Making Money Online: Niche Blogging FTW
I’m starting to notice the growing number of blogs that are focused around making money online. I’m not just talking about A list bloggers like ShoeMoney and John Chow, it’s like every other blog I visit is trying to give me tips on how to make money, off blogging. Since I joined Entrecard I’ve started exploring other blogs outside of my little ring of interest and I come across countless websites that have just a redunkulous amount of subscribers and most of them barely offer any real content, they just refer people to advertising networks and claim they make X amount of money off of the networks they are referring their readers to.
Every time I read the title on John Chow’s website, which says “I Make Money Online by Telling People How Much Money I Make Online” I get a good laugh, it gets me thinking about the whole ‘Make Money Online’ niche and all of these blogs people are turning into cash cows simply by talking about how to theoretically make money on the internet. Maybe I should start talking about how to make money on the internet…
May 29th, 2008 at 1:05 am
Your blog is one of a few blogs that I actually enjoy reading because it isn’t filled with this kind of rubbish.
I’m not interested in making a cent, I’m interested in the entries you make about technology and the internet.
Fewer subscribers > content raved about all over the internet imo. But that is just what I see from my standpoint, of course it is your blog and you can do whatever you want with it.
May 29th, 2008 at 6:21 am
Hah, I have a decent amount of readers and I wouldn’t want to waste their time talking about a subject that I’m hardly an expert in.
Not saying that I don’t make a few bucks off this website but I’m not out looking at getting a Mercedes Benz either.
I’ll leave it to the experts.
May 29th, 2008 at 3:33 pm
Hi and thanks for the mention. My blog has always just been about me… its my personal blog. I talk about my personal experiences (which happen to be about real examples in building online companies).
Somehow along the line it developed some readership and advertisers follow.
May 29th, 2008 at 9:56 pm
And thats why your on top! Your website is what you want it to be and not what you think will gain popularity and advertisers.
Thanks for stopping by Jeremy.
June 5th, 2008 at 1:32 pm
This is the best I have found. It works. You owe it to yourself to check it out right now!
June 6th, 2008 at 10:50 am
I’ve noticed a bunch of hangers on trying to do their own blogs that mimick Jeremy and John, it won’t happen for them unless they are unique.
Just wondering, did you drop entrecard?
June 6th, 2008 at 2:19 pm
Yeah, I tried Entrecard for a while, the service does have a lot of potential but I simply don’t have the free time to drop cards every day. Even if I could get it down to taking just a few minutes there are so many other things that I’m unable to do because of time restrictions lately.