Niche Blogging Plans for 2009

I've been getting a lot of emails and messages asking if I'm still doing "the Niche Blogger." And the answer is: kinda sorta! After five months I decided to cancel my membership. I think Amy offers A LOT of valuable info. However, most of that value I found to be in the first 2-3 months. I certainly don't think I wasted my money and I learned a lot from Amy.

That being said, I'm still continuing to build niche blogs. And I still use a lot of what I learned in Amy's course. This weekend I completed my first blog based on some advice I gathered reading Grizzly and Garry Conn's blogs. I'm not exactly sure what Griz and Garry think of each other but I'm certainly learning a lot from both of these guys. And yes this blog is FINSIHED-COMPLETE-DONE. I didn't just register the domain name and say, "I'll get to that later." The posts are written, scheduled, and waiting to be indexed in Google. And while that's happening I'll be working on blog number two . . .

Something I've learned the past couple months is that the Internet is filled with many different types of blogs. There's so-called "flagship" blogs and "Adsense" blogs. Each one requires a different approach in terms of acquiring readership and generating revenue. You definitely want to take these different characteristics into account when you build your blogs!

Are you building your blog to attract readers? Or clicks? When it comes to blogging you sometimes can't have your cake and eat it too.

So the big question: How much am I up to? From the blog I put together during my stint at the Niche Blogger I made a few dollars in Adsense and $11.09 in Clickbank sales. However, that blog now has about 25 posts and a pagerank of 1. I've since taken off the Adsense and am tweaking the theme a little. I used to get about 35-40 unique visitors per day, but now 20 seems to be the norm.

This "virgin" blog has been my little guinea pig for sure! Originally this was supposed to be a "set it and forget it" type of thing but thanks to my perfectionist nature I'm not ready to let it go yet. But like I said, I did complete my first blog "Garry Conn" style this weekend and I'm going to be tracking it closely. It got indexed in around 48 hours and I can't wait to see when it starts ranking for some keywords. So I think this "officially" will be my first blog.

Let's keep track shall we? Here's my progress report for today:

1. Blog #1 indexed in Google
2. Writing content for Blog #2--goal is to finish writing all blog posts by January 24th

Total Adsense earnings today: $0.00

I know this is probably a bit confusing but I guess you can say that I'm starting 2009 with a total clean slate. Lots of lessons were learned in 2008 to make the blogs of 2009 even better than the ones we built before!