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.

This is the next difficult step in niche blogging, finding good keyword phrases that still have a lot of searches per month but less competition.

For example, if you wanted to create a blog on weight loss it would be really difficult to rank highly with a blog based on those highly competitive keywords ‘weight loss’.  You can still be successful in the weight loss niche, just by focusing on some less competitive keywords.  So you could perhaps concentrate on one type of weight loss product or diet or exercise program and use keywords that are more targeted to the sub-niche.

By focusing on a sub-niche within a niche it is much easier to rank higher in Google and the other search engines giving you a much better chance of having a successful money making blog.

I have started working on a couple of niche blogs and one of them has started making a little bit of money so far.  I will try to keep you updated on how I go with it all.  It can be fun too if you are working on a good niche that you enjoy writing about, then it takes the ‘work’ out of it a little if you are enjoying what you are doing.

My blogs are all set up and now I’m mainly working on updating them regularly and also on building backlinks to them.  Backlinking is very important for ranking well and although it isn’t the best job in the world, it does need to be done.

So that’s where I’m at.  I hope whatever you are doing online is working well for you.

Take care
Sheryl