How Do You Maintain Multiple and Profitable Niche Blogs
I received an email today from Susan Greene, professional SEO copywriter, asking me a few really excellent questions that I’d like to share with you. Here is a copy of her email:
Hi Garry,
I’ll take you up on your offer to answer questions. See if any or all of these are good topic starters. Thanks!
1) How do you select the niches that you choose to build blogs for?
2) Do you make your money on these blogs from AdSense, affiliate products or both?
3) I read in one of your posts this week that you make as little as a $1 a day from some of your blogs via AdSense. Is it really worth building a blog for that? I think you said you have over 100 blogs each bringing in small amounts. How do you manage that many?
Regards,
Susan
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Choosing the right niche is very important when creating blogs. For me I have purchased many different forms of software that help me find profitable keywords but Google AdWords Keyword tool remains to be my favorite. Which is good too because it is a free tool that anyone can use. Basically what I do is start with primary keywords such as the word computer and then chip away at the more competitive terms and dig deeper into more long tail keyword niche topics.
Some of the articles I have written in the past that will directly help you with choosing profitable keywords and using the Google AdWords Keyword tool successfully include:
- http://www.garryconn.com/make-money-online-starting-a-moving-truck-rental-blog.php
- http://www.garryconn.com/make-money-online-building-a-blog-about-gardening.php
- http://www.garryconn.com/make-money-online-with-a-concrete-curbing-niche-blog.php
- http://www.garryconn.com/make-money-online-running-therapy-software-niche-blogs.php
- http://www.garryconn.com/how-to-decide-on-building-a-blog-or-a-web-site.php
- http://bloggingquestions.com/videos/The-Secret-Sauce-of-Search-Engine-Marketing/
Most of my niche sites are all monetized using Google AdSense. Only my deal niche blogs use Amazon.com, and that is only because I can attain the affiliate code with HTML quickly and also providing the external link adds to the SEO value.
As far as maintaining my niche sites, keep in mind, most of my niche sites are exactly that, they are web sites. I should probably stop using the term niche blog because I do not build niche blogs. I build niche sites using WordPress because the software offers me a very easy and quick way to publish content on the Internet.
They don’t require maintenance because of the way they are designed. Many of my niche sites don’t look like blogs. A blog is a something like my blog here at GarryConn.com where people come to read my content and voice their opinions in the comments. Most of my niche sites I purposely remove the comment form because it takes up too much space and also causes me to invest time into moderating comments.
It is very much worth building a blog that will earn an average of $365 dollars per year. $36,500 per year is an average man’s salary and I don’t know anyone who would pass that up for free. Keep in mind too, almost two years ago when I set the goal to build 100 sites each earning a dollar per day. Most of these sites actually earn much more and today as we speak I am reaching close to having 500 sites online.
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Hi Garry, I know you said in the video that you thought you covered how you manage your blogs but I would like for you to expand on it if possible.
First thing is that pre-posting 20 articles is nice an all but what happens after that? Do you have to post another 20 articles so that you’ll have to post an article per week per blog/site meaning that you have created an ongoing job of writing 100 articles per week (average) in the case where you have 100 blogs?
Second thing is about getting links to the sites. How to you manage to get incoming links to 100 sites (or 500 if that is how many you have)? Not getting additional links to your sites will (I assume) have each site loose a little ranking every day/week/month/year which in return will have your daily income per site decline?
I’m sure you have a system or something for that but I would be great if you would explain that part. I think that was what Susan was asking.
Thanks,
Mikael
Thanks, Garry, for answering my questions and for including useful links. I checked them all out.
Mikael above raises a great point. If you aren’t continually adding content to your niche sites or actively pursuing links, how do you manage to maintain good ranking? Is it just that the niches are extremely non-competitive?
Also, do you write all your own content? I don’t know if you feel like revealing all your secrets, but I am curious as to whether you purchase PLR or outsource copy.
Thanks again for all the great info. you provide. I’ve sent many subscribers your way because you do a great job of explaining how to make blogging a revenue source.
The concrete curbing idea is still on of the best ones I’ve ever seen. Even if I fell and hit my head on it I wouldn’t have come up with that idea
Susan, while we’re waiting for Garry’s reply I can tell you that I personally use a combination of my own content, outsourced writing (through need-an-article.net) and using content from the article directories. I still haven’t figured out the perfect hands off system but I’m working at it.
Once I hit a few thousands per month I’ll be starting to take on one of my people to help me out.
Hi Garry, I assume you read your comments like any other blogger? Would you care to comment?
I assume you’re not on vacation since you’re posting new posts?
Thanks,
Mikael
Hi Garry. I second and third the comments made by Mikael and Susan. I can easily create and SEO-optimize a few blogs, and know all the techniques for link-building. However, what strategy and/or techniques can you provide for launching fresh, new content into 100 friggin’ blogs?? That’s an organizational nightmare! Please tell us how you do it! Thanks.
id also like to know the answers to mikaels questions
Hello…?
“If you aren’t continually adding content to your niche sites or actively pursuing links, how do you manage to maintain good ranking?”
Who told you or how did you get the idea in your head that you have to add content in order to rank? Once your content is indexed… ah, it’s indexed and it will remain ranked until someone else produces something that Google feels is better quality which deserves a higher ranking.
So if I should try to interpret what you’re saying Garry so that everyone gets it, you’re saying that you’re building “make them and forget them” sites.
Once a site is up and running, have the 20 articles added for future posting then you don’t ever touch the sites again. That explains why you can have 500 sites since they do not have any maintenance.
Do you do any “repair work” when a site slips in rank (and thereby traffic and income) or do you just let them “die”?
Mikael
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