Different topics in single blog

Discussion in 'Search Engine Optimization' started by sprabhu, Feb 22, 2009.

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    would it be fine to write posts on different topics like health, tech, electronic, shopping and many more on a single blog.

    Give you suggestions ?
     
    sprabhu, Feb 22, 2009 IP
  2. vinogradov

    vinogradov Active Member

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    If you seperate them correctly it is possible. But dont make them all mix and match on the front page, make your Blog display the announcements on the front page so you dont confuse people
     
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    cipals15 Well-Known Member

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    It is your right to choose what to post on your blog. Thus, you can create several topics in one blog.
     
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    if you want to monetize it, try to choose single niche. or you can have subdomain for each topic :D
     
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    eric_wahlberg Well-Known Member

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    You can write it, but first your blog will face identity crisis and second thing it would be hard to optimize.

    People visiting your blog will become confuse what's your blog is all about.

    It's better to write on a particular niche rather than on multiple topics in a single blog.
     
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    It is very much possilble. But as others said one single niche is always good for monetize.
     
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    Yeah focus your efforts on one niche if you want to monetize it properly. If you spread yourself too thin you will end up shooting yourself in the foot.
     
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    try seperating them into catergories better pr rank
     
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    I don't think it's a good idea. It will be much harder monetize a non niche blog.
    Your AdSense ads will be totally unrelated (especially on the homepage) and your CTR will suffer.
    For affiliate marketing you won't be able to run sitewide banners, etc.
     
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    Well, actually I do very well with a few sites where I have tons of unrelated categories. Business, women's fashion, health, self-improvement, electronics, fitness, weight loss - all this can be covered within one site. The key is to develop a theme or reason why you are including all these different things on your site. I usually make mine review type sites. It would make sense that on a review site you'd be reviewing lots of different things. Or you could make it a product announcement/product news site and each time you create a new page include a bit of text about a cool product and a link out to the product. There's tons of ways to do it.

    True, your site won't be recognized as belonging to one narrow niche, but there are many times when a broader site is perfectly fine and fun to publish. Profitable, too, if you do it right.

    You will have to build links to your inner pages so that you can get ranking across a variety of niches. So you'll need to build backlinks to your weight loss pages (or better yet, have one index page where you post links to your weight loss pages and get backlinks to that weight loss index page.) And then you'd have to get backlinks to other inner pages, too.

    If you target low hanging fruit - i.e. non competitive keywords - you'll be able to grab plenty of organic traffic to your pages even if you're writing about lots of unrelated stuff.

    I know what I'm telling you goes against the grain of what many SEO experts preach, but truth is, broader sites with multiple niches or product categories can do just fine.

    I have a mixture of sites where I target things from a narrow to an extremely broad focus.

    The narrow ones might target just one product, or one small line of products within a niche.

    The broadly focused ones I build more as directory sites - think of all the information categories that a site like ezinearticles has. That's what I'm talking about. Only instead of posting informative articles, I post reviews and links to a specific recommended product. Conversions are great.

    Just make sure to get a fair amount of backlinks from high page rank sites (doesn't matter what niche the site is about) and you'll be fine.

    Dan
     
    dangregory, Feb 22, 2009 IP