Now Reading ...Believe it or not, blogging on blogging is not the tao to make money online anymore. The reason is because the blogging subject has been covered by whole lots of expert like Darren and Lorelle. It’s never become easier to find topic that they haven’t covered to blog about.
As far as I learn, this niche isn’t where the Tao of Online Money Wealth located. You should seek for other niche or may be you can keep spinning your blog to another type of blogging niche that not discussing about blogging but have the relation with it.
For example, you may cover the coding and design if you have the interest and a set of skills in this subject. Or you may be can spin the subject to some other mentality development subject to empower a blogger’s soul.
Blogging on Blogging is dead because it’s saturated or jammed by blogger. You’ll just keep echoing the idea from experts (You know, there are so many of them out there and they might have covered most of the evergreen articles) and you can’t pull much attention from readers.
Although there is an advice about being a purple cow in your niche, blogging niche is certainly not a great niche kick some ass anymore. You will struggle sooo hard to be able to get some benefit out of it.
While you can actually get lots of benefits from other niches, why you should struggle your life-and-death in blogging niche?
Except you are a great blogger like Lorelle, you might be able to find some great idea to turn this around and keep exist in the strive competition. How about if you are a complete beginner?
One word - Avoid it.
Guru like Yaro also say the same sentence. Avoid to blog your subject about blogging. It won’t worth your time.
I tasted the experience and I’ve felt the result. To tell you frankly, I build this blog by focusing around 70% of my roam time and 30% for other project. Believe it or not, other blogs that stand on a different niches, is proved to be able to generate much more income than this blog! 
I was surprised too. At first, I thought if I devoted more on a blog so I can get better result! But that principle seems to be wrong.
Almost 90% of my income is not from this blog. At first, this blog is genuinely blogging on blogging tips, tricks and tweaks. My old readers will know what I’m talking about. At the time, I got no serious traffic from search engines, only from some famous social media like digg.com and StumbleUpon (with the helps from my buddies).
I decided to take a different action to spin my presentation. The result are, since I spin my subject slowly away from blogging (getting away from blogging but still related to it) , I’ve seen some nice improvement in search engine traffic, referral, and more subscribers to my feed.
Those action give me an understanding about:
Targeting a popular niches with a different approach and perspectives is better than meddling inside those niches.
This is my understanding as far as my experience growth. Blogging on Blogging is a hardcore road to blogging success. As an advise, try to switch your attention to what you love to do, instead of putting your perspective on what other peoples love.
Follow where your passion is, and the money will follow you.
It’s wise not to follow the same mistake as I did. Don’t play with fire and be a little obedience to what those experts teach us. For sure, we’ll get what we want!
Stumble it!
Del.icio.us it!
Digg it!
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(December 4, 2007, 12:20 pm)
What if someone’s passion is blogging?
I disagree that the whole blogging about blogging niche is dead or saturated to the extent that anyone new cannot get results from it. There are millions of Internet users out there to be converted. You cannot assume they will definitely go to the experts straight away and stay there. And everyday, you can have new users going online. So the possibilities are endless. It might be difficult, but never say never.
It is not down to niches being saturated - the problem is not in the niche, it is up to us to come up with something new or innovative to draw new readers or clients - any niche.
Also, I tend to take what experts say with a pinch of salt - especially when they say “Oh, don’t come to my niche - it is very difficult now - too many people, too few customers.”, and yet they are reporting thousands of dollars of income a month.
Reply to YC(December 4, 2007, 12:41 pm)
Interesting post, because I just started ‘blogging about blogging’ - and am one of Seth Godin’s “99 Purple Cows”
Very wise words, though - if you are not expert/experienced about something, or can become so, do not pretend to be the ‘go to’ guy in that niche, no matter how crowded or not.
At the same time, if you’re passionate and knowledgeable in your niche, you can ALWAYS find a spin/angle to position your content to make it attractive, interesting and desirable to an audience.
I’ve chosen to blog about ‘Blogging for Influence & Attention’ - which includes the element of blogging for money, yet is not limited to it alone!
Nice post, thanks for sharing your viewpoint, Ken
All success
Dr.Mani
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(December 5, 2007, 9:45 pm)
those are some good points YC. I’m in the sports niche and there are too many similar blogs to count.
My blog is moving up a lot though as far as traffic goes. I just try to concentrate on putting good content on there from my POV. I try to make it as personal as possible so I think it is possible but I believe you have to just stay on your grind and put quality content on your site consistently. If you do that then visitors will notice and come. It’s all about how much work you do though
Reply to houroc(January 27, 2008, 5:20 am)
great posts.blogging on blogging has great competition.
Reply to m07nice post though.
(March 12, 2008, 5:21 am)
I would stay away from saturated niches. Pick a sub-niche and blog about that.
Reply to Technology Slice(April 29, 2008, 4:28 am)
blog become saturated is because people thinks that blog is the way to have an easy income. But Search engines like Big Google have been smarter nowadays so that basis of blogging will be on SEO and of course Backlinks. If you have them enough on your blogs you can dominate niches as far as I know.
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