How to start a new blog in the Make Money Online niche
Etienne emailed with a question today about how new bloggers can get started in a tough industry:
What will be your advice to a new blogger who intends to start on a niche that is already saturated eg. “Make Money Online”?
My first advice is that the more competitive the industry the better. Why? Because the more blogs there are in a niche the easier it is to get links and readers. If the biggest blog in your niche has 500,000 RSS readers then it is very easy for you to get 500 readers. If the leader in your niche has 1000 readers then it will be much harder for you to build any buzz for your new site.
The next piece of advice is to approach things from a different angle. The only dedicated make money online blog people really need to read is John Chow’s. I’ve yet to find any value in most of the other blogs because a lot of them post about the same things. This problem exists in most industries but over the last few months the make money online industry seems to have filled up with blogs whose purpose is to help the owner make money online rather than the readers.
If I wanted to start a blog in a competitive industry I would make sure people had a reason to read my blog over all the others. For example if you have a news blog you need to write news before it gets featured on the major news sites and blogs, be original and break the stories first.
If you want to start a blog about internet marketing or making money online you need to write top quality content and somehow persuade the really big bloggers to link to your site rather than other peoples. Larger sites frequently write about news they have read on smaller sites so if you can consistently be that smaller site you will find people wanting to subscribe to your feed so they get the news quicker.
The only way to build a blog is to get as many links from other blogs as possible. How you go about that task is up to you.
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Rajab December 3, 2007 3:12 pm | Reply
Good advice, I’ll be sure to take heed of it over the coming weeks.
Nick December 3, 2007 3:59 pm | Reply
This is the most stupid post i have ever read in my life. I was looking for the “classical press here to read more” link but it seems that this is all. I can not believe this sh1t, i dunno how your blog has managed to be in my reader with such crappy posts, really.
Lol.
Nick Flame December 3, 2007 7:13 pm | Reply
@Nick Flame - maybe you want to do a guest post on the subject if you are such an authority?
Patrick Altoft December 3, 2007 7:41 pm | Reply
Hi patrick, thanks for taking my question up as a blog post and i will have a portion of your answer quoted in my next post after i do a compilation of what others have to say as well.
Etienne Teo December 4, 2007 8:31 am | Reply
It seems everyone has a big idea about making money online. Making money online is just like making money anywhere else. To make money online you need to write good quality content.
Ronald December 4, 2007 9:14 am | Reply
“The only way to build a blog is to get as many links from other blogs as possible. How you go about that task is up to you”
This is basically everything that you said in your post. Be serious. You either did not want to say anything about this subject, or you did not finish the post yet, or perhaps you were busy, but i hardly believe that this all that you can say when you start a “How to start a new blog in the Make Money Online niche” blog post.
Sadly disappointing.
I am pretty sure that not only me, but 90% of your readers can post something more useful about this subject. I mean, be serious man.
Nick Flame December 4, 2007 10:53 am | Reply
@Nick Flame, as I said, if you want to say my posts are poor then that’s fine. Just have the guts to show me your site and write a better post.
Patrick Altoft December 4, 2007 11:43 am | Reply
“The only dedicated make money online blog people really need to read is John Chow’s. I’ve yet to find any value in most of the other blogs because a lot of them post about the same things.”
Hmmmm…Patrick, I respect you as a marketer but I wouldn’t agree with this recommendation/statement at all.
There are quite a few who don’t post about the same things and most would argue that they provide content of much higher relevance and value than Chow’s site.
I know its your opinion but to say that his site is the only one worth reading is an unnecessary exaggeration IMO.
Email me if you want the links to some other great blogs.
Maki December 6, 2007 12:11 am | Reply
Maki, my comment probably wasn’t well explained. I meant that for the casual observer they can get most of the important news from John Chow. The fact I read dozens of blogs dedicated to making money online is testament to the fact that everybody who is serious about the industry should read as much as possible.
Patrick Altoft December 7, 2007 3:14 pm | Reply
This is a great article and has been one of those ‘lightbulb’ moments that you get occassionaly. I’m not sure if the blog bubble though will burst much like the dotcom boom of the mid nineties, interesting views and ideas though.
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