photo credit: mujitra (´･ω･) The final step in the process of having a successful and profitable niche blog is the management of your site. If you haven’t yet, go back and read part 1, part 2, and part 3. Here I’m talking about management in terms of keeping your site running, monitoring what’s working and what’s not, and monitoring the success of your site so you know how much effort to commit to it on a continual basis. Here are some of the elements involved in the management area of a successful...

photo credit: victoriapeckham A successful blogs depends on returning visitors. Returning visitors are easier to convert into paying customers because the more often they return to a site, the more trust they have in that site. The credibility issue just melts away. You need to keep your visitors coming back to your blog. Try these methods: 1) Promote commenters Give your commenters a reason to keep returning and talking by giving them a shout out. Point out great comments your visitors make and include a link back to their...

photo credit: bingbing When it comes to personal blogging, documentary is the default genre. There are plenty of blogs that serve other functions, but many blogs are primarily catalogs of the life experiences of their author. Although there are quite a few blogs that focus on collecting poetry and other forms of creative writing, the vast majority of personal blogs are in some sense documentaries. For many years, the act of making a documentary was meant to be an objective act of reporting the sights and sounds that the filmmaker,...