Building a blog section unto a niche platform

[Shogun24]

Hello everyone,

Sorry for I have two noob questions and I have yet to launch my first website:

1) When people say they make great money from "writing great content", do they mean they run a blog website that gets so many viewers they're making SIZABLE income? Is it as simple as "Has 100,000 viewers, running ads on the sides at $0.25 (<-- Noob that doesn't know the ad placement costs), 25% of the viewers click on one of the ads so you directly pocket 1/4th of $25,000 ($6,250)?

2) OR when people say they write "great content" for their platforms, do they typically mean they attach some kind of blog software to their niche product website (Or is it simply niche "idea" blogging...) typically? I'm wondering how that works when it comes to ranking. You launch a website, and you attach software like Wordpress (or the preferred platform) for your blog section, does the compatibility work easily? It's hard for me to visualize a little. Would you pick a subdomain for that blogging section or does it work like building a regular page?

I get lost in terminology and take things way literal. Thank you very much in advance.

Edit: If the typical practice is attaching a blog section unto your niche product website, is it typical to allow ads on that blog section or no ads at all? Thank you.

 

[l3msip]

1) When people say they make great money from "writing great content", do they mean they run a blog website that gets so many viewers they're making SIZABLE income? Is it as simple as "Has 100,000 viewers, running ads on the sides at $0.25 (<-- Noob that doesn't know the ad placement costs), 25% of the viewers click on one of the ads so you directly pocket 1/4th of $25,000 ($6,250)?

This could mean any number of things, it could be a blog with ads as you describe, though in general, engaging content tends to lower ad clicks - people click ads if they dont find what they want on the site.

It could mean they have a site about a certain subject, and the content contains a specific call to action, eg at the end of an article about healthy skin, you conclude "and for me the most effective product was [affiliate link]. You can get a free trial here [aff link].

It could be they write an article with various subtle aff links interspersed, eg an article about writing a jquery widget may contain paragraphs like: "For use on high volume sites, i recommend using amazon CND [aff link] to improve speeds" then latter "For those running wordpress, all these functions and a lot more can be implemented in one click with bla blah super plugin [aff link]"
Following on from this, articles that solve a problem for the visitor in a free but complicated way, and also affiliate link through to a paid but simpler way, tend to work well.

It could also mean they write unique engaging product descriptions on their ecom site, rather than using the manufacturers stock descriptions.

It could be any combination of the above, or something completely different.

It could be they were broke, and now write articles for others and consider this to be great money.

It could be they dont make any money, but like to regurgitate what they have read elsewhere.

2) OR when people say they write "great content" for their platforms, do they typically mean they attach some kind of blog software to their niche product website (Or is it simply niche "idea" blogging...) typically? I'm wondering how that works when it comes to ranking. You launch a website, and you attach software like Wordpress (or the preferred platform) for your blog section, does the compatibility work easily? It's hard for me to visualize a little. Would you pick a subdomain for that blogging section or does it work like building a regular page?

Most platforms will allow you to make article pages. That said, linking blogging software is pretty simple, at its easiest its just a matter of installing it in a sub-folder or sub-domain, and cross linking the menus in both platforms.

With regards to ranking, the idea would be to follow eeither step 2 or 3 above, to interlink your blog to your main money making areas.

 

[Shogun24]

This could mean any number of things, it could be a blog with ads as you describe, though in general, engaging content tends to lower ad clicks - people click ads if they dont find what they want on the site.

It could mean they have a site about a certain subject, and the content contains a specific call to action, eg at the end of an article about healthy skin, you conclude "and for me the most effective product was [affiliate link]. You can get a free trial here [aff link].

It could be they write an article with various subtle aff links interspersed, eg an article about writing a jquery widget may contain paragraphs like: "For use on high volume sites, i recommend using amazon CND [aff link] to improve speeds" then latter "For those running wordpress, all these functions and a lot more can be implemented in one click with bla blah super plugin [aff link]"
Following on from this, articles that solve a problem for the visitor in a free but complicated way, and also affiliate link through to a paid but simpler way, tend to work well.

It could also mean they write unique engaging product descriptions on their ecom site, rather than using the manufacturers stock descriptions.

It could be any combination of the above, or something completely different.

It could be they were broke, and now write articles for others and consider this to be great money.

It could be they dont make any money, but like to regurgitate what they have read elsewhere.



Most platforms will allow you to make article pages. That said, linking blogging software is pretty simple, at its easiest its just a matter of installing it in a sub-folder or sub-domain, and cross linking the menus in both platforms.

With regards to ranking, the idea would be to follow eeither step 2 or 3 above, to interlink your blog to your main money making areas.

Thank you l3msip. -_- This thought is plaguing my mind. I mean I appreciate your answers, but I'm still confused on something: Take the WF members for instance. When the people here "create great content", is it typically on standalone blogs that are focused on semi-popular/mainstream topics like, health for instance, or is it typically on niche content ideas like painting? I'm kind of asking from the viewpoint of what you've seen around here.

Also does using software like Wordpress come with a catch that you should avoid if you are fully capable of coding the blogging part yourself? Or is it entirely yours once you use Wordpress and you can pick the ads.

Thank you.