Comments on: How to Pick Your Blogging Niche http://www.onlineopportunity.org/how-to-pick-your-blogging-niche/ A Review of Ways to Make Money Online Tue, 08 Feb 2011 15:47:59 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 By: Juggling Frogs http://www.onlineopportunity.org/how-to-pick-your-blogging-niche/comment-page-1/#comment-949 Juggling Frogs Tue, 31 Jul 2007 23:25:50 +0000 http://www.onlineopportunity.org/how-to-pick-your-blogging-niche/#comment-949 I find it challenging to keep one blog up to date. I try to post something each day. The comments take almost as long to handle. Here I am, commenting like crazy on Jay's blog, when I have about a week of unanswered comments to find on my own blog. Maybe it'd be easier to keep up if it weren't for this sneaky contest! I find it challenging to keep one blog up to date. I try to post something each day. The comments take almost as long to handle.

Here I am, commenting like crazy on Jay’s blog, when I have about a week of unanswered comments to find on my own blog. Maybe it’d be easier to keep up if it weren’t for this sneaky contest!

]]> By: Gaje Master http://www.onlineopportunity.org/how-to-pick-your-blogging-niche/comment-page-1/#comment-930 Gaje Master Tue, 31 Jul 2007 17:00:41 +0000 http://www.onlineopportunity.org/how-to-pick-your-blogging-niche/#comment-930 I have way to many blogs. I try to keep up with them. A few of them have fallen into the cracks and there are only three that I actually still work on. One is for advertising with sites like sponsored review, one is for drawing readers to my other blogs, and the last one is my greatest blog yet. I put the last one together in only a few weeks. I learned a lot from having blogs. I was going to bring my other ones back to life but I make a lot of mistakes on them, like I said, I have learned a lot. It is defiantly hard to keep a lot of blogs going. I want about five that I can work on full time and not let them fall into the cracks. I guess, like Jay said, you have to be passionate about them and this is what I want to work towards. I have way to many blogs. I try to keep up with them. A few of them have fallen into the cracks and there are only three that I actually still work on. One is for advertising with sites like sponsored review, one is for drawing readers to my other blogs, and the last one is my greatest blog yet. I put the last one together in only a few weeks. I learned a lot from having blogs. I was going to bring my other ones back to life but I make a lot of mistakes on them, like I said, I have learned a lot. It is defiantly hard to keep a lot of blogs going. I want about five that I can work on full time and not let them fall into the cracks. I guess, like Jay said, you have to be passionate about them and this is what I want to work towards.

]]> By: Juggling Frogs http://www.onlineopportunity.org/how-to-pick-your-blogging-niche/comment-page-1/#comment-889 Juggling Frogs Tue, 31 Jul 2007 12:27:56 +0000 http://www.onlineopportunity.org/how-to-pick-your-blogging-niche/#comment-889 Gaje, Go for it! I'm impressed that anyone can keep up with multiple blogs. One is time consuming enough for me! Gaje,

Go for it!

I’m impressed that anyone can keep up with multiple blogs. One is time consuming enough for me!

]]> By: Jay http://www.onlineopportunity.org/how-to-pick-your-blogging-niche/comment-page-1/#comment-877 Jay Tue, 31 Jul 2007 11:26:09 +0000 http://www.onlineopportunity.org/how-to-pick-your-blogging-niche/#comment-877 Hi Rosa, that's a great niche! I keep meaning to start a blog in that niche myself, and run some Adsense ads on it. I think you'll attract enough readers to make something from it. Hi Rosa, that’s a great niche! I keep meaning to start a blog in that niche myself, and run some Adsense ads on it. I think you’ll attract enough readers to make something from it.

]]> By: Gaje Master http://www.onlineopportunity.org/how-to-pick-your-blogging-niche/comment-page-1/#comment-872 Gaje Master Tue, 31 Jul 2007 07:48:01 +0000 http://www.onlineopportunity.org/how-to-pick-your-blogging-niche/#comment-872 I think that I am going to start a new blog(inspiration from you) about parenting and children. I love this topic and have every magazine to prove it. I also figure that I could mix a few books into it to draw money. Thanks for writing this post. I think that I am going to start a new blog(inspiration from you) about parenting and children. I love this topic and have every magazine to prove it. I also figure that I could mix a few books into it to draw money. Thanks for writing this post.

]]> By: Juggling Frogs http://www.onlineopportunity.org/how-to-pick-your-blogging-niche/comment-page-1/#comment-498 Juggling Frogs Thu, 12 Jul 2007 23:04:56 +0000 http://www.onlineopportunity.org/how-to-pick-your-blogging-niche/#comment-498 I'm going to start keeping a record of any interesting search strings. Maybe it'll add up to an interesting post in, say, another eight months! I’m going to start keeping a record of any interesting search strings. Maybe it’ll add up to an interesting post in, say, another eight months!

]]> By: Jay http://www.onlineopportunity.org/how-to-pick-your-blogging-niche/comment-page-1/#comment-496 Jay Thu, 12 Jul 2007 22:50:05 +0000 http://www.onlineopportunity.org/how-to-pick-your-blogging-niche/#comment-496 [quote post="226"]So true! Maybe you’ll post some of the more interesting ones? It would be related to your niche, for sure![/quote] I'll put that on my to-do list. Most are pretty ordinary, but some are quite interesting. [quote post="226"]Others have searched for terms that I could have helped with, yet the blog post wasn’t yet written. A couple of search terms have provoked me to write on a topic I hadn’t considered.[/quote] That's one of the great benefits of having some sort of analytics on your site. You can get ideas for topics that are close enough a search engine already found you, and fill that gap. Although it's a bit like reading someone's mind as they walk into a store, to know what brought them there. I've always felt just a bit bad for the invasion, even as valuable as the information is to a webmaster. Jay wrote:

So true! Maybe you’ll post some of the more interesting ones? It would be related to your niche, for sure!

I’ll put that on my to-do list. Most are pretty ordinary, but some are quite interesting.

Jay wrote:

Others have searched for terms that I could have helped with, yet the blog post wasn’t yet written. A couple of search terms have provoked me to write on a topic I hadn’t considered.

That’s one of the great benefits of having some sort of analytics on your site. You can get ideas for topics that are close enough a search engine already found you, and fill that gap.

Although it’s a bit like reading someone’s mind as they walk into a store, to know what brought them there. I’ve always felt just a bit bad for the invasion, even as valuable as the information is to a webmaster.

]]> By: Juggling Frogs http://www.onlineopportunity.org/how-to-pick-your-blogging-niche/comment-page-1/#comment-487 Juggling Frogs Thu, 12 Jul 2007 21:05:50 +0000 http://www.onlineopportunity.org/how-to-pick-your-blogging-niche/#comment-487 [quote comment="482"] Even so, I continually an amazed by what keywords visitors use to get here.[/quote] So true! Maybe you'll post some of the more interesting ones? It would be related to your niche, for sure! On the opposite side of this, Problogger is doing a contest (he started it today) for the first person to come up with his most popular referring search term. Sometimes, I wish I could contact the people who searched for weird things that landed them on my site. I watch where they go after the search. There have been people who have searched for something that landed them on a very different page. I wish I could e-mail them and let them know the correct page was just a click or two away. Others have searched for terms that I could have helped with, yet the blog post wasn't yet written. A couple of search terms have provoked me to write on a topic I hadn't considered. You know how Ernest Hemingway, in a demonstration/defense of brevity in writing, wrote a story in six words: "For sale: baby shoes, never worn." Sometimes the search terms tell a story in a similar fashion. These can be poignant and haunting. {sigh} Jay wrote:

Even so, I continually an amazed by what keywords visitors use to get here.

So true! Maybe you’ll post some of the more interesting ones? It would be related to your niche, for sure!

On the opposite side of this, Problogger is doing a contest (he started it today) for the first person to come up with his most popular referring search term.

Sometimes, I wish I could contact the people who searched for weird things that landed them on my site. I watch where they go after the search.

There have been people who have searched for something that landed them on a very different page. I wish I could e-mail them and let them know the correct page was just a click or two away.

Others have searched for terms that I could have helped with, yet the blog post wasn’t yet written. A couple of search terms have provoked me to write on a topic I hadn’t considered.

You know how Ernest Hemingway, in a demonstration/defense of brevity in writing, wrote a story in six words: “For sale: baby shoes, never worn.” Sometimes the search terms tell a story in a similar fashion. These can be poignant and haunting. {sigh}

]]> By: Jay http://www.onlineopportunity.org/how-to-pick-your-blogging-niche/comment-page-1/#comment-482 Jay Thu, 12 Jul 2007 20:25:30 +0000 http://www.onlineopportunity.org/how-to-pick-your-blogging-niche/#comment-482 A personal blog can very well change its focus over time, and the niches grow organically based on what you like to blog about. It's less important to identify a niche ahead of time for a personal blog than it is for something like Online Opportunity, which was designed to be very focused on a specific set of topics. Even so, I continually an amazed by what keywords visitors use to get here. A personal blog can very well change its focus over time, and the niches grow organically based on what you like to blog about. It’s less important to identify a niche ahead of time for a personal blog than it is for something like Online Opportunity, which was designed to be very focused on a specific set of topics. Even so, I continually an amazed by what keywords visitors use to get here.

]]> By: Juggling Frogs http://www.onlineopportunity.org/how-to-pick-your-blogging-niche/comment-page-1/#comment-479 Juggling Frogs Thu, 12 Jul 2007 19:57:23 +0000 http://www.onlineopportunity.org/how-to-pick-your-blogging-niche/#comment-479 I'm still trying to figure what is my niche. When I started my blog, two months ago, I made a list of things I have opinions about, and about which I like to read. I thought those would be my keywords. I thought I had defined my niche. However, as the weeks passed, I've discovered that I'm blogging about other topics than I originally intended or expected. Maybe for personal bloggers, who aren't targeting a niche as the objective, the niche and keywords develop over time? I hope so. I hope that after a couple months more of generating content, I'll have better defined my identity as a blogger. I’m still trying to figure what is my niche. When I started my blog, two months ago, I made a list of things I have opinions about, and about which I like to read. I thought those would be my keywords. I thought I had defined my niche.

However, as the weeks passed, I’ve discovered that I’m blogging about other topics than I originally intended or expected.

Maybe for personal bloggers, who aren’t targeting a niche as the objective, the niche and keywords develop over time? I hope so. I hope that after a couple months more of generating content, I’ll have better defined my identity as a blogger.

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