It all depends on the individual.
Some find it easy to decide on the blog topic while many find it difficult.
Let's take an example.
If you happen to be an Electronic Engineer, you might think that writing a blog on electronic is easy.
After all, we all deal with amplifiers and solid states in our daily uses one way or another, right? Wrong.
There are various issues you need to consider when you decide on a topic.
How Interested Are You To The Topic? Being an engineer is one thing, but to be passionate about it is another.
Here is a simple test.
Do you look forward to head home to your coin collection, or whatever you do in your leisure after a hard day's work? If you long to go back to with your hobby every day or every weekend, the it might be more worthwhile to write about your interest.
Let's face it, one reason we blog is to get away from our work.
We are already honing our job's skill for maybe 42 hours per week.
We don't need over time.
Apart from your hobby, what else can you think about? Did you happen to have made any purchase recently, like a home theatre system or even a new pet? Most people do their homework before they purchase.
A small majority even achieve profound knowledge on the new subject prior to making a selection.
Is Your Topic In demand? Look.
If you have ever attended Marketing 101, you would be familiar with these terms: trend, fad and the sunset industry.
The same applies to your topic of interest.
Is your topic high in demand? You might be interested in making paper planes for example.
If the netizens are not interested in your information, you will face an uphill battle to find readers.
It is much easier to ride on the trend then to try to create demand out of thin air.
You can also try to catch the next wave.
For this, you need a keen sense of observation.
Look around for inspiration; magazines, TV and news website.
Your Topic's Growth Potential Recall your Marketing 101 again.
Try to foresee, would your topic grow in popularity or would it just sizzle out quietly? Think of the death of Michael Jackson.
If you get on the train now, you are too late.
the audience is now more interested in what Mr Tiger Wood do outside of winning golf tournaments.
How Many Competitors Would You Face? You have finally decided to start a blog on your favourite pass time, perhaps on photography.
Now, go ahead and type the keyword "photography" in any search engine.
In Google alone, there are 284 Million search results on "photography", also synonymous to the amount of competitors you would have to compete against.
In other words, you would need to fight your way pass 284 million competitors to be ranked in the first page.
Just look at my HowToBlog.
org.
Can you picture the amount of work I have put in just to expose my post to the netizens? Do You Have Enough Content For Your Niche Topic? After finding your niche, now what? You begin to plan.
Can you expand on your topic with contents for at least 3 times a week? Let's visualize these.
You are an enthusiast in photography and you have decided to blog on a niche called mountain top photography.
You went through your archive and started looking for your collections of mountain top snapshots.
How long could your site work and your information resources pave enough content for your blog? How much knowledge do you possess within yourself to be able to post in contents regularly? No doubt, there are various resources that you can tap on for information like Digg.
com, Technorati, Topix among others, but we are talking about regular first hand information here.
These information resources could help you when you are down with an occasional writer's block, but you can't keep relying on them for regular posting.
Your tech savvy audience will never grow if they found out that you are just feeding them second hand news.
Does Your Topic Offer You A Way To Connect With Your Audience? Human are social animals.
All of us love to mingle, either face to face or indirect chat forums.
Netizens loves to communicate via forums, and blogs are natural tool to connect with your peers via trackbacks and comments.
If you are good, you may even find your thoughts exposed in Social Medias like Twitter and Facebook.
Thus, your topic needs to offer an avenue to connect.
Be personal when you write about your trade.
Write as if you are talking to an audience in a round table.
Be passionate when you preach on your subject.
Be an authority on your subject.
Your target is to create a community of followers as your blog matures.
Some find it easy to decide on the blog topic while many find it difficult.
Let's take an example.
If you happen to be an Electronic Engineer, you might think that writing a blog on electronic is easy.
After all, we all deal with amplifiers and solid states in our daily uses one way or another, right? Wrong.
There are various issues you need to consider when you decide on a topic.
How Interested Are You To The Topic? Being an engineer is one thing, but to be passionate about it is another.
Here is a simple test.
Do you look forward to head home to your coin collection, or whatever you do in your leisure after a hard day's work? If you long to go back to with your hobby every day or every weekend, the it might be more worthwhile to write about your interest.
Let's face it, one reason we blog is to get away from our work.
We are already honing our job's skill for maybe 42 hours per week.
We don't need over time.
Apart from your hobby, what else can you think about? Did you happen to have made any purchase recently, like a home theatre system or even a new pet? Most people do their homework before they purchase.
A small majority even achieve profound knowledge on the new subject prior to making a selection.
Is Your Topic In demand? Look.
If you have ever attended Marketing 101, you would be familiar with these terms: trend, fad and the sunset industry.
The same applies to your topic of interest.
Is your topic high in demand? You might be interested in making paper planes for example.
If the netizens are not interested in your information, you will face an uphill battle to find readers.
It is much easier to ride on the trend then to try to create demand out of thin air.
You can also try to catch the next wave.
For this, you need a keen sense of observation.
Look around for inspiration; magazines, TV and news website.
Your Topic's Growth Potential Recall your Marketing 101 again.
Try to foresee, would your topic grow in popularity or would it just sizzle out quietly? Think of the death of Michael Jackson.
If you get on the train now, you are too late.
the audience is now more interested in what Mr Tiger Wood do outside of winning golf tournaments.
How Many Competitors Would You Face? You have finally decided to start a blog on your favourite pass time, perhaps on photography.
Now, go ahead and type the keyword "photography" in any search engine.
In Google alone, there are 284 Million search results on "photography", also synonymous to the amount of competitors you would have to compete against.
In other words, you would need to fight your way pass 284 million competitors to be ranked in the first page.
Just look at my HowToBlog.
org.
Can you picture the amount of work I have put in just to expose my post to the netizens? Do You Have Enough Content For Your Niche Topic? After finding your niche, now what? You begin to plan.
Can you expand on your topic with contents for at least 3 times a week? Let's visualize these.
You are an enthusiast in photography and you have decided to blog on a niche called mountain top photography.
You went through your archive and started looking for your collections of mountain top snapshots.
How long could your site work and your information resources pave enough content for your blog? How much knowledge do you possess within yourself to be able to post in contents regularly? No doubt, there are various resources that you can tap on for information like Digg.
com, Technorati, Topix among others, but we are talking about regular first hand information here.
These information resources could help you when you are down with an occasional writer's block, but you can't keep relying on them for regular posting.
Your tech savvy audience will never grow if they found out that you are just feeding them second hand news.
Does Your Topic Offer You A Way To Connect With Your Audience? Human are social animals.
All of us love to mingle, either face to face or indirect chat forums.
Netizens loves to communicate via forums, and blogs are natural tool to connect with your peers via trackbacks and comments.
If you are good, you may even find your thoughts exposed in Social Medias like Twitter and Facebook.
Thus, your topic needs to offer an avenue to connect.
Be personal when you write about your trade.
Write as if you are talking to an audience in a round table.
Be passionate when you preach on your subject.
Be an authority on your subject.
Your target is to create a community of followers as your blog matures.