Today on 31 Days to Building a Better Blog, I looked into the assignment of analyzing your blogs competition. The first part was to make a list 10 blogs in your niche. I got to thinking about it and I don't know what my niche is as far as it goes with this blog.
Discovering my niche
The first thing I did was open my blog and figure out the topic of my blog posts. Hmmm, there doesn't seem to be much of a theme except for this month’s 31 Days to Better Blogging posts. The rest are about parenting, homeschooling, traveling updates, photos, recipes, reviews, allergies, life as a CNA and article writing.
Since I already have other blogs that cover the homeschooling and housekeeping, I can cross those off and use the Homeschool blog for co-parenting and homeschool information. I can also add reviews to the appropriate blogs of whatever I am reviewing.
That still leaves many topics but I think I can work on narrowing it down a touch. I'll work on that niche thing over the next couple of weeks. I plan on researching blog niches and see what I find.
Searching my popular posts
Two of my top ten posts are my Top 13 list of things. Apparently, people really like lists. I know I do! Three are random pictures I have posted of things. One is about my job and the other is about creating a household budget. The other three posts are about random garble that I posted on various topics. Surfing the internet at 41,000 feet, one about the world ending on May 21, 2011 and then house-sitting in the country.
Lists are on my things to blog about as is life as a CNA and photos. I love photos!
Blog Competition?
I don't know where to start when looking for competition for my blog. I just don't know. If you have suggestions, I am all ears!
Question to my readers
If you all could be kind enough to drop me line, leave a comment, email or whatever... I am wondering.
· What brings you to this blog?
· Are you coming back? If so, what brings you back? If not, why are not coming back?
· What do you find interesting on the blog?
· What would you change if it was your blog?
I'd love to hear from you! Thanks so much for reading my blog.
4 comments:
Hi Dotchi, I saw your query in the forum and thought I'd head over and take a look.
Your sub title, 'blogging with reckless abandon' suits your blog, mainly as you write about a wide range of topics. (I especially like the post about your floor collasping) But I did find, as I continue to read, that I became a bit confused as to the nature of your blog as it merges so many different bits of information together, from family to recipes, to how to become a better blogger.
I think that the 'Better Blogging' posts need to be seperated into a blog of it's own as it doesn't quite flow with the rest of what you write.
I hope I haven't come across as rude and too critical because that was not my intention.
Hell what do I know? I'm no expert myself. I'm not excatly Wordsworth.
Oh and sorry about the long ramble. You now have permission to ignore everything I've just written lol. :0)
You commit an error. I can defend the position. Write to me in PM, we will discuss.
Not offended at all! That is just what I was asking for, an honest opinion! I will definitely use your comments to help better my blog. I am thinking family oriented is just what my niche is all about. If I ignore the 31 days posts, it does fit.
Thanks so much for the response :)
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