It might mean I don’t know what my niche is or that it is hard to be successful there.

I write about living in France. I don’t like the cut and dry style of just being informative.

Sometimes people are too personal and don’t give enough meat.

I would like to focus on good writing style, informative yet entertaining, and being useful.

I want people to come to my blog to read funny stories about living in France but to also gather resources for moving to and living in France as well as if you just want to travel around my region, Toulouse.

Maybe that is not enough and I need to get a tighter niche.

I don’t like a lot of the UK bloggers doing what i am doing but maybe that is because the experiences they share with each other are too UK based so it doesn’t resonate with me.

I wonder if my blog comes off as being too American based, though I am not trying to target Americans.

Tough exercise if you really try it.

What topics are they covering?
Local news and real estate information

What topics are they ignoring?
Promotion of the real estate firm she works at

What voice/style do they post in?
Folksy

How often are they posting?
3-4 times a week

What level are they pitching their posts at (beginners, advanced etc)
The site is for consumers. Local people can find local non-real estate news and others can find general real estate information

What topics generate most conversation?
Local news and novelty type stories get the most comments

What styles of posts seem to connect with readers best?
Same as above

What questions are readers asking in comments?
Don’t see many questions, just comments

What complaints do you see readers making in comments?
None

What tools/mediums is the site using (eg: are they using Twitter, forums etc)
I don’t see much of that; although I know she’s on twitter.

I’ll have to get back to the rest of this another day!

Definitely time well spent as the blog I found is much better designed than most I’ve been visiting. I also noted that most articles were very short – getting the keywords out and then adding several images for graphical impact.

Pat Bloomfield
PatB Photography – Weddings

I hope this answers your question.

Prince Sioni

I hope this answers your question.

Prince Sioni

googling blogs in my niche brings out tons of blogs. The niche seems too saturated and I hope to improve on my writing over the time.

Kindly visit my blog to drop comments. Be sincere when doing this. :)

http://princesioni.com

Or did you mean put the exact url of the site I’m analyzing to see which sites are linking to it? I did this too but it just came back with all the pages of that site.

Please help.

What topics are they covering? To sum it up: Technically beautiful, artfully beneficial. The blog is covering Blogging, Discoveries, Dreams, Fetching Friday, Life, Motivation, Photography, Poetry, Social Media, Viewpoints

What topics are they ignoring? This is a wide spectrum, don’t thing Kikolani is ignoring anything

What voice/style do they post in? Very casual, yet informative and professional style.

How often are they posting? Regularly, at least 2-3 times a week (I think)

What level are they pitching their posts at (beginners, advanced etc): They are pitching to all users, the posts about Blogging and Social Media are aimed at all users, not just advanced users

What topics generate most conversation? Blogging and Social Media

What styles of posts seem to connect with readers best? The casual yet informative professional ones

What questions are readers asking in comments? Questions related to the topic in question, mostly enquiries or praise when it comes to Social Media and Blogging

What complaints do you see readers making in comments? I have not seen any complaints in the comments :)

What tools/mediums is the site using (eg: are they using Twitter, forums etc): Twitter, Digg and Delicious

What first impression does their design give? It gives the impression that its done professionally, you just know u’r going to be able to navigate and find what u need on the blog very easily. It has that feel to it.

What have they done well? The whole layout, the whole way the options are presented for readers to subcribe. The option that is available to readers to “Tweet”. Also the listing of the amount of Diggs for each post on the top of the page.

What have they done poorly? Nothing in particular. Everything is laid out clearly.

Judging by the way this blog is done, the traffic rating is quite high on Alexa and I’m sure that the blogger is using SEO plug-ins on Wordpress to generate traffic.

The analysis went overall well, and I think that http://kikolani.com should keep up the good work :)
What Options do they give readers to subscribe?

I posted the following observations on my blog somewhat tongue-in-cheek. In order to emulate more successful bloggers in my niche:
* I have to have funnier or cuter dogs
* I have to become an actual expert about either dogs or technology
* When I go off the main topics, I have to write about sex or relationships, or else use the F-word more

Seriously, though, my dogs are actually very funny and attractive. It is my writing skills that need to improve to better describe their antics in a more humorous way, and I could definitely benefit by posting more and better photographs. I don’t know if I will ever become an actual expert myself, but I can do mini-interviews with experts for dog topics if not technology. The last one really was tongue-in-cheek, but it does seem that a lot of popular personal blogs have a fair amount of what to me is *overly* personal relationship stuff that I’d never write about, especially not online. And that’s where I’m going to run with “Don’t copy – be unique.” :)

Wishing you a scent-sational day!