Make Money Online | Blog Tips | Seo TipsList of mistakes to avoid when choosing your blog niche
If you are blogging for fun, then you can think of blogging about anything you want. But if you are serious about making money with your blog, them you should choose your blog niche very carefully. When we chose a wrong niche for our blog, that will lead to a unsuccessful blog. Here is the list of mistakes we generally make when choosing a niche for our blog:
- Highly competitive niche: Some of highest competitive niches are credit cards, loans, insurance, mortgage, internet marketing, blogging, seo, make money, weight loss, health, computers, mobile phones, cameras etc. If you are thinking of blogging about and making money in highly competitive niches like some of niches I mentioned above, you have to remain ready for lots of competition and may have to wait for years for any big results to come in your favor. No doubt, there is lots of money you can make in these niches, but getting on top in these niches is also very difficult. So the key to success with blogging will be choosing a niche with lower amount of competition.
- Choosing a niche you don’t understand: there are some people who choose to blog about a niche they don’t understand and are not knowledgeable about that niche. No doubt, we can learn about every niche when we spend some time on it. But when you are choosing the niche for your first blog, you should go for a niche you are most knowledgeable and passionate about. When you to chose a niche of your interest, that will help in creating and promoting your website in search engines.
- Blogging about personal matters: there are some people who start blog with their names or surnames and discuss their personal matters on that blog most of the time. If you are serious about making money with your blog, I would suggest you to choose a topic on which you remain focused on most of the time on your blog like software reviews, digital cameras, Google products, Social media, blogging, seo, affiliate marketing, money making, weight loss etc.
- Covering lots of niches on the same blog: no doubt you can be knowledgeable about many niches, but don’t cover too many niches in the same blog. Stay focused on a single niche only on a blog. When we try to cover too many niches, you face the problem of how to monetize this blog because we have readers of different interests. And when we blog about a particular niche like money making only on my blog, most of readers on my blog will be interested in money making matters and thus I can monetize my blog more easily.
- Copying what others are doing: there are some people even who decide their blog niche just because of someone else is able to make some money in that niche without thinking about their interest or knowledge about that niche. You cannot b successful with a blog if you are not passionate about the niche you chosen for your blog.
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Great niche primer. It sure is easy to get caught up in what you see someone else doing in a niche or how well a site or blog is performing for them and want to copy it. I agree that you need to be passionate about what you’re going to write about.
Interesting…the same old advice keeps coming through: Write about what you love and the money will usually follow.
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Thanks for the useful tips.
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I am quite having a hard time to target specific readers because there are a lot of competition nowadays. Even if you implement those guru’s advice, you cannot easily see you site/blog on the top page of Google search. Why?
Because almost all of the webmasters and bloggers are also doing what I am doing right? If I am optimizing my site and looking for keywords, others are also doing that with the same goal in mind.
It is just a matter of how hard will you try and how long can you spend time with your blog.
Targeting specific keywords is not easy considering the number of bloggers doing the same strategies.
Pioneer has still the advantages over keyword domination.
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That’s a great list, and I would also add that choosing a niche or topic that is too narrow or specific in its focus would be a mistake as well. You need to at least have a somewhat decent base of people that would have an interest in what you’re blogging about.
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i certainly agree because bloggers just go into any niche without thinking about it.
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admin Reply:
December 10th, 2009 at 7:45 pm
Yeah that the main problem why lots of boggers actually fails with their blogs. Lots of bloggers simply start their blogs without thinking much. And by the time, they understand, they made a mistake in choosing their blog niche, that would have been too late
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Great tips! I thought choosing the high competitive niche is the best one, but as this site explained carefully, I realize it is somewhat true, no not somewhat, but absolutely true. Thanks for reminding me not to cover lots of niches in the same blog. I have it in my mind in order to gain traffic to my site. Thanks for the advice!
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