Finding your niche 3: What if your niche changes? May 20, 2007
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I’ve been noticing something about this blog lately. Instead of talking about the blogging art, I seem to be writing a record of experiences of my time as a blogger. Slowly, the niche I carved out is giving way to a new one. Is it the same niche, only expanded? Or is it brand new?
I’m wondering. Do you notice anything? What should I stick with? Maybe just explanations of the art, or something else. Then again, I counted about 150 or so blogs similar to this one, so I should stick with my personal experienes with application.
Hard to be an innovator in the blogosphere sometimes.
Finding your niche 2: Got too many niches? May 17, 2007
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In my last post regarding niches, I wrote that to be a successful blogger, you need a specialty. Well, let’s say you got a specialty…then another specialty…and another…you get the point.
Your problem is that you have so many things you want to write about, but so little time. There are indeed a few things you can do to help yourself out.
1. Try to combine your blog niche
One thing you can attempt to try is to find a way as to how your niches combine together. For instance, though I decided to keep mine separate, you could combine a blog based on the different things you freelance: Programming, writing, resumes, etc. The advantage to this is that you don’t have to do much to update your blog. Disadvantage: Your blog gets really cluttered.
2. Multiple blogs
The advantage to this is that your blogs remain separate, so you attract separate audiences if you want them. The disadvantage to this would be that you’ve got upwards of two, three or more blogs to update on a regular basis.
3. An all-in-one blog with tagging
This attempts to combine the best of 1 and 2. Basically, you would be blogging on your one blog, and tagging each for easier reference. This is advantageous when using something like WordPress, because you could create pages on your blog dedicated solely to those tagged entries. However, it’s bad because it’s more work for your reader to look at your content. Plus, it also makes your blog look like it’s confused about where its place in the Blogosphere is.
Again, all three options have their ads and disads. If you tried one of these things, how did it go? Do you have another suggestion? Please reply!
