tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-76369881873826235542012-02-06T00:02:56.171-08:00<i>...trying to find readers for my blog</i>...Mikkonoreply@blogger.comBlogger351100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7636988187382623554.post-37544542728211126492011-09-06T09:03:00.000-07:002011-09-06T09:08:09.926-07:00

It has been a while since I blog on this site -- I've been busy bloggin on some of my sites that create at least something resembling a steady cash flow. In this year, the Google Panda Update has certainly damaged some of my microsites concentrated on very niche topics. Most probably the reason for this is not the fact that I created the for affiliate marketing, but the fact that the content was

Mikkonoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7636988187382623554.post-63996366011300063142010-02-23T10:00:00.000-08:002010-02-23T10:05:37.211-08:00

I've used AdSense for quite some time. It seems I'm slowly grasping the details of how to make at least a bit more money with AdSense than what I made in the beginning. If you are planning to make some money with niche blogging, you should certainly think more about the niche than what I did in the beginning.The first blog I started is dedicated to using Linux. Unfortunately, the fans of this

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It's been a while since my last article on this blog. During the silent months I've been busy in many different areas. Of course, a lot of my free time has been dedicated to niche blogging. Unfortunately, I have not had much time for metablogging about making money with niche blogs as I have been quite busy studying business administration. It seems that a MBA programme in business

Mikkonoreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7636988187382623554.post-9577999276937859572009-12-05T07:56:00.000-08:002009-12-05T08:00:17.272-08:00

I have played chess for most of my life. In addition, I own about one hundred chess books and continuously buy new chess books. So it was quite easy decision for me to dedicate my latest niche blog to chess book reviews.Writing about chess will certainly be more like writing a blog about my hobby rather than trying to earn any real money with it. After all, one should write about a topic one is

Mikkonoreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7636988187382623554.post-60185324688576742792009-07-16T01:55:00.000-07:002009-07-16T02:00:11.324-07:00

For some time, this blog was deemed by Google to be a supplemental page. This meant no page rank at all, and hence the page did barely get any visitors via Google. I realized I had in all probability overdone the Amazon affiliate ads. I removed most of them, and after a couple of weeks I had the page rank 2. Nice. It seems all hope is not lost if one is willing to make necessary adjustments to a

Mikkonoreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7636988187382623554.post-6938366171436453772009-05-30T07:09:00.001-07:002009-05-30T07:11:12.570-07:00

It is difficult to find a niche that would be easy to conquer with a low maintenance blog. My latest try is a niche blog about universities of Finland. In addition to the universities, I have some information about the higher education in the country. If this proves to be a successful niche, it would be easy to transfer to other countries...

Mikkonoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7636988187382623554.post-26216601189249638982009-05-08T23:37:00.000-07:002009-05-08T23:45:53.517-07:00

In addition to Google Adsense, I've tried to make money online with Amazon's Associate Program. I have not especially tried to optimize my blogs for making money with this or any other affiliate program which is probably the reason that the click rates are pretty low.Unfortunately, there seems to be no way of analyzing from which web site or blog the customers came to the Amazon. In addition,

Mikkonoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7636988187382623554.post-61777930129736747682009-05-04T04:38:00.000-07:002009-05-04T04:42:41.294-07:00

I've not been very active in this niche blog during the last weeks. My studies have taken all my free time, so this moneymaking blog that does not make money at all has been the first to abandon. Today I opened I new niche blog. This one is dedicated to chess books and Ruy Lopez opening. Just like in my other niche blogs, I try to make money by showing AdSense ads and linking to Amazon's

Mikkonoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7636988187382623554.post-25376966639312817962009-04-13T09:59:00.000-07:002009-04-13T10:04:47.556-07:00

Most of the Blogger templates are not very well designed when it comes to search engine optimization (SEO). In fact, it is easy to spot even the most elementary mistakes if one bothers to open the template in the html view. Thus, every blogger who wants to make money online should read some of the SEO guides available. It is not necessary to read any difficult theory or thick books, as there are

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For some time, I've tried to make money with Amazon.com's affiliate program. The success has not been spectacular, as my readers have bothered to order only two books so far. Now Amazon has decided to limit the associates' possibilities of making money with the program: After careful review of how we are investing our advertising resources, we have made the decision to no longer pay referral fees

Mikkonoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7636988187382623554.post-82712523582500592942009-04-08T17:23:00.000-07:002009-04-08T17:23:00.662-07:00

Many bloggers cannot decide whether they should publish full RSS or Atom feeds of the blog or not. During the last year, I have experimented with both partial and full feeds but I have not reached any final conclusions.The arguments for both cases seem pretty valid. But let us analyse the case and the common arguments first.Partial feeds are necessaryMany bloggers find that it is best to publish

Mikkonoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7636988187382623554.post-26427740917412142882009-03-23T08:10:00.000-07:002009-03-23T08:10:00.645-07:00

If you are still thinking about the theme for your next niche blog, you might consider blogging about collectibles.In many ways collectibles provide great themes for niche blogging. Usually people who collect things are very interested in reading all the possible information about their beloved objects. Furthermore, they are willing to pay for the items still missing in their collections.If you

Mikkonoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7636988187382623554.post-21995776120561418872009-03-21T03:54:00.000-07:002009-03-21T03:54:00.231-07:00

As I have written several times, Minima family is a very usable and clean family of Blogger templates that I have used with a few money making blogs.It is not especially pretty but at least Minima Lefty gives a decent click rate when you put the Google Ads in the left column of the blog. In the ordinary Minima template the sidebar is on the right side which gives a less than perfect click rate.If

Mikkonoreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7636988187382623554.post-67749481628457050632009-03-19T23:22:00.000-07:002009-03-19T23:22:00.345-07:00

Doshdosh is one of the few blogs that I can warmly recommend for anyone who is trying to make money online with blogging. Unfortunately, Doshdosh has not been updated very often during the last months. The blog archives, however, are full of gems that ought to be read by every blogger interested in tweaking the performance of her blog.If you don't have a lot of time for reading all of the

Mikkonoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7636988187382623554.post-33470456675370838332009-03-17T01:00:00.000-07:002009-03-17T01:00:00.895-07:00

Brute force blogging can be the easiest way to make a decent living by blogging. A brute force blogger is not interested in having 50000 daily readers for the blog, she would rather have 100 low-maintenance blogs that each have 500 daily readers.If each of these 100 blogs would bring 1 USD a day in AdSense revenues it would make 3000 USD every month. That would be a very nice income for most of

Mikkonoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7636988187382623554.post-63452948861597582062009-03-15T04:38:00.000-07:002009-03-15T09:04:32.738-07:00

So far I have concentrated on writing about niche blogs that provide quality content and attempt to build a dedicated audience of readers who come back every day or week to read the latest blog article. In my opinion, this is the way everyone should blog. Internet is already full of crap that is not worth reading, and every day there are tens of thousands of new blogs that provide even more crap.

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As I write this article, the blog has been available for two weeks. I still have not got a single visitor coming to the blog from Google. It will be interesting to see if the situation has changed when this article is published in the mid-March. At the moment I write content for several niche blogs. The most popular of them has pretty good CTR of about 4 %. Furthermore, the AdSense clicks are

Mikkonoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7636988187382623554.post-30178973898789469092009-03-11T00:55:00.000-07:002009-03-11T00:55:00.940-07:00

If you don't like writing - and writing a lot - much, you should not even try to attack some of the more competitive niches without investing money for advertising the blog. I don't have any money to invest in this blog, only my own labour. So I have to be ready to invest many hours in this niche by writing more and more articles that have meaningful content. Articles that solve problems that my

Mikkonoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7636988187382623554.post-50996959398786843522009-03-09T00:01:00.000-07:002009-03-09T00:01:00.699-07:00

A couple of days ago, I wrote about how spending too much time reading other people's blogs does not help you at all in creating your own blog. It is too easy just to comment other blogs, link to some articles and recycle the ubiqitous crap that internet is full of. My advice was: read books instead of blogs.In addition to books, you should read magazines that are written about the topic of your

Mikkonoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7636988187382623554.post-10577999201457176612009-03-07T09:37:00.000-08:002009-03-07T11:36:28.573-08:00

Now that I have kept this blog alive already for a few weeks, I hope there are already some regular readers (I write this three weeks before the day I have programmed this article to be published!). Thus I should at least now be thinking about changing the template from Minima Lefty to something fancier.Or should I?In fact I have started to like the template a lot. It is simple and clean, and it

Mikkonoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7636988187382623554.post-49987751448975314862009-03-05T07:26:00.000-08:002009-03-05T07:26:00.804-08:00

Finding time is always difficult. It seems I have never enough time to do everything that needs to be done or that I want to do: to study, write, work, read and play chess. One way to help me in having time for my blogs is to reduce time I spend reading other people's blogs. After reading blogs for several years, I have come to the conclusion that most of the blogs really are crap. They are badly

Mikkonoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7636988187382623554.post-59894141520387698792009-03-03T11:02:00.000-08:002009-03-03T11:02:08.077-08:00

It was a lot easier than I thought, as now this blog seems to be on top with the search words I thought would be a hard challenge: - niche blogs with adsense - income with adsense niche blogs Now I have to try optimize my articles in the future for some more words that people might use when looking for information about blogging for AdSense revenues. I have already written several articles to

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I have to confess that when I launched my first blogs and my first web site I had not done any research regarding the price of different AdSense keywords in the niche. I wish I had learned about Keyword Tool earlier than I did! AdWords Keyword Tool is a great tool for finding niche keywords. Actually it is meant for advertisers to help them to locate keywords for triggering their ads on

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I have noticed that it is a good idea to write my blog ideas in advance. So I might have many articles written well before I seem to have run out of ideas. For example, this post is written about two weeks ago.When I write my articles in advance, I can write in a batch mode. In this way the economies of scale work for me: it is easy to write several articles about intertwining themes that can be

Mikkonoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7636988187382623554.post-44298074760977266692009-02-27T03:07:00.000-08:002009-02-27T03:07:00.249-08:00

Probably the most difficult part of being a successful niche blogger is caused by the sandbox effect. As no readers seem to find their way to the blog, many bloggers lose the faith in their blog. And losing faith in the project means failure: the blogger gets bored and does not trust that some day his/her blog will be on the top of the Google search results.And when the trust is lost, the blogger

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According to the Google, it does not have any Sandbox. Most of the webmasters, however, seem to believe that there is a special sandbox for new web sites. Only after the web site is in a way mature it will be added to the Google search results. It may well be, that Google does not have any special sandbox but the algorithms used by the search engine might well result in the sandbox effect. Anyway

Mikkonoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7636988187382623554.post-3465910819988597312009-02-23T04:35:00.000-08:002009-02-23T04:35:00.513-08:00

There are basically two contesting views about how to write a niche blog. According to some, it is imperative to think only about search engine optimization. Others tend to think that "content is the king".Three challenges of a niche blog: Content, content, contentAs you probably have noticed from my earlier articles, I tend to see the content as the most important thing for finding readers for

Mikkonoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7636988187382623554.post-2600544471712340732009-02-21T00:01:00.000-08:002009-02-21T00:01:00.337-08:00

Until now, the bloggers have had little control over the appearance of AdSense ads in their blogs or other web sites. But now, Google has heard our prayers!From now on, we can choose between three different fonts: Arial, Times and Verdana. These are available in languages using Latin fonts. There are a few ways to customize the font used. It is possible to change the font settings for every ad

Mikkonoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7636988187382623554.post-36058005974945157052009-02-20T06:07:00.000-08:002009-02-20T06:07:00.612-08:00

At the moment my main business idea for this blog is to monetize it using AdSense banners. It might not be the most lucrative source of revenue but it is easy to use and Google as owner of both Blogger and AdSense has nothing against using AdSense on Blogspot blogs. In fact, the combination of a free blog platform and advertising limits our search for possible ways of monetization somewhat. On

Mikkonoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7636988187382623554.post-40151361273163278702009-02-19T02:42:00.000-08:002009-02-19T02:42:01.083-08:00

Not every blogger believes in the three hundred words' rule of search engine optimization (SEO). Following the rule might help you to get to the top of the Google search results or at least to some of the first pages. But just writing 300 word postings does not guarantee that the people who are searching for information actually find your blog worth reading.In fact, there are some very famous

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If you are a first-time visitor, and considering the age of my blog you most probably are, you should subscribe to this blog.It is quite easy to do by clicking the "Subscribe To" widget on the left hand column of this page. Doing this you make sure that you will not miss any update or any interesting bits of information. Of course, you can use the traditional bookmarking, but do you really

Mikkonoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7636988187382623554.post-89046202800408546392009-02-17T00:01:00.000-08:002009-02-17T00:01:01.380-08:00

Much has been written about the "300 words rule for SEO" during the last years. In short, it is usually adviced that bloggers and other content authors should write posts that have at least 300 words. This should be the optimum or at least the minimum for getting the web site a good ranking in the search engine results.Three hundred words are not much especially when one writes in English. Every

Mikkonoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7636988187382623554.post-14617080989486194632009-02-16T06:33:00.000-08:002009-02-16T10:45:33.235-08:00

I have written already six different, unique articles to this blog to be published during the next days. As I'm pretty sure that I will continue to add content to this blog even now that I decided to add the AdSense widgets to the blog. I made this decision a lot earlier than what I originally thought. At the end of the day, the idea of getting maybe 1 EUR a day more than now was the main reason

Mikkonoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7636988187382623554.post-3794476094129418102009-02-16T01:08:00.000-08:002009-02-16T09:35:53.107-08:00

You probably have noticed that so far I have not added any AdSense widgets to this blog. You might wonder why not? Why don't I try to earn some cash with ads from the beginning?The answer is simple: at the moment there are no readers for this blog. So I think it is better for me to concentrate on providing content that will earn the site some credibility in the algorithms of the search engines.

Mikkonoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7636988187382623554.post-63818943562413708262009-02-15T23:07:00.000-08:002009-02-16T09:35:11.083-08:00

Welcome to Niche Blogs with Google AdSense!This blog is an experiment. I myself try to make some money online writing several blogs in Finnish and some in English. Unfortunately, I do not make more money than a few dollars a day. It seems I have to learn a lot more about creating low-maintenance websites, SEO and Google AdSense in order to be able to earn some decent income.This blog is my

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