4) Is your niche blog friendly?
With everyone blogging about something today, you probably don't want to end up being one of the invisible and rarely visited blogs about something static and not interesting.
Due to their nature, blogs are best to cover dynamic and ever-changing areas of our life. That's why it is important for you to make sure that the niche you'll be blogging in is dynamic enough. You will want to have a natural flow of ideas and news for your blog, and unless your topic is popular and dynamic, you will run out of ideas faster than you think.
5) Have you done your research?
We all are unique human beings, and quite often we get amazing ideas worth living and dying for, but please don't take it for granted that you're the first one to blog about your topic. Chances are, you're not even in the first hundred! But here is the key: being the first to blog about something doesn't mean being the best authority on the topic. What I mean by this is that there are many topics which are greatly covered by hundreds of blogs, yet only a handful of these are considered to be authorities in the field.
With great content and determination, you can always join the ranks of authorities, but depending on the niche it may take you longer than just a few months. For most niches, it takes years to become really popular and trusted.
That's why it is important for you to do your research and estimate your chances of becoming a leading blog in your niche (providing that's one of your original goals).
6) Have you got enough content to start with?
Starting a new blog is always a commitment. If it's not your first one, you will probably have an idea of how much of your time it will require for you to maintain yet another blog. But if you're thinking of starting your very first blog, your estimations are practically bound to be wrong.
In any case, it is always a good idea to have enough content to start with. Write at least 10 posts, so that you can regularly post them while working out your blogging routine and coming up with new posts. The idea behind this is that if something goes different from your plan, you will have a number of posts to cover the delay until you're ready to go on with posting new articles.
The more content you have before you start your blog, the better. Please take your time and prepare full posts, ready to be posted at any minute. Don't count raw ideas or sketches as ready posts – these will need more of your time before you can post. What you need is a number of polished-off articles waiting for you to click the Publish button.
This concludes the second part of my Questions To Ask Yourself Before Starting A Blog series. Please feel free to let me know your answers to the above questions, or suggest more questions which you believe to be important for any blogger.
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