Niche Trends

Understanding how to set up a niche blog, the first consideration is the market trend. Research key words and affiliate programs that are the hottest "buzz" on the internet. Check out sales in different products and different companies to find a "niche" for your blog that will stand the test of time for more than a month or one year.

The reason for selecting a long season trend is to set up a blog that will never go out of style, unlike the finger wave hairstyle....

or mini skirts.

Blogs may not be forever, but a blog

traditionally should have a life expectancy

of five years minimum.

Here are some important facets of niche blogging to explore.

1. What exactly is trend blogging versus trends in the niche blogging market?

2. Can a niche blog be upgraded to fit the current trends in marketing or affiliate products?

3. How can predictions in market trends be determined before setting up a niche blog?

4. Can a successful blog make a transition from trend blogging to niche blogging. What are the pros and cons of each style?

5. What are the unique qualities of niche blogging?

The Midnight Writer

Common Topics

There are many common topics used in blogging as a general rule and there are common specialized topics in niche blogging. Let us explore blog topics to help narrow down the broad subjects into more narrow topics. From this list, a group of niche blog topics can be selected then further outlined in your blog planning stages.

I use a blog outline and a focus sheet to create a rough draft of my blogs in the beginning phases. Lately, I have been using a Blog Day Planner to help me stay focused since I have multiple projects in various phases of development.

The areas below will be the subject of exploration and the topic of conversation on this blog in the coming months.

Common Topics For Blogs

Finding Successful Topics

Topics That Will Earn $ as a Niche Blog Platform

Isolating the Unusual Blog Themes
-Exploring Unique Topics to Help Market Unique Products

Types of Blogs:

Blogs can be categorized depending on many different criteria.

There are the following types of blogs:

Personal Blogs
Company Blogs
Affiliate Marketing Blogs
Social Networking Blogs
Niche Blogs
Paid for Posting Blogs
Mixed Themes with Mixed Purposes
Creative Blogs with Unique Voice: The Story-Telling Blog
Direct Marketing Blogs
Technology Blogs
Technical Blogs

What are some common topics in the blogging world?

In conducting a search engine research survey, I found these top 20 topics:
1. Search Engine Optimization
2. Blog U Back Sites and Programs
3. Niche Marketing Blogs
4. Content Blogs to increase search engine ranking.

Choosing A Niche Topic

Some points to consider in choosing a "niche topic" or
theme for a "niche blog":

1. Market value of related services, products and information such as books, ebooks, audio and video promotional or teaching material.

2. Is the theme a common one that has already saturated the blogosphere or the internet?

3. Be sure that the niche topic interests both the writer/creator and the reader/market.

4. Choose a theme or topic with "pizzazz" so it will make your heart flutter and your mind race with ideas every time you think about creating a post or an ad for the niche blog.

Just for emphasis and to "showcase" My Niche Blogs I am listing some of the blogs below. As this blog progresses, I will explore with my readers the progress of each blog and examine the successes, failures, tips, lessons, and all aspects of the niche blogs growth.

• The Midnight Writers Secret Portal
• Blog Day Planner : Focus Freelance Work to Keep It Together.

With so many tasks required in the freelance writing /blogging business, it is imperative to make those lists. The next step in that goal setting focus is to prioritize that list. Decide what is most important to build a foundation for a successful business.

• Blog U Back - Share The Vibe: Write for one another on each other's blogs and help bring the rankings up as well as increasing your web content. This blog is going to explore this method and open up the doors for sharing in the blogosphere without having to join any group or middle man.
• Dear Diary - A fiction story telling site that speaks to "Dear Diary" in the formal voice used in Victorian times at the birth of diary writing practice.

Time to Revolutionize Your Blog

Niche Blogging : The how to's , why and where.

Niche blogging is becoming the new wave on the internet. The topic permeates the blogosphere. Technorati is the place to search the blogosphere. Just type it into a search engine and see what you find.

Suggested search engines:

• Google
• Yahoo
• Alexa
• Msn
• Dogpile
• Ask.com
• Lycos

The list of search engines is practically endless these days as the virtual world expands exponentially every day. As a point of interest, I will include an intention list in this blog to search out the top 50 search engines, list them here and then conduct a survey on "niche blogging" on each search engine. The results should prove to be very enlightening.

Follow Up

Results on "niche blogging" keyword search on "google".

Without adding any other key words or altering the order of the above two words in any way, this search on google yielded 361,000 results.

The Midnight Writer