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Jurky
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Posted: Fri Jul 08, 2005 9:42 am
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I`ve just come up with the idea of creating a website that will be a Blog, so -i want to ask u guys is it possible to earn good income and achieve high rankings only by having a blog site. It would be highly niche specific, with many product reviews and good articles....Is it possible, or do I just have to build a common website?..
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Posted: Fri Jul 08, 2005 11:53 am
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| Jurky wrote: | I`ve just come up with the idea of creating a website that will be a Blog, so -i want to ask u guys is it possible to earn good income and achieve high rankings only by having a blog site. It would be highly niche specific, with many product reviews and good articles....Is it possible, or do I just have to build a common website?..
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It's the substance of the website and the amount of work you put into it that determines success. Be it a blog type site or just a normal site is irrelevant. |
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Think of blogging as just a different form of content management system.
There are hundreds of different CMS systems, blogging is just a simple alternative.
The advantages are almost zero knowledge needed to get the ball rolling, and after 20 or so good original articles, you have a good chance of being accepted for Google Adsense.
Using Blogger for instance it is easy to use a plugin on Firefox to "blog this", or it is part of the Google toolbar.
Depending on how focused your blogging will be, you might want to look at Wordpad, because you can use categories for posts, have more ping options, and can customise very easily both your template and things like Technorati tags.
Blogging is popular among internet marketeers because of RSS, but RSS is not exclusively a "blog thing".
Any website can be set up with an RSS feed using a script that generates it, and many CMS systems and website building services provide an RSS feed as standard.
It really is down to what other features you want to include as to which CMS you use, both on the front end for your visitors, and on the backend such as autoresponders and tracking/cloaking.
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Here's a discussion on Jon Gales' successful blog, which generates thousands of dollars a month from AdSense:
http://www.associateprograms.com/discus/ftopic7978.html
If you're planning to use AdSense as your main income, the topic you choose will have an enormous bearing on how successful you are.
I believe most blogs don't earn much.
Also, you need to be committed to adding fresh, useful content regularly.
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Phil Tanny
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Posted: Mon Jul 11, 2005 10:56 pm
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| AllanGardyne wrote: | | If you're planning to use AdSense as your main income, the topic you choose will have an enormous bearing on how successful you are. |
As many times as we've discussed this, I'm still a tad fuzzy on it.
What are the best methods for evaluating/comparing the relative profitability of various topics for Adsense income?
1. Check prices on Overture
2. Check prices on Adwords
Anything else?
This is probably obvious to most regular readers, but maybe it's worth mentioning there is an inverse relationship between profitability and competition.
The more profitable a topic is, the harder it will likely be to get a good search engine ranking, and vice versa.
Which can perhaps be boiled down to (generally speaking) the more profitable a topic you pick, the harder you need to work at getting links, and vice versa.
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hooky40
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Posted: Mon Jul 11, 2005 11:57 pm
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| I understand that most blogs aren't big money makers, but i have heard of some new things coming to the market which may help out some. There are companies out there that can add search listings into the actual content of the articles on the page. Simple keywords that would turn into a hyper link for keywords from which ever engine that you get your feed from. It might not change the world, but it might help out. |
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Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2005 12:29 am
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| Phil Tanny wrote: | What are the best methods for evaluating/comparing the relative profitability of various topics for Adsense income?
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Check potential traffic. Otherwise you might choose a topic in which hardly anyone is interested.
This is a huge topic.
I've hired a new experienced assistant who's smarter than I am and has 10 times my energy and I've given him the task of writing a report describing how to choose keywords for a website, for an AdWords campaign, or for AdSense revenue. I'll let you know when it done.
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| AllanGardyne wrote: | | Check potential traffic. Otherwise you might choose a topic in which hardly anyone is interested. |
Who me? Nah, I would never do something like that... 
| AllanGardyne wrote: | | I've hired a new experienced assistant who's smarter than I am and has 10 times my energy |
Congrats!
| AllanGardyne wrote: | | and I've given him the task of writing a report describing how to choose keywords for a website, for an AdWords campaign, or for AdSense revenue. I'll let you know when it done. |
Sounds good Allan, look forward to it.
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my experience with blogs is Good.. my blogs don't make much money from adsense but from affiliate sales and it's pretty competitive market too.
like others said.. You might need to work like you work on sites.. and the fact that blogs are ready made templates n software so they are easy to edit, write. and it's easy to write for them daily than to write for ur site.
I feel if you are blogging You need a charactor. that means You need to put yourself more in that blog. write like you talk normally. Write wat you feel. DOn't mind going off topic..
read n Link to other blogs. when they see the traffic coming to their blog they'll link back to you..
Websites doesn't give that kind of traffic.
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The blogs vs. websites question raises interesting questions about how and why people buy.
Usually blogs are more personal in nature than websites. They don't have to be of course, but usually they are.
So, to what degree do people buy as a result of a targeted search that leads them to a topic focused website, that is primarily info based?
And to what degree do people buy because they've built a personal relationship with someone (if only as a regular reader) and a product recommendation comes up as it might in a normal conversation?
Obviously there is no one answer here, just a question perhaps worth considering.
Perhaps we shouldn't establish any kind of rule that says blogs (by which I mean the personal ranting kind) don't make much money?
It seems to me the presell strategy is a bit different in a personal ranting type blog. You aren't necessarily selling yourself as an authority on a specific topic, but as a reliable person in general, as a truthworthy friend?
Sure, Mr. X is the Net's leading authority on Y as shown on his info rich web site.
But I don't know Mr. X, maybe he's really a scoundrel?
If Mr. X doesn't use his site to introduce himself personally, that question may remain and interfere with his authority status. I'd guess this issue applys doublely in the Netbiz arena.
My sense is that people like to buy from friends where possible, and based upon the recommendation of friends where possible. Or at least from people they can relate to.
We just bought a bunch of video packaging material. Lots of vendors to choose from. We narrowed down the field on price and features, and then made the final purchase from a couple who had their pictures, and their cat's pictures, on their video packaging selling site. We're cat people, they're cat people, a tie breaker.
The main danger I see with typical blogs is that it becomes all too easy to slip in to "all about me" rather than "all about the reader".
The blogger has a special challenge to both be interesting, and write interesting, if the entertainment and bonding value of the blog is to preserved.
Even on a blog, the reader doesn't care about me, they care about whether I can entertain them. If I can entertain them while talking all about me, fine, but I'd better be entertaining, or bye-bye.
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| Quote: | | . You aren't necessarily selling yourself as an authority on a specific topic, but as a reliable person in general, as a truthworthy friend? |
Yup. the fact that you talk a someone who is one of the reader himself... just like you n me, who worries about daily routines n goes to job.. etc etc..
| Quote: | | The main danger I see with typical blogs is that it becomes all too easy to slip in to "all about me" rather than "all about the reader". |
as u said in ur post about making it interesting.. you have to write while thinking about ur readers.
| Quote: | | Even on a blog, the reader doesn't care about me, they care about whether I can entertain them. If I can entertain them while talking all about me, fine, but I'd better be entertaining, or bye-bye. |
Yup.. yup... nodding.. agree a whole lot... and thats why I post sometimes totally controversial topics which I know get debated a lot in forums...
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| varunpratap wrote: | | Yup.. yup... nodding.. agree a whole lot... and thats why I post sometimes totally controversial topics which I know get debated a lot in forums... |
Good idea, I'm going to file that idea for my own blog. Thanks!
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Posted: Sat Jun 27, 2009 10:06 am
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| I thing most blogs don't earn much compared to the other sites. |
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Check out this link http://www.problogger.net/
he is very resourceful and a guru in blogging. He covers all the A to Z on blogging and gives great tips on ways to monetize your blog.
It will always depend how much you put into something to how much you see upon return.
Hope this helps!
Good Luck!
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