Chapter 7
Finding Your Niche
In This Chapter
Discovering blog genres
Finding out what makes appealing blog posts
Making connections with other bloggers
If you’re blogging only for your friends and family, you probably have a captive audience that stays interested, no matter what you choose to blog about on any given day. (Although, even your mom might get a little tired of hearing about what time you got up and what you had for lunch!)
Most bloggers, however, define blogging success as attracting, keeping, and growing an audience of interested readers who can’t wait for the next pearl of wisdom to leave their fingertips . . . preferably an audience that leaves comments and interacts with the blogger and with other readers.
Creating this kind of blog is no small challenge: You’re in competition with every other source of news, information, and entertainment in your audience members’ lives (not to mention your own, if you have trouble finding time for blogging).
So, find a niche and exploit it fully. I have no way of knowing exactly what your niche is — that’s something for you to figure out — but I can give you ideas and suggestions to help you start turning your mental gears. This ...
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