A Little Blog Niche Experiment

May 18th, 20078 Comments

I’ve decided to do a little experiment. A few weeks ago I bought about 9 new sites from Raj Dash over at Performancing. One of those sites is a car blog called Ride Lust (great, brandable name, btw).

The site has no page rank and only about 60 articles. It makes very little money. So why’d I buy it?

Well, for one, I didn’t want to start a new blog from scratch. But I also saw in this blog a real opportunity to grab a popular niche by the throat. I love the name of the site. And I decided that I’m going to run an experiment. I’m paying a blogger $500/month to write 5 short posts per day.

After the success of PopCrunch, I’m more convinced than ever that the key to big monetization is grab a niche by the throat and go full throttle.

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A Little Blog Niche Experiment

Tyler | May 18, 2007

Keep us updated. It will be an interesting experiment.

JD Arney | May 18, 2007

Nice idea, definitely let us know how it goes. Would be interested to know where you find a writer at that price as well.

Eric | May 21, 2007

Hi,

Looking forward to following your progress here. I would also like to know where you found your writer.

Ryan | May 31, 2007

This experiment is going full-throttle tomorrow. We’ll see where it takes us!

New design coming mid-June.

julian | June 25, 2007

I don’t think that you paid blogger $500 to post 4-5 short posts a day.

Ryan | June 26, 2007

Julian, I was clear about this but the agreement was $500 + 25% profit sharing. However, the agreement hasn’t panned out, as you can see.

Turtleman | June 27, 2007

i was going to ask where u got ur writers and or normal ppl to work for you from also..

Update On A Project I Started in May 2007 | College-Startup | August 25, 2008

[...] May of 2007 I bought the domain RideLust.com as a niche experiment. I talked about my plans for the domain here at College Startup. Things got off to a slow start, and then got even slower for a [...]

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A Little Blog Niche Experiment was written by Ryan on May 18th, 2007 at 1:38 pm and posted in Blog Networks, Blogging, Entrepreneur

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