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A little help with niche blogging please.

by hjalte81
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Hi fellow warriors.
I've been on this forum for ages now, but hadn't really done anything serious about my attempts to make money online.

Not until january this year.

I made a commitment to myself that I the only possible option for me is to live of IM.

So, I started doing as everyone else.. Read everything I came across; this forum, black hat forums, DP. Signed up to a million newsletters and so on...

Eventually things started working. I made my first sale a couple of months ago and I have made a few since.

But things are not consistent. Not at all.

For the last 1½ month or so, I been experiemnting with Niche blogging / sniper blogging or whatever you want to call it

I've made a total of 15 sites and a few of these are ranking on the 1. page on google for the targeted keyword.

But, for some reason my traffic is very low. We're talking below 10 hits a day.

Let me give you an real life example here:

I have a blog called mainkeyword.net
It's ranking on 3. position on Google.

The term has 60.000 searches a month (acc. to adwords)

I get <5 visits a day :confused:

My main focus is to get a lot of hops. My goal right now the goal is to get 100 hops a day. But as things are now, that would mean 100 blogs.

I think that the reason for my lack of visitors could be that my blog description isn't good enough.
If you have any tips on how to improve this please let me know!

So I guess my question to you all is, what more do i need than being on googles 1. page?

Hope some of you can help.
#blogging #niche
  • Profile picture of the author Tyrus Antas
    You need good keywords and links. Getting links and optimizing multiple sites is a pain in the ass. You're always starting from scratch. Have you considered that it's actually easier to optimize a single site and make more money from it than spreading yourself too thin?

    I'm sure some people disagree but think about it. All those months creating those tiny sites you could have created an authority site about X niche. Networked with people interested in said niche. Created a social media profile around that site. Simply put, you'd have a solid business.

    The niche blogging mentality is based on this: it's difficult to create good sites so we'll create dozens of crappy little sites and hope we can make up for it in numbers. It rarely works because, well, the sites are crap and get very little traffic. Nobody cares about them and competition from other thin affiliate sites is increasing.

    The results can be much better if you focus on quality. Competition on the net is increasing, quality is essential. Focus is important too.

    Tyrus
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  • Profile picture of the author javanz07
    I don't want to sound like a broken record but I agree with Tyrus. It sounds like you are spreading yourself too thin. Just to stick to one niche (and one blog) and be a big, mighty authority in that niche. Blog like there's no tomorrow.

    As to your problem, you are probably right. It is strange that you are no. 3 on google for your main keyword and yet you are only getting less than 5 hits a day. The problem is most likely the description in your listing. You can probably keep modifying and testing the title and the first paragraph of the post that is responsible for your no.3 listing to see which gets the most clicks.

    But all in all, my advice is to still stick to one niche and make your blog in that niche a major authority, with links from all over the blogosphere (thanks to your quality content & posts on that blog).

    When that happens, you will get traffic coming to you from all over (via other web properties)... so much so that getting a top SERP is a non-issue.

    But, the cool thing is that when you have links from all over pointing to you, a wonderful side effect is that you will end up on the 1st page of google for all sorts of keywords.
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    • Profile picture of the author Keith Kogane
      Originally Posted by javanz07 View Post

      I don't want to sound like a broken record but I agree with Tyrus. It sounds like you are spreading yourself too thin. Just to stick to one niche (and one blog) and be a big, mighty authority in that niche. Blog like there's no tomorrow.

      As to your problem, you are probably right. It is strange that you are no. 3 on google for your main keyword and yet you are only getting less than 5 hits a day. The problem is most likely the description in your listing. You can probably keep modifying and testing the title and the first paragraph of the post that is responsible for your no.3 listing to see which gets the most clicks.

      But all in all, my advice is to still stick to one niche and make your blog in that niche a major authority, with links from all over the blogosphere (thanks to your quality content & posts on that blog).

      When that happens, you will get traffic coming to you from all over (via other web properties)... so much so that getting a top SERP is a non-issue.

      But, the cool thing is that when you have links from all over pointing to you, a wonderful side effect is that you will end up on the 1st page of google for all sorts of keywords.
      I would kind of second this in that if you're just starting, try to focus on one blog at first and figure out how to make it successful...

      BUT...

      You should learn how to make it successful through as much automation and as little maintenance as possible. This way, once you figure out what it takes to be successful on one, start another, and you'll have the free time to actually manage multiple sites. After a dozen or so, you'll have a system down and you'll know what it takes to make work no matter what the niche, and you'll also know how to do it largely automated and maintenance free.

      That's what I do, anyway.
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      • Profile picture of the author javanz07
        Originally Posted by Keith Kogane View Post

        I would kind of second this in that if you're just starting, try to focus on one blog at first and figure out how to make it successful...

        BUT...

        You should learn how to make it successful through as much automation and as little maintenance as possible. This way, once you figure out what it takes to be successful on one, start another, and you'll have the free time to actually manage multiple sites. After a dozen or so, you'll have a system down and you'll know what it takes to make work no matter what the niche, and you'll also know how to do it largely automated and maintenance free.

        That's what I do, anyway.
        Yup, sorry I missed that part out. I should have written: "stick to one niche FIRST"... then you can go on dominating other niches.
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