Blog Your Way To A Better Life… Part 2

The Subject of Your Blog

From the beginning any good blog should be built around a good subject, and if you’re building a blog to make an income you want to first think about what your monetization model is.

Choosing a subject can be critical to a blog and a bloggers success

For me I always start with a product in mind… For this series we’re going to use the example of a blog that I built from the ground up, that now gets about 40,000 uniques a month and has made over a thousand dollars a month from advertising.Now how to choose what product to try and blog about; first you want it to be commonly used, mid-level priced, something that people often will search for more information about, and finally isn’t filled with too much competition. Also, I personally try to stay away from the technology scene, mostly because what’s hot and what not changes so quickly that your site can quickly become outdated, and more importantly it is a very saturated market.
So once we find a product that we want to look into we’ll start doing our quick research to see if it’s worth going into, in this case it will be weedeaters.
Yes, weedeaters; it’s a good product, goes for anywhere from $120 to $500. But how do we find out about the other requirements on our list?
First we go to YouTube and look up “weedeater” when we do this there are over 36,000 videos, but there turns out to be a band called Weedeater also, so we have to start whittling these results down so I had to type in: ”weedeater”  -band -album -music -live -hammerhandle -wizard -bull -dragon. Now by doing that it cleaned up a lot of the band videos and gets us to 2100 videos, but we still have videos about making remote control planes and weedeater powered bikes, so now we add -rc and -bike to the search string.
That search leaves us with 1400 videos, this is good, because for this search I am generally looking for over 1000 videos. This shows that people have an actual interest in sharing information with each other about weedeaters.
Next we go to http://www.google.ca/advanced_search here we type in the “all these words:” section  ”weedeater ” then we scroll down to the “Then narrow your results by…” area and in the “site or domain:” blank put in http://answers.yahoo.com/ From there scroll all the way down and push advanced search. I find that searching through Google Advanced search easier for me than using Yahoo Answers itself.
By doing this we see that there are almost 8500 results (once again I look for this to be over 1000), and scrolling down we see that they are all related to the actual weedeater string trimmers, exactly the product we want to blog about and monetize. So this shows that people are not just hungry for answers but they are voracious for answers about weedeaters.
Now we go to Ebay.com and type in weedeater and we see there are over 4000 weedeaters and weedeater related products! This is great because it means there is a large market for purchasing these products.
Now that we know we have a subject that has people interested in sharing information (You Tube); we have a subject that people are asking for help with (Yahoo Answers); and we have a readily available market with lots of products in a range of prices, its time to look at what the competition looks like…
This will be done in part 3 of our series…
So keep checking back and I’ll see you in the next post: Blog Your Way To A Better Life… Part 3

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Blog Your Way To A Better Life… Part 1

Nearly every blogger wants to find how to make money with their site, even if your only blogging for fun. But what happens most of the time is that they toil away putting up more and more content only to find that they are making little or nothing.Many will say that making money online is simply a pipe dream that has no real payoff. But as the new owner of BlogTipsAndTricks.com I can tell you it is possible to make money online… I actually made over $13,000 last year… I started from nothing in 2006, not even knowing what WordPress or Blogger was.
Now is that enough to tell my boss at my day job, “I’m out of here!” ? Well no not really, but it is enough to make life a bit easier, to say yes to a lot more things that my family wants to do than I used to….
So, what is the key to making money online???
Well I’m not going to tell you it doesn’t require work, but I am going to tell you how to find what to blog about to make money, and along the way give you actionable ideas to get more traffic, make more money, and spend less time working at blogging and more time making money from blogging.
You’re probably saying to yourself, “This guy it going to tell me all the same BS I’ve already heard about making money online, and then he’s going to tell me for just the low low price of $….. I to can learn the secret”, but the fact is I’m going to give you the goods on how to make money blogging.
Why? because honestly most people will quit before they even see a single dollar. Not because it can’t be done, but because it can’t be done in just a few days.
But for those of you that can stick with it, you will make something out of nothing more than your time and passion. All I ask is that as you read about how to do this you share this blog with your friends, family, and anyone else that will listen…
So, check back tomorrow to get the first lesson… How to find a good subject to blog about…
Trust me, no one has told you how easy it is to find money making subjects…
See you in part 2

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