Glenn Wolsey has an interesting couple of articles on blogging and how to make your blogging a succes.
One of the interesting articles relates to what you are going to blog about:
The first thing you need to do after deciding you want to start a blog, is ask yourself these questions:
- What am I going to write about?
- What is my target audience?
- How often am I going to blog?
When answering the first question, take into consideration how much you know about certain topics, and what topics you are interested in and love. Generally the best thing/s to write about are things you really enjoy.
Your answer to the first question can highly effect your answer to the second. For an example if you are writing about emo music, your target will be teenagers and the early twenties. If you are blogging about photography, your audience widens. Personally I try and keep to four main topics, Apple, Photography, Productivity, and Blogging. Most of these go hand and hand into each other which helps me interlink posts and keep a general theme.
How often you are going to blog is a big question. You cant expect people to keep loyal to reading your blog if you blog for seven days in a row, then leave it a week before your next post, then 3 days before your next. Routine is a key. Pick a date and stick to it, weather it’s once a day, week, or month.
The answer he gives to himself about question 2 made me think. What are the topics i blog about? Mostly they can be defined as following:
- Personal stuff
- Computer and blogging related
- Photography
- Rest category
The rest category can contain nearly anything, from interesting online games i find on the web, to history related stuff and subjects relating to world news. I’ll have to go through the 500+ post in the coming weeks and see if i can find one line, and maybe, maybe i’ll then be able to stick to that line. The big question is: will i be able to find enought subjects to blog about?
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