Before we go into the lecture proper, lets first define a niche. A niche in blogging simply means your area of concentration. It can be anything at all, provided u are good in that area. Now, in choosing a niche in blogging, there are certain tins u should consider, as a newbie,its not advised that u just post anything u see, cos it may weigh u down. Here are 3 basic things you should consider:
1. Your knowledge: when you blog on something u know little or nothing about, believe me u wont succeed in blogging. Take 4instance someone that knows little about women(guys in particular)handling a blog on women, do u think he will succeed? Well i don't think so. He only knows what he reads about women or what his female friends tells him, no personal experiences. Now if he posts (most probably copied and pasted) something like 'menstruation 101',he will write just what he has read/heard, not what he's very sure of, and wen a question comes 2him via comment( maybe something not on d post)he starts running around 2get answers. Like wen sum1 ask, 'please i do have painful menstruation,how do i go about it?'. He will have to go back to his post's source 2get answers. This u will agree wit me makes sum people say blogging is so stressful wen they are actually d ones stressing themselves. But when its sum1 that knows much about dis area (pointing 2women) d person will sharply reply, because she may be experiencing that too or have friends or relations that do. U will agree wit me that wen you're d one suffering 4rm something,u will certain look 4 a way out of it.
2. Your interest: when you have interest on something, u will do well in it, even if u don't have any knowledge in it. Take for instance, i don't know about fashion but i have interest in it, that interest alone will make me 2read anything i see about fashion,be it magazines,eBooks etc. I will also research about it because its something i have interest on. This alone will build your knowledge on that particular tin, hence, your interest is highly important.
Lastly, Don't blog on *this* because people are on it: Like i said before, you can blog on anything at all. Don't blog on celeb news because Okeke kanyinulia (nne please pardon me for using your name) is on it and doing well too. Do you have interest in it? Don't go in2 women because Chifine's blog is tight *winks*, can u handle that area? Peter emu is inspiring people on his blog and for this you want to start your own, how good are you in composing write ups like he does? (many instances too numerous to mention)
Like Oga Jide said, how can you blog on making money online when you have not made a dime online before? Go for what u are very good at.
The other time when i was surfing the net, i saw a very neat and successful blog, guess what d author blogs on, she blogs on what she wears. Funny right? Wen i read her story on how she started blogging and all that, i said 2myself "mehn people dey craze o, reading on the cloth somebody else wears", but that's just d magic in it, be original, be creative, don't depend on *copy and paste* and you will be very successful in blogging. Make research, let your contents be unique and the sky will be your starting point.
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