Anyone in the Fitness Niche?

by rimam1

Posted: 9 years ago 11 replies

INTERNET MARKETING

Hey Warriors,

I run a fitness blog (mainly geared towards guys) and wanted to know if anyone else here is in the fitness niche.

If so, how are you growing your site? What forums do you hang out at? How are you monetizing currently?

Would be great to see how others are doing with their fitness blogs

Best,
Raza

#fitness #niche

Tyler Pratt 9 years ago

Is this a hobby for you, or a business?

If blogging is just a hobby, which most blogs are, then just go hang out on others health forums.

If its a business and you want to make money I would dump the blog and get a product out there to sell with your expertise.
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- rimam1 9 years ago
  
  Hey Tyler,
  
  I got a product already. Tweaking the sales copy to increase conversions.
  
  I was paying for PPC traffic (Bing and Facebook) and buying solo ads. I'm creating a blog and will be building my email list out further... currently have 2200 subscribers.
  
  So yes, I'm building a real business
  
  And yes, I do hang out on health forums too
  
  I'm here to know how other people in my niche are building and scaling traffic.
  
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- rimam1 9 years ago
  
  Just signed up to your list by the way.
  
  Most MMO methods work for other guys in the MMO niche. If your product helps with fitness I'd be interested.
  
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  Tyler Pratt 9 years ago
  
  Here is how I build a list in the Health niche
  
  I drive traffic to an optin page, send to a thank you page
  
  On the thankyou page is 4 bonus links all rotating different weight loss CPA offers.
  
  The same rotating links are in the download page and the daily emails that go out.
  
  The CPA offers just help me make money to build my health list for free.
  
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  Oh and blogging is not going to get you any traffic. You will waste years trying to build it up.
  
  PPC to that setup above is the best way.
  
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  StephenGB 9 years ago
  
  I am starting in health and fitness. I thought the main point of the blog from commercial perspective was to build the list and gain authority in the niche.
  
  If you don't have a blog how do you build a list and build trust that people will buy from you.
  
  Whenever I see these opt in pages I just think spam, how can you differentiate one from the other.
  
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Big Al 9 years ago

StephenGB...

There's a guy called Paul Mort in the UK who runs a podcast and membership newsletter for personal trainers. I think you'd be interested in what he has to say.

But... if you can target your market and create a good enough squeeze page you can still push the opt-in. For sure.

Then the know, like and trust comes from the email follow-up.

Just because you see squeeze pages as spammy only means that you are not your market. You need to see a blog, read a blog and so forth. I'm the same. But plenty of people will opt-in. I guess (this is me guessing now) it comes down to qualifying and attracting your potential leads with the right squeeze page offer.

Just shooting my mouth off. But I've collected leads from SEO to a longer form squeeze page in the fitness world.
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getbread 9 years ago

I think you could do what Tyler said but use the list to drive traffic back to the blog. I don't agree that the blog has to be dropped entirely. You could send excerpts of posts in you emails to drive some traffic back to the blog to tie everything together.
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clockface 9 years ago

Saturated to death. 99% of the stuff is hyped, not needed, but i guess that's life.
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- Joe Broon 9 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by clockface
  
  Saturated to death. 99% of the stuff is hyped, not needed, but i guess that's life.
  
  What a daft statement to make.
  
  It might be a busy niche but it is also extremely lucrative and those who promote the right products do very well from it.
  
  To the OP, I highly recommend you go on Instagram follow some of the people who are in your niche such as: exercise4abs, gymsecrets, shredz, fit_shredded_vikings, optimum training, peter_jovanovic and so many others.
  
  They do extremely well using this medium and have literally millions of followers between them.
  
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flyingskill 9 years ago

Brother, fitness is the real niche. If you want to grow your blog then go after Unique Content.

Deeply analyze the latest trends in fitness niche and sort out some long-tail keywords. Keep your blog updated with some amazing facts regarding fitness niche. Keep your visitors coming back to your site, it will increase your authority in the topic.

Some clickbank products are of great option for monetization.

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Barry Unruh 9 years ago

Fitness Blog for Guys...

For guys in their 20's who want to be the next Crossfit Champ?

For guys in their 30's who want girls in their 20's to notice them?

For guys in their 40's and 50's who want to lose the belly and get fit?

For guys who want to build muscle?

It is going to depend a little on who your market is.

Example: Let's say you are targeting guys in their 20's who want to build incredible bodies and fitness, while having fun. How many people could you interview in the Chicago area who are seriously into Crossfit, right now before the Reebok Crossfit Games? Using that interest to drive traffic to your videos, blog posts, etc..

Latch onto areas of interest and use them to draw people to your blog, opt-in forms, and product.
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