Aug
Back to the Basics: Choosing Your Niche
Several months ago I was reading all about the make money blog niche and decided it would be something fun to enter, and probably the easiest niche to monetize. Three months in, I have realized it is probably not the niche I should have chosen. In fact, the free blog I set up on WordPress about gaming is the only blog I’ve monetized yet. Granted I am nearing the $2,000 mark from almost 6 months of blogging, I am still enjoying the niche.
While the biggest mistake I made was not getting it’s own domain soon enough, I still enjoy it. Had I moved that blog to it’s own domain, I would have been able to monetize it very well. I am getting 1,200 views a day on that blog! Almost all of it coming from Google too. If I were to have Google AdSense up on a domain getting that traffic I could have made another couple hundred. If I sold private ads, another couple thousand.
What I’m getting at is picking your niche is very important. If it weren’t for me trying to prove the Noob that I can succeed in this niche, I would have dropped it a long time ago. Pick a niche you enjoy writing in. There are so many ways to monetize any niche, it’s just a matter of finding out how. Make it easier on yourself and start off from the get go with a niche you enjoy writing in.
August 20th, 2008 at 5:25 am
Like you need to prove anything to the noob
I’ve often thought about getting into the make money niche but to be honest noob’s actually shown me just what it entails. You see most of the big sites out there and it looks easy. You don’t have to do very much and the money rolls in. The noobs website shows you need knowledge and skills that I don’t have and don’t have the time to learn.
Because of that I’m happy living my life watching the cents roll in rather than teh thousands of dollars that others crave after.