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Finding a Niche Topic For Your Blog Part 2
By admin | August 12, 2008
Yesterday,you may have started to think about blogging, how to find a niche, where to start looking and what to look for.
1 COMPETITION
It can be healthy to have competition. It shows that there is a market there. Too much competition can make your task an uphill battle, too little and you won’t have any readership! However some of the most profitable niches are built around those topics that have little or no competition if its a topic that interests enough people. Have a look at what the competition isn’t doing. Look for the gaps. Research and try and find a sub niche within a niche.
2 CONTENT
This goes back to your passion.Have you enough to keep writing and finding content? Is there enough in you? Do you know where to find other sources if you find yourself drying up? Content is king and in order to have a successful blog, you have to be prepared to write on what you know and research what you don’t. Keep in touch with the world out there and subbscribe to newsletters,forums and link to other blogs for your content. Keep an eye on the google world as well by looking at Google news amongst others. If you can write on “whats hot” you have a better chance of getting new readers and interesting the old ones!
3 CAN YOU MAKE MONEY?
This might not be your motivation in starting a blog. If it isn’t then thats fine. Many bloggers are writing just for the passion of writing about what they love and have no interest in making any money from it but if you are thinking of starting a blog and monetizing it,you have to think about where it may make some money for you. If it is a motivation in starting a blog, consider whether it is a topic that has any earning potential. Will you be thinking of getting adsense onto your blog,what affiliate programmes are there in the niche? What about looking at Amazon.com. There are a lot of ways of monetising your blog.
4 CHOOSE YOUR WEAPON
If you are really interested in starting to blog, get on and choose a topic. Dont spend months thinking about it, take action. Its unlikely that you will find the perfect answer. In reality there will be weaknesses in any approach, but if you don’t get on with it make a decision and start blogging, you probably never will. Accept the inevitable, nothing is perfect. The only true answer is to get on with it, be aware of the weaknesses and work to avoid them or use them to your advantage if you can’t. It is only by starting this process, that you can learn to “tweak” and learn to grow.
Till next time.
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