How Staying Niche Will Make You More Money Blogging!
One of the biggest mistakes bloggers make when their blog grows is that they get too “broad”.
What do I mean?
Well, let’s say you have a blog about iPhones. You get so much web traffic you decide to include other cellphones. Well, that’s a no-no in blogging because you are essentially “diluting” your market.
However, what you CAN do is to make another blog about other cellphones and link to it from your iPhone blog. (You can see example here of how successful these Crackberry guys have branched out to other cellphones. Look at the bottom of Crackberry homepage and you will see the new blog/websites.)
Whatever you do, you can start out “broad” and go “niche” but never the other way around.
If you are going to start a blog about iPhones, stick with iPhones. In the end, your smaller web traffic will be worth 10 times more than a general “broad” cellphone blog that covers every cellphone out there because your visitors are “highly targeted”.
I too, actually made the mistake of starting “too broad” over at Zedomax.com. I have WAY too many categories and it’s probably the most inefficient way to make money blogging. If I started it all over again, I’d probably only concentrate on DIYs or just Hacks.
As a result of my earlier mistakes, now I try to focus highly on targeted visitors. (You can see an example of my new Palm Pre Hacks blog, which is highly targeted towards Palm Pre hackers and Digital LED Watches blog, which is highly targeted towards consumers interested in browsing cool digital LED watches.)
I am also working on a new membership blog that I will be releasing the “real” secrets behind blogging soon so watch out for that too.
C YA!
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September 2nd, 2009 at 6:32 am
Glad to be of help, I need to keep blogging more, especially this one, it's been very dead because I have never updated it. I will try to provide more examples. ASK ME QUESTIONS!