Basic how to’s to make niche blog

Posted by Hendra

February 11, 2008

In my previous post, i listed 5 blog whose primarily topic on making money online.

As i wrote, Caroline’s blog gave me so much inspirations. She also gave me basic information about niche blog. I have heard a lot of times people write about niche, but none took my attention as caroline did.

Reading through some of her post, i gain more clear perspective on niche blog from a different angle compare than what i have learnt.

What is niche? you might ask. Google provide a lot of niche definitions, i’ll put up definitions best related with my current post here :

“Term referring to a specialized target market characterized by a particular interest, topic or subject. Niches are usually potentially profitable, but depend an inordinate amount on the loyalty of the audience to whom it is catering.” www.iuniverse.com/how-we-work/terms.htm

“Niche Marketing can refer to both marketing and business choice. In and of itself, niche marketing refers to finding a segment of the general market for a service or product line. One then develops a solution for the needs of that segment and then markets to it to get the word out.” http://www.marketingtitan.com/what_is_niche_marketing

Caroline gave away an e-book with basic information how to setup a niche blog. and i found it really easy to understand and very use full for anyone new to blog, wordpress and niche blog.

What i have to do to make a niche blog? To make it easy, there is few basic step i compact into these six step :

Find topics, it could be what you like about or what you master already, could also topic about something that you don’t really knew before, i’ll talk about it later.
Research whether that topic searched by many people in search engine, why, because basic of niche blog is free trafic from search engine. Yes you can get traffic from another way. If you want, you could also buy link or build traffic from pay per click advertising or any other advertising, but i, i’d prefer free traffic
Setup a wordpress installation
Design your wordpress installation as it is a website, not a blog. What i am talking here, you have to ELIMINATE all things that made your wordpress installation looks like blogs.
Post your niche topics everyday or in a certain period. One post in 2-3 days prefered.
Put up google adsense, put up anything that can make money, including every affiliates programs you find related to your blog

That’s what i can remember for the moment. I’ll put on more indepth post about points stated above next time.

What i am doing now

Actually i made promise to myself that i will post whatever progress i have made in my effort making money online everyday. So i can review and learn what i have done, and probably my reader can learn from path i took and took benefit from it. But overwhelming information that need to put into action and lack of time made me not making any post.

Most of my time currently concentrated on my way making my first niche blog. I am planning to make at least two niche blog online before the end of this february. Wish me luck