Should you limit the choices a visitor has on your niche blog? Is there a good marketing reason to use minimalist themes? How can limiting choices enhance the click through rate on your advertsing?

In this article, Niche Blogging: Limit Visitor Choices?, I take a look at some strategies I'm using on my niche blogs with mini

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If you are looking for local niche blogging ideas and support, Vic has some great ideas, but he needs our help!

Vic, Court and Grizz has made information about niche blogging a major issue for us, and they continue to provide invaluable steps and resources for us niche bloggers.

How can you help? Let's create a local niche support gro

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Ok folks, as promised, the first round of the Local Niche Support Group sites has been published! It was tough to get done while working 48 hours at the firehouse, but this is the preliminary list.

I am still waiting on a couple of local niche sites to resubmit some information and I will get them up as well.

I hope you all like these

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Arte Moreno became a very rich man by "displaying ads for other people’s products", in his case, on outdoor billboards. He was the President and CEO of Outdoor Systems until he sold it out and then he delved into Major League Baseball and saw success in this area. What lessons about niche blogging, where we're blogging with

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One of the best ways to learn how to make money online is to read other blogs and sites about making money online. There are many ways to learn, but some are better than others. Don't be led astray by some of those sites that just want to tell you how wonderful their product, ebook or program is just to take your money.

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When the local niche blogging was beginning to become a popular topic on Vic's Blogger Unleashed, there were lots of questions.  I offered to Vic to step up and form a local niche blogging support group as a way to promote and help each other with our local niche blogs.

I am pleased to announce that I now have a

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Want a local niche idea? Often times we are left wondering what to write about or how to monetize our local niche blog. After reading some of Vic's latest posts about local niche blogs, I got to thinking about how you can monetize your local niche blog with little effort.

Seeking advertising for your local niche blog is easy, and findin

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As Court so eloquently detailed din a recent post, link building has to be a part of establishing your home based business and your site. I offer a little tool that may help you to that end.It cost nothing but your time.
This is not a sales pitch, I have tried it and did find a few links to explore possible exchanges with.
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Creating a niche site can take some work to accomplish.  One important aspect for any niche site is to use images to make the site look less spammy and more like a real site.  Now I'm not talking about your local niche site that you might have, or a niche site that you keep up with all the time.

I'm talkin

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Awesome commentary on the importance dominating your niche. Two thumbs up!

From the page:"People if you are still writing about f****** blogging and yet you have not started your new niche blog you are wasting your time here reading. You might as well go back to Darren Rowse and keep eating the s*** he feeds you. If you have not started a

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The local niche site support group page has been updated for the most recent submissions. Take a look at the local niche sites that are currently on the list. There are some nice ones!

The local niche site support group is also looking for input in what ways we can stay in touch better, maybe a support forum strictly for l

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Vic told us about niche blogging about ants, but what about blogging about where to eat in Midtown Manhattan? MSNBC's business page caught up with a guy who does just that and brings in $1000 a month doing it. I thought I'd take a look at the blogs mentioned in that article and see what made them tick as money making niche blog sites. The s

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In a Griz-like ramble about niche blogging, I discuss how I manage multiple niche blogs, my content building strategy, how to take advantage of hot topics and some Adsense optimizing tricks I’ve tried. I describe how I use an Excel spreadsheet to organize my blogs. I go over my preferred technique for kicking off and adding con

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Most of us tends to follow the advise of link baiting or keyword baiting by taking advantage of major news or scandals to bring in massive hits to their blogs. However, most of these hits will not convert. They were baited there and after realizing that they have taken the wrong bait, most will leave and never come back unless they fall into

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"All of a sudden things are revealed that were previously hidden..." Blogger Unleashed has called out some of the A-listers for not truly disclosing the "truth" to the unknowing blogger. Now he's telling those who care to listen that "niches are where the action is." In fact, in my opinion, Vic is actually applying the Long Tail theo

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There is a new(er) site that I found that is pretty neat. It provides "do follow" backlinks to your sites and allows you to add as many sites as you want. This helps if you are looking for ways to create more back links to your sites.

There are several ways you can put your links into this system, either by just submitti

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Finding a blog niche that is on the verge of rapid growth can be difficult, but it’s not impossible if you know where to look. I did this years ago with flashed-based web video, when Google Video was new and YouTube didn’t exist. That video blog now has more than 1,500 subscribers and I make a couple bucks from AdSense on it. But what are som

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