In today’s Internet Marketing Strategy, we will be going back to blogging tips: Niche Blogging. What is niche blogging? It means that you are blogging on a particular subject or topic, this is also called focused blogging. Like for example you are interested in food review, which is very general, but if you are only blogging about Indian food only, this is niche blogging.
Why would I want to do only one topic blogging instead of different topic in my blog? It will make sense that more people will be coming to my blog this way? It is because niche blogging will be bringing targeted audience to your blog, and they will most properly become your loyal readers if you have provided good and interesting content that is relevant to them.
Another reason is that, with few topics or subjects on a blog, it will confuse your readers as they did not come to read your other subject but only to the one they are interested in only. Though you will be broad in traffic, but they will not be staying long and will most properly look for blogs that will give them what they are interested in.
If you look at the top 100 blogs in Technorati, the blogs there are very niche in their subject, sometimes they are so niche that they are talking only about a particular. have a look there.
So how do I start my niche blogging?
It is best that is something that you passionate about, particularly one that can substain you for about 5 years, because you do not want to give up blogging your niche and abandoning your readers. Usually with that age in blogging in your niche will stagment, and it may be time to sell it away for a profit.
Here are some tips how you can start a niche blogging
1) Find out the related topics in your niche, because they are going to be under your categories of your blog.
2) Research on other blogs that has the same niche as you, and you might want to link up with them in the near future.
3) Go to a forum that talks about your niche, you will also want to bring traffic from there with signature and some blog posts you have posted that is related to their questions.
4) Get a book or two that talks about your niche, you will be surprise to find things you do not know about them.
5)Comment on other blog that has the same niche. Note that you have to comment intelligently, and hopefully putting a link to your post that is related to the other blog post. Read more about commenting on other blogs.
6) Be focus on your topic only!
Remember that going niche means going deep, if you are deep enough, you will be getting lots of traffic to you. Be focus on your niche only. Share with others about this post, click link below to tell others.
June 1, 2009
Often we are so tuned into steps to take in our desire to pursue our interests or niche areas. It is the tried and tested methods that we are so often encourage to adopt.
Question: How can one discern Tried and tested steps from one to the other? Can we stop living in second hand experiences but dare to go into deeper waters with ethical knowledge and practice.
