| In this article, I will describe 7 benefits of building niche | | | | - Recommending affiliate products and services in |
| blogs. | | | | your blogs (eg. Amazon) |
| A "niche" refers to a targeted market with profit | | | | Benefit #5 |
| potential that is not saturated with competitors. The | | | | Unlike websites, blogs are interactive. Visitors, or blog |
| whole idea is to realize the benefits of building niche | | | | readers, are usually allowed to post comments for a |
| blogs and then find the niche markets out there and | | | | blog post (or article) to the blog owner. |
| start building. | | | | This 'dialog' helps to build rapport and relationship |
| Benefit #1 | | | | between the blog owner and his visitors or members. |
| Niche Blogs are essentially niche websites that are | | | | Benefit #6 |
| alive! | | | | Since blogs are usually updated regularly via blog posts |
| That's because your blog will grow as you continue to | | | | and pages, blogs will rank higher in search engines as |
| publish posts or pages regularly to your blog. In | | | | compared to websites. In contrast, you have to do a |
| contrast, many niche websites are seldom modified or | | | | lot of tweaking to a niche website through Search |
| updated after they are created. | | | | Engine Optimization (SEO) techniques. |
| Benefit #2 | | | | Search engines will visit your blogs more regularly as |
| Blogs are designed to publish and update contents | | | | you blog more regularly. |
| easily once you have them set up, configured and | | | | Thus, you can also place links of your other websites |
| running. | | | | to get them indexed quickly by the search engines. |
| Once you get the hang of it, it's a matter of getting into | | | | Benefit #7 |
| that habit of writing blog posts and pages and | | | | A blog's syndication function is its most powerful |
| publishing them regularly. | | | | benefit! |
| Benefit #3 | | | | You can syndicate the contents of your blog by |
| They are either FREE or cost very little to set up. | | | | allowing other website publishers to publish your feed |
| You can create your blogs easily by visiting or | | | | (or channel) on their sites. This helps to bring more |
| wordpress.org and taking time to study and learn the | | | | traffic to your blogs as the visitors of these sites |
| "how-to". | | | | subscribe to your feed via web-based or desktop |
| Benefit #4 | | | | newsreaders. |
| You can make money with your niche blogs in many | | | | So, with the above benefits, doesn't it make a lot of |
| ways, such as: | | | | sense to start building niche blogs as quickly as |
| - Publishing third-party ads in your blogs (eg. Google | | | | possible? |
| Adsense pubishing) | | | | |