ninjaBlog Setup

If you have an eye towards making money from you blog then you should have an idea of what makes a profitable blog so that you can make choices right from the start that support that goal.

There are two primary ways to make money from a blog.

1. Get lots of traffic.

2. Be in a market, or niche, that has a lot of products or services.

There are two pretty simple ways to determine whether or not your topic will get lots of traffic or if it is in a ‘rich’ market.

Method 1, Search for a High Traffic Topic

To test the traffic level of your topic, use Google Trends
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Darren from ProBlogger has a good post called How to Choose a Niche Topic for your Blog which is aimed at people trying to decide what subject to blog about.

Here are the questions he asks:

Is the Topic Popular?
Is the Topic one that is growing or shrinking?
What competition is there?
What is the competition neglecting?
Will you have enough Content?
Are there Income Streams on the Topic?

They are all worth considering, but first you need to answer the big one…

Are You Interested in the Topic?

A friend of mine explained it this way recently:

“Probably the best place to start thinking about what your blog should be about is to consider what YOU are about.”

The unspoken truth about blogging is that it isn’t easy, but it becomes virtually impossible if the subject you’ve chosen for your site doesn’t spring from a real part of your life.

You will need to be constantly involved in your topic to become a great blogger and you just can’t fake real involvement and expertise.

Market, Niche & Competition

I think there are a lot of misconceptions about blogging for profit and most of them concern the issue of competition. If there are lot of blogs in a topic, it may very well mean that it is a thriving market and that there is a lot of money to made on that topic.

My thought is that you will make more money as a mediocre blog in a very profitable niche rather than to be the best blog in the world on a topic that not very many people care about, or that there is no real market for (ie. no products or services or advertisers in that topic).

Chose your topic carefully, but do make sure that it is something that you are naturally involved in, there is not room for fakers in blogging.

Most bloggers start out using a free blog service. Blogger.com or Blogspot.com is the most popular, but there are others including WordPress.com which is a free sub-domain version of WordPress.org (the hosted version of WordPress).

The Best Reasons to Use A Free Blog

Testing Blog Ideas

If you have an idea for a new site, but you’re not sure if the niche will be popular or how people will respond to your idea, you could use a free blog as a way to test your idea risk (no cost) free and do it quickly.

This way you can be more certain that your concept is going to fly before you commit to purchasing a domain and hosting and the time it takes to create a hosted blog.

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Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start blogging!

If you’re interested in seeing a welcome to WordPress post on your own blog but have been held back by a lack of technical skills or you just don’t want to be bothered going through all the work required to setup a fully hosted blog on your own domain, then you’ve come to the right place.

Ninja blog setup service provides a way for everyone to get a high quality blog setup by a WordPress professional for no added cost. All you need to do is pay for your hosting and domain name (about $3.60 a month) and we’ll do the rest.

Our installations include setting up a professional email address, securing your site against spam comments, setting up easy statistics to track your visitors and setting up a search engine friendly addresses.

On top of that we install more than 25 popular plugins to add many cool and useful features to your site and include over 50 themes so you can quickly (with one click) try many different visual styles.

To do all of this yourself, if you include the time it would take to learn about all these features and how to set them up correctly would take hours and hours. If you are serious about making money from your site then you’ll be able to get a much faster head start by having the blog setup Ninjas do the hard work for you - for free!