche And Visitor Profile

I had one of those 'odd' days yesterday with my celebrity blog - I had 3144 hits. Don't worry, this isn't going one of those 'how clever was that' type of posts.

I got the visits because of posts I wrote back on the 28th of June, and followed up on the 1st of July. All of a sudden this subject became very hot yesterday - but has already fallen away today.

Yesterday though the Google search engine sent around 2000 referrals my way but - guess what? All of those extra hits didn't do me any good at all financially. It was great for my stats but, as a lot of the visitors were Spanish speaking, they weren't interested in my various adverts and affiliate programs.

The moral of this story is that it's the right sort of visitors that we want, if we hope to make money - quality not necessarily quantity. In other words we have to attract a profile of customer to match our niche advertising.

It's sometimes difficult, in lots of cases, to define exactly what our niche is. Often there are various aspects to our subject matter. In the example I've been using the word celebrity covers a multitude of sins.

What is sort of celebrity? Movie or stage star, soap or Shakespeare actor, pop or opera singer, reality show contestant or one of those girls famous for doing nothing etc. etc. They all have a different 'audience'. It's necessary, therefore, to to be very specific when deciding on a niche. There are often niches within a niche.

It's also possible to try to cover too wide a range and endeavour to cater for too many types of people. For instance I tried to start a news blog recently, because the celebrity blog has gone quite well. I've 'given in' already, after giving some more thought to the idea. It's too vast a subject and there is too much competition even if looking for quirky stories.

Following on in a way from yesterday it's so important to define exactly what niche to go for and to also be aware of what profile of visitors will be reading our blogs.

To make money, there's a lot more to blogging than deciding on a vague niche and then plonking a few ads on the page.

Good luck,
Mike.


Celebrity Insider - Photos & News. The hot topic, which got all of those hits yesterday, was Ana Paula Oliveira a soccer referee (a real professional one) in Brazil who has decided to pose for Playboy magazine. She's a bit different to the referees I've seen in England!

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Rabu, 13 Juni 2007

What's Going To be Hot?

Celebrity visitsYesterday my new blog, Celebrity Insider, had over 500 visits and 400+ the day before. Though I was pleased about this, as the blog has only been going for nine days, I asked myself - why?

I hadn't actually followed any of the supposed rules. I hadn't promoted the new blog, other than on MMMM and a couple of other links, hadn't submitted it to any directories, hadn't left the link on forums etc. etc.

For some reason though I got a healthy number of visits, and the majority of hits came via search engine referrals and tags.

After a bit of head scratching I came up with the fact that, with a niche blog, you have to post about whatever is going to be hot - not necessarily something that is already hot.

I'm talking about blogs from which you hope to make some money with. Obviously if money isn't the object just enjoy and write about whatever you want.

If the niche blog is about dogs, for example, you have to ask, and find out, what's going to be hot in the doggie world. This has to be preferably something new and maybe innovative. It's no good reporting on something that's been going for ages and with which the Internet is already flooded with information.

If something is new and on the way up get in quickly. Otherwise it's a bit like trying to get success with a Paris Hilton post - there is too much competition for a newish blog to compete with. The established websites have it sown up with the search engines. Sure you can make headway into this sort of 'market' but it'll take time and lots of good inward linking keywords and so on.

With something new you have a chance, an opportunity to get on the Google first page as long as you ping and tag.

Don't follow what everyone else has done. Discover some new stories and 'things' on the way up. It may be the way to success with a new blog.

Good luck,
Mike.


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Paul SculforCelebrity watch: Yesterday's main story on Celebrity Insider was about Paul Sculfor, Jennifer Aniston's new partner plus photos and video.

Kamis, 07 Juni 2007

If Celebrity Sex Sells Can We Make Money From It?

I suppose I knew it already, but it's a funny old world this blogosphere - or whatever you want to call it.

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.
 

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