Wednesday, October 17, 2007

Step 1, How to choose a topic for your blog

In the previous posts I brought up two important topics, First I mentioned "why do most blogs/bloggers fail" and then I wrote a post on "How to become a Successful blogger".

As you should have noticed by now, this blog is dedicated to people who want to be bloggers not for professional bloggers or even Medium-level bloggers, So please don't leave a comment complaining about the simplicity of my posts!

Now you should have known How to become a Successful blogger, In order to become Successful blogger you need to have a blog! First step is to pick up a subject, topic or a niche for your Blog.

Picking a profitable blog niche that is of personal interest can be a difficult process, not to mention that you’ll have to single out a niche amongst an almost infinite number of unique topics. Not all blog niches are inherently profitable because the topic you choose, often determines the future size and profitability of your blog to some extent.

It is important to pick a niche that you have genuinely interest in because the natural passion you have for the topic sustains the content creation process and will actually make the whole chore of blogging enjoyable.

So this is how I recommend you chose your topic. Make a list of 20 things you know about and like talking about. Get that list and go to the Google Adwords Keyword Tool, place each word and see how much traffic it has and how many advertisers are competing for that specific keyword, also see how many combinations are for that key word, the more combinations with advertisers the stronger that niche would be.

Narrow your list to 5 specific topics, now go to Google and search each topic, visit each of the sites that come up on the first 5 pages focus on which are blogs, these will actually be your competition, see how deep each blog is and from the whois find out age of blog, if your competition has less than 3 years and post less than once a day, this is a niche you can be successful if you do things right, like link building and marketing , you should compete well.

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1 comment:

Kelly Waters said...

Choosing a topic for your blog is all about supply and demand, as highlighted in this blog post…

http://unboggling-blogging.blogspot.com/2008/01/choosing-topic-for-your-blog_21.html