The original title is "How to start a niche content site", which IMHO accurately reflects the contents of the blog post. I don't see the word "hobby" anywhere on the page.
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#22Ironically SEO farms like this will cause a return to the Yahoo model of search, where everything is hand-curated instead of relying on an easy-gamed algorithms.
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#23There is a reddit community all around this kind of approach:
http://www.reddit.com/r/juststart
However, as in all these things, the money is in selling the shovels.
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#24The original title is "How to start a niche content site", which IMHO accurately reflects the contents of the blog post. I don't see the word "hobby" anywhere on the page.
He uses interests instead. "This is my unconventional advice: Start with your interests." To be fair he doesn't say to use your favourite hobby either - he says use the best combination of your interest in it, how niche it is and how good it is for easy high volume search keywords. Which seems like a reasonable enough criteria for a topic you can make a spammy content farm about.
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#25Earlier quoted context omitted.
Then go and find some new ones with the $100k in your bank account
The fallacy of this type of advice is that marketing a certain activity, in this case a blog, is a full-time job in itself. > This is the quickest way to [...] create a sustainable additional income. The entire blog post starts with essentially a lie. The following requirement: 4. Back-link building > This is tedious work. Cold emailing, constant reminders and > outreach and content creation. This person would focus…
That book written by that unknown author was pure drivel, how anyone was able to get through the whole thing, if anyone actually did, is beyond me.
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#26Ha, this reminds me of the "How to get rich quick" books that start off with "To get rich, write a book on how to get rich." Besides that, I loathe """content""" sites. There may earn $10k a month, but they aren't adding 10k worth of value to the world. Their motives are clearly in money-making, not in informing, and the huge swath of them on Google search has drowned out everything that isn't SEO-optimized. Man, I m…
There is definitely a pattern where people make a small amount of money on some initial content site, but they make their big bucks on courses that teach _you_ how to make passive income with a content site. Props to them for being able to successfully build online businesses, I just find it funny that the real money is in selling the dream onto the next person.
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#27Fill the internet with crap for advertising cash. What a great model.
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#28Ik hate articled or books where people try to explain hoe to get rich OR succesful. The purpose of those articled is usualy not to educate other people, but for self gaining purposes.
My hobby was and is creating software. 10 years ago I was extremely lucky to be into apps and I created a very profitable business arround it. Made more money in those ten years than a normal person in the US would get in a lifetime.
But it all comes down to luck. I was lucky to be born in a rich country. I was lucky to have parents giving me endless oppertunities, I was lucky to have the right friends, I was lucky to have normal set of brains, I was lucky to be not a lazy dreaming person playing computer games 12 hours a day.
I dont say you have no control in your path of life. But much is depending on external factors.
An article or book will change nothing.
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#29Some useful stuff in here, will bookmark.
My wife spent a lot of time a few years ago putting together content for a book targeted at new parents, aim was to be practical tips/tricks/do's/dont's rather than than a theory book (plenty of those out there). It was based on her 10 years experience in childcare and input from some co-workers. It was bit of a hobby but the goal was to monetize it at some point.
Then kids came along and she parked it but now we are looking at how she could extract some value from the collateral that's sitting there in a word doc.
Aside from the obvious publish an ebook we started to toy around with extracting and using the collateral in a blog style publication with revenue coming from products, being conscious that the goal should always be to recommend what she thought was the best product (even if that means making no money from it as not all products have affiliate scheme).
We somewhat tested this by putting out a piece in certain forums for car seats offering specific advise to certain problems people were having. From a handful of posts she is making ~$30 a month from amazon. Nothing to shout about but it was very little work just highly targeted to certain demographic with a specific challenge. I guess message being here good content in the right place can help you win but yea its a lot of hard work to scale this to a $10K a month.
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#30That just sounds like work, you write and get money for it ... like a writer. On top of that those websites are almost always terrible, full of long article saying nothing.
On top of that, how practical is it, really, to make over $100,000/year writing content for the web?
> If you convert only 0.1% of your traffic (30 users), you’ll yield $15 000 a month ($180k a year).
Well, how likely is it that you will reach that 0.1% conversion rate? 0.1% might sound like a small, easily achievable rate, but is it really?
If it were easy to make a good living this way, everyone would be doing it. The article doesn't seem to acknowledge that good writing is hard to do. It doesn't even mention the word 'skill', for instance.