When deciding what your blog will be about, there are a few things you can do to help. One thing to do is decide what topic, or niche as the blogosphere would call it, jusy flows through your mind daily. For example, in my case, I think about teaching all the time. It’s my job! This means I get topics for posts about every hour or even more often than that! Once a blog is setup, I don;t have to work very hard to come up with inspired and authoritative posts. Keyword being “not work very hard!”
I see a lot of blogs that attempt to be all things to all people and it’s not a mystery to me whay their rank and subscriber numbers stay low. These types usually counter with: “I don’t care who reads my blog.” Hmmm, I’ve spoken to this statement so I won’t give a rebuttal. Summary? “Get a journal and keep it under your bed then.”
Spend some time with a broader mission statement but make your goal to narrow your niche. The ideal situation is when you are writing directly from your life as you know it and people who want to hear about your subject just naturally read and the advertisers fight to get on board as that process is going on. If you are worried about limiting yourself with a niche, have a few blogs. BUT, I suggest you develop them one at a time. Has something like this ever annoyed you as much as it has me?
Someone emails you:
“Please support a starving dad” (or starving mom, soccer mom, whatever the hell else they beg with) by visiting my blogs!
HowIfeelonsaturdays.blogspot.com
dogsandwhyIhatethem.blogspot.com
unemployedandlovingitpleasedonate.blogspot.com
yadda yadda
Blog smart. Get a niche, work your personal experiences into it, and work out from that nucleus.
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Another fantastic post, Damien. Very intelligent advice!
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