If you could pick a niche to blog within based purely on the advantages and characteristics within that niche, which would you pick? This article looks at some of the advantages and disadvantages of different blogging niches.
Blogging about Blogging - aka Blogging Tips
Advantages: There are plenty of blogs about blogging out there, so there will be no shortage of other blogs to link to in your posts. It is a constantly evolving niche so there’s always new stuff to write about. Every blogger is potentially your audience because they use what you write about.
Disadvantages: There are plenty of blogs about blogging out there, so it will be difficult to stand out.
Blogging about “Make Money Online”
Advantages: You can be completely soulless and do anything on your blog for money. Paid reviews or copious amounts of ads are not a problem here, because after all, your blog is all about making money, and the more money you make the more visitors you get. There’s also no need to think about linking strategy, just try to think of as many ways as you can to get others to link to your site using the anchor text “Make money Online”
Disadvantages: There are lots of blogs out there about making money online, as it turns out there are millions of people around the world who hate their jobs and want to quit and work from home. However, if you have any aspirations of getting Google hits, John Chow has the search term “make money online” well and truly sorted. Also with all the John Chow copy cat blogs, every man and his dog has placed a claim on the anchor text “make money online”, so you will find it hard getting a good rank on Google SERP’s (Search Engine Result Pages).
Blogging about Gadgets
Advantages: There is no shortage of affiliate schemes to push products onto your readers should you become successful and want to make money.
Disadvantages: Once again, this is a well established niche with plenty of high authority blogs. It’s going to be hard work making a mark on this niche.
Blogging about your life
Advantages: There is always new content to add to your blog, like what you are doing tomorrow, or what you did yesterday. It could be a good way to keep friends up with what is happening in your life and to avoid using evil sites like Myspace and Bebo.
Disadvantages: Unless you are famous only your friends and family care about what is happening in your daily life, so you have a limited audience.
Blogging about Health
Advantages: There is a lot of affiliate schemes to push various products onto your readers to make you money if you become successful. There is no shortage of people searching the net for health and fitness advice, as it turns out, a lot of the world’s Internet users are rather unhealthy and overweight.
Disadvantages: If you are giving daily advice about health you are going to need to stay healthy. So you will have to lay off the pies, cigarettes, McDonalds and binge drinking and sort yourself out a gym membership… maybe that should be an advantage.
Blogging about SEO
Advantages: There are plenty of blogs about SEO (Search Engine Optimization) so there will never be a shortage of blogs to link to in your posts or others to network with.
Disadvantages: It’s a very competitive niche and unless you actually do some experimentation over a long period of time or work for Google…Matt Cutts… you probably only have second hand information to pass on.
Blogging about Business
Advantages: You can promote your own business. Blogs are a great way of creating dynamic content for businesses that may otherwise only have a few static html pages. By updating regularly you can drive traffic to your main site creating customers or buzz around your business.
Disadvantages: Amazing as it sounds, people may not want to read about your business and if you don’t have an existing customer base it may be difficult to gain creditability.
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Blogging can be a great free way to start online marketing and many well known affiliates still do this today. The tips above are a great starting block to write about. I currently have a site with 24 hot new niche products that you could include within your blogs. Check it out now.