Wednesday, July 18, 2007

Bloggers Common Questions #3 - What Subject Should My Blog Be About?

Another very common inquiry for people considering blogging for money online, is what should I blog about?

Now the reply to this inquiry is not a consecutive expression nor makes the blogging community in general all hold on the factors that impact how you make up one's mind on what topic to blog about.

There is a school of idea that states that you should only blog about things that you cognize about or are interested in. The principle behind this is that if you desire to offer valuable content to your visitors, then knowing something about the topic assists as visitants can very quickly descry a blog that have articles with small or no value. Unfortunately in this twenty-four hours and age where information is so readily available, you make not often acquire a 2nd opportunity with a visitant who might see your land site hoping to happen out about subject ten only to happen stations that make not really dwell up to what they are looking for. The visitant will very quickly chink away from your land site and its somes very high chance that they will not come up back.

If you are do not cognize a great trade about the topic substance but you are interested in it, then the school of idea states that this is good because you're natural wonder and involvement will actuate you to research the subject, and then you will be able to compose about it.

To this small blogger, both of these points make make sense. In my very early years of blogging I decided to blog about a topic that I knew was paying well in Google Adsense chinks and had great affiliate programs, but one that I knew very small about, and the topic was in fact quite dry and of small involvement to me. My thought was that Idaho be motivated by the fact that I could monetize the land sites well and when the money came in, then I would be interested in it! Well, to be honest, I still believe that this would have got been true, the job was that because I knew small about the topic and had small involvement in it, my cognition of the topic didn't travel base on balls a shallow level. Thus the content that I was offering on my blog were not of great value to visitants of the sites. I wrote one or two good articles, and the remainder were articles that were downloaded from article sites. So the issue was that even when I got visitants to come up to the blog, none of them would remain very long as there was no existent value for them and this, of course, meant that the blog was not monetizing well.

However, having said all of this, I make not believe that this uses all the time. In fact, one of import thing to see is whether or not the things you cognize about and are interested in are actually niche topics or whether there is a immense amount of competition within those subjects. Its not that you cannot monetize well from topics that have got immense competition, its that its often harder and may take a batch more clip than topics where there is a niche marketplace and not a batch of competition.

In this case, its often suggested to believe of topics that you might not cognize much about or may not be that interested in. If you see the blog as an income generating business, then you should be motivated to do it work despite the fact that you may not cognize a great trade about the topic nor have got that much involvement in it. If you did your keyword research and establish a great niche that people were searching for and not a great trade of competition out there and that you believe you can monetize well, then I believe this should reply your inquiry as to what to blog about.

So, unfortunately there isn't a clear cut expression that volition give you the reply to this question. There are respective considerations to take into account. You should make your research on the keywords, make up one's mind whether you desire to prosecute a topics that have got a batch of competition or whether they are in fact niche subjects. You should make up one's mind whether you can larn about the topic to a degree where you are providing value to your visitants - this would be easier of course of study if there isn't a great trade of competition on the subject.

At the end of the day, whats of import is to see what your targeted visitant desires to read about. If you can supply them value they will see your blog and opportunities are they will revisit it, subscribe to your newsletter, urge your blog to others, chink on your Adsense golf course and purchase your affiliate selling products, which is what you want.

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