Have I chosen a wrong niche...?

Thanks for the tips guys.

What do you think about books? That would include reviews, previews, analysis and comparisons. I don't know any famous book review website, so for starters that seems fine. Anything to consider beside that?

Goodreads claims 14million signups. Thats about all the people on the planet who could finish a book and discuss it, dont you think? :-)
 
I own a blog about celebrities (mostly actors) originally started just for SEO purposes which suddenly took off on its own and is now doing slightly short of 500k pageviews per month. The good thing about the "entertainment" niche seems to be that you can get a lot of traffic. The bad thing is that I haven't found any way of monetizing on the traffic yet. I make "fuck all" from 500k a month traffic. I guess I could probably make around $500 from Adsense but I have been playing around with movie links through Amazon affiliate which has two problems: 1. low conversion rate and 2. low prices = low commission.

500k/month visitors in the right niche will make you shitloads. In this niche it hardly covers the server costs. But as I said, traffic seemed easy to drive. I get 95% from search engines without having done any real SEO at all.

Anyway, if you want, drop me a PM and I'll add a link to your site if you happen to have any movies by actors mentioned on my site.

If you know about IM very well and pulling such traffic, you should not only rely on affiliate links to monetize your site. Unfortunately that is the mistake a lot of people makes. Let me give you a little hint on how to make money with your site: Apply to media networks for movie related banner placement on your site. You will be pulling some bucks every day if your site pass their evaluation. Good luck
 
It's down to the old saying
Do what you love... the money / success will follow

If you love movies and enjoy reviewing them, keep doing it. Add affiliate links like Amazon to the movie review you are doing.
Do actor profiles, add links to their movies.

Submit your reviews to local papers - esp small newspapers - with your website links so they can see your quality. Maybe they will start publishing your reviews.
As your site gains rep advertisers will be happy to sign on to promote their project

Find any local, regional actors, up and comers - interview them, publish the interview. They will help promote your site. Any local movie theaters? Same idea

Get creative
Create a brand - yourself, and set up twitter, facebook pages and join the communities there and you will gain followers and rep.

Do what you love doing
 
youll always be better at doing something you love rather than doing something you think will see success. stick with what you enjoy because if you were to move into a different niche that means new research and a constant battle with urself to stay motivated. these hurdles and these obstacles u come across are nothing new, the experts have seen them and they have had doubts too.

most people fail because they came across an obstacle and decided not to push through it, jump over it or find a way around and so they thought they were defeated. you only lose when you quit.
 
I try to build blogs that solve problems for people or make something they are trying to do more convenient. I can KIND OF see that with a movie review site, but normally I would just check the star rating at IMDB.
 
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