Show Me the Money

Making money, is ultimately what your niche blog is all about isn’t it? That’s why you’re doing it. However you may be reading this and thinking to yourself -  “no, I was just hoping to build a really good hobby site actually”, and if that’s for you then that’s just fine. Blogging will give your site a good start.

The rest of us are doing it to make money! How much money depends on how much work you put in. I consider a site a success if goes into the black within 3-4 months By going “into the black” rather than in the red (costing me money).

Until the domain registration is paid for – usually £10 for 1 year for .com, .org, .net domains, and with monthly hosting costs covered, then its profitable. As soon as the blog passes an average of £20 a month (which can happen quite quickly), then I consider it as in profit. I ignore the value of my time. But even if you cost it out as £15 / hour then it might take anything from 6-18 weeks for me to make my money back, and then it’s in the black.

Along with writing articles and email an responder series, which contain the precious ‘back links’,that motivate those interested to find out more. It takes dedicated work to build a reputation and group of followers. One of the easier methods to get attention to what you are selling or providing, is by having a blog that mentions and directs traffic back to your site or another blog. Even the comments box provides the publicity medium to attract potential customers to your pitch, so long as its relevant and respectfully considered. Take multiple streams of income as your mantra, go and create a few blogs that are in a similar complementary niche and bounce publicity to where you want to direct attention. Having a finger in a selection of associated pies, gets a bigger slice of the cake and eat it too!

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As a side benefit, once you’ve built a good number of blog sites you’ll have what the search engines disparagingly call “blog farm”. Search engines don’t like blog farms because they can be used to “play” the search engines and cause another site to rank very well quickly.

If you decide to use your blog farm to link to a particular site you want to rank well, just be careful to do it slowly a few links a day. And don’t use all your blogging sites to point to that one site, just use a third or half of them. If you have another site you want to do well, then use different blogs to point to them.

Don’t put all your eggs in one basket too quickly and expose all your assets. Do the back linking as carefully and as “naturally” as possible to get the maximum benefit from your blogs.

Whatever you do, DON’T suddenly point 50 odd sites at your target site as that will almost certainly raise a red flag at Google unless you can  consistently point 50 or 60 sites a day for a prolonged period – we’re talking weeks. Spread the links out as much as possible over what would appear to be a realistic time period. Make it look natural.

Slowly and naturally connect to other sites by approved linking and commenting on others related blogs. Don’t rush it.

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