I have been blogging since 2009, but this August I started my first niche blog and my first time really even paying attention to SEO, honestly. I am primarily using income school ideas.
Published my first article for this new blog August 21st 2020. At some point I found BigRon's thread on income school on here, and read some on reddit. I've really enjoyed my little niche blog journey so far and just wanted to share with others who may be interested.
So...what am I doing?
I made a niche blog that is focusing on making helpful content, primarily based on google predicted search text and "alphabet soup" research. My niche is vaguely beauty related, and is a personal interest (almost hobby?) of mine. I'm trying to include answer targets that can be picked up as snippets. I'm not doing any intentional backlink building. While I primarily am basing my posts on predictive search suggestions, I have done a few posts based on questions that I regularly see asked on reddit or facebook groups for my niche. I have made all of my posts at least 1000 words, most are in the 1200-1400 range or so. I try to make my content thorough and helpful. Trying to use subheadings and other formatting that makes my posts scannable. I'm using all my own photos, and am making pinnable graphics for most of my posts.
Outside of search, the main other area of effort for this blog is Pinterest. From my other blogs, I know that Pinterest is a better use of time vs most other social media. I have pins on my other blogs that are years old and get me lots of traffic every single month. So I think Pinterest is worth the time and I am making pinterest graphics for most of my posts. I am networking with other bloggers and doing a 'pin for pin' type exchange to try to get my pins off the ground.
I have Fb, twitter and Instagram accounts for this blog but I do very quick updates to briefly explain what a post is about and then paste the link.
Goals?
I'd like this blog to be a source of income, but I also want to really enjoy the 'work'. I don't want to fall into the trap that I have with my other blogs, where I am writing sponsored posts about crap I don't really care about, just for the check. I also don't want to fall into the trap of spending a ton of time on social media. I do not like social media work. I want this blog to generate it's traffic more on its own, from organic research and pinterest.
I guess my current goal would be to get to 50k pageviews/month for the sake of getting into mediavine?
I chose a niche that I am truly passionate about, and I really enjoy writing about it. One downside to my niche choice is that it's not a great choice for affiliate revenue. I was completely aware of that when I chose the niche. There are certainly plenty of products related to my topic, but most of them are low cost. They're also items that a lot of people would probably purchase in person instead of online. So, I add affiliate links when I mention products but they're cheap products and I never expect affiliate income to be a major source of revenue from this blog. It'll primarily be ads, I expect.
I just wanted to explain what my journey is for this first post. Will follow up with my first stats update in a comment.
Published my first article for this new blog August 21st 2020. At some point I found BigRon's thread on income school on here, and read some on reddit. I've really enjoyed my little niche blog journey so far and just wanted to share with others who may be interested.
So...what am I doing?
I made a niche blog that is focusing on making helpful content, primarily based on google predicted search text and "alphabet soup" research. My niche is vaguely beauty related, and is a personal interest (almost hobby?) of mine. I'm trying to include answer targets that can be picked up as snippets. I'm not doing any intentional backlink building. While I primarily am basing my posts on predictive search suggestions, I have done a few posts based on questions that I regularly see asked on reddit or facebook groups for my niche. I have made all of my posts at least 1000 words, most are in the 1200-1400 range or so. I try to make my content thorough and helpful. Trying to use subheadings and other formatting that makes my posts scannable. I'm using all my own photos, and am making pinnable graphics for most of my posts.
Outside of search, the main other area of effort for this blog is Pinterest. From my other blogs, I know that Pinterest is a better use of time vs most other social media. I have pins on my other blogs that are years old and get me lots of traffic every single month. So I think Pinterest is worth the time and I am making pinterest graphics for most of my posts. I am networking with other bloggers and doing a 'pin for pin' type exchange to try to get my pins off the ground.
I have Fb, twitter and Instagram accounts for this blog but I do very quick updates to briefly explain what a post is about and then paste the link.
Goals?
I'd like this blog to be a source of income, but I also want to really enjoy the 'work'. I don't want to fall into the trap that I have with my other blogs, where I am writing sponsored posts about crap I don't really care about, just for the check. I also don't want to fall into the trap of spending a ton of time on social media. I do not like social media work. I want this blog to generate it's traffic more on its own, from organic research and pinterest.
I guess my current goal would be to get to 50k pageviews/month for the sake of getting into mediavine?
I chose a niche that I am truly passionate about, and I really enjoy writing about it. One downside to my niche choice is that it's not a great choice for affiliate revenue. I was completely aware of that when I chose the niche. There are certainly plenty of products related to my topic, but most of them are low cost. They're also items that a lot of people would probably purchase in person instead of online. So, I add affiliate links when I mention products but they're cheap products and I never expect affiliate income to be a major source of revenue from this blog. It'll primarily be ads, I expect.
I just wanted to explain what my journey is for this first post. Will follow up with my first stats update in a comment.