This is a guest post by Melvin from MelvinBlog.com.
Over the past few years the make money online niche has grown rapidly and enormously. While it is still growing constantly up to now, it has become evident to people that blogging in make money online space doesn’t really guarantee them money.
In the past, I’ve talked about how diluted the mmo world is. Many people agreed with me that succeeding in this niche is not as easy as what most newbies think. Another problem with that mindset is that people see it in John Chow, the one who revolutionized the make money online blogging thing.
What happen is that they saw John became so successful with it and now they think they can be as well, w/c is not wrong anyway. What’s wrong though, is that they replicate what John did and is doing, and we all know what worked a year ago is now completely extinct today (debatable).
The Proof!
If you’re oftentimes hopping on blogs like me, you’d probably notice that a lot of bloggers who talk about that topic (that three-word thing) is probably dead not blogging anymore or has completely abandoned his blog. What others did, w/c I thought was a clever move, was they shifted their topic in a more interesting and more targeted one (i.e. blogging about SEO instead or marketing and stuff). This is a great proof to testify that blogging for money is dead.
Wait! Don’t get Discouraged
Well the main point of the topic is not to tell you guys to stop trying/making money from your blogs. We’re not hypocrite to do that (if you see me remove my sidebar ads, then I’m a hypocrite!). What I would like to say is that we should shift our focus from the “money-making” thing to actually handing out real values to our readers by posting real content. Sure, some of our audience want to read something that would make them money. And our goal is to make them understand that they can, but it goes within a process and is affected by several factors. In that way our blogs can become more niche-targeted (whether specifics to blogging, SEO and etc.), help more people and can enjoy a tight community. All in all it benefits everyone.
Now the question for you: Are you adding something to the blogosphere by posting real content and good value to your readers or your just adding up to the pollution of the make money online thing? I hope that by now we have all clearly defined our own goals.
There is still a hope in this field. It requires some skill and patience.
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Perfect article! The customer should always be first in your mind- Have the content and set yourself right to make $$$.
Thanks for the article.
Yup!
I to join with you. It’s better to keep distance from the ‘Make money online’ Niche. There are a lots of profitable and easy Topics for blogging worldwide. So it’s better to pick a unique one.
I have written an article on ‘How to select a Good Blog Niche’: http://mextena.com/369-how-to-select-the-right-niche-topic-for-your-blog.html
Hope this helped
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I know from my persepective I would love to see people move away from the niche, I have started removing blogs in my reader because all they focus on is that niche.
.-= Extreme John´s last blog ..Weekly Link Dump =-.
Saturation in make money online niche is due to those who expect to be rich overnight doing nothing. This encouraged those spammers who make crap products with fleshy advertisements. This has dominated those reliable and genuine MMO products that are really great, need some work from your side and will help you to make some decent part time money.
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Getting rich is an evergreen subject which never fails to attract readers. The only problem is that most poeple do not have any experience to share.
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Fantastic post! Everywhere you turn, people are trying the “make money online” niche, which is way oversaturated. The problem doesn’t really stand in that fact alone; if these people would offer their visitors value and information they can use, they may have success in this market, IF they can out-do the competition. Thanks for sharing
Online money making is not a big deal because you can get lots of interesting and very beneficial offers on the internet so i suggest you to please try to use only those resource of money which are reliable and very trusted. Means Google and Ebay are the best way to make money online.
The make money online niche is becoming as competitive as ever that people blogging about it don’t even make money themselves.
I think this is true for the ebook section of the market, unless you create a real good guide that can actually help people. Competition isn’t a bad thing, and if you are better than the rest, you will be number one.
I think the MMO niche is bad for newbies, I don’t think they have a chance because they are not as up to date as the bigger MMO bloggers and they are fighting to be ranked in Google for keywords that have articles that are ages old.