Over the past couple of months/years or what have you I’ve collected several articles that have helped me along the way to making my Internet millions(*someday*). Seriously though, I’m doing pretty well with some of my niche websites and I have the following linked websites/people to thank.
I have sectioned them order of importance. Monetization is least important — if you read the the “Preparing to Blog, Niche Style” section as well as the “So you Started a Niche Blog”, monetizing efforts will hopefully be apparent and relatively easy. Without further adieu.
Preparing to Blog, Niche Style:
1. An Introduction to Niche Blogging - Goes over the characteristics of Successful Niche blogs and how to make money with a niche blog.
2. The Pros and Cons of Niche Blogging - 9 pros and 5 cons on niche blogging, and some times on checking out your niche before starting your blog.
3. How to Create Your Own Niche Blogging Masterplan for Long Term Profit- Here, Maki covers a few key strategies in content generation, traffic sources, and other necessary evils of niche blog strategy.
4. How to Choose the Right Blog Niche: A Simple Three-Step Method - Ideal Blog Niche characteristics, and 3 steps to help you find your own Ideal Niche Blog Idea.
5. Tips for Choosing a Topic - General tips from about.com regarding ways to choose a topic that will work for you.
6. 5 Easy Steps to Choose a Great Domain Name for your Niche Blog - Like the link says, 5 steps for finding your perfect domain name for your niche based blog.
7. How to Position Yourself for Seasonal Search Engine Traffic and Not Put Your Readers Offside - Seasonal search engine traffic is a big game with big players, but you can still get in on the crowds.
8. Niche Blogs and the Long Tail of Content - the nuances of long tail keyword sets in a niche environment.
9. Analyze Your Blog’s Competition - Great checklist for comparing yourself to other blogs in your niche, or finding out if you should start a blog on your specific topic in the first place.
10. Niche Blogging: Designing a niche for the non blog savvy - sampling of current niche websites constructed by the author. Get a real idea of what niche blogs encompass.
11. Same Niche, Different Blogs: Why Not? - Some tips on experimentation with more than one blog in the same niche.
So you Started a Niche Blog:
12. How to Effectively Create Content for your Niche Blogs: An Introduction and Guide - Releases a few noteworthy tips on content development for niche blogs, some web-based tools for content development, as well as 7 different types of content for niche blogs.
13. Networking within your Blog Niche: 7 Essential Tips for Bloggers - Covers the basics of any type of networking for ANY type of blog, but focused on getting your own niche website out there.
14. The Lazy or Smart Blogger’s Way to Create Content for Niche Blogs- Uncovers some ways to outsource content creating for niche blogs as well as where to find writers and bloggers for your niche website.
15. Search for and Join Forums on Your Blog’s Topic - some tips on publicizing yourself through forums within your blog topic
16. Does Your Blog Focus Upon a Niche Topic or a Niche Demographic? - Ah, the subtleties of niche blogging.
17. Get New Readers for your Blog by Guest Blogging- JohnTP discusses the impact of guest blogging and what it can really do for you, and your own website
18. Keeping your Niche Blogs on Track - Once you have a niche blog started… what do you do to keep it going?
19. Self Branding - Moving Beyond the Niche to Generate Income as a Blogger - Some tips if you’re looking to moving away from the whole blog niche movement.
Monetizing:
20. Make Money Online Blogs - Should You Start One and How to Choose a Profitable Topic - Video post on choosing the right topic for your blog
21. 5 Ways you can Monetize your Niche Blog- Teli Adlam outlines a few insightful ways to make money with your niche blog
If you have some websites you’d like to see listed, please let me know in a comment or in an email(via contact page)
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on Jan 3rd, 2008 at 2:43 pm
Mark,
Great post! This will give your readers a lot of education about niche sites.
~Debby
on Jan 4th, 2008 at 3:27 pm
Very well done, this will definitely be a list that people will refer to from time to time.
Keep it up!
on Jan 5th, 2008 at 1:14 am
@Debby and Moses,
Thanks for the encouragement and kind words!
on Sep 2nd, 2008 at 11:14 am
This is a massive collection of “Niche” resources. Great job.
Just a thought, but I think a blog focused on writing solely about Niche blogging could be quite successful. Given the fact that a lot of the above links are from Doshdosh and Problogger, if it’s good enough for them to write about repeatedly….