So, you have big dreams of running a successful blog, with mobs of adoring readers? It’s not easy, but it’s probably not as tough as you think, either. You need to be willing to spend a good amount of time identifying, understanding, and communicating with a community that has a specific interest.
And not just through your site, either. You actually have to figure out where they gather and share their thoughts and opinions on their interest. In the world of blogging, this is known as a niche. So, how do you pick a niche to write about?
You’ll get to that shortly. First, you need to plan your blog, and then you need to blog your plan. All this really means, is that you have to you need to dedicate time to writing for your blog, and then actually sit down and do it when you’re supposed to. You should dedicate 30 minutes to an hour for each session, depending on how fast you type.
So what about picking a topic?
Look to Your Self and You’ll Find a Niche
What are you interested in? What do you find yourself spending an inordinate amount of time reading about on the internet? What do you like to do in your spare time? Ask yourself these questions, and you’ll have a pretty good idea of where to start looking for a niche.
Are there any social networking groups, forums, chat rooms, or message boards that you participate on? If so, you can easily find out what other people interested in your niche are wondering about. What kinds of questions pop up on a regular basis? These are great topics for “newbies” just getting into it, and can form the basis of at least half of your content.
What do your more advanced peers want to learn within this subject? That will give you even more ideas about what you can share on your blog. But, are you absolutely certain that anyone is going to read it?
Is Your Niche Viable?
If you’re going to dedicate a substantial amount of your time to creating content for your blog, then you need to make sure that there is a substantial number of readers available. If your hobby doesn’t have any chat rooms, forums, or social groups where you can gather with others who are interested in it, this might be a bad sign.
It doesn’t mean all hope is lost for this niche, though. You can use your favorite search engine to see if people are looking up this topic. After all, there are several embarrassing problems that could make up viable blog topics. There might not be too many forums for things like dealing with chronic yeast infections, but there definitely are a bunch of people who have a personal interest in reading that sort of thing.
How do you know? Look it up on Google – try searching for “how do I get rid of a yeast infection?” How many results do you see? Notice that Yahoo! answers item in the results? Hop on the Google keyword research tool to do even more specific research.
Take your time figuring out if your niche is viable. The more narrow and specific it is, the more likely it is that you can build a blog that gains some traction and can lead to the kind of success you’re looking for. If you rush it, there’s a really great chance that you’ll end up wasting a lot of time.
But what if you don’t have any hobbies or subjects in which you feel you’re qualified enough to write? Don’t worry about that – you can become an expert in any topic you want in a matter of days. In the next part in this series, you’ll find out exactly how.
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Enjoy your passion. thanks for sharing,, If you rush it, there’s a really great chance that you’ll end up wasting a lot of time.
Very informative post, a must-read for any newbie bloggers. Looking forward to more tips on part 2 :)
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Great post, it´s very interesting information! :D , it´s ridiculous add more words for I can pubblish a comment in this blog, seriously ;)
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appreciate your writing bro, i will definitely follow these…..
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To my mind,preresearch and planning can play the most important role in getting success, especially if it concerns blogging. We should write down goals and results that we’d like to achieve by the end of the year and think off the plan of their realization.
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yeah bro nicely written thnks for the best tips :) keep sharing good things!!!
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well written man nice tips i will try it thnks a lot for a good share….. :)
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What do your more advanced peers want to learn within this subject?
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Kevin, I’m looking forward to the next part in this series.
Glad to see you mention about whether the niche is viable or not. This is a mistake that a lot of people make; sometimes a niche is just “too niche”.
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I totally agree with the author. Before planning to start a blog we must be ready with our niche to post on. It takes some time to research and decide the perfect niche.
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i really agree with you, thanks a lot, i will start to practice these steps
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Hi Kevin,
It’s really essential to choose right niche for your blog, only then you can put your best effort. Plus you need to find places where you can get news related to your niche that you can show on your blog and build your trust.
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Thanks for the advice Kevin..The take-away here is prioritizing in advance, my missing piece…Starting today will put all my top priorities in descending order of importance on my to do list. Need to read part 2 and 3.
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Every Bloggers want to have a successful blogging which people can access your your blog directly in search engines. You have to make sure that everything is right, you are the controller of posts. So, you need to have a comprehensive plan. Planning is very important.
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I’ve read the article, absolutely finding a unique niche is one of the most important things on blogging
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These tips might look straightforward but it wasn´t that clear to me when I started blogging. For almost 2 years I was writing about niche that has best earning potential but there was crazy competition too. Off course I didn´t turn those blogs to succesful websites. Now I write about things I love and about things I know and after few months it starts to pay off. My traffic is slowly increasing and so is my income :)
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Blogging is just like any other niche. We need to plan everything form the very beginning and choose a nice we feel comfortable about and have a great expertise.
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HI
I have been here for the first time.
I strongly believe that identifying your niche is really important for blogging, before that Passion comes into picture. If one is passionate about something for which Segmentation is not possible. hardly matters. Enjoy your passion.
Thanks for sharing this
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ake your time figuring out if your niche is viable. The more narrow and specific it is, the more likely it is that you can build a blog that gains some traction and can lead to the kind of success you’re looking for. If you rush it, there’s a really great chance that you’ll end up wasting a lot of time.
Yeah, really agree with #1. If we wanted to have passion in blogging we have to find topic that related with us.
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