Start Blogging #3 - Choose a Niche
Author: Stefan Vervoort | Please Comment!Content Table
0. Welcome to the Guide
1. What is a blog
2. What pages should a blog have
3. Choose a Niche
4. Store your blog
5. Blogging software
6. Blogging Tips and Tricks
Choose your Niche
It is important to know where you actually want to write about on your blog. You need to know what you want to tell your crowd and to choose that subject of your blog isn’t the most easy part. You have to choose a so-called niche.
With choosing your niche, you have to remember you need enough content to write about. If you choose a niche that doesn’t update as many as you would like, you don’t have stuff to write about and your choice has been wrong.
You should try to keep your niche in an area you know everything about. Do not choose it too large because if you don’t do this full-time but only as a hobby, you simply don’t have the time to write about everything you wish. Keep it simple, but not too simple. To make things a bit more understandable, read the example:
Example
If you are a political blogger ready for a large audience, you could choose the political part of your local town as niche. You could also choose the world politics or the politic center of a country. Which one do you think has the greatest potential and should be do-able as a one-man-show? I think the politics on country scale is the best option here. The other choices are simply too small, or too big.
You should always make that weigh between what is do-able on your own (you don’t have a whole team ready to help you) and what has the greatest potential. If you make the right decision here, you have a long way to go, but if you choose wrong, your blogging career might not work out as you wished.
End of lesson #3
It isn’t easy to choose your niche and sometimes you have to think about it over and over again. Before you start writing, read this post again and think your niche through! See you tomorrow.
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8:21 am on August 6th, 2008
Good advice! Thinking through your niche topic and the direction you want to go before jumping into blogging will pay huge dividends in the long run. I wrote a similar post on my blog web money about choosing your niche.
http://www.illiteratepoet.com/2008/05/choosing-your-blog-niche-topic.html
6:26 pm on August 6th, 2008
Thanks. Yes you are right. But making money shouldn’t be the main goal of your blog my friend. First start to get an authority in your just chosen niche and then start thinking about it!
8:30 am on October 2nd, 2008
Theres a pretty big difference between blogging for fun and blogging for money. If you are blogging for money then you’d better sort out monetisation first or you’d have no clear direction. Blogging for fun is easy, if its fun for you it will be fun for other people. Everyone loves to read the about the little things that happen in the course of life, so if you have any hobby, skill or specialist knowldege you already have all the tools you need to be sucessful
11:04 am on October 12th, 2008
You need to ensure that your niche is research fully before you do any creations. This includes your keyword research to ensure you niche has enough traffic to make it worthwhile.
I have created a full blog post on exactly this that will compliment your blog post on finding a niche to target:
Finding a niche
regards
Steve
10:16 pm on October 15th, 2008
I think that you need to keep in mind that even though you have a niche, you also need to have proper english and writing skills, so that you can express yourself much better and attract your visitors
8:31 pm on October 23rd, 2008
Thanks for your hints. I am planning a blog based on videos in my niche, i think it will be very popular,which is content too.
11:17 am on October 24th, 2008
I have started a video blog for tutorials on marketing, and it is going on pretty well.