People who have recently gotten into blogging or are already doing it for a while must know how important it is select a theme for your blog that would get you a good amount of traffic and make it popular.
The themes that you should choose would actually depend on you and how you write.
Your niche or theme should suit you and your writing style. And it should fulfill the main purpose which is to make your blog and interesting and give you an edge over the others in the blogging world.
There are many niches that you can go for which could get you a lot of traffic but may not get you that much money.
Such topics include wallpapers, SMS, Quotes, etc. These themes are easy but you don’t want to get yourself a niche that’d be too difficult for you to write as well.
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Therefore, you need something that suits you perfectly.
You should go for a niche that has your interests and would come as natural to you to write on it on a regular basis.
You should have a decent knowledge about it and should be able to come up with tips, tricks, and hacks for the same. In these situations, people usually go for hobbies that they have had forever or have recently developed such as technology, fashion, art, music, dance, etc. Since you would be following these for a long time, you would easily handle their blogs as well.
The most important thing of all is that your blog and the niche should have a future in them. They should be able to cover the things that could help you not just today but later as well.
The topics should not linger on the happenings that have taken place already in the past. The tips and hacks you put out should also be updated.
Therefore, you get some important features out all said above, namely, your interests, the money you could earn, the traffic you will get and the future that the niche and the topic will hold.
To help you out with the thinking process and how should go about the selection process, we have some tips that could use and come up with a great niche that suits you and your style. Check it out:
Why do you want to write a blog:
First and foremost, before you start to linger on the topics and themes, step back a little and think about the reason why you wanted to write the blog in the first place.
Do you need money and want to earn it through blogs, or you have some fun things to share with the entire world, you like writing and decided to go for blogging or you just wanted to do something with your life and blogging seemed to be the best option?
In all the above questions, sharing your thoughts comes out to be the common thing. So try to come up with something that you really want to talk about on.
When you blog, you also get comments and messages that tell you about the blog and have things to share related to your blog.
It’s not necessary to choose just a single topic and write on it your entire life. You can choose more than one topic and lay a foundation for your blogging career.
The main aim is to share your thoughts and interests, and they change. You just have to be careful to the way you change the niche or just mold it slightly.
Start with the brainstorming:
Without worrying about the validation of the theme and the topic, just come up with topics, any random topics that come in your head and make a list of them.
You can also arrange them categorically so the selection process becomes easier. You can try to get inspirations from around you and daily life that goes around you.
Think about what you do all day, what you read all day, people around you, your work and most importantly the blogs you come across.
You can also have a look at the magazines that you have or the shopping sites with so many products online that could inspire you.
When you can think of nothing else, go out for a walk and observe things around you, this is definitely going to put some thoughts in you.
Now comes the validation process:
Once you have come up with some topics, you can start with the process of validation which includes judgment of them all.
You can shortlist the topics on the basis of your interest and how appealing those topics seem to you. You should also think about how the people would take the topic and how comfortable and easy would it be for you to write on it/them.
Do not forget to put money and knowledge in the category which would play a major role in the success if your blog.
Google the topics:
When you Google the topics you have in your mind already, you will get a fair idea of what standard it holds on a global level.
You could know what others think about the topic and how would they react to it.
You may get more ideas related to it on the search engine and you could come up with something even better, who knows.
While checking the popularity of your niche, you can also compare the keywords and how often are they searched online.
This could also give you a fair idea of what you should choose and what you should not. There are many tools available online which could help you do it easily.
Bottom line:
In spite of all the technicalities you could go into, you should always go for a niche that seems the easiest to you on a personal level.
The niche that appeals you more than the audience because they change preferences daily and it’s you in the end who would have to write on it and come up with cool ideas every day.
