Comments on: Should Blogs Focus on a Particular Niche?

By: talius

talius — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 21:20:00 +0000

I've seen most blogs focusing on a few topics but not being too diverse. At the same time, some people like to engage in random rambling and these can be great if your consumers are allowed to comment on just anything. After all that is why twitter is successful. I think though for business relationships, sticking to one topic will allow better targeting of specific users.

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By: simon

simon — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 04:17:33 +0000

all blogs who what success must find a niche, unless u want be one of the many

By: Maria

Maria — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 01:39:16 +0000

My blog isn’t focused at all. I have too many interests and decided a while back that I simply didn’t want to have multiple blogs.

My compromise is this: I offer separate category feeds with easy to find links for subscribing. So if someone is interested in what I have to say about Macintosh computing, for example, he can subscribe to just that category. Ditto for blogging and flying and writing and — well, you get the idea.

I don’t blog for a living — and don’t ever expect to reach that level — but I do earn enough from blogging (primarily via AdSense) to cover all my monthly hosting fees. That’s okay with me.

By: ken

ken — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 13:53:09 +0000

i don’t quite agree since different people got different way of doing things. i’m a bit more like you when reading blog, i will go to the “niche” blog to read. but I know a lot of my friends just go to certain blog because they like that person, and wonder what he do next in “whatever” things.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 13:41:09 +0000

People forget that a niche doesn’t just refer to a specific subject (like personal finance or SEO), but also specific demographics as well. So, let’s say you are a white suburbia stay-at-home mom in her early 20s that blogs about her life as a stay-at-home mom: I don’t think your niche is homemaking necessarily, but rather your niche includes other women that share most, if not all, of the same demographics. So, I guess what I am saying is that if your niche isn’t a subject, in my opinion it should be aimed at a very specific demographic.

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By: terra

terra — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 02:03:31 +0000

I have seen SO many bloggers out there that have no real reason for their blog other than to talk about their lives, kids, husbands, jobs, etc. I don’t really think that really counts as a niche either. Some of these blogs are very entertaining, and even hilarious, but I feel that if I am going to spend the time reading something… I’d rather it be something that I can take information from to better myself and grow in whatever niche it is that I am reading about.

By: Joshua Dorkin

Joshua Dorkin — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 14:10:45 +0000

Ben – I’m with you! I actually do think that you can be a niche yourself. Where it breaks down is when people try to create a video game blog and start writing about tv shows and the like.

I’m actually fairly surprised that there is so much disagreement on this topic. It’s very interesting.

By: Ben Barden

Ben Barden — Sun, 10 Jun 2007 10:57:05 +0000

I write about many different things with one thing in common: Me! People who read my blog are interested in who I am and what I do.

Even if you don’t write about yourself, a blog written by one author (rather than a group) may be thought of as “Author’s blog about XYZ” by the visitors.

So I think the niche is the author. You just need to get your name out there.

By: LennyP

LennyP — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 09:31:34 +0000

A blog does not need a niche to be well monetized. A niche just makes it a lot easier to market and rank. Some writers have the ability to be entertaining no matter what subject they tackle. If you are able to appeal to a wide audiance you can still be very succesful with out a niche. Honestly, most people are not that entertaining and would be better suited to being an expert on one subject.

By: Jonathan-C. Phillips

Jonathan-C. Phillips — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 06:28:02 +0000

Hey Josh, well although I can relate to your post, I feel a little like Anthony, but I can see both your points,

After reading your post I went to my own blog and started analysing the topics and content, and I guess people come to my blog because “I” write the posts, and there’s usually that same “vibe” from post to post, so people kinda know what to expect from my blog, even though it’s SmartWealthyRich, i’m not focusing only on “making money” and not only on “self-improvement”, I guess you could say my blog is about entrepreneurship (I like the sound of that anyway), it’s up to my readers to tell me if they like, and I guess they do, cause my feed reader count keeps on increasing every day, and more and more blogs are linking to me, thought I could be more focused that’s fore sure, but it’s all about the conversations and the interactivity between the blog owner and the readers

my 2 cents