15 Niche Blogging Plug-Ins You Shouldn’t Be Without
The idea here is not to overwhelm you with plug-ins, however in building successful niche blogging sites, I use most, if not all of these. Each one plays an important role. Depending upon your server, too many plug-ins can definitely slow you down, so be careful. My recommendation is to download them now, so that you’ll have them when you need them.
Advanced Category Excluder
This plug-in enables CMS like functionality in WordPress. If you’ve ever wanted to write to a category but not have it appear on your front page, in your sidebar, or in your RSS feed, this is the plug-in for you. ACE hides unwanted categories from defined parts of your blog.
Why would you want to do this? Maybe your operating a niche blog that focuses on news events. On a news blog you may post 10 - 30 stories a day. The stories are all relevant and each brings
traffic but you don’t want to overwhelm your subscribers with a feed that’s a mile long, or clutter up your front page with 30 stories.
Here’s what you would do:
Create two categories. Call the first one ‘Featured News Stories’ and in it, post your best 5-10 stories each day. Your second category might be called ‘Miscellaneous News Stories’ and that’s where everything else goes. Problem solved.
There are as you can imagine many uses for this if you’re using Wordpress as a CMS or Marketing Platform.
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Niche Blogging
Building a portfolio of profitable niche blogs is a great way of developing an incredible recurring revenue stream. A typical niche blog may only earn you $30.00-$50.00 per week but at that rate, ten such sites will generate a yearly income of over $20,000.
The niche blog strategy is very straightforward. First, find a niche market with profit potential that isn’t already over saturated with competitors. Identify a list of related keywords that people are searching on and then create keyword rich content pages that are optimized for each one of your keywords.
Traditionally, once you have your content pages, you would normally upload them to your site and monetize them with affiliate links and pay par click programs such as Adsense, Kontera and others. Niche blogging is a little different.
At its very simplest, the blog is just a structure for managing web content. Blogs have transitioned from simple web journals to advanced content management applications. No longer does your blog just have to be a journal, rant, personal commentary or diary; blogs can take on a wide variety of forms and functions, and blogs can make you money…a lot of money!
