Apart from sparetimeblogger.com, I am running four blogs in well-defined niches. I don’t deny the fact that generating some extra income by advertising was one intention to start them. But most importantly, these blogs cover topics that I really do care about, and they offer worthwhile and original content to those interested in the niche.
olikli.de
In a way, this is my home on the internet. I have been selling collector’s stamps on eBay under the account name “olikli” for 10 years now, and it was a logical move to register the corresponding domain. It started as an old-fashioned homepage designed with Microsoft Frontpage. After having been somewhat neglected for several years, I decided to turn it into a blog earlier this year, after I had discovered that meanwhile it had silently acquired a pagerank of 3.
This site now acts as a showcase for my items offered on eBay, along with some additional content. The pagerank of 3 allows me to sell a few text links that so far earn enough to pay for my web hosting bills.
mampfologie.de
This was my first blogging attempt, a blog in German about food, drink and anything related. I started in March 2008 with longer breaks. So far, the site has acheived a pagerank of 2, earning a few Euros with text links. I have joined some affiliate programs, but revenues are still neglectible. But to be honest, I didn’t really try very hard to drive traffic to the site.
whisky-rating.com
I love whisky, that’s why I started to include whisky tasting notes on mampfologie.de. But I soon recognized that the whisky content would drown everything else on the blog. So I came up with the idea to “outsource” the whisky content into a dedicated blog. My concept was to create a place where all users could leave their whisky ratings and tasting notes to help others in making their buying decision. The site has been running for a few months now, and has no pagerank yet. Traffic is quite ok to start with (about 2000 Google Analytics pageviews per month), but user participation is not very vivid yet.
dummdummblog.de
Somewhat more than a week ago I started a new project with a German blog about all the stupid and funny things I come across in my daily life. Let’s see how this will work out.
