My site has buckets and buckets on info on it (800 or so articles), but is not really anywhere decent in search engines as I have too many keywords, I think, so I'm wondering about how to boost my readership/revenue. One way is to do paid ebooks (others in the field sell info I give away for nothing for over $1000 per copy!), but for more mass-market appeal I have a few ideas: 1. Articles and Squidoo. I tried one Squidoo lens for little success 2. New domains, like japanesephones.com and summarise and AdSense-ise my best content. 3. Sub-domains, like food.whatjapanthinks.com, and do above summarising and AdSense-ing. 4. ??? 5. Profit! What are your thoughts?
Hi KenYn, If you have readers it means you have traffic, but how much? If your site have good traffic then, you can think about adsense as you said. On the other hand I think your target market is too broad, try to create sub niches and then you create pages where you can send people interested in these sub niches. You capture their emails and names, you give them more free info and then you offer them a product that could be an eBook, audio CD, DVD etc. You'll have to work a little hard, because these sub niches are not related even if they have the Japan in common.
vertov, thanks for the input. Traffic is around 800-1000 per weekday, depending on if someone picks up an article or not. How should I do sub-niches? Split the blog into lots of sub-blogs? One idea I'm toying with is a site map on a sub-domain, but done using a typical directory script.
Yes, you can use categories, for example: Japanese food Japanese computers Japanese drinks Japanese tradition etc And if you want you can break them down into sub niches Japanese food -abc -def -ghe