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Finding a Niche Topic For your Blog Part 1
By admin | August 11, 2008
1 FIND YOUR PASSION!
One of the first things you should ask yourself is “Am I interested in this subject?”If you are intent on building an interesting blog, it can take a good length of time and you will have to have sufficient interest in the topic to keep writing about in the long term. If you don’t have the interest or passion to believe that you can still be writing about it in 12 months time then perhaps you should think about looking for another idea? It has to be something you can sustain and something you can write about with passion. If you aren’t passionate,it will show. There is a lot of money in the football niche, but as its a topic I loathe with a passion, it probably wont be worth my getting a blog about it!
What are you passionate about? Write things down, do a bit of mindmapping,freewriting or whatever but just try and find what your interests are.This all starts with you!
2 IS IT POPULAR?
Is the topic one that others are interested in? It isnt enough to have a passion unfortunatly,others need to share it with you or you just won’t get the readership. Its fairly crucial that others want to read about the topic as well. You have to be aware that popularity changes over time,it ebbs and flows. Who would have wanted to read about something called an iphone a couple of years ago?
3 WHAT IS THE COMPETITION.IS THERE ANY?
The internet is an increasingly cluttered market. Statistics are showing a move away from traditional advertising techniques,such as tv and radio to the internet. There is a lot of big business out there, elbowing in! Avoid the falling into the trap of following what everyone else is doing.If its popular,someone has got there first! That doesnt mean looking for markets that are unpopular, its a question of balance. If you go into a really popular market,look for a fresh angle on it. Always try and be a big fish in a small pond in the words of that old cliche.
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