Tutorial browse: First part, Second part

I am going to start a session of tutorials, to explain how you can get informed and how you can create a blog for specific niches, some blogging tips which have helped me. I am doing this because I have a few blogs in different niches and I want to share with you my experience. You’ll see that it is simple, the only thing you need is time and patience, because the results appear after a few months of blogging, four or five months to be more exactly.

In this first part I will show you some tips and tricks for the celebrity/gossip niche. Why this niche? Because it’s fairly simple to write articles about stars, where they go, where they eat and so on. On the other hand there is a lot of information on the internet about gossip that makes this niche important and easy to generate traffic and money.

What should you know about the celebrity niche?

The most important thing you should know when you are in this niche, is that pictures (especially) and videos have an important role in the equation, the content is on the second plan. Why? Because it’s a little hard to get with content on the first page in google for certain keywords. Google images is much more important for this type of blogs, because with a lot of pictures which have a great name and description it’s easy to get on the first page. I’ll explain this method to get traffic later on in this article.
So how should you start a celebrity blog?

The domain name – branding is good!

A lot of SEO gurus would say that including keywords such as celebrity, gossip, stars in the domain name is the best solution. They are right, but not for this niche! If you research a bit you’ll see that:

• 1. Almost all domains which containing those keywords are bought and used.
• 2. I don’t think it is a good idea to buy such a domain, because the keywords are ultra used and from what I’ve seen such domain names influence your pagerank, meaning that you will not pass pagerank 3 or 4. It’s just an opinion!
• 3. Brandable domain names containing such keywords are gone.

You should buy a domain name that doesn’t have any relationship with the celebrity/gossip niche because it will be much easier to remember and create a brand of your own. Here are two examples of domain names that don’t use specific keywords: thesuperficial.com and idontlikeyouinthatway.com.

Design for your blog!

I am going to talk only about wordpress themes because you should use a paid hosting plan with the best blogging platform installed – wordpress. In this niche, your blog’s design is not so important, many of the famous celebrity blogs lack of design. In my opinion you should use a simple wp theme, with three columns and then mode it yourself, especially the header. You should add some shiny things like stars and an illustration depending on your domain name and of course, don’t forget the logo!

Also here are a few wordpress themes you should take in consideration (I am thinking to design one myself soon):

Simple Theme This is a simple wordpress theme, made by me, which is very simple to mode, widgets ready with some good ad positioning.

Elixir wp theme – For those who like colors – it is simple and nice. Also pink color is very good celebrity, gossip blogs.

GossipCity – The name says it all – it has all you need to start blogging about celebs and gossip

This is the first part of the tutorial “Creating a celebrity/gossip blog”. In the next part I’ll show you the best solution on how to stay informed, how to write an article based on pictures, promoting pictures to recive traffic, CPC vs CPM and a few more things in part three. Stay tuned!

Tutorial browse: First part, Second part

Dear Santa,

I am a little boy and I think you already know this. The thing is that this is my first year on the internet and I started to do some interesting stuff, maybe you know what a blog or blogging is. If not you should google for it, of course if you have a computer and you know how to use it! I’ll get straight to the point, maybe you can understand me after all: blogging every day is hard, I destroyed my brain searching for information and learning every day from ebooks and other pwnage bloggers. This means that I am a studios boy and after all I behaved well all the year, because my social life is kinda over and I didn’t have with who to argue or fight! Now because I was a good boy all the year I want you to bring some gifts. Here is a list of the things that I want to have under my Christmas tree on 25 December (If not don’t even bother to fit your big fat as down my chimney because I KILL YOU):

• A laptop! This is an essential tool for blogging. Why? Because I want to do some live blogging when I get out of my room and then go to the bathroom! It’s the place where I get the most inspiration and I don’t know why. You should try it to some day!
• Because I know you will bring me a laptop, you should consider buying me a dedicated server as well, because my passion for blogging (I will create a lot of quality content from my bathroom) will result in huge amounts of traffic and I don’t want downtimes.
• A copy of the book “Blogging for dummies”. This isn’t for me because I know how to blog. I need to scan it and then spread it on the internet, maybe some of the n00bs will learn how to blog. By the way Santa, in your way to my house you can read it to. Maybe in the near future you will buy the domain santaclaus.com (if it’s not too expensive) and start blogging about how I introduced you to this world (a link to my blog in your blogroll is a must).
• And my last wish is a Sanyo Xacti CG7 or 8, not 6 like John Chow because I want my video blogging to be ubersmooth. It’s not so expensive I think! I want the best just don’t bring me the same video camera as his!

I am waiting for you Santa! I just hope the rumor that you are my father isn’t true because I don’t know what …. Ah I know what I’ll do!! The domain NOMORESANTACLAUS.COM is free, I’ll buy it and do some smart advertising for children between 6-12 years old and you are history. Blame it on my father !!!

Sincerly Cosmin!