What should I blog about?
By Vin at 14 September, 2008, 8:02 pm
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Once you have got a Google Account and used it to login at Blogger.com you are prompted to create a blog. Essentially a blog is an online diary which shows the latest message posted first followed by the rest of the posts in reverse chronological order. If you want to post like a book with the first posted message showing first you have to change the post dates.
To blog you should have something to tell. Since it is a diary it can be anything personal and blogs can be made private or public. In Blogger the whole blog can be made private while in Wordpress individual entries in a blog can be made private leaving the other entries (posts) public. You can blog about your life, a journey, a hobby, your profession, politics, sex, your family, pets, celebrities, relationships, the subjects are endless. There are millions of blogs on different platforms on the Internet. A blog becomes a conversation between you and the reader when they comment on your posts and you reply.
It is better to blog about things you are passionate about. This ensures that you will get an audience. If it is a niche subject there will be less blogs to compete with and you will get more traffic. For example there are many political blogs but very few about the local politics in your hometown. Blogging a niche subject is like zooming in and magnifying it to show every detail about it. This will enable you to show off your expertise in the subject and get more viewers.
Within your blog restrict your posts to sub-niches within the niche you are blogging in. If you are blogging about your ten day trek in the Himalayas make each post a description of the journey completed every half day. That will enable you to pack in more detail in each post. Each post should not be too long since viewers get tired of reading long text passages on the monitor. Include images in each post to break the monotony of text.
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