Comments on: Is Your Niche Nichy Enough? A Tale of Two Adsense Blogs

By: Blog That Outside » New Blogger Niche

Blog That Outside » New Blogger Niche — Sat, 26 May 2007 14:00:50 +0000

[...] to the experts, successful blogs capitalize on specific niches and profit from them. John Chow’s first tip in his five beginner blogging tips is: Blog [...]

By: Emporium Blog » Blog Archive » How to find a niche for your blog?

Emporium Blog » Blog Archive » How to find a niche for your blog? — Sun, 19 Nov 2006 01:37:08 +0000

[...] Ensuring what “niche” you are prepared to write for on your blog is quite important in ensuring that you may reap the rewards later. There are several articles written discussing this issue. Part 1 of this series discusses on the issue of how to choose your niche and Part 2 talks about qualifying your niche. Incidentally Darren Prowse also talked about the issue, giving an example between a general niche and a specific niche. I would recommend those interested to peruse these articles in order to determine their specific niche. [...]

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AussieBlogger.com.au » Make it even more niche — Tue, 11 Apr 2006 23:25:41 +0000

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By: Blogs and Blogging Deliberations » Blog Archive » Niche Bloggers Win Cash

Tue, 11 Apr 2006 09:36:08 +0000

[...] Nice article on Darren Rowse Blog. I know I am linking to him a lot, and perheps I am not very original, but what to do? Darren’s entires are vey interesting for people thinking about money form blogging. [...]

By: holch

holch — Mon, 10 Apr 2006 14:46:11 +0000

@Sergio:
You have already a “niche” due to your language. Portugal it self has only 10,5 million inhabitants. Brazil hast 160 million inhabitants. About the rest of the world who speaks portuguese I think we can almost forget, because it is quite small and the distribution of internet in their countries shouldn’t be too high.

With a internet penetration of 58% Portugal has a relatively high penetration, but this still means only around 6 million internet users. Brazil has a internet penetration of around 14%, which means around 26 million internet users. All together 32 million.

If you then have a very small niche you can imagine why your earnings are quite low. The problem with the few ads you can get for portuguese is probably based on the same reason: a relatively small market.

As long as the internet is not more used in portuguese speaking countries your earnings will not be very high. Especially in a niche.

até logo!

By: Frank

Frank — Sun, 09 Apr 2006 22:40:29 +0000

I agree that micro-nice blogs are a great way to go.

By: Sercan

Sercan — Sat, 08 Apr 2006 14:36:50 +0000

I have 3 websites, one of them is in english and the other ones are turkish… english one makes me happy about profit, but it got time to make hit for it… the other sites of mine getting more hits, but i am not happy with the earning s of them… so i understand that making just a one site, in english, with a niche and drive hit to it is much better than making lots of websites in other languages… this is my own thoughts…

By: Sergio

Sergio — Fri, 07 Apr 2006 08:40:43 +0000

Hi,
What about using another language rather than english?
Any success history? I mainly write in portuguese (my mother tongue) but I’m having a real hard time getting goog CPC as there are very few ads for portuguese words.
Any advice on that? And please don’te tell me: Write in english, please!!!

By: The search for the perfect niche… » The Road to Online Riches…A Journey

Fri, 07 Apr 2006 05:12:19 +0000

[...] There is also an interesting post over at ProBlogger.net talking about choosing the right niche topic for your blog that I would recommend checking out. It is definately worth a read. [...]

By: Kahsoon

Kahsoon — Thu, 06 Apr 2006 19:34:14 +0000

At least this post is more useful than those 16 years old blogger writing long post and boast about own “success”. Keep up the good work Lindsay B, thanks for the info.

By: Dehumanizer

Dehumanizer — Thu, 06 Apr 2006 18:55:56 +0000

Latest Gadgets: traffic from Digg has incredibly low CTR. It helps mostly in the long run, as many people who come to your blog from DIgg also link to your blog post from their own blogs, which adds a little extra traffic, and increases PageRank.

By: Martin

Martin — Thu, 06 Apr 2006 14:22:17 +0000

nice study, but i would also welcome your daily amount of visitors and the revenues please :) thx

By: Digital Pimp

Digital Pimp — Thu, 06 Apr 2006 12:54:00 +0000

We just started a tech/gadget blog that covers everything from cellphones to mp3 players. Would you suggest we break them down into specific products as we grow, to make it more nichy? We’re getting 200-300 unique visits per day now but our CTR is very low. Could it be because Google gets confused by a myriad of different products (and keywords) and end up pulling out irrelevant ads?

By: JamesW

JamesW — Thu, 06 Apr 2006 05:05:21 +0000

Nice post. I think there are always a point to consider when starting a blog or website. It is a balance between being Nichy enough yet wide enough to allow for expansion in the future.

Does anyone have a good formula to share on this besides using experience and some luck on the side?

By: Latest Gadgets

Latest Gadgets — Thu, 06 Apr 2006 01:35:42 +0000

Nice post. But I have to disagree that a niche topic is the only way out.

SE traffic is not the only kind out there. There are HUGE traffic out there from sites such as Digg – although sites for topics such as home improvement will find it harder to write a creative post that grabs the attention of the Digg population.

And with a boarder niche, you’ll find it easier to find stuffs to write about that might help tap into those type of traffic.

By: Dave Starr

Dave Starr — Thu, 06 Apr 2006 00:00:32 +0000

I’d like to thank Lindsay for a very “information rich” article. Intellectually I have been concious of the criticality of the niche ‘width’ as well as depth, but these examples bring it from theory to practicality.

The discussion between Andrew and Will re: what is a site and what is a blog made me think to throw out this question for those who perhaps have experience. It’s easy to see the strategy of having a blog about, say, gadets, and a separate blog for, again say a separate blog for digital cameras, a separate blog for MP3 players, etc. These separate blogs could be on individual URL’s or could be subdirectories of a ‘main’ URL, but the blog software and databases would be separate to Google.

What are the pros and cons of putting just one installation of blog software on a single URL and then having separate pages for the individual subject blogs. The differation to search engines would be the [age titles: “Joe’s Gadgets, Joe’s Cameras, Joe’s MP3 players, Joe’s Corn Stoves, etc. Any thoughts?

By: Peter T Davis » Made For Adsense Niches and TrustRank

Peter T Davis » Made For Adsense Niches and TrustRank — Wed, 05 Apr 2006 17:44:52 +0000

[...] This is an interesting post, giving a couple of examples for a case study on how to choose a niche for your blog. I wonder if the reason the second blog mentioned is more successful is because it enjoys the benefit of TrustRank on the typepad.com (sub)domain. Another thought I had about this, which also probably never occurs to many bloggers who read Darren’s blog is that in a way it’s rather absurd to select the topic for your blog based upon what you think will be successful in Adsense. To me, that’s somewhat like putting the cart before the horse, or even trying to get your cart to go without the horse. Aren’t blogs supposed to be for people who have something to say? Well, maybe not, but at least I think it’s a bad trend to see bloggers choosing topics based on what’s going to make them more money. I do see this “Made for Adsense” trend leading us in the same direction as email. Are MFA sites the web equivilant to spam in our email? 12:42 pm | [...]

By: Peter Davis

Peter Davis — Wed, 05 Apr 2006 17:36:59 +0000

If your fireplace blog has higher revenues as a result of search engine traffic from Google, the niche could have nothing to do with it. It very well could be that your fireplace blog is piggybacking on the TrustRank of typepad.com while your home improvement blog is depending soley on it’s own independent TrustRank for its SERPs. Of course, I could be totally wrong, I have no access to your stats to base this on, but I do know that most people don’t even think about stuff like this when it comes to explaining why one site is successful and another is not.

By: Don M

Don M — Wed, 05 Apr 2006 17:06:49 +0000

Just wanted to add:

With the numbers and examples I gave there are always exceptions. My numbers quoted in the previous entry are by NO MEANS scientific. For every example I post I know someone can post a counterargument.

I was speaking in the purest of generalities. Heheh.

By: Don M

Don M — Wed, 05 Apr 2006 17:05:20 +0000

Depends on the niche, but in most niches you won’t maintain 80-90%. In any niche, the players eventually consolidate into two or three biggies that each take up a third.

For instance, while Gizmodo and Engadget don’t each hold 80-90% of their niche (basic math tells me that won’t work … heh), I would wager they collectively hold close to that as a group.

I remember reading somewhere in the 90′s when Dodge introduced their new full-sized Dodge pickup with the flared headlights that 70% of the people in their test marketing HATED the truck. But the 30% of the people that liked it LOVED IT. In spite of 70% disapproval, the fantacism of the remaining 30% convinced them to go ahead with production, and the truck was a HUGE HIT.