Building Content & Getting Hits

// February 19th, 2009 // Project Blogger

I have taken a step back lately from the making money aspect of this blog. If you have been visiting here for a while you’ll probably notice that I haven’t done my monthly earnings report for the past two months or so - and not only becuase I am not making much money!

I thought it would be a good idea to try and continue to build content and traffic before I looking for private advertising, find more affiliate partners and run contests.

The way it stands at the moment, this blog covers a range of topics covering the likes of WordPress, BuddyPress, making money, my projects, blogging tips, and so on. It doesn’t serve an information source in one particular area, but numerous areas, which I am not sure I like.

I am trying to concentrate on building up this blog as an information source on one particular area – and the way things are going at the moment it looks like it is heading into the direction of becoming a blog about WordPress and BuddyPress.

But I also want the blog to cover the projects I am working on and then I also want to share my MMO tips. So what do I keep and what do I stop blogging about?

I don’t want to ask people to advertise on the blog until I figure out what direction I want to go in. I think it will easier to find private advertising/sponsor once I do define a niche.

So instead of forcing myself into a niche that I think I should go, I am going to keep doing what I am doing for a while and see how the blog evolves over the next few months. I want to make sure that whatever I choose as the “niche” for this blog is something that I enjoy blogging about rather than being pushed into it.

Maybe this is just a blog about blogging?



2 Responses to “Building Content & Getting Hits”

  1. jono says:
    February 21, 2009 at 12:26 am

    Personally I think danielfelice.com should be about Daniel Felice. You should blog about what you want to blog about and not be concerned about making money from it.

    If you want to create a money making blog about BuddyPress then do that on a separate domain and blog about the process here. I think you’ll do better getting advertisers for a niche.

    It also means you have the option of selling the blog at some point – you’ll see people like John Chow’s say that their greatest regret is developing a blog using their name.

  2. Daniel says:
    February 21, 2009 at 9:23 am

    I actually thought the same thing – registering another domain for buddypress/wordpress and keeping this one just as a personal blog for my own use.

    I read somewhere last week that it is a bad idea to try and monetise a personal blog – and now I am seeing why!

    Thanks Jono!

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