Blogging Tips 8: Niche Blogging
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.
Blogging Advice For Part Timer Bloggers With Full Time Job
I am a full time marketer, and you can say that I am a full time blogger as well. I did not start out as a full time blogger, I started as a part time blogger, and my first website was a blog too.
I will share with you how you can still continue working on your full time job, yet still producing good quality and great blogging post. The key here is not quantity but quality. It is quality that you will grow your blog into a traffic generating machine.
In my previous post on blogging frequently, that if you are a full time blogger then you should do so. Normally a full time blogger will post once daily or twice for some, it is only if you have something good to share then you can blog, if you have nothing in your mind then you need not do any new posting.
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Blogging Tips No 7: Customized Your Blog Theme
For every new bloggers out there, they will tend to use a free theme for their blog, I did that when I first started. Of course there are cons in using the free wordpress themes, but today I will share more on why you should use a customized one rather than a free one.
Customized blog theme looks unique from the other blog themes, because it is the one and only (unless your blog theme designer was not ethical) in the world. You see that everyone is unique in their looks and character, so your blog should also look unique and have it’s own character. Your blog should reflect your personalities, and your blog readers will relate to you more. You will have to communicate with your blog designer and tell him/her what is it you are like and the niche you are in as well.
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Blogging Tips 6: Using Plugins To Optimize Your Blog
Part 6 of the blogging tips series will be touching on using Wordpress plugins to optimize your blog. As blogging is a Search Engine Optimization strategy, you must use it to strengthen the area, as WordPress blogs are not fully SEOed, so plugins must be used to improve on that. Most of the time the traffic will come from the organic search for your blog, that is why you need to have a structured plan to reach your targeted readers.
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Things to Think About for New Bloggers
When someone makes the decision to begin blogging, the most important thing is the commitment to take the plunge. It’s easy to make the first small steps, but many will not follow through. They may find it’s not as easy as they thought to come up with content, or they may be intimidated by the number of people and amount of information that’s already out there.
The only way to know if this is really what you want to do is to give it an honest attempt. You may find that it’s simply not your “cup of tea”. But like anything in life, if you don’t give yourself a chance, you’ll never have the opportunity to succeed.
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Blogging Tips No 5: Use Actual Search Term As Blog Post Title
Do you sometimes not knowing what to blog about? No idea what to write? I was there before and will go there again. I have found a solution to write the content and also good build up long tail keywords for search engine optimization. It is to use the actual search term as the blog title.
Why would I want to do that?
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Blogging Tips 4: What Do You Do After Posting?
Normal bloggers will usually do what they like to do after they have post, like ‘Counter Strike’, PSP, eat, drink beer, sleep, etc… Things that will not get traffic to your blog. So what should you do after you finish posting a post? Below are some of what I think you should do after posting, if you seriously want to succeed in this Internet Marketing world.
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Blogging Tips No 3: Commenting On Other Blogs
Why Commenting On Other Blogs?
A lot of people were wondering how on earth did bloggers get over 2,000 incoming links within like 2 months, commenting on other blogs will do the trick.
By commenting on other blogs (that allows you to link to your website URL), will be able to generate that much links in two months. But what they do not know that Google will be able to track their incoming links from. Here are some factors that Google is looking at, when you are commenting on other blogs:
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Blogging Tips No 2: Blog Frequently
There is like a new blog created every second reported by BBC News, just as I was typing this post, thousands of new blogs would have been created then. Why is blogging so popular now? The main reason is that the internet was build to give information to the world, in the past and currently the normal static websites are not able to keep up with new updates to meet that need. So someone used blog to fashion that need instead.
Blog is initially used to keep personal journal online, and to tell the world about your life (sort of like Jim Carrey’s moive “The Truman Show”, but with their consent). It has reached a new level of giving information to the world. Here are the reasons why blogging is in the rise in popularity:
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Blogging Tips No 1: On-Page Optimization
What You Need To Know About On-Page Optimization For Your Blog
A blog is actually Search Engine Optimization in disguise, so the basic SEO principles applies in blogging as well. In order to drive targeted traffic to your blog, first you must be able to do a full on-page optimization for a single blog post first then focus on off page optimization. The on-page optimization is 25% of the traffic generation, 75% will be off-page. Let’s move on to the real thing.
Before we start, I will assume that you are using personal WordPress.org (self hosted blog) and not WordPress.com. As WordPress.com is unable to do a full on-page optimization. You have to install this plungin called “All In One SEO Pack” by Micheal Torbert. This is one of the essential of using WordPress.org to do on-page optimization.
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