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Covering a new niche: Fitness, Trampolines and Sports

Wednesday, July 8th, 2009

I have been considering changing the niche I cover in this blog. It’s good to have solid traffic from the websites through Google Trends. But I can only do so much with that. After all, this blog of mine, WhateverMighty has become a bit of a spam blog. I don’t want that anymore. I want to provide value to my readers so they will become loyal followers of the blog. I will still check Google Trends every now and then but I will only choose the keywords that have something to do with the niche I cover in this blog.

It might be more difficult for me but at least I want to make sure that I am providing value to the readers. I have decided to feature articles on fitness, trampolines, a bit on body building and related matters. This blog will certainly be better in this case.

While I will not be changing the template yet, I’ll be exploring other minimalist but more professional looking Wordpress themes available online. Stay tuned to these interesting developments at WhateverMighty.

How to Overhaul Your Blog

Saturday, April 25th, 2009

Tags: blogging, overhaul your blog, how to overhaul your blog, making money, making money while blogging, whatever blogging.

If you have been reading this blog, you would notice that I often blog about the most popular searches in Google.com. I wanted to let people know about the most popular searches in the Internet. I didn’t want to just report facts but I also wanted to add something of value–my opinion. Most of the time though, I was simply posting about the facts culled from other blogs and websites. That isn’t fair I suppose. But I admit, I have been doing them in the name of making money online while blogging.

A lot of bloggers from the Philippines are doing that, actually. They target the most popular keywords for the day and for the year to drive traffic to their websites and increase their Google Adsense earnings. I’m also doing that. But more than just posting about the most popular keywords, I want to make something significant by including my opinions and putting in my thoughts about those matters.

My main blog is at Penstalker.com, which is about books, literature, film, reviews and Ilocano culture. This is my “serious” blog. I’m not out to make money out of that blog but I simply write about the books I read, movies I watched and my reactions to them. It’s just that I haven’t updated it much since last month. Hmmm… it’s actually due for overhaul, too.

So much for my long introduction. Here’s How to Overhaul Your blog.

1. Think about your passion and your pursuits. This is the source of your passion for writing in your blog day after day after friggin’ day!! If you’re writing about something you are not really passionate about, your blog will simply die a natural death and will never grow to the heights you dreamed for it.

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