I come up with random ideas and like to write about them all the time. Or sometimes I just like to say what's on my mind. Or sometimes I like to do reviews. It just goes on and on. How can I put these all onto one site successfully? If I were to make all of them a niche to their own website, I would just be making new websites all day and each of them would have only one post, because I don't want to write anymore else about the subject. What do you think?
If all you want is a site to just write what you want you should use a free blogging platform, such as blogger.com or wordpress.com. As for being successful, it depends what you make of it yourself. There are bloggers out there that just blog about what ever comes to their minds and they are doing ok for themselves.
People on here will say you can write a mixed bag blog and still be successful as along as you write good content. Well, as someone who has tried this before, I'm here to tell you that advice like this is complete B.S.! It can't be done. You need to pick a niche and write about that topic only. When your blog is as famous as John Chow's, then you can veer off and post pictures about what you ate at your local restaurant the night before. Until then, no one will care and no one will want to visit your web site, even if you're actually writing good content. Pick one general topic and focus on that.
I guess if you wrote a good post about whatever, it may have a chance to hit the digg front page.. But it'll be only a one time burst, I agree, a totally random blog doesn't really have great prospects on financial success ;/ You can still do it as a hobby or a way of getting to know new people (especially after some time, with the help of search engines ;D)
Ah no - I have tried this before. It just is not possible to have a sustained readership if the blog has several topics that are not even remotely related. I had tried this when I started blogging, and I could not gather much readers. But after a duration of blogging, I zeroed in on a niche, and started an Art blog. It is doing pretty well after a year now. But I understand that you do have a drive to keep writing on what your mind fancies. I would advice you to go for a personal blog, not worry about making it successful, and just blog there. After a month or so, you will notice where your expertise is, and from analyzing the traffic, you will know which one has market demand. That overlapping area, is where you have to start a new niche blog.
I don't see the benefit in being all over the place. Although John Chow is random at times. If you have good content that you can produce and continue to then you have a competitve advantage at least in my eyes.
A lot of people write about a variety of things, just have about 10 catrgories or something, on-top of this you could even include a misc category. However obviously you will get one-time visitors that find you in SERPS rather than repeat visitors as all your posts are about different topics therefore one post will suit some people and another post will suit others. So yes this type of blog can be successful if you can get to rank high in SERPS you can recieve a lot of one-time visitors.
I was facing the same problem, Actually i wanted a blog free tips including health tips , beauty tips, home tips and many more tips. And i covered everything at my blog www.neerali.com . Visit my blog you may get some idea.
Your blog must be niche specific and you must have strong authority in your field at this time readers will enjoy your non niche specific talk. I personally ask you, do you read these kind of blogs? I don't hope so...
I'm sure you could, but it would involve a godly amount of work and promotion. I'm talking - tons of original authority articles that are filled with value, tons of backlinks, especially from authority sites in the same market, etc. You'd have to out-SEO your competitors, too.
If you are doing this for personal enrichment, go ahead. But if you are doing this as a money making venture, please save yourself the time and headache. It doesn't work.
Even with something like this that involves different industries, it sounds like the blog still centers around a niche, which is "free tips". For the OP, an idea like this would be your best bet to focus on one niche but still be able to blog about all kinds of things.