have been building sites and blogs for 7 or 8 years I have purchased many domains and started many sites none very successful. Average 6000 unique visits daily and a daily adsense average of $6.00 from my best site. I have many ideas for sites and blogs but not one I am super passionate about. I want to settle on just one site and go full tilt with the knowledge I have now and start and build a quality site BUT!!!... No matter how many hundreds of ideas I come up with I just cant settle on one. Any advice how to do this. Have you found that great idea you are passionate about?
Given your experience level you probably know more about this than I do. I'd imagine that, given two things you're equally passionate about, you're better off picking the thing you can ramble on more about. If you think you can ramble on about each equally, I'd probably pick the one with more commercial interest (so if you're trying to decide between a blog about tree frogs and a blog about pizza, it's probably easier to commercialize the pizza one with higher paying ad placements.)
yes I am on the fence between two. One the traffic is worth less and harder to monetize but I would have endless unique and high quality posts. the other direction would make good money but with limited posts and not endless ideas. if the traffic for the last idea was worth 10 times as much Im still not sure if it would be better than endless content?
Ask your offline friends and family what they think is your favorite subject, or better yet ask them what they think you talk too much about! Whatever the answer is i bet its something you would have allot to blog about!
maybe go for a more broad type of blog. I'm not sure what your two topics are but maybe if they are somehow related you can write about both. for example: If you love to sew and you love to build furniture then a DIY blog can have anything from sewing crafts to carpentry type projects and everything in between. This will give you endless posts to write about and can include both subjects you love. Is there anyway you can turn your blog into one that can have both topics?
mgjohn: My main site I do not tell my friends and family what the content is about. lol. I feel like when I know the people that are reading my site I hold back and dont let my true perverse nature shine. But I can always go with the site I think to myself about the most. well one has border line adult topics and content that adsense would not allow. the other is fine for adsense so cannot combined the two. as well I feel like a narrower niche helps to rank my site better. I have had a pretty general site in the past and was difficult to rank
I would go with the one you feel more passionate about. I think if you go with the one that just makes money you will burn out a lot quicker. On the other hand, many people have two blogs! Try writing both. If it becomes too much then go with the one you like more. You could also have a link to your second blog in the corner. You might be able to get away with it in Adsense, who knows?
it depends on what you really like! .. you need to dig deeper and start being a lot more detailed with what you really want to spend your days writing about! Ask questions. Pull out a notebooks and brainstorm. Get creative. Do your research. And use a lot of imagination. I hope this helps! Cheers!
all great advice. pick the one I am most passionate about and I can write endless valuable unique content about. I only have time for one quality site and have decided on the one who's traffic is worth the least but I wont burn out on the topic. maybe I will share the link after the site is born and grows a bit. thanks all
My suggestion: Pick the topic that you find the most interesting. Come up with 5 Categories for that topic. Write 10 blog post titles for each category. Write a summary for each title. If you can do that, then you are headed in the right direction.