I have quite a few sites involving niches and its hard work getting it where it needs to be. There are times when I want to create a general topic type of blog. How effective would "I hate politics" "I love blank" type of blog sit with the general web visitors? A general topic could bring anybody to post instead of a certain niche. I want it to do well, but it wouldn't be a I need X amount of $ to make it successful
First of all "I hate politics" type of blog wouldn't be general type: it would be niche - about politics. Think how would you like that blog? Would you like to tell others about some random dude writing general thoughts? One day he would write about his dogs, and the next day he talks about terrorism and the next about cancer. Then celebrities. That kind of blog that "gives something for everybody", actually comes "nothing to anybody". Just think about it - if there would be a blog that's specialized in "politics+dogs+cars". And then there are 3 different other blogs that one focuses on "politics", another focuses on "dogs", and the last focuses on "cars" - naturally individuals would visit these more focussed blogs since they wouldn't contain stuff that they aren't interested in. Naturally it's okay to have a certain specific point-of-view. For example, you could simply have "why X are good for life", and then replace X with any theme you want (like "why POLITICS is good for life", "why DOGS are good for life" and so on - in this case your focus would be "why something is good for life", only the "category" would change, but the point-of-view would remain. I've used this to write posts like game production lesson from Wayne Gretzky and Game production lessong from Boris Jeltsin. While ice hockey or russian politics has pretty much nothing to do with game production directly - there are lessons that I can use in game production. Perhaps you could come up with a viewpoint you like - and then build on that?