Remember I just pounced on the new opportunity for Google’s new Chrome Browser the other day?

Well, check out the stats, it looks pretty good.

We had almost 3000 unique visitors in just 2.5 days since its launch and 16+ RSS subscribers.  (Not too bad for a new blog hey?)

I will keep you updated as this Chrome thing is HOT!

Well, I wasn’t going to start a new blog for awhile but since the new Google Chrome browser is out, (and I think it will be very successful) I decided to pounce on this opportunity and start a Google Chrome Hacks Blog.  For the reasons on why I started this blog, you can check out my post here at Zedomax Blog Network.

This is one of those topics I’ve been banging my readers about, finding a niche.  (a new niche that just started)

Google Chrome is probably one of the best “new” niches for blogging.  (Okay, don’t start one now, I will have to kill you then. :op )

I will try to update on the results of such spontaneous blog creation and of course, the monetization of it too.

Where did we get the idea for Google Chrome Hacks Blog?

Well, you should take a looky at iphone-hacks.com and their stats.  (It’s like they simply took a knife and stuck it on a whale before the it leaped)

via Zedomax Blog Network

Well, today I was thinking of how blogging in general, is a “Social Collarborative Effort”.

What do I mean?

Well, let’s just say that you as a blogger, do not ever, never work alone.

As hard as it is to believe when you are running a niche blog without real “human to human” contact, blogging is about bloggers talking with each other.

Let’s say you run a tech blog covering gadgets and technology.  Everyday, you will post at least 1 blog post linking to another tech blog about the latest gadget that was introduced by the XYZ company. Now, you just linked to another blog because that blog had the information.

Couple months later down the road, that blog you linked to links to you about another tech gadget you posted earlier than anyone else.  Now, you just communicated to another blog without even talking to him/her.

The beauty of all this is that bloggers are actually helping each other find new information about their subject without any traditional e-mail, telephone, or whatever communication.

This is what I do on Zedomax.com

I basically look through every gadget/tech blog that has a quite a bit of following including Gizmodo, Engadget, Makezine, BoingBoing, BB Gadgets, and way more…

Here’s a look at my Google RSS Reader for a sec here:

There’s so many new tech gadgets introduced daily, the amount of stuff you can blog about and amount of new blogs you find are overwhelming.

This process of finding new stories from other blogs and linking to it is the very basis core of blogging.  Well, I do mean blogging “big” like trying to make a lot of money with a blog.

The more you link, the better it is since you are writing something genuinely interesting, humorous for visitors to read about.

Again, blogging is a social collaborative effort where bloggers link to themselves crazy until it becomes the best possible source of new information than any other traditional media.

This has everything to do with making money online and probably you will need to link often if not on every one of your blog posts to another blog.

Here’s an interesting excerpt from an interview with Mark Fraunfelder, the creator of BoingBoing:

There are a ton of blogs that do what Boing Boing does, but very few, if any, have done it as successfully. Is there something about Boing Boing that’s set it apart?

I think there’s a few things at play here. We did start pretty early on. January of 2000 is when Boing Boing was launched as a blog, though it had been online as a blog since 1995. It helps being one of the first. If you’re in there early and you get a lot of readers, you’re going to continue to get more readers, and newcomers awre going to have a hard time.

That was one thing, and another is that we’re all professional journalists. We’ve all written for place like the New York Times and major national magazines. We’re all pretty good at writing the nut graph, if we see a story online. So readers know that when they go to Boing Boing, they’re going to read these posts and really get something out of the posts themselves, rather than a lot of blog out there that will say something like, “This is amazing,” and then they force you to click on the link. We always try to make it so that, even if you read Boing Boing off-line, you’ll still be able to get some value out of it. If you really want to, you can click on the link to get the full story. And the final thing is the mix of the four of us. We have different but overlapping tastes, and it all mixes, and somehow has added up to this site that people find compelling enough to visit.

I do admit to experimenting with Chitika Premium Ads of lately.

In my initial testing with Chitika Premium ads, I didn’t really get good results.

As with AdSense, I decided to do some ad-layout changes and resulted in 5-7 times more revenue from Chitika.

Here’s how to do it:

Place your Chitika code before your blog post on the top-left hand corner of your website.  (Below is an example of when Chitika ads show up on Zedomax.com)

(Notice that Chitika ads only show on search traffic and disappears for regular readers)

Even though Chitika’s free e-guides tell you that readers like to read the post then see relevant ads, in my experience, that did not result in any sizable revenue.

Instead, I placed the Chitika ads before any content.  Since Chitika Premium ads only show up when a visitor comes through Google keywords, the ad itself is invisible to your regular readers while giving the best chance for people to read and click ads.

Will having Chitika ads along with Google AdSense decrease my AdSense revenue?

The simple, good answer is no for this question.  I am still making the same amount of money from AdSense after adding Chitika Premium ads.  Chitika is a great way to boost your overall revenue, 25% in my case.

So if you have been making $1000/month with AdSense, you can expect an additional $250/month by adding Chitika Premium ads in the right places. (top left corner)

I will do some more testing and let you know if there’s even better way to optimize Chitika ads.

If you haven’t, sign up for Chitika under this link and help me out too.

Writing great blog post that captures your audience probably has everything to do with your success to make money online.

Why?

Great content will always attract humans, search engines, and anyone who is interested in that information.

How do I write a blog post and capture my audience?

Well, there are numerous ways to do it but I can share you my strategy to this.

For me, I focus on satirical, humorous writing that will make the reader laugh.

Why?

The world is full of great information.  Especially the internet, you can go to 10 different blogs for the same information.

To have a competitive edge, you need to differ from your fellow bloggers.

Let me ask you a question.  Would you rather read a boring, monotonous blog post or a funny, interesting blog post?

Of course, most people would favor the latter.

Now, you need to write each blog post with a topic in your mind that is so worth reading and worth the reader’s time.

Let’s take an example.

I write a tech blog over at Zedomax.com.  Now, there’s so many thousand tech blogs out there, and most of the sites cover what everyone else covers.

To differentiate, I only pick the most interesting gadgets, DIYs, and tech news with emphasis on anything that I can make a joke out of.

The big blogs like Engadget and Gizmodo both cover every inch of tech news including which Sony execs had for breakfast.

Basically, I am the human, humorous, interesting comedian-filter for those big blogs while inputting some of my own niche topics.

Again, the world doesn’t need more MBA graduates to write long and boring blog posts that might be very accurate but still very boring.

What the world needs is simply writers who can describe an event in couple sentences with ability to make someone laugh.

Well, this blog post might have been very long and boring, perhaps I am a hypocrite.  Fuc*.

There’s couple simple rules I go by when blogging for money.

It’s pretty simple but it can help you to become a better blogger while increasing your monthly income.

1. Concentrate on extraordinary results of extraordinary ideas.

What do I mean?

Well, you need to find a great niche before you even start blogging.  That’s the extraordinary idea.

After you do find it, you need to focus on blogging, whether that’s 1 post per day or 10 posts per day, you need to stick with your plan for at least one year before you can expect any extraordinary results.

2. Build on your strengths, forget about your weaknesses.

What do I mean?

You need to make your strengths better and better and better.

This could be your writing style.  As for me, I have always strive to become a humor blogger on every blog I write.  Basically, I try to twist the English language as much as possible to get a laugh from the audience on every blog post.

To do this, I have even bought myself 2-3 books on creative, humor writing.

Forget about your weaknesses because if your strengths are great enough, your weaknesses will disappear eventually.

My weakness is that I don’t have the talent of an English Masters degree but I feel that my writing has been getting better simply from writing a LOT.

This may apply to your life too.  Sometimes people like to point out how bad you are at something but I tend to ignore all that bullshit and prove them otherwise with my strengths.  No matter what you do in life, your strengths will feed you food everyday and gain recognition among your peers.  Forget the haters, they focus too much on others to achieve anything for themselves anyways.

The best niche market I have found for Adsense ads really are the local niche markets.

What do I mean by “local” niche markets?

These are regionalized, localized markets that have an audience of one city, one county, or in other words, a small audience.

Why would you benefit from such a small market?

Well, it’s really common sense.  Because the audience is so small, your click rate skyrockets.

What is a “local” niche market?

Well, the “best” Adsense performer blog that I have is SFOneOfAKind.com.  It’s a blog about luxury real estate in San Francisco.

I cannot tell you more details than it’s the best performer as far as CPC (Cost per Click) is concerned.

It’s actually one of my “dead” blogs that I’ve began to monetize and blog as of lately.

There are tons of other “local” niche markets you can find such as “New York City Automobile Blog” or “Los Angeles Best Restaurant Blog”.

These are niche blogs that cater to only a very small portion of the internet audience.

Because the audience is so small, there’s more competition among the advertisers so in return, you the publisher can expect higher CPC.

Of course, this isn’t the case for everything, it’s always best to rely on trial and error.

Do you have a “local” niche market?

These local, niche market maybe the undiscovered gems among niche blogs and you my friend, just been told of another Adsense secret.

Now, go take your medicine and make a couple local, niche blogs to try it out yourself.

A lot of websites forget that the number one search engine optimization which is your site or blog’s title.

This is the title that shows up on the top of your browser, usually tagged with HTML code like, “<title>my title</title>”.

Why is this the most important?

Well, your title pretty much sets the “tone” for your website or blog.

Now, if you look at some websites, you will notice that there’s simply a title of their website brand such as “Zedomax.Biz”.

This is like not taking advantage of the best free SEO your website can get.

For example, you will notice that the browser title on this blog is actually “Zedomax.Biz - Insider Adsense Secrets and Ad Optimization”.

I am actually targeting my target keywords on my title.  So long as I write about my title, it will be greatly beneficial for my blog to show up first on Google.

This is probably the number one basic SEO that all SEO specialist will do first.

I’ve seen some ecommerce sites go from the 10th page for their target keyword to the 4th place on the 1st page.   It’s really common sense but a lot of people overlook it.

Make a great title that will tell readers what your website is about and also targetting your keyword whether that’s making money online or whatever.

Here’s another great tool to search for the best keywords from Google Keyword Tool if you need help finding a good niche.

Remember to pick a niche not so big and competitive but big enough where you will have zero competition.

One of the best ways to increase web search engine traffic is to write a blog post about something no other “blog” has written about.

How to go about this?

Well, first you need to research which search terms are currently giving you the most web traffic.

For example, if your blog is about travel and gets 20% of daily traffic from the search term, “best hotels in america”, you need to consider the fact that your one of your blog’s strength is about “best of something in somewhere”.

After finding out what search terms your blog gets most, simply change the wording around to something like, “best inns in south america”.

Then, do a Google search on, “best inns in south america”.  Now, if you see a lot of results that point to blogs, this isn’t a good title for your next blog post.

However, if you see no blog results, this might be a great title for your next blog post as there’s no competition for that search term.

Now, you do this process over and over for all your top-ranking search terms and I guarantee you that every blog post you write is super-niche and you will likely to show up before anyone else on Google.

In other words, “Write about what noone is writing about“.  It’s really simple as that.  But do keep in mind that the target search term would be something that would be searched a lot.  Don’t write about something that no one would search for, that’d be stupid.

The internet world is amazing.

10 years ago when people were hyped up with the dot com boom era, it
wasn’t common to find teenagers making more money than college
graduates from a single website, supposedly constructed as a blog.

I remember the first person in my family to blog was actually my mom.
She is a really good blogger and meets a lot of people her age through
her blog.  Basically as a local city moderator of a niche blog such as
40 year old women’s sports blog, my mom has proved to me what the
power of internet communication medium can do long before I even knew
the definition of blogging.

I guess sometimes things are passed down a lot whether that took 100
years or justa few years in the case of mine.

So how will all this blogging have or will change the world?

Well, it’s already been proved that a single individual with no
knowledge of college books nor sophisticated English language can make
a living from blogging.

While we thought the end of blogging was near, the carrot seems to
trick us more into the future jobs.

Can you imagine a school project consisting of a high school wide
publication by every high schoolers?
Now, that’s some amount of high school grammar and articles, which
could be great for gathering a infinite amount of search engine terms.

Of course, I have yet to hear of such a case but if I was a school
teacher, that might be the project I might go after.

Amount of new information created everyday in our world is too
enormous for television, newspaper, and magazines to cover.

A blog thwarts that by being able to archive old news while providing
news around the clock.