First the update on my blogs
Income for the last 7 days
Blog #1 – $3.74
That’s it!
But hey, it’s getting higher. I’m really quite disappointed in this blog, even though it is actually making a little money which is more than I can say for the other three. The other three are quite disappointing at the moment too but the reason I am so disappointed in this one is that this blog is ranking #2 on Google.
Once again I don’t really have too much to update about. Earnings for the last 7 days are very low still:
Blog #1 – $0.68
Blog #4 – $0.54
So as you can see no big income coming in as yet. I haven’t done much over the last week though due to sick kids and now that they are all better and back at school they have given me their cold so I feel terrible and am not getting much done at all.
Yesterday I planned to give blog #1 a rest for a couple of days and concentrate on blog #2. However, I got caught up doing a bit tidy up of my hosting accounts. You see I have my basic hosting account at Hostgator and I also have a reseller account at Hostgator. But I don’t use the reseller account as much as I use to and I still had a heap of sites taking up space on there that weren’t even hosted there anymore (didn’t have nameservers pointing to my hosting anymore).
So yesterday I decided to go through and check which websites could be deleted and deleted them all. What I thought would be a reasonably quick job ended up taking me almost all day. It’s all done now though other than a couple of sites that are my own that I need to backup and transfer to other hosting, then I will be able to close my reseller account and have a normal hosting account for them. That should save me $25 a month! Read more…
The kids are back at school so I’m now back to work, although I still have one child home for another day yet. I have spent the last couple of days working on just one of my new blogs. I have done some more keyword research on the niche and found some related long tail keywords. I have created blog posts and categories for three of those keywords.
My plan is to try and rank well for the other long tail keywords as well as the main keyword phrase. By doing that I should receive more traffic to my blog than if it was just coming from one keyword phrase.
I then rewrote the articles on my blog posts and submitted them to some article directories and also some of my own backlinking blog sources. I have a number of my own general purpose blogs like a general wordpress blog and one at SOSBlog and a couple of others, so I add my article to these blog sources for backlinks. Read more…
Well my blogs have been put on hold for a week while I took some time off and went camping with the family. We didn’t go far, only about 50km from home, but it was good to be away from the computer for a few days and out in the great outdoors. We stayed at Wirrina caravan park which was really nice, not a very fancy park but it was very ‘natural’ which the kids love. We were down the back of the park which was quiet, surrounded by lots of trees and wildlife.
At night there were kangaroos around and possums and my husband and one of the kids even caught a glimpse of a red belly black snake – needless to say they kept away from that area after that. We took an extra child with us, my oldest boys friend came with us, which was good as it evened up the numbers with the kids and therefore we had a bit less fighting than normal.
I apologize for the fact that I haven’t posted much to my blog since I fixed it up after losing the entire site, I have just been flat out with my Internet Marketing and with the kids.
Recently I have started doing some niche blogging to try and build up some more passive income streams. I am still flipping websites and making money from doing so, I just felt like a bit of a change with the hope of building up some long term income.
Niche blogging isn’t hard but it is more involved than I originally thought. Choosing the right niche that will be both profitable and without too much competition can be quite difficult. Let’s face it, if a niche has too much competition then it can be really hard to get your site ranking high enough to really make any money from it. However, that doesn’t necessarily mean that you can’t make money from that niche. You can if you are using the right keyword phrases. Read more…
