08-24-2007, 12:18 PM
Quote:The amount of web traffic you get and how you take advantage of the attention you receive is far more essential for making money from any website.
Two key factors should be considered: Traffic building and Audience Loyalty:
* Traffic is Money. The more traffic you have, the more money you will make from your website. Because of its general content, these sites can and should be marketed to everyone. Boing Boing is a good example of a profitable general interest blog (over $1 million/year).
General or personal sites can do very well with social websites like Digg, Reddit or StumbleUpon. Correspondingly, not all niche sites will work well with these social communities (unless a viral link bait is used). Take advantage of a non-niche sites ability to work the social media crowd.
* Audience loyalty...
full article: http://www.doshdosh.com/can-you-make-mon...t-a-niche/