Niche Make Money Ways

After my last post, Fast Make Money?, things have taken a turn at my workplace so I can't post as much as I want in here and my other blogs.

But just to keep things ticking along, here is a short post about why Blogger Blogs are so cool!

I know lots of experts in this field tell you to get your own hosting and buy your own domains, which is quite sensible really if you need to have that control over your cyber real estate and if maybe you intend to build up some websites and sell them on for a profit later.

But if you can't be bothered with all that hassle, but still want to make money online, then Blogger blogs are an excellent way of doing it without any monetary outlay. So if you screw up, it doesn't cost you anything!

I also know that having blogs in the make money section of the world is not the place to actually make money. That's because there is too much competition from other eager Internet marketers who not only know more than me about SEO and hogging the top pages in the search engines, but if you can get them to even visit your blog, they won't click on your ads.

But having blogger blogs doesn't limit you to the make money sector.

I have some blogs in other sectors (the Americans like to call them Niches, except they can't pronounce the word right and call it "nitch" instead of the proper French word pronounced "neesh"). But that's no big deal, we all pronounce words differently - try understanding a Geordie if you're not from around there and you'll know what I mean!

Anyway, that's got nothing to do with how to make money! These niches are as numerous as hairs on your head (well, not my dad's head - he's nearly bald!) and some are more or less competitive than others. So you just need to find the right one that is searched on enough with a low number of competing pages and a product that people will want to actually buy and you can use keywords and back links to get your free blog up there in the search engines top pages.

That way you'll attract targeted organic traffic that are looking to buy the very thing you have for sale on your blog - in the form of affiliate products or PPC ads. Bingo!

That's the end of my sermon for today. Catch you later!

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Make Money Attracting Advertisers

My last post Make Money by Popularity, looked at some of the ways to get traffic to your blog. Well, since then, I've been looking around a lot of blogs that tell you how to make money online just lately and one thing seems to stand out more than anything else - the variety and sheer number of advertising banners.

I'm a little skeptical about all this as while it all appears to give the promise to make money in direct proportion to the number of banners, I have a sneaky feeling that all is not as it seems.

Could this be a case of "all that glitters is not gold?"

In fact after reading some very hard hitting blog posts on this very subject (I'm not naming names) while most bloggers would have you believe they are doing very nicely from their advertising, the reality is that most of them are scraping by or even earning absolutely nothing from all that hard work.

Ok, maybe it's not that hard to throw up some banner code, but still it must be disheartening to anyone new to this business (like me for example) to at first see the promise of making fortunes online dwindle down to a more realistic making of pennies instead.

So back to the topic of this post - attracting advertisers to make money. How does a new and unranked blog go about attracting advertisers?

Well, after you've finished laughing your heads off, the simple answer is "forget it!" No one wants to spend money to display an ad somewhere that gets very little traffic and has no search engine rank or blog age antiquity for credibility.

So what if I were to put up a load of affiliate banners flashing away in my sidebar? Would that make money?

Again, probably not until I can attract some decent traffic to this blog and that won't happen until I've written plenty of content, accrued some age, back links, popularity... and that's probably about it! In fact it all boils down to one word at the end of the day...

Popularity

If you go to John Chow's site, there you'll see popularity in waves! He's been around a long time, his name is well known and his site is a magnet for bloggers who want to make money. In a word, he's very popular. When it comes down to figuring out how to make money blogging, he's done a pretty good job of it. That of course doesn't mean its going to be easy for anyone else to replicate that. I imagine it would take years to get to the place Chow is now, so for bloggers, there must be a better way to make money online.

On the other hand, if you come to my little blog, what is there to make anyone think it's popular? Nothing!

That's because the hard and painful truth is that it's not popular - yet. Just like millions of other blogs out there, with their authors busily scribbling away day in and day out - no one goes to visit their blogs to read what they're writing.

Why?

Because they're not popular. Worse, they either don't know how to start bringing in some readers to make money, or they're just not bothered.

Well some of us won't be putting up with that! This girl in particular wants to make money and has no intention of remaining anonymous with not a soul coming to read her work!

So watch out people... I'm coming to visit your blogs and you better come and visit mine back!

Make Money with Chelsea