How to Choose Your Niche Blogs

The money making area, niche blogs, is constantly on the rise.I have found blogging to be much more profitable than my static web sites ever where.

There are thousands and thousands of great money making niches but if you choose the wrong one you may just NOT be able to succeed due to the massive competition you will have to battle for rankings.

So How Do We Make A Profit In A Niche?

I have a number of personal blogs where I share hobbies and interests. They were so easy to setup and get started with because I didn’t require much research but when I started seeking other niches to make money with I had to do a fair bit of research.

The reason I started doing research is due to the lack of income from my personal blogs. I started them but didn’t really do any valid research. Lesson learned and the next blog I started didn’t happen before I did my niche and keyword research. What a difference in target traffic and to my surprise my income.

Hobby Blogging

My first blog was a hobby blog about fly fishing. I had this blog running for a couple of years before I even thought about monetizing it. It was just a personal blog to share my experience with other like-minded people, never really thought about making money with it.

For my fly fishing blog I needed no experience, there was no time frame to success, and my lack of good writing skills wasn’t a problem.

Blogging To Make Money

I found hobby blogging quite easy and enjoyable. Niche blogging for profit on the the other hand meant I had to use my brain before creating a blog. I have always been one to just jump into things with eyes closed and with both feet. I soon found this didn’t work when I tried to make money blogging. It took some researching of my topic for keywords that paid.

Blogging And Affiliate Marketing

It took me a while to start earning because I kept looking for niches around my hobbies which was fine but I did find it hard to find affiliate programs that were relevant. So even though I tried I ended up dropping the first few niches I tried because I couldn’t find affiliate programs and didn’t make much with Adsense blocks.

So learning the ropes to niche marketing is vital to your success.

Here Are A Few Helpful Tips So You Can Profit Blogging

Time is a factor. If you have existing skills you may just be able to profit quicker. Even if you lack certain skills you can learn them. Learning marketing skills will help you choose a better niche to start blogging about.

Is there money in that niche? You may have skills in a few areas but you need to find out right away if there is money in that market. An example is to try and sell to youth, who seldom have money. They want but they don’t have to means to get it, so I would focus on a different niche.

The other end of niche marketing is choosing a lucrative niche but one that is way out of your league. Niches like insurance, mortgages or medicine will take forever to break into and will require a lot of money to get started.

You need to use Google to find how many web sites you are going to compete with for any niche you chose. Some competition is important but too much will just depress you.

What Blog Platform To Choose

Once you have decided on a niche to go after you will have to choose the blogging environment. Personally I go with Wordpress and my own domain every time now. I have gone the free blogging platform route and have never had as much success as having my own domains.

I try to buy keyworded domains, like my fly fishing domains and if I can localize them all the better.

One example:

http://www.thejoyofflyfishing.com/

Another that is localized:

http://www.flyfishinginnewbrunswick.com/

Try not to use hyphens if possible but if you need to then try not to use more than two. I have gone with more hyphens and it can be a pain in the butt to explain that to people.

An example of what not to do for a domain name:

http://www.web-site-power-promoters.com/

or

http://www.ebooks-with-reseller-rights.com/

Later I was able to purchase the later domain without hyphens and I have seen just how much easier it is to share with people I talk to. No need to say there is a hyphen between each word or having them go to a site that isn’t mine because they left out the hyphens.

Content Is King

I know ‘content is king’ is over used but so many still create crap content that doesn’t help them earn, so I feel it’s necessary to say it over and over. Content is King.

Now let me clarify that last statement. If you don’t focus on keywords that make money you may just be wasting your time.

How Do I Know If My Keywords Can Make Money?

Fair question. What I do is enter my keyword or phrase into Google, the king of search engines, and see if there are any Adwords ads showing. You know those relevant ads that appear on the right side of your search results page. If there are no ads you can pretty much count on the fact there isn’t much money in that keyword phrase.

Using Google search engine and Google’s Adwords Tool, it’s free, you can find out quite a bit of info about your keywords. So be sure you use them both before stepping in over your head.

These are a few steps that will help you start blogging with potential to make money blogging.

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