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.
I have talked a bit about niche blogging and my own niche blogging journey but I haven’t really talked much about niche blogging in general and how it’s done. So this blog post is just going to go back and cover the basics of starting a niche blog.
It doesn’t take long to set up a blog, once you have chosen your niche, done your keyword research and chosen a domain name.
Everyone has a different criteria on choosing a niche, some Internet Marketers will tell you to go with a topic that you are passionate about and others will tell you not to bother about that and just find a niche that is going to be profitable.
Today I havne’t really been concentrating on my main 4 blogs but doing some quick updates on all of my blogs. I have one blog about my son, who is 10 years old and we have a lot of behavior problems with him. I started that blog just as a personal thing to have somewhere to write my thoughts, vent my frustrations and just get it all out. This one has been quite good and I’ve had a lot of response from parents with children with similar problems.
I haven’t updated that one for a little while so that got added to my list today of blogs to quickly update.
I also had to do an update of my new blog sherylpolomka.com which is basically just about me. Nothing specific, just a general blog where I can write absolutely anything. The main reason I started this blog was because I was starting with another hosting company and had to have a ‘main’ website to open the hosting account with so I wanted a site that I knew I would keep and wouldn’t sell at a later stage or just let go, so I just grabbed the domain name of my own name. It’s quite good though, it’s just a bit of fun.
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.
A couple of weeks ago I came across a post on the Warrior forum regarding keyword research and this post really hit the nail on the head when it comes to keyword research. There is so much different information available on keyword research and so many people do so many different things with different criteria so how do you know which one is right.
Well this post was a lot different than any information I’ve read before on keyword research and it made a lot of sense, so here are the six criteria for researching for a good keyword.
1. Competitors on page one of Google for the keyword phrase all have page ranks between 0-4, a good mix is best.
Not much to share again on the income update. Over the last 7 days I’ve made $1.16 from Blog #1 and 10c from Blog #3, so no big numbers there but that is ok.
I know this is going so much slower than planned and I have no-one to blame for that but myself. I spend too much time doing silly little things and not enough time concentrating on building up my blogs.
This week I am still working on Blog #4 – I think I mentioned this one a couple of days ago. I have written and posted two blog posts over the last couple of days and written two more articles. I will post these two over the next couple of days. I am going to write six more articles and post on the blog a day apart.
