Whether you want to build a professional multi-million dollar blog, or an amateur hobby site, to make it successful you need to build a community based around it.
Blogs are exactly that, a community of people that get together to talk about a certain subject. Now that subject could be anything from; baking recipes to wildlife photos, your local news to the latest cinema reviews, etc. the list is literally endless. The point is that there is an audience for what you are writing about!
Make Sure There Is A Community To Blog
Now if you are wanting to start a blog, it’s important that you take the time to consider which niche topic you want to write about. This initial decision can determine whether your site has any chance of getting off the ground at all. You need to consider your target audience. Is there enough people interested in the topic that you what you want to write about? If the answer is no, then you may want to think about another niche topic to write about. Here are some examples to think about;
Example #1 – You may want to start a blog about your annual local farmers market. It could be a really big event once a year in your village or town, but is there really enough interest to write a blog about it? Well, probably not. Not only because it happens once a year, but because it’s a local event so many non-local people won’t be interested. Picking a subject like this to blog about instantly limits the amount of people who may visit your site. It’s much better to think a little bigger.
Example #2 – You may have a burning passion to write about your hobby. This could be; painting, cooking, hiking, travelling, video games, etc. The good thing about hobbies is that there is already a community based around them Take something like stamp collecting, a hobby famed for being quite dull. There are literally hundreds of thousands (if not millions!) of people around the world that collect stamps. Instantly you can see that there is a potential market for a blog about collecting stamps, or any other hobby that has a mass following. You only have to attract a small fraction of people to begin building a community around your blog. But of course you could take it one step further…
Example #3 – You could combine related subjects into a bigger website covering a larger range of topics. So instead of focusing on just baking or just vegan recipes, you could write about cooking in general. These types of sites attract many different types of community together, so keen bakers, practising vegans, meat eaters, etc. can all meet in one place. It’s not hard to see that this type of site has the biggest potential target audience and you will certainly have a multitude of different things to write about. HOWEVER… you stand relatively no chance of becoming successful if you start out trying to appeal to everyone at once. Most likely your site will seem to publish posts erratically on different subjects, which may alienate your audience as they try to understand what your site is about.
Now if you want to build a top earning blog, you should probably aim for a site like Example #3, but you are much better off starting out as either an Example #1 or Example #2 based site and building your community up.
Blogs are exactly that, a community of people that get together to talk about a certain subject. Now that subject could be anything from; baking recipes to wildlife photos, your local news to the latest cinema reviews, etc. the list is literally endless. The point is that there is an audience for what you are writing about!
Make Sure There Is A Community To Blog
Now if you are wanting to start a blog, it’s important that you take the time to consider which niche topic you want to write about. This initial decision can determine whether your site has any chance of getting off the ground at all. You need to consider your target audience. Is there enough people interested in the topic that you what you want to write about? If the answer is no, then you may want to think about another niche topic to write about. Here are some examples to think about;
Example #1 – You may want to start a blog about your annual local farmers market. It could be a really big event once a year in your village or town, but is there really enough interest to write a blog about it? Well, probably not. Not only because it happens once a year, but because it’s a local event so many non-local people won’t be interested. Picking a subject like this to blog about instantly limits the amount of people who may visit your site. It’s much better to think a little bigger.
Example #2 – You may have a burning passion to write about your hobby. This could be; painting, cooking, hiking, travelling, video games, etc. The good thing about hobbies is that there is already a community based around them Take something like stamp collecting, a hobby famed for being quite dull. There are literally hundreds of thousands (if not millions!) of people around the world that collect stamps. Instantly you can see that there is a potential market for a blog about collecting stamps, or any other hobby that has a mass following. You only have to attract a small fraction of people to begin building a community around your blog. But of course you could take it one step further…
Example #3 – You could combine related subjects into a bigger website covering a larger range of topics. So instead of focusing on just baking or just vegan recipes, you could write about cooking in general. These types of sites attract many different types of community together, so keen bakers, practising vegans, meat eaters, etc. can all meet in one place. It’s not hard to see that this type of site has the biggest potential target audience and you will certainly have a multitude of different things to write about. HOWEVER… you stand relatively no chance of becoming successful if you start out trying to appeal to everyone at once. Most likely your site will seem to publish posts erratically on different subjects, which may alienate your audience as they try to understand what your site is about.
Now if you want to build a top earning blog, you should probably aim for a site like Example #3, but you are much better off starting out as either an Example #1 or Example #2 based site and building your community up.
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