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Originally Posted by kuraykillua
I don't quite understand how that will bring in sales...
I used to use a personal blog, and blogged everyday continuously for about two and a half years. My readers were 99%, my friends. Average 1.5 page views per post.
I've had other blogs, and I ran into similar problems (nobody reads it). Even when I submitted to blog directories, which appears to make no difference. I've had keyword rich content I wrote myself, and I don't think it ever shown up in search engines.
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Hi kuraykillua
I'm not sure exactly what you're asking here but I'll respond as best I can with regard to your blogging efforts.
If your niche is really obscure, there is a possibility that there just isn't much of an audience it's true, but by the same token there should also be little in the way of competition. Having said that, your results do sound rather poor from your blog, which shouldn't be the case.
I don't know if you were using a free blogging platform or were hosting your own but there are several things to bear in mind when trying to drive more traffic to your blog.
Make sure that you do everything in your power to make your blog SE friendly. This includes SE friendly URL's for all your posts, use relevant keywords in all post titles, be sure to ping all the major blog and rss sites every time you update your blog, submit some of your posts to the social bookmarking sites, use relevant 'tags' so that people can find your posts. Do make sure to claim your blogs at Technorati, subscribe to your own feeds through the big names such as Google, Yahoo and MSN to ensure that they will spider and update your postings.
Use free keyword tools to give you an idea just how many searches take place for the subject you are writing about and tailor your posts to get the best results. i.e. if your writing about "blue square widgets" and there are 500 searches a day for that term but 5000 a day for "specialist blue square widgets" work the term into your writing that is likely to bring you the most visitors, as long as they are relevant to the content naturally.
Whatever blogging software you use there are plenty of sites dedicated to helping you get your blog set up to be as SE friendly as possible - Wordpress has countless plugins to ensure that you are making your pages and posts as attractive to the spiders and robots as possible, as do Nucleus CMS - I use both platforms with reasonable success in terms of traffic generation and it doesn't take long to start getting visitors.
You can continuously tweak your blog to improve your results. Sometimes, just choosing a hot topic and writing a post about it can bring you thousands of visitors almost overnight. The first time I ever did this was pure luck, but it made me realize that if you can get a good post in early about something that is likely to generate a lot of interest/controversy/argument and choose the right keyphrases it can often go on bringing you visitors for weeks or months ahead.
Read up on the blogging forums here and seek out other sites where bloggers talk about SEO and the like, there is no shortage of them.
Affiliate links may not bring you more traffic (they can do but this is dependent on a huge number of factors) but the internet is a numbers game - the more people who land on your pages, the greater the chances of them clicking on relevant ads, be they PPC or affiliate links. If you don't have any such links, well............So, in short, there is no guarantee of sales, but much you can do to move the odds a little more in your favor.
I hope this helps a little and points you in the right direction.
Mo - TCH
could be worth blogging about LOL!
Plus another hug! 
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