How Exactly Should I Market These Blogs?

I develop my own websites that are monetized with
affiliate offers, among other things.

If you are setting up your sites for the purpose of
generating income, then you need to decide how
you are going to monetize the sites before you set
everything up.

Some people will go through weeks and months
of developing the site, then they will search for
affiliate offers or ads or products to slap on the
site. That is backwards because there might not
be anything suitable.

You should figure out what types of things you
want to advertise or sell on your site, and then
build your content around that, or at least have
content that is somewhat related.

What could you market on a civil war site?

Maybe some books, costumes, or tickets to a
civil war reenactment event. But would that be
profitable, or would it be a waste of time.

If you just want to set up various sites because
you find the topics interesting, knowing that they
cannot be monetized, that is fine as well.

You are stretching yourself too thin trying to manage multiple blogs.

Focus on 1 blog 1 topic but choose sub topics within that niche for ideas. otherwise you will burn out


As far as promoting your blog you can repurpose your content ,tweet it,start a fan page ,build an email list ,guest blog .

I think in my opinion For your social commentary blog, consider advertising thought provoking posts on current events from your right perspective. Engage with relevant social media groups, and use hashtags to connect with like-minded readers. and also As for your potential blogs, pick a niche you're passionate about and research target audiences.

regarding the "how" - you could simply put up some banners on your blog. that is simple and effectiv

Agree with Monetize, what is it you want from these? Intent determines action. Thinking of advertising on a non existent blog is putting the cart before the horse, eh? In another thread, there was mention of GOALS, which you asked about.

What are the goals of these blogs, what do you intend them to do? Correct us if we are wrong, but I see a lack of focus and a dissipation of time and energy, am I wrong?

Your named blog topics; health, science, Civil War, International events are all MARKETS, and huge ones at that... you would need to niche it down and get specific if you want to have financial gain from your blog on any of these. The American Civil War is or can be a very lucrative market, it is full of collectors and enthusiasts, what expertise in that area do you bring with you?

As for one more right (or left) pundit wanting to rant, you are competing against the likes of established pundits with large media footprints...I would advise you check out their radio shows, channels and social presences and see what they offer. For example Glenn Beck makes a lot from referring his listeners to GOLD.

So check out Tony Marino, Allie Stuckey, Pat Gray, Greg Kelly, Bill O'Reilly, Chris Plante, Joan Hamburg, Joe Pags, etc., et al, and so on and so on. You more than likely already are tuned into the right pundits...pay attention to what they pitch, hawk and shill for.

Since you are in that parade, offer what the rest of the parade buys, a pretty easy market to get into.

But if the intent is not commercial, or you are OK with building it over a long period of time and income is not a thing you need worry about now, then just join as many groups and forums as you can and participate, and keep posting content.

Again, very general advice to a very general question. We might do better if you give us an idea of what you want from your Internet activity...what is your INTENT?

GordonJ

Hi, I'm also learning to blog but I can share some ideas with you:
First: you blog on the topic you love the most
Second: you choose a topic to focus on to produce the best quality product
Third: The most important thing in blogging is the content, you must be creative and avoid duplication

You can use forum marketing and blog commenting. That will allow you to get a wealth of visitors too.

In my view, for your social commentary blog, it would be beneficial to promote thought-provoking content on current events from a perspective aligned with your beliefs. Engaging with pertinent social media communities and utilizing relevant hashtags can help you connect with readers who share your viewpoints.

Additionally, when it comes to your potential blogs, selecting a niche that genuinely excites you and conducting thorough research on your target audience is key to success.

This is a mistake all beginners make.

The blogs should all be aimed at the same audience, featuring the same broad topic area.

That way, your blogs can market each other.

Here is a fact. The people that are likely to read your blog...are already reading blogs on the same subject.

Sooooooo.....You comment on other blog posts, using a name that will tell the reader that you have a blog on the same subject.

One of the main ways I advertise my books on Amazon is to review similar books, with my name mentioning that I am an author of a book with a similar title.

Also, I review other author's books on the same subject, and post it on Youtube.

In your case, you would review other blogs on the same subject, and maybe make short videos of those reviews, and post them on Youtube.

It's all free, and it all works.

Added later; Somehow I missed that you had a rightish perspective. The blogs (if you want to diversify) still need to attract the same audience, or at least there has to be plenty of overlay.

What subjects are near universally popular with your audience?

And if it were me, I'd spend ten hours posting on one blog rather than one hour on each of ten blogs. Readers are attracted to great content, not volume content. And great content is how you get your posts borrowed and posted on other blogs....with a link back to your blog.

I had a blog (on marketing) for over ten years. One day I just typed in a title of one of my posts, and found it in dozens of blogs...each with a link back to my blog. It takes time, but it works.

I would start with guerilla marketing on social media. You'd have to actually connect with (and regularly interact with) people who follow those topics and share the perspective of the blog. Once they know they like to hear from you, they'll be interested when you post a link to the blog.

My $0.02. Hope that's helpful. Cheers!

I noticed that the OP hasn't returned to ask another question or reply to any of the answers.

Oh well.