I figure I should explain in more detail what I did with my blogs and how they’re coming along. I haven’t had any more clicks but I am getting a few visitors. I’m tracking them with StatCounter, which is free to use for basic counting and tracking, and after you’ve got your first counter setup you can easily add more webpages.

Like I said earlier, each blog is hosted on Blogger and occupies a completely different niche. One is subniche of the money making niche that isn’t very saturated (yeah, I know) and the second is in the dating and relationship niche, sort of in the form of an advice column. The third blog is in a secret niche that can be as tight or as broad as I like. I’m optimizing each of my blogs for the search engines, but this one I’m going to very aggressively use SEO techniques. I have only eight keyword search terms that I’m using for this blog, but all except one had less than 7000 searches in January 2007 on Yahoo! and I can still market related products in the broader niche. I used the (previously known as) Overture keyword suggestion tool at SEO Tools to get these numbers. Although this tracks Yahoo! searches, generally you can assume these numbers are proportional to, but lower than Google searches. I’m hoping to get to the top or close to the top of most of these keywords. One of my blogs that I am still updating is always in the top 1-5 spots on Google for certain keyword pairs. They aren’t too competitive, but they give me some nice hits every week.

My attempt at marketing through Google, Yahoo!, and MSN Groups fucking failed yesterday. 20 hits overall, and most of my posts are buried under the spam. Today I’m going to just post on very small groups, less than 100 people.

I only have affiliate links on one of my blogs. I’m still looking for a good affiliate to market with one of the blogs, and I’ll have to find some physical products to market from CJ on my secret niche blog. Now, when I say “secret” I don’t mean it the same way other marketers and “gurus” say it when they’re trying to sell you something like “Adsense secrets,” “SEO Secrets,” “Affiliate Secrets,” “Weight Loss Secrets,” etc. which is so overplayed these days. I mean a secret in the sense that I don’t want to tell you about it. On the internet, the moment word gets out that you are successful in a tight niche, that niche, like a hot escort new to the biz, will cease to be tight and will become worn out in a few months time.

This is where a lot of people end up making money on the internet: niche marketing. If 100 000 people (probably lowballing here…) are trying to make money selling work-at-home products, will all those people make money? Of course not. Many will give up entirely, some will follow this niche into debt, some will make some extra pocket money, fewer will make a significant income, and very few will be living entirely off this niche. It’s the niches that nobody cares about where you will make make your bones.

But don’t let this mean you should put all your eggs into one tiny niche basket. Spread over a number of niches, or split your main niche into subniches and capitalize on that. Contrary to popular belief, I’ve had more success with less popular, strange, or “nichy” niches than the most popular ones. This is because of the immense competition you’re facing. Yeah, there are also way more people interested in that niche, but there is only limited space on that first page of Google, Yahoo!, and MSN Live results and sponsored links.

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