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Are y'all getting ready for the guide to capitalize on this modern blogging goldmine? Coz I'm so excited! This is an exceptional opportunity for all involved.

Where others get it wrong & give up?
In as much the niche plays a crucial role in molding your blog for success, what matters more is the content in niche. For instance, the entertainment niches are good but posting contents like "Tonto Dike insults VeryDarkMan again" will not fetch you any reasonable funds. In fact, it's a recipe for disaster! Gossip blogging may have worked for Linda those days (it's failing woefully now) but it's certainly not a valuable concept to embark on. Unfortunately, this is the path most Nigerian bloggers take and that's why they fail & crash out quick.

From my experience coupled with the recent blog experiment, it's rather apparent that the first mistake bloggers make is in the domain name. In fact, everything is tied to the domain. In blogging, traffic is everything. And traffic can only happen organically if the domain is in order.

But then again, traffic only matters if it's the right audience.
Some give up cause they only get low grade traffic that earns very little Ad revenue and they couldn't monetize their blog any other way. These errors are that of quality bloggers cause the majority don't even choose the right niche nor publish any good content to warrant any earnings. The contents themselves ought to be well-structured and optimized for search engines using quality keywords. Thankfully, we have automated all these now in our blogging platform.

Actually, issues preventing the success of a blog could be numerous. Even something as little as page speed (loading time) will kill your ranking and hamper earnings. And a lot (hosting, content size, plugins etc) could affect your speed. Hence, you have to ensure you choose the right blogging platform that's very optimized for the niche audience.

Luckily, with our guide, you won't be making any of these mistakes!

Let me also share this recent blogging journey of a Nairalander I just across here; absolutely unaffiliated. See result: https://www.nairaland.com/7655871/blogging-still-works-2023-see/3
And this was a new singular blog without the benefits of a blog network nor the faster scaling rate of an expired ranked domain!

Is blogging still a good way to earn good dollars online?
To better summarize this point, let me quote my associate Pamela96

So, I've done tons of gigs/businesses online the past decade including blogging.
I once ran a quality standalone blog briefly years ago but arbitrage earnings and the ton of work blogs demanded (these have all be automated) made me abandon the blog. But soon after, arbitrage got scrapped and I was too busy doing many other online hustles that I didn't consider blogging again until last year when I was building a startup and thought it necessary to have a blog for it as a form of content marketing.

This blog, though dedicated to promoting the startup offerings, scaled up so quick generating good sales for the business that I was even surprised. Then I separated it from the startup and soon after (Feb 2024), I got a reasonable $6,000 buy offer and I sold it off because I wanted to concentrate on my new venture. Sadly, the new owner scrapped it for parts.

I'm not saying every blogger would have that instant success cause I was already experienced in it, plus I used the right tools, knew my way around SEO and most importantly, I registered an old dotcom domain that already had good authority, backlinks and ranking. It's worth noting that I have a tech guy & a content guy. And the platform we used was custom-built.

All these are some of the key edge that fast-tracked that brief blogging journey, I observed. So, I decided to run an experiment with my guys. They launched a new blog on a new dotTop domain that had no prior authority. Yes, this took longer to make headway for many reasons as evident above (also because I wasn't particularly marketing it) but was still fast compared to those days. We applied the same procedures except that the domain was new and it is dotTop. It basically took 10 days & $13 to create this and it started making $37 after two months. Here's the blog: https://www.proes.top and it's available for new ownership if you want it.

The verdict is very apparent at this point. As evident above, the experiment proved that blogging is, in fact, a cashcow when done right!

Hello guys! Haven been a guest of this forum and gained insights from certain contents here, I now fell obligated to contribute my own quarter and this thread will address this.

Within the next couple of days, I will briefly highlight why a blog network is a money monster and help guide as many of you as possible in tapping from this goldmine while the opportunity still rocks.

At first, a blog network is a series of various blogs mostly operated by different authors but all nicely connected together in such a way that each blog is an entire different site but gains free residual traffic from others on the network thereby catapulting earnings exponentially at no extra effort of the bloggers. Other benefits of these include free backlinks which in turn boosts your SEO (domain rank and overage organic visibility) very quickly.

Side Note:
With the advance of AI, I have learned to automate most of my blogging tasks in such a way that the blog platform itself does more than half the job for me and I can quickly source contents for auto publication too. In fact, you can setup it up within hours and leave it to run on autopilot... constantly generating revenue.

=> Next I will talk about why blogging still works when it comes to earning good bucks in dollars.
=> How to blog on autopilot using the right platform to quickly source contents, monetization etc.
=> Then, I will highlight the major mistakes most failed bloggers did and how to avoid them.
=> And finally, I will guide you on how to get started in capitalizing on this to the maximum.