Comments on: A Strategy for Building Niche Focused Blog Networks

By: Louise

Louise — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 09:14:39 +0000

I am so glad I came across this – it was just yesterday i decided this was the way forward for me (in the future)!

My worry is though, if i have a blog on a wider topic and then I branch out to a second blog with one of my niches is there a way to transfer the the blogs (relevant to that niche) and the comments people have already made on them over to the new website? I will be using wordpress and have absolutely no idea if it’s possible. I know I could simply transfer the blog over but I would like to take all the comments with it to make the transfer more seamless.

Any ideas?

By: Tim F

Tim F — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 00:21:34 +0000

Wow thank you, this is very helpful!

By: Jon

Jon — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 09:01:56 +0000

When you’re new to this, it’s hard to keep a single blog going, let alone a small empire of them. I totally agree about easing into it
s-l-o-w-l-y.
Learn the skills you need as you progress, and you won’t have nearly as many discarded efforts lying in your backtracks.

By: Peter S

Peter S — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 16:32:02 +0000

Thanks for the post. I have just started up my first blog. You ideas on niche blogs and multiple blogs is sound advice.

By: Millard

Millard — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 13:50:50 +0000

I had no idea you also started Digital Photography School which has become one of my favorite reads for inspiration.

By: Bronson

Bronson — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 20:11:55 +0000

Cracker of a post and some very solid pointers. Some food for thought, definitely.

By: Dimitri

Dimitri — Fri, 16 May 2008 00:36:31 +0000

I am working on a strategy to leverage my visitors into several directions within one niche and it’s working great. Anayway, thank you for the excellent tip, Darren…

By: Dr.Internet

Dr.Internet — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 20:44:25 +0000

Thanks for the great suggestion.

By: SEO Lincolnshire

SEO Lincolnshire — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 12:37:58 +0000

Interesting post. I’ve read to increase sales, income and wealth you need leverage, creating leverage of traffic is a great way of doing this.

By: kareena_12382@yahoo.co.in

kareena_12382@yahoo.co.in — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 06:55:47 +0000

you are in society ,in crowed. unless you can keep your intelligence clean of the pollution that will be surrounding you from every side,sooner or later you will become somebody else,somebody who nature had never intended you to be

By: kareena

kareena — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 06:54:59 +0000

By: LazyAzian

LazyAzian — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 05:01:15 +0000

This is definitely very helpful! I just started a blog and wasn’t sure what I wanted to do with it yet. It’s more of a personal blog with my own thoughts and rants, but after reading this, I came up with a possible direction of the blog that still allowed me to write about what I wanted to write about.

The topic really is the news and if my blog gains some traction with readers, I could expand it into more niche blogs as you said here.

Thanks for writing such useful information. I’m glad I found your site.

By: Metro

Metro — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 18:21:12 +0000

Hi Darren, read problogger daily, good info thanks. I’m a new blogger, about 2 months. I have a single blog about a focused niche. Resurfacing interior concrete floors with decorative concrete finish. primarily for Do It Yourselfers but a lot of contractors. Big market.

Any chance you could send over some of your friends and tell me if I’m on the right track. Is my info helping? Need all the help I can get
Thanks.

By: Pugsley

Pugsley — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 18:08:06 +0000

Good post, I really like the idea of niche blogging. Important information for newbies, great way to start and stay focused.
Thanks

Pugsley

By: Bujes

Bujes — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 13:02:37 +0000

Actually I have only one blog and I’m not planing to build blog network, but I agree with you it is better to have all of sites in the same niche.

I have sites in different niches, but all new websites I build are in the same niche.

There is another benefit if you have all sites in one niche. Let’s say, you have all sites in real estate niche. You have a lot of visitors in your network and than you start forum about real estate and you can promote it all over the network.

By: suresh

suresh — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 16:36:02 +0000

Wonderful and well approachable method for developing series of blogs by an individual.

Rightly pointed out that first let one blog be successful and build next one some how related to first one.

Good post.

By: Tom Beaton

Tom Beaton — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 03:45:25 +0000

The network concept really works much better when you already have something that is popular to use as a launching pad. Alternatively you could throw money at the problem and purchase a lot of advertising.

Personally I think that it would be best to focus efforts on one project first, rather than risking spreading yourself too thinly.

By: Wendy Piersall

Wendy Piersall — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 20:26:40 +0000

Darren – thanks for the mention, friend. :)

I’ll add to your words of caution. I think it’s safe to say I had built up eMoms at Home considerably before I evolved into a blog network. And frankly, it was still very difficult at first and posed a world of challenges that I didn’t anticipate.

I can’t imagine having to tackle all of that stuff if I had been just starting out. I really needed every ounce of blogging knowledge I had (and sure wished I had more at the time), and really relied on the relationships I had with other bloggers like you to help spread the word. I think I would have shot myself in the foot if I had tried it any earlier than I did.

Also, running a blog network is vastly different than running a blog. Blogging can be very fun, social, and personal. If you’re running a network, the fun parts become a much smaller part of a much bigger picture. You really have to approach it as a business, and treat it as such in order to make it grow.

Hmm… am getting to the point where I am writing too much here and I should probably shut up now and just send a trackback your way instead. :)

By: Claudia D'Arcy

Claudia D'Arcy — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 19:46:58 +0000

I think I have the opposite problem. I have a mini micro niche blog..( parenting –> adoption–>mother who lost her child to adoption—>adoption reform and education).. and while the internet adoption truth community is wide and growing and very connected….I think i have exhausted what I can do. Yes, new readers show up, but still.. it’s a small community.. and after aver 7 years.. I know everyone and most know me.

I almost feel like I want to “un-niche”, but I have this fierce loyalty to my blog.. and changing things feels like corruption on some level.. yet, I am bored. Still can’t let go of the original one though.. and stuggle weather of not to just start fresh….meanwhile, I just *think* about posting, but don’t get inspired to actually do it….le sigh

By: Anne

Anne — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 19:04:50 +0000

Darren, this is so true! I started my blog in December and visitor traffic has been so-so, not as good as I expected. But in early February, I opened a web site in a related topic. I have a link from the web site to the Blog, and have jumped in traffic because people come over from the web site. They don’t however, travel from the blog to the web site.