Dear friends, This forum is amazing platform to learn lot of things in web development and monetizing it. I have become quiet successful with blogspot and adsense but now I am embarking on new strategy and I was wondering what are your views about it. So far I strongly followed the small niche market and have been largely successful with high paying cpc ads and good earnings. I just thought that how about trying a market with common keywords and low paying ads but with tremendous traffic and interest from many surfers ? for example, If I make a blog about dating or ringtones and make it popular enough to generate reasonable traffic - now I know that cpc here is very low but many number of users are attracted to site and more people click on ads. The focus here is quantity as cpc is low. Anyone has tried this in particular with blogger, if yes please let me know. thanks, Jamx
Traffic is the hardest of all, so how do you plan on achieving this when the competition is so high for these keywords? Just a thought ...
Can you blog on topics like ringtones or dating for the next six months ? It may be very tough to continue writing on topics which you are less passionate about. Generally niche blogs are more successful.
I definitely think sticking to niche rather than mainstream is the way to go. Your return on time invested will be much better with a niche. As you say the cpc is low so volume is the only way to generate an income and, as far as I know, there is no magic formula for generating heavy traffic overnight.
Ringtones and Dating are probably not the best way to go unless you got lots of $$$ to back yourself up with. The CPC in this niche isn't THAT terrible it can actually be quite rewarding but the competition is insane in this market and you are not competing with your average Joe webmaster either you are going to be competing with corporations. My advice stick with what you know best and diversify into "similar and complimentary" industries/niches rather than trying to tackle the big fish in completely new niches, especially if you don't have the $$$'s behind you.
I'm sure by now you've realized that creating generic blogs can work well for posting about virtually anything you want, right? Hot news of the day type stuff can bring interesting rewards. My eBook outlines some very profitable ways to accomplish this- but I'll say this upfront- Keep the television or radio on in the background during your time spent at the computer. = )
folks, Thanks for your responses....and I think gist of the matter is that, I should stick to niche blogs. This whole idea evolved when I was chatting with another DP member and he suggested how he gets traffic with adwords on these common topics to drive to his websites. My individual research yielded that his sites were not really content driven but he could drive tons of traffic with adwords...exactly how it was done with adwords is still a mystery, but numbers quoted were very good and backed up with evidence. So this whole idea of blogging for common topics evolved... Let me know if anybody had any success with driving traffic with adwords. I can spend my adsense income for adwords and see how it works but I really need to know if somebody ever tried it. thanks in advance for your valuable inputs. Jamx
It is called arbitrage and it is quite a refined art but essentially based on the simple principle of you pay for clicks via PPC programs like AdSense, and send users to sites/pages with more advertising in which they click or convert into sales of affiliate programs. My understanding is if you have refined methods and know what you are doing there is still lots of money to be made, but at the same time it is fairly competitive and getting hard to achieve consistent and worthwhile results, but there are loads of people still out there doing it so there is still obviously good money to be made. You just need to niche a good paying niche and to be able to drive LOTS of traffic to the site. It's basically a game where the bigger numbers you are working with the more worthwhile it is. I mean it's all well and good if you can find a niche where you can get a 1000% return on your money, but if you can only send a total of 20 visitors a day to a site then obviously your earnings are always going to be limited. Whereas if you can find a niche where you can earn a 20% return on your investment and driving thousands and thousands of visitors a day to your site then you have a viable and arguably sustainable income, but like most things there is diminishing returns with things like this, so just because you can turn $1 into $2 doesn't mean you can necessarily turn $10,000 into $20,000 you know what I mean.
I know there are guides out there, unfortunately I don't have any links this second. However, I'll save you some time, the guide basically says trial and error.
I would like to ask all people who use adwords or any other system to drive traffic to website whether they use it for their genuine site or for MFA sites. thanks Jamx
@jamx03, honestly, i have no idea about that, but, as you asked in your last post, i use adwords to boost my original site, and I dont have any MFA sites. They sucks.