I think I’ve found my niche. Not for this one – no one in their right mind would call this a niche blog. No – for my relatively brand new Norwegian one, that I’ve named the equivalent of Work With A Blog, where I’ve approached the subject of Working At Home.
As some of you may have managed to tweak out of my scribbles, I’ve now got 3 WAH jobs, not including blogging, which I’ll continue to call a hobby.
The jobs include Mystery Shopping (I’ve joined a second MS company too, that are quite big on Mystery Calling and service checks by email, so make that 4 jobs soon!), proof reading and translation.
Although WAH is a big market in Norway too, it’s also full of scammers and spammers, and people are getting quite sick of that – as well they should.
Add to that the MLM companies that many feel are ripping them off because let’s face it – we’re not all the great salesperson one needs to be to make it in MLM – and you’ve got a lot of people who just need to find out if there are genuine possibilities out there.
They also need to be told that a $5 “miracle e-book” just isn’t going to do it for them in 15 minutes. If that gravy-train ever existed (which I doubt), it’s long gone now.
Anyway – my ramblings with a purpose have hit a nerve, albeit a very small nerve (Norway is, at best, a niche market…), and I’ve had some search engine (Google) traffic for some related keywords.
This is where I’m going to be totally honest with you. Have I targeted those keywords, or even researched them? No. They emerged all by themselves, as the topics in the posts startet to take shape.
Another side effect is that the Adsense-ads have geared themselves towards the same keywords, and I guess it’s a fact of life that people will click on what interests them. So if I can interest you in a mini-statistics from Adsense:
I’ve earned 5 times as much so far in November on Adsense as I did in the whole of October, which means 5 times as many clicks on ads. That is in the whole of my “network” of blogs (how presumtuous is that…). The difference is the new blog, and the fact that it’s finding its voice.
Oh, and my October earnings were all of 51 cents. You do the maths for November. So it’s not as if I’ve found myself a genuine gravy-train or anything…
Stumble it!
