Monetizing History Blogs?
I'm a relative newbie to Internet marketing. Been poking at it for a little over a year. Have learned a lot, and have been 'pulling the trigger' in recent months - getting started with affiliate promotions and even developing some of my products.
As part of that, I'm taking a hard look at some of my hobby sites. I'm a huge history buff. I love history - pretty much any kind of history. But I have a special love for early American history -- Revolutionary War up through the Civil War.
One of the blogs that I run is this one...
American Revolution & Founding Era
I may have to let it go, because I haven't been able to generate a lot of unique visitors. Since October 2007, I've had a little over 11,700 hits. Most of that, I'm sure, is from repeat people. So, I'm averaging about 1,000 hits a month.
I've tried to monetize the blog with AdSense, Amazon books, and some other general odds-and-ends. But I'm not making much at all.
The page itself appears to be PR4, though I'm still learning page rankings and all that.
What do you all think? Should I let it go? Maybe put up a post a month as a labor of love, but focus my efforts on the stuff that can make me money?
Or...am I overlooking some obvious ways I could monetize this?
I've thought about re-focusing the blog around reenacting (those folks spend money!) or genealogy research or something like that. But...I'm not a genealogy expert, nor am I a reenactor. So, I would run out of things to write pretty quick. Though, I could outsource writing on that and try to sell an ebook or something.
Just thought I'd throw out my thought process here, and see if you all had any ideas.
Thanks,
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