If you’re a blogger trying to make a side income from blogging, then you have to be familiar with niche blogs. They are blogs that focus on a specific topic, mastering that topic and only, and most of them generate the best revenues.

So why are niche blogs so important to generate income? First off, niche blogs have a lot of posts (articles) on a specific topic. Say you like basketball and you find a niche blog about basketball, it only talks about basketball and everything tied to basketball. It rarely runs off topic and it gives you that warm and fuzzy feeling reading the blog knowing that it’ll inform you and keep you up to date with the most recent going ons in the basketball world. The blog would sell basketball gears, signature jerseys, you name it. Now if this blog incorporates AdSense, this is where the word niche comes in play. With niche blogs, since there’s usually only one major topic covering the whole blog, AdSense would have no trouble finding relevant ads. People would look at these ads and they would be more likely to click since the ads would be about basketball as well. Imagine going to a fashion blog and reading ads like “Create cappucinno in ten seconds” wouldn’t that be a turn off?

dS is and is not a niche blog. We do try to keep things in perspective, “helping bloggers and webmasters build a better web” but our topics range from “quality content management services” to “how to get Google to index you” for example. We do get relevant ads but they aren’t always up to date since our content changes frequently and we have extremely different keywords in each post.

Our tip is, if you really want to make good money from your blog, pick a niche topic and stick with it. If you want to talk about something else, start a new blog. Be the source of information for certain popular topics and you’ll notice your visitors returning often, even bringing their friends and friends of their friends. Nothing beats word of mouth and nothing beats niche blogging.

I’m not saying you can’t mix topic, that can be fun too, only you won’t make as much money.

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