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In the six, almost seven, months that I’ve been blogging, I don’t think I’ve ever run out of things to say. I have, however, struggled with finding my niche in the blogosphere. That is…I’m not quite sure what I should be focusing on. This is the main reason I haven’t held any contests or made much extra effort to promote my blog beyond asking some folks for a link exchange and occasionally submitting a post to Digg. I’m astounded and humbled that so many people want to read my insane ramblings. Honestly, I’m honored by the number of readers this blog has since most of the time, it’s just me talking about stuff like zombies and Grimace from McDonald’s.
John Chow has his make money online thing and Gary Lee focuses on internet marketing. Gdog blogs about teaching English in Korea, Michael has freelance writing and Career Ramblings is about career development. I’m honestly not sure where my little corner of the internet is.
This site is no longer new so I’m sure long time readers have somewhat gotten to know me and my writing style. I usually post my opinions on news and technology and such but now that I blog for a tech blog, I’ve got somewhere else to do much of that. I thought about some sort of entertainment orientated blog but let’s face it, 99% of them are about celebrity news and I couldn’t give less of a crap who what’s-her-face is going out with or doing blow off who’s thigh.
While I do, in fact, make money online, I’m not one of the make money online blogs. I honestly don’t know where most of the money comes from after I add the codes on and I’m usually so befuddled by how this sort of thing works, I really shouldn’t be teaching anyone else. John once suggested that I should write about how the hell I manage to make money when I barely work my day job and manage to turn a profit anyways. Well, I’m not sure so I’m probably not the one to ask.
Michael once put my anchor text as “awesome” and suggested that I blog about being awesome. While I am busy awesoming (that’s right, it’s a verb now) most of the time, I’m not quite sure how that would work. However, it is a possibility as ridiculous as it sounds. I could find a way. I thought about doing a hockey blog but I have plans for that later.
So really, the choices, when it comes down to it are…entertainment reviews, photography (which I barely talk about here although the original name for this site was edlauphoto…), awesoming, starting a blog (since I remember most of the steps I’ve followed thus far…) and…well, I’m not sure. I don’t have many other special skills unless you count bullshitting or punching pirates in the face. Does anyone have any suggestions?. Please let me know by leaving a comment or contacting me directly with the button above.
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Any particular reason you want to choose a niche?
I still vote for awesome :p
That would have to me my vote too!
You and me both, Ed. You and me both. I think your blog is great as is. If you want a niche, go buy a nichey domain and do it. There. I said it.
I’m right there too…
I think teaching people how to turn a profit while barely working is a great niche
I enjoy reading your thoughts and interests. The niche is it is about you. If your going to niche then I would choose another blog to do that.
I’ll agree with Gary on this one. Even speaking for myself, although I try to steer some conversation toward freelance writing on my blog, it’s largely still a personal blog where I blab about whatever interests me at the time, be it a new video game, Wordpress plug-in, or a good slice of pizza.
The entertainment niche can be huge…just check out dlisted, perezhilton and other entertainment blogs…so doing reviews might be a good idea! I’m not saying do entertainment reviews because it has the potential for windfall traffic …i’m saying it because you mentioned it as an option so i’m extrapolating that you’ve either done something like that before or are interested in doing something like that.
Well, seems like what you’re doing has been successful. If it ain’t broke, why fix it? I wouldn’t put so much pressure on yourself to find a niche, just let one fall into your lap one day. I would like to see more posts about photography though.
i can relate, as gary and i have talked about how i’m to focus my blog. i could take the ppc niche route but as you can relate, your theme trumps any random, interesting, or awesome things you could write about otherwise. i’m not sure i’d be happy writing 4 or 5 articles a week about ppc. i agree with everyone else, that the niche can be you. “how to maintain an awesome blog.”
Well, what does your traffic say? If you are getting the most hits or onterest on your posts about a certain subject then go for that one. I like it the way it is, but if you just concentrated on hockey for example, I would not read it as I have no interest in hockey.
I don’t think you need a niche. I agree with everyone else that if you’re gonna go for a niche, start it with another blog/domain.
I was debating this for myself but decided to drop all the niche dilemma. Working on a seperate niche site though…
I agree with most of the commenters here – be your own niche! I pondered that question myself and asked my friends if I should focus on any particular topic. They said I shouldn’t! That what they liked was just about ANYTHING could show up.
You can niche elsewhere. Let this site be your playground!
If its not broken dont to fix it.
In other words I vote for “Leave it as it is” about yourself blog and keep expanding more the existing “dunno what to blog about” niche
Zombies dude. There aren’t enough zombie blogs. Retain all the other stuff, just do more zombie stuff and make an icon for the zombie posts.
Haha, great suggestion.
Imagine the ad potential…
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