Blogs wachsen längst wie Schwammerl aus dem Boden. Zu jedem Thema existieren nahezu unendlich gleichsprachige und noch einmal so viele fremdsprachige Weblogs, die täglich von trafficliebenden Bloggern gefüttert werden.
Doch wer füttert die nachkomm…

Though not a law firm or professional service business, we can learn from Tammy Powley, a former defense industry technical writer and now a freelance writer, who publishes three niche oriented blogs about jewelry. Tammy shares the benefits of niche…

I’ve been running websites in the cycling world for about a year and a half now. The first one we positioned as an overall weird/funny/interesting news blog across cycling. While we have had good success, we work hard looking for information and trying to maintain a high quantity of posts.

On the flip side of things, I started a very narrowed niched blog inside the mountain bike world. The niche has a small base of passionate users and the technology in the niche is still growing. For this blog I post just a few times a week and it’s usually out of information other people send me.

This blog, in the past two months has grown to getting over half the traffic it took me a year and a half to build with the first.

It’s easier to become an expert and gather information in a niche.

Lei: You also have a great topic with a lot of related content direction. I wouldn’t mind expanding my topic, maybe to more crafts, some day, but for now, this is working for me. Plus, I have to admit that I never don’t have something to talk about when it comes to jewelry.

Brem: A few niches makes sense too. In fact, one niche can kind of spin off into another. For example, here I am blogging about blogging (about jewelry). I also often write articles for people who want to sell their jewelry, so that sort of turns into small business-related articles. II also write about my experience as a designer. I’m not necessarily saying to blog about something on one else is blogging about, but to focus on an area and become expert in that. It doesn’t necessarily matter if others are doing it as long as you are doing it really well, preferably better than they are.

Englee: I hope you’re right!

#5: Thanks for the cross link.

Ann: Thanks Ann. That means a lot coming from you.

Thing is, I could narrow it down, but even if I have a niche where nobody else is blogging, well, maybe there’s a reason for that. I need an audience, and I need the best audience. So finding a niche isn’t all that. You need to find something not yet talked about too much, and something people want to hear. It’s not easyly done.

brem