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

Our blog is aimed at Mums (or Moms as spelled in US) that are home with young kids and would like to earn some money at home so they can delay or even prevent all together returning to the work force.

I have 3 children myself and they are all school aged now, but my aim was not just to be able to stay home while they were babies and preschool age, but I wanted to be able to earn enough money so I could stay home even when they were school aged.  I wanted to do this because I wanted to be there for my children to take them to school in the morning and to be there after school.

So basically, during school hours, that is my time for working online.

To be successful at working online, I have found that you have to stay focused, choose one business opportunity and be determined to make it work.  You need to treat your online business like a job and set aside the time to work on it and set some goals for each day and work hard to reach those goals.  If you don’t have goals to complete each day then you will find that you spend most of your time looking for new opportunities and checking your stats to see if you have made any money yet.  You will be surprised how much time you waste doing this and this is time that can be spent in a more productive way that will make you more successful.

It is also important not to give up on an opportunity too quickly as many online business opportunities will take time before they really start making a decent income.  The only business that I have been successful at making money in a short period of time is Site Flipping, my other businesses have taken more time to establish and start making money.

Niche blogging is my other main line of business but each blog really does require research to get a really good keyword phrase to build that blog around, then it requires a lot of hard work to build that blog up to the stage of making money.  The good think with niche blogging is that when you get a blog making money then it will usually continue to make you money for a long time.  It becomes more of a passive income once it is established, however, any blog can only increase in value and income the more and more work and effort that you put into it.

There are many other types of business opportunities out there also, so find what you would like to do and really put an effort into making it work.

I wish you much success
Sheryl
Site Flipping Guru