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How To Setup A Profitable Blog Or Mini Site Part 1
9/6/2008 10:51:30 PM
This will be the first article of a 3 part series on the big question what makes a successful (as defined by profitability) blog or mini site. I believe there are 4 components and the series will contain 1 article on each of them.

Let's get started.

The first key to the success of a blog or mini site is that it has to target a group of people (a niche) who are hungry for information of a specific nature. In other words, I'm talking about the selection of your niche.

The group of people that your blog or mini site targets has to be a group of people who have problems. Problems in the sense that they are looking for a solution to something, looking to improve something. Furthermore, in a great niche, that SOMETHING, is something that causes pain. Financial pain, physical pain, emotional pain, some sort of pain, for the simple reason that people who have pain are the people who will want to buy solutions to that pain, and hopefully from your website.

If that sounds a bit sick, trying to exploit people with pain, it's not. It's called marketing. You've had marketers doing it to you your whole life and you probably never even knew about it, why can't you do it too? And what's more, you're actually going to provide these people with a real solution, so you're being helpful!

Anyhow moving on.

So you're looking for a group of people with a problem, but that's not all.

Your next concern has to be whether there are enough of these people searching for solutions to their problems on the internet. How many is enough you ask? It's a good question. With certain kinds of sites, all you need is 10 visitors to your site a day and you can turn a nice monthly profit. Other niches and products that you promote you might need thousands per day. It all depends on what you sell, and who to, AND how much commission you make when you sell to them.

The things you should do are look at the search volume, as indicated by a tool like Wordtracker. Here you're simply looking at how many searches per day a particular keyphrase gets in the search engines. Then after that, you want to look at whether there are other sites or blogs that are competing in the same niche.

Contrary to what alot of people think, NO competition isn't necessarily a good thing. NO competition could and often does mean that it's not a profitable niche. What you actually want is SOME competition, but CRAPPY competition that you can DESTROY by making a better site, providing better content and in a better way.

The final piece of the puzzle of finding a good niche, is whether the niche has a quality product for you to promote. You need something to sell to these people, that is high quality, has great marketing material (sales letter etc, so it will convert your traffic well) and pays a decent commission.

This is of course assuming you're looking at the affiliate marketing model of making money with your blog - which I suggest if you're looking to retire from your job and earn a full time passive income, you SHOULD be. There are other ways to make money where you might think about some different factors in your niche selection.

So if you can combine all of the above factors when selecting your niche, you'll be giving yourself and your new blog the best possible chance of success. I hope you've found this valuable.

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Re: How To Setup A Profitable Blog Or Mini Site Part 1
9/6/2008 11:40:24 PM
Your welcome Leslie, there are 4 parts to my system i will share part 2 to you tomorrow. Thanks for the ad too buddy! :)
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Re: How To Setup A Profitable Blog Or Mini Site Part 1
9/7/2008 12:25:44 AM
Good Evening Thomas....you are full of surprises and good ones at that.


While you have put this in very easy to understand wording, i would also suggest that when people are doing the basic concepts of blogging and choosing a niche, that there are tools..free to use...but the best tool to begin with is your own brain.


By sitting down with a pen and paper..ya sounds old fashioned...but do it anyways...write down all the things you know about, enjoy, hobbies..write down your strengths...things you want to do..that is still the best way to start any journey in discovering what you really want to do.

Even if your blog is on internet marketing..make it interesting..make it of value...but do not at any time be a bill board...sorry..been proven  it does not work!

Blogging by its nature takes time to build...just like any thing you do..it takes the time..to say other is just plain foolish.  

For example..look at one of our members...Walt   he has been working his blog for a few months now...   All Sports on the Web   note his page rank...he has not paid a dime to get here...just work and learning how to do things....not bad huh???


Anyways my friend I look forward to what you have to say in your next installment...  oh by the way...as this is about blogging..Tim is asking any and all to go here to his hub pages  would ya mind getting the word out?

Thanks my friend...keep up the good work?

Diane



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