How to choose a blog topic

     This is the most important phase when starting a new blog.If you are serious about blogging and want your blog to succeed then you should be very careful in choosing a blog topic.

     Choosing a blog topic is a whole process through which you have to go through to decide a blog topic.In this article I will show you "How to choose a blog topic" for your new blog in a very simple way.
  

Whats the best blog topic for you?

     Many newbies take this part very easy and they just pick any topic and start blogging about it, this will be your first big mistake even before starting your blog and you will regret it in near future.The thing is that "choosing a blog topic" is the most hardest and the most important part of blogging.So lets start;

What are your ambitions for Blog?

How do you want your blog to be in future and what do you want from your blog;

• A long-term blog.
• Vast audience/lots of traffic.
• Earn money from it.
• Easy for you to add more content.

         Anyone who want to start a new blog will have the above objectives in their mind.If you have the above ambitions for your blog then you would need the best topic to start with.

1:Ask yourself the following Questions:

Your first job here is to do some research on yourself and answer the following questions;

1. What are you interested in(any topic)?
2.  On which topic you like to talk with your friends?
3. In which field you are expert and have the most knowledge?

Above are the most important questions you must ask yourself because in the end it all depends on you and your skills.

2:Answer the above questions:

      Now take a paper and pen and write down a few topics in which you are interested in and have the most knowledge about.

     You will start a blog on one of the topic that you have noted down by answering those questions you asked yourself.

   Now that you have short listed the topics, I will tell you the characteristics that the "one finale" topic should have, But first I will tell you the wrong start that many newbies make;

Wrong questions lead you to wrong TOPIC:

The mistake that most of the newbies make is that they do not research on their skills, interest, knowledge etc instead they are looking for a topic of;

• More popularity
• Topic that will earn them money (profitable blog topic)etc

 Why are they wrong by doing this?

                Its because you have to do all the writing and if you have selected a blog topic which is popular and will earn you money etc BUT you don't have much knowledge about it then HOW will you build your blog and write articles? You have skipped the first major step which is research on yourself first...

3:Characteristics of the Blog Topic:

      Now that you have finished the research on yourself and shortlisted some topic, its time to research on these topics you have selected.Most of the newbies do this step first;as i have mentioned above.Following are the characteristics that your blog topic should have;

• Choose the most popular topic from the shortlist:

"Most popular" means that many people are searching for information about that topic (in search engines) or info related to that topic because your goal is to get the most traffic so you will achieve this goal by having a blog topic which is popular in internet world.
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• Don't choose a topic which is interesting for you but not for other people:

Even if you are very interested in a certain topic and you have lots of knowledge about it BUT there is not enough demand for it in the internet community THEN just simply ignore that topic because you will not get any traffic to your blog.

• Choose a topic you like researching about:

You will have to research about that topic more and more to get more knowledge even if you already have some.If you know "What is blog and blogging?", the unique aspect of it is that bloggers give new, fresh, meaningful content about a certain topic.So you will have to research about your blog topic and in order to be successful, you need to enjoy reading about it and keeping up with news and events related to it.

• Choose a topic that you like to teach:

You have to interact with your readers and answer their questions. This will give a good impression and is very important to keep in contact with your readers.

[This post is a part of "A complete guide on How to start your own Blog"]

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