As I said in one of my previous posts, if someone has more than one blog it is important for them to identify a niche for each of the blogs. Otherwise it is easy to become confused as to what one is going to post on the different blogs.
Once confusion sets in, many other problems follow.
Identifying a niche is also helpful as it gives you a rough outline around which you can develop your post. There are certain things that you write about, and then there are others that you don’t. Once you have that defined, coming up with the posts becomes a little less difficult.
A niche is good for the readers too because they know what to expect when they come to your blog. If it is something that is of interest to them, they would like to subscribe to your blog or bookmark it. If not, they will move on.
This blog has been in existence for almost an year now, but till now I have not been able to decide a niche for it, but I think that is a thing of the past. Because, now, I have decided that it will be possible to continue this blog only if a niche is defined for it. And I have defined it…
What it is, is something that you will have to figure out for yourself in the days to come. I am sure it will not be hard to figure it out!
Funny. My blog has no niche but it does pretty well, though it doesn’t have as much subscribers as it should.
I know the whole myth on the niche and I used to obsess over this, trying to figure out about my market and what appeals to people. Through this, I learned that what I should do is just write on any thing and see what I feel is best, less on what is marketable. I just wrote what I felt was the best post to write about, even if it didn’t seem to fit the theme of my blog. Granted, I set out my blog as more of a writing experiment and it evolved to what it was. But just keep at it and you will find out what to write, but don’t be fooled by the whole niche thing.
The best advice I have seen for finding a niche is in James Brausch’s infoproduct creation product. Go where you hang out, read what you read, Who are those other folks you meet there? What to do they talk about? What do they need or want?
That’s your niche. Now to work on getting traffic to that niche? As Roberto says, write on what you feel is best, and they will come.
Leon: I am sure you that soon you will have as many subscribers as you want!
Roberto: I agree with what you say, but I still feel that in some ways, identifying a niche can definitely be a great help to a blog and the blogger.
But, “just keeping at it” is the best thing a blogger can hope to do.
Charlotte: That does sound like great advice!