How do bloggers create blogs from scratch and sell them for as much as $20,000 and sometimes even millions of dollars? Some niche bloggers even make thousands of dollars every day from their blogs.
How do they do it? How can you get into this business? Can you create a successful niche blog without taking big risks?
Of course, you can!
Creating a niche blog is not difficult. But, to make a profitable niche blog, you need to follow a few simple (yet important) steps to make sure you get started the right way.
First, let’s cover the basics and figure out what these niche blogs really are.
What Is A Niche Blog?
A niche blog is not a special kind of a blog. Just like any other blog, it’s a website where you create and publish articles to share information. The only difference is that niche blogs are created to target very specific audiences.
For example, HeadPhones Addict is a popular blog that covers articles and reviews about nothing but headphones and accessories. Nothing else!
Now you might think: Who reads about headphones? Why not write about smartphones or how to make money online? More reads about those topics. Well, the main reason is those industries are too crowded. The Internet has enough blogs and websites talking about Android and iPhones. We don’t want more.
However, if you pick a niche topic. Like “Best Backpacks For Travel”, you’ll have a better chance at creating a successful blog that gets ranked higher on Google and build a loyal following around your blog.
Different Ways To Monetize A Niche Blog
Niche blogs are also easier to monetize. You can use several different methods to monetize a niche blog as well.
- Advertising
- Affiliate Marketing
- Sponsored Articles
- Promoting Brands and Products
- And more
When someone searches for “Best Backpacks For Travel” on Google, discover an article from your site and read about a great backpack you promote, the reader will not hesitate to buy it. Because when all you do is talk about backpacks on your blog, the reader sees you as an expert on the topic.
And when they buy something through your affiliate link, you make a profit as well. Of course, there are many other ways to monetize a niche blog. You can figure those out later. Let’s start by creating a blog.
Step 1: Find A Profitable Niche/Market
Even if you have a great idea for a blog, you need to make sure that there’s a market for that niche. To see if people actually search for information in those industries and learn about the monetization methods available for that industry.
Go to Google Trends and type in a few keywords related to your industry. For example, let’s say you want to see if travel backpacks are a good industry to blog about.
Searching for “travel backpack” on Google Trends will allow you to see how many searches have been made over the past few years for that specific keyword. This graph will also help you determine whether the interest in your industry is growing or falling.
Step 2: Do Your Keyword Research
Now, you need to figure out how much competition there is for your niche and industry.
You can do this by visiting Google’s Keyword Planner tool. Type in one or many keywords and search terms related to your niche to see whether you have a low or high competition to deal with.
Usually, the low competitive keywords with 100-1000 searches per month are the best for targeting. You should create your content around those keywords.
Step 3: Setup Your Website
Now it’s time to setup your blog. This is the fun part of the entire process. Here’s what you need to do:
- Get A Domain Name: You can buy a domain name from Name.com.
- Sign Up For Web Hosting: SiteGround is great for WordPress web hosting.
- Find The Perfect Theme: Check out our collection of free and premium themes.
(Example: Full Story WordPress blogging theme)
Step 4: Create In-Depth Content
Google loves long articles. In fact, Google gives better exposure on search results for long articles with in-depth content.
Use this to your advantage. Create long-form articles to offer valuable information to your readers while also increasing your chances of getting on top of Google search results.
Step 5: Build Links And Improve SEO
Building backlinks to your website is the hardest part of optimizing your website for search engines. This requires a lot of work, like guest blogging on other websites, sharing links on social media, or even paying for websites to link to your blog.
You should also optimize each of your blog posts for SEO as well. Since your site is built with WordPress, you can use a plugin like Yoast SEO to do that quite easily.
Over To You
It’s an amazing feeling you get when you start building a new blog, doing the research, finding themes, and everything. But, the key to making your blog successful is keeping that motivation up and running while you create amazing content for your blog.
So, keep creating great content and building backlinks. As long as you follow the right steps, you will reach success, eventually.
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Thank you.