7 Tips to Making Money through Niche Blogging
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So you want to be a blogger? You want to make some real money, and blogging is how you want to do it. You have tried for a couple of months but a blog about yourself, another one about 
adsense, and a third one about blogging has yet to make more than a few bucks a day.
You hear Jake Rinard, Darren Rowse, and other talking about finding a niche. Well that is exactly what you thought you were doing right? Wrong. A niche about blogging is already a niche all taken up. This is like trying to be a real estate king in NYC, taking on Donald Trump. Can’t do it. That is no niche for someone that is just starting out. That is why an adsense blog is not a niche, that is why a blogging tips blog is not a niche, and that is even why a blog about yourself is not so much a niche these days. Your family make like it, but that is all. I am sure you are a great guy or gal whatever you may be. The problem is there are millions of blogs many of them being personal. Back in 1997 when I was starting out, a blog about me brought about lot’s of comments, and was awesome. Not so easy anymore. That niche is covered.
So I have been promising 9 tips to find your niche blog. The question is whether or not I can come up with 9. Why did I pick 9? It wasn’t an even number and 10 sounded like a lot. So we will see if I can get 9, if I don’t oh well. I won’t waste up my blogging time with wasted points. I am going 
to get down to the plain and simple. So 9 (maybe) tips for niche blogging.
1. Narrow it down so you are one of the few. This is key. Simple to say and simple to think that you have it. There are very few people that actually understand this. Like I said don’t compete against Donald Trump. Don’t start a Tech blog. Don’t even start a digital camera blog. Those are New York State and New York City respectively. Get down to something small where you can actually have a piece of the pie. You must be able to have a big share of the market. You never will do this in New York. Your little house is peanuts in NYC.
2. Develop your niche. Keep developing it, see where it goes. It will change over time. Your Nikon D80 niche may develop into a Nikon D80 accessories niche. Develop it. Let it grow. Sometimes you lead and sometimes the best leaders are good followers.
3. Take the time. I have always said it takes a minimum of 6 months to really know if you have a winner in the niche you picked. It takes time to let your niche develop. There are many reasons why it takes time. One of the main reasons is that Google doesn’t know you. You must develop your pagerank and your links in Google as well as all the other search engines. Your links around the www must grow and you need to become known. Not necessarily known in the blogger community but in your niche community.
4. Different niches are different. What?! Now you have lost it Jake. This is common sense. Yes it is, but is it? What I am trying to say here is that different niches grow differently. I have one niche that I have done very well on that isn’t grown through other bloggers. It grows through search engines only. Then there are some blogs such as MoreMerchant.com that need other bloggers. I give advice, help others and that is returned in link love and other ways. Your niche will need to grow in a way that suits that niche. Links, SEO, or other avenues.
5. Go tighter with your niche. You started your niche. you found that little spot of Nikon D80 owners that love your niche. You are making money and have a community going. Do you stop here? Look at your niche. Could you narrow it down to be 2 niche sites? I touched on this earlier. Maybe you need a Nikon D80 Flash site and a Nikon D80 digital lens site. Keep tightening your niche and this will leave to more and more niches as you go along.
6. Can’t find a niche? Take a drive. Possibly get out at the mall. Look at signs. Look at what you drive by. Anything can be a niche. See that Adirondack chair store? Could this be a niche? Possibly. Would that be boring? Possibly. Some niches are boring to me. Yet I make more with my part time blogging than most people make with their miserable full time job. This leads me to point 7.
7. Not all niches are created equal. Some jobs are miserable. That is why they pay. Some jobs are fun and they pay. Some niche blogs are fun or seem to be fun. Just like Darren Rowse and Jeremy Schoemaker seem to be having fun many niches are fun. Some aren’t so fun. Are you trying to have fun or make money? A website on Adirondack chairs wouldn’t be that much fun for me, but if it made $1000 a month and that is what I needed, than a site on Adirondack chairs is exactly what I would have.
Don’t judge blogs. You never know what will make you money. I believe I make more than 99% of bloggers. I have a checking account with deposits to show it. How do I do this? I learned back in 2000 what a niche truly was.
I don’t believe until you find out what a niche truly is that you will make it in blogging more than a few months if it is money that is driving you. Why? Because you won’t be making any.
If you need tips on blogging ask me. I am here to help.
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I have still not started my own blog. These tips will be very help as I begin. I am now looking for my own niche as you recommend. Thank you.
James
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That’s a good list, though I think you could have added another point to bring the total to 8 ;).
That would be: pick something you’re interested in. There might be plenty of money to made in a blog about dirt but who can sustain quality content about dirt for a year?
I think passion matters more in determining success than how empty your niche is. A passionate blogger in a crowded niche still has the potential to succeed. A blogger without passion in a niche that’s ripe for the plucking is still unlikely to succeed.
That’s interesting, I’ve been thinking of starting a niche blog but I didn’t know they were called that until I read this article.
The article has inspired me to get working on my ideas.
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Interesting ideas. I’m kick starting my own niche blog … Always good to have extra ways of thinking about things … thanks.
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Hi Jake,
Nice ideas! Keep up the great work. Good Stuff!
Quite realistic tips. I like this post very much.
This is a good post and I read most of it. Sounds like my blog doesn’t have a “New” Niche.
Oh well.
I’m going to start another blog soon, and I’ll email you about it later.