Why Most Niche Blogs Are Worthless

So you’ve started your blog and you’ve read the advice of the pros. Do you believe that by following the advice of big money making blogs, you will be rich? Most people who follow the advice of professionals will be right where they want you to be, beneath them. Niche is pronounced “nitch” in case you didn’t know. I used to think it rhymed with quiche…LOL!

You will remain beneath them especially if you try to make it doing it the way they did it. Sure, Problogger makes a lot of money, but you will have little chance of making any money by doing what he did to make it. You will need to saturate the Internet with keyword laden posts for 10 years or more to get only half of what he has.

Most Niche Blogs Are Boring

I can read the same exact information on 40,000 blogs from the same niche. I can get the same tips from anyone. That’s why I choose to get my tips from low ranked blogs. People these days are savvy and chock full of good information. Where do you get your blogging tips?

I am growing dependent on many low ranking blogs to supply me with information. Why would I read an A-list blog who doesn’t care who I am when I can get the same or better information from someone who does?

Most niche blogs are BORING. It’s the same information over and over and over! I support upcoming blogs because so many of them are not so strictly niche oriented. They do memes and hand out awards. Give an A-list blogger some award and you will be ignored. Wow, that rhymed!

Don’t Be Someone’s Punk Niche

Be your own person and take risks. Don’t follow the crowd behind all these A-list bloggers. Be a leader, not a follower. Write a little varied content. If every article you write is about making money, you will bore your audience to tears.

Read Personal Blogs and Write About Yourself

Most of my favourite blogs are personal blogs. I like people with personalities. If you write a tech blog, add some other types of articles. If you write a money blog, write some articles about your life. The same exact subject over and over will make me run from you!

Don’t Read All Blogs Only In Your Niche

If you do, you are someone’s little niche. My blog is about blogging ethics. I NEVER read blogs about ethics nor do I link to them. Why don’t I? Because I plan on OWNING the niche not following the pack.

Answer This Question

Let us hypothesize that you are going to buy tickets to a concert. There are two lines. One ticket booth has 175,000 people in line. The other has 5 in it’s line. WHICH LINE WILL YOU STAND IN TO GET THE TICKETS?

Are you somebody’s niche?


The Niche Rap
By following the crowd
You think you’re gonna be rich
You ain’t never ever gonna be
’cause you’re somebody’s niche

I’ll be a son-of-a-niche…LOL!

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