One of the biggest challenges people are facing when considering becoming a blogger is what topic to cover.
They don't know what topic to write about.
They feel they're not an expert at anything.
Or they don't know whether their topic of interest can be profitable.
The initial choice of topic for a blog is the same as choosing a niche for any business.
Different experts have different approaches.
However, it's possible to make this a very complicated decision process.
A simple way to observe market behavior is reading forums.
Because popular forums exist in a niche shows there's a market of some size.
Forums also give good statistics - things like total members, active members, number of posts and topics, and number of replies to a topic, which can tell you what's hot and what's not in that niche.
The holy grail of blogging, as in any other business, is a mix of what you love and what you can get paid for.
Many struggle to find the intersection of passion and talent and market.
But once that intersection is found, you're now on the way to success.
When you have already set up your blog, you will need new content regularly.
If you have been blogging for some time already, you would find it's increasingly difficult to think of new topics to write about.
But there's one tool which can help - Google's Wonder Wheel.
It's basically a "mind map" as Google look at the keyword phrases we're using.
You can now think of your keywords in the same format as Google does.
Here are some tips to effectively use the tool to help you generate ideas on what to write about: 1.
Dig deeper into the 2nd and 3rd level to keep finding additional related items to your main theme.
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Think of your overall market as not just a niche, but a bullseye keyword phrase- the center phrase which everything else flows out from.
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You can sort results by the last week or last 24 hours to see what people are saying about your subject recently.
With this tool, hopefully writing new content should not be a problem anymore.