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To Niche or not to niche: Top bloggers tell all

Went Hot: December 20, 2007 - 11:00 am
Posted By: DoshDosh 296 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://jonathanfields.com)
Category: Blogging

“If you are drawn to write on a broad variety of topics (3-5) even if there is a remotely common thread, are you better off doing it on a single blog or creating several niche blogs for each one?” I recently posed the this question to a round-table of top-bloggers and social-medialites and here’s what they revealed…

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from tamar 296 days ago #

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My neighbor rocks.

from sphinndr 296 days ago #

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I know from a readers perspective, I rather a blog have a niche focus. When I find a blog that pertains to one of my interests I will add it to my rss reader. Right now I don't have a single multi topic blog in my rss reader.

from scottclark 296 days ago #

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I have one blog, with a fairly broad centerline.

The thing that's interesting are the numbe of people who visit my blog for OTHER reasons, and then find out... oh, this guy is a pretty well known and experienced search marketer... I think I'll tell "so and so insert company name here" about him. Then I get a call.

Last week I got a comment "I spent 2 hours on your blog"

Those folks would probably have never been found inside my website no matter how well I rank for search marketing queries - they wouldn't be searching for me in that context.