http://www.falsefacts.info I (along with several other people) believe that my blog's niche is just too broad. Is this okay? What sort of negative effects will this incur? And in terms of search engines, will I be able to attain a high PR and gain a steady flow of traffic? Thanks in advance.
First of all, your blog looks very sharp. You do raise an interesting question. When you asked it, my answer was no but when I saw your site, your questioner does have merit. You should check out stevepavlina.com He has a very general blog but has some focus. Read his stuff. It's good. I think right now it is too broad, but if you beef it up a bit and have hundreds of things on there you can start top categorize them. Don't give up. These things take time. Cheers, SiteBetter.com
I think you have a great site, that could easily go viral in the hands of a couple of people spreading your site. I personally found it very entertaining and bookmarked you. With the right kind of publicity your site could take off. I would recommend you add tags and categories as suggested above. I would also consider an option for users to get your blog posts delivered by email using something like feedblitz... Good Luck...look forward to your future posts...
First off, don't worry about page rank - it will come. I like your idea and don't think it is too broad. You need to do some keyword research and start building baclinks with appropriate anchor text to be successful. good luck!
To be honest it is a very tough niche, on top of that it will be VERY hard for you to compete because of your domain extension. The .info is a secondary domain extension which will rank behind .com, .net, .org, .edu. .gov, etc. If I were you I would not waste a lot of time on it and start another blog in a smaller niche with a .com or other major extension.
Experiment with lots of link bait posts - about common myths, misconceptions, and so forth, especially anything that has recently been covered in magazines, TV, and on the news. People will be actively searching for this info and will visit related pages on your site. Then you have to monetize your visitors - which you need to think about in broad ways. For instance, let's say someone on Good Morning America or whatever is on TV talking about their latest diet program. If you can find info that debunks some of what they are stating about their program, and post the false facts about it, but also place affiliate links so that visitors can buy the product or a better, related product, you'll make sales. Dan
Its very important for the website owners that they regularly update with fresh content and collect backlinks from the relevant websites. If you are doing this, your blog will never die.
Wow! Thanks for all the responses. I really should have picked a .net domain instead, but I thought .info would be better suited (and cheaper). I will, of course, continue to add content, just not today since I'm sort of busy. We'll see how this works out.