Choosing the right niche for your blog can be a tricky thing. You have to pick a topic that’s popular and potentially monetizable. You should be able to write a great deal on the topic as well, so it’s necessary to pick a topic with which you feel totally comfortable. This can be a taxing job for anyone, which is why we’ve provided 10 steps that’ll help you choose the perfect niche for your blog.

1. Make A List Of Topics You Know Well

Niche bloggers need to earn subject matter expertise in their chosen area and have the ability to research information. It’s important therefore to blog only on topics with which they are comfortable. Dig through your knowledge base, your hobbies, interests and pursuits and come up with a list of 15 topics for your niche blog.

2. Test The Topics For Longevity

Trendy topics such as current politics, policies and so on will not hold user interest over time. If you plan on monetizing your blog and building a name for yourself, you need a niche that will stand the test of time. Review your list of 15 topics and shortlist 10 or 8.

3. Perform Keyword Research To Check Niche Viability

Search engines index your site based on a number of factors, but primarily, they look for targeted keywords. Locate specific keywords that pertain to your niche topic shortlist using Wordtracker’s Keyword Universe tool.

4. Check If The Niches Are Popular Or Not

You need to know if people are going to like your blog once you’re up and ready. Run the keywords you isolated through Google Analytics to find out exactly how many people are searching for related topics. You can use this method to compare different topics and gauge the popularity of each one.

5. Check Out The Competition

Search for the most popular keywords from your isolated keyword list and check out the blogs that correspond to them. By doing this, you can find out 2 things; the popularity of certain niches, and the presence and density of competition in each area.

6. Fine-Tune Your Shortlist

Set aside those niche-specific keywords for which there are fewer competitors. Fine tune your shortlist of topics based on these results; at this point you should have no more than 5 topics on hand. You know that your final shortlist of topics will work in the blogosphere. There are few competitors, but the niches are popular and there’s scope for interest.

7. Check If The Markets Are Buying Markets

After your keyword research comes market research. Find out if the topics you’ve shortlisted are part of the buying market. Many bloggers who started blogging years ago started their blogs on a whim but found that it takes hard cash to sustain their blogs over time. There’s no point in doing all this research if your niche is not part of the buying market. Who knows, doing this exercise might even open up a few new ideas of niches for you.

8. Check Out Market Segmentation

If you have a number of popular keywords for your shortlisted topics, find out how segmented the market is. One of the most important steps in marketing is to divide your audience based on their interests. You can then craft a customized, targeted message to grab more eyeballs.

For example, if you want to blog about movies, find out how many people are searching for “top movies 2011”, or “download movies 2011”. If more people are interested in watching movies and talking about them than downloading them for free, a blog targeting movie fans will probably get you more traffic.

9. Further Fine Tune Your Short List

Review all your research up to this point. At this point, we suggest that you create a worksheet with the following columns: Niche Topic, Popularity (out of 10), Competition, Keywords, Audience Segmentation, and Monetizability Scope. Bring your shortlist down to 3 or 2 from 5. Make sure you document every aspect of your process in your worksheet. You never know when you might need to start another blog or take up a different niche.

10. Follow Chosen Niche Blogs ON Social Media Sites

Make a list of the blogs that correspond to your shortlist of 3 and follow them via social media. Find out how each blog is faring. Study their posts regularly and subscribe to their feeds. Take a few days time and pick the niche that’s most successful out of your list of three. Now you’ve done everything you could to pick the best niche. You know your niche is popular, the competition is bearable, you know your audience, you know the keywords to target, you know who your biggest competitors are and therefore who to network with. In short, you have all the info you need to start the blog.

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Nowadays is the most popular entry point for online visitors.If you have a blog with huge traffic, you should build your mailing list via your blog.

If you haven’t  start your email marketing campaign,I’ll recommend you to start your email marketing campaign using  email marketing company like Aweber or any other.

If you’re ready to set up a powerful tool to improve your email marketing efforts, I’ve got you covered on how to do it and how it helps.

How Blog Can Improve Your Mailing Campaign

The blog broadcast feature makes it easy for you to reap the benefits of integrating your blog with email marketing. Here are some of the benefits:

Increase Signups

If you’re getting a lot of traffic to your blog, that’s another opportunity to ask visitors to join your mailing list! Whether your blog is your website or just a part of it, you want to have a form available for potential subscribers to enter their information. If you’re using WordPress, you can integrate Emailing list webform on your blog.

You can put up the emailing list subscriber form under the blog post, and on the blog sidebar.

Increase interaction with your site

Your blog content gives your subscribers more to interact with. You can set up the blog post to include a “Read More” link to get subscribers to click through to the website in order to see the rest of the post.

Communicate a more personal tone

Your blog can read as if you’re addressing a friend, so a blog post can give your company the chance to set a more friendly tone.

Provide more content for your emails

The blog post will allow you to send regular content to your subscribers. However, even if you don’t use the blog broadcast tool you can still integrate with your blog.

Start Contests or Giveaways to Interact Your Blog Reader

You can start blog contest on your blog for improve your email campaign.Ask your blog readers to signup via email and get free ebook or any other gift hampers.This way you can get more and more subscribers to your mailing list.

Note: If you want to build your online mailing list, you can try it with USD $ 1

Writing is a creative art and you can only churn out good quality blog posts when the mind, eyes, and body is relaxed, because the peace of mind will allow a good flow of words and ideas. With digital technology, people now find it extremely easy to research and write simultaneously on their PC or laptop. Thanks to these devices like desktop, laptop, tablets, and smart-phones, registers and note pads are nearly eradicated from the life of writers. But those who occasionally go back to this classic medium of writing will agree that writing with pen and paper has its own plus points.

Let’s compare each of the writing mediums and see which one is the best!

Desktop

Desktop PC’s are probably the most commonly used medium of writing at the moment for bloggers. You can imagine bloggers sitting on their chairs, staring at a huge CRT monitor or LCDs and typing away. The desktop offered speed and ease of use. But as the people start to spend more and more time on their chairs in front of PC, the problems arise. For example, you can’t carry your PC everywhere; you have got to stay on your chain in a particular room in order to use it. A full time blogger, who need to sit for hours doing the research and writing, has to endure backaches and eye strain after some time, and that’s the point when writers have to move on to laptop, that they can carry around.

Laptops

Laptop, as we all know is a small, portable computer but equally powerful and even more capable. You can just sit around anywhere and you don’t have to worry about wires and input devices like mouse or keyboard. Thanks to laptop, you can now blog while sitting in a coffee shop, at a local restaurant, from your lawn, in the garden, on the couch, you name it! No more strain for your back, still, the eye strain is pretty much there. Besides, this “carrying around” and “sitting anywhere” has a constraint known as battery timing. Also, despite being much more portable than a desktop PC, a laptop is still not as light weight and easy to carry as a smart phone, which is next in our list.

Smart-phones

Though not as powerful and capable as the desktop or laptop (but with the kind of progress in the smart phone technology, you bet they will be) still the smart-phone comes across as a handy device for people who like to be able to take notes or even type rough drafts of posts anywhere. Smart phone gives them the ultimate portability, and not only writing but they can access their blogs and even publish from the smart phones. All is good? Not really, because there are times when you get just tired of typing, pressing keys and trying to focus at a screen, no matter if it is a desktop PC, laptop, or smart phone LCD. That’s the time when going back to good old combo of “pen and paper” can prove to be a blessing in disguise.

The classic means – Pen and Paper

No matter how advance the technology gets, but nothing will beat the nostalgic feeling that we get from writing on a paper with pen (just like an ebook reader can hardly replace a real paper book for people belonging to old school). At times, you might find your writer’s block going away as soon as you sit down with a pen and paper to write. There’s a certain charm and that’s the reason why you will still see some people keeping personal diaries instead of digital diaries.

Desktop vs. Laptop vs. Smartphone vs. Registers

You can’t really let go of desktop PC as it is still the best option for complex stuff, like video editing or graphics designing, when you are looking to do lots of work quickly, and multitasking, you can always count on the desktop PC to give optimal performance. However, it is damaging to your health if you sit for too long on a desktop, especially if you are writing, because it involves a lot of mind work.

Portability and performance are the laptop strong points. The only issue is probably of battery timing. Also, you cannot sit with laptop on your lap for hours, but for a quick post that doesn’t require lots of research, laptop is best.

The smart-phone can be carried around and used for jotting down ideas or rough drafts that you can use for writing on a laptop or desktop later. But of course there are some constraints, short keys being the biggest one. Typing is far from being comfortable and so is the browsing.

Pen and paper is still an ideal choice if you want to write something that is truly close to your heart, and doesn’t require references and internet surfing. But remember, you will still have to type it, because as of now, there’s no device that allows you to post your article from a piece of paper to your blog.

Today is our 12th day of WordPress Master 25 Days program.

If your are visiting this blog first time or you have missed any one unit of WordPress master 25 Days program then you must read previous units which I have compiled in single post.

• My 7 Days at WordPress Master 25 Program

Today is our 12th Day of WordPress Master 25 Days Pro.I know how important is Search Engine Optimization for any blog to get the traffic,Search Engine Friendly Url optimization is one of the SEO part of your blog.Here you can find the tips on Search Engine friendly urls customization.

Day #12: How To Customize Search Engine Friendly Urls

Step:#1

Login to the Admin panel of your WordPress blog.

Step #2:

Click on Permalinks under the Setting tab on the dashboard.

See the image below:

You’ll find following url structure under default which is not search engine friendly url.We can say it “Ugly”.It doesn’t look nice.

http://example.com/?p=N

Then how to choose your own Search Engine friendly Url ?

It is very simple to choose your own Search engine friendly url.Follow the steps to optimize Search Engine friendly Urls of your blog.

1. Go on Permalinks Setting under the setting tab on your admin panel.
2. Check the Radio Button of “Custom Structure” and fill the following Tags:

/%postname%.html

3. Click on Save.

View the following image carefully:

Urls of your blog posts will be optimized for Search Engines by following the previous steps which have mentioned in this post.

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Are you among those who manage more than one WordPress blog? Managing blogs can be tiring at times.Vladimir has come up with a solution to your problems.You can now manage multiple blogs from one centralized dashboard using ManageWP.

Getting started with ManageWP is easy as you first set up an account, add your blogs and then manage them from a single centralized dashboard.

To add blogs to ManageWP you first need to install Manage WP Worker plugin to WordPress blog which you want to manage and then add the blog URL,username and password in the dashboard of ManageWP.

No doubt that it is great tool with which you can manage your WordPress blogs conveniently from a single dashboard but what about the security issues?

According to the Privacy Policy ManageWP has modern security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse, and alteration of the information of the users.You can check about the Privacy Policy yourself.

From the dashboard of ManageWP you can upgrade your plugins, add new themes,edit posts or write a new blog post for your multiple blogs with a click of mouse.

I tried ManageWP in one of my blog and found it quite useful.But i am not in a favor of providing the login details to third party as if the security of ManageWP is compromised then it will affect the security of my blog.For bloggers who are concerned about the security of their blogs Vladimir is coming up with a self hosted version of ManageWP.If you want to get the notification of self hosted version you can can fill up the form.

What do you think about ManageWP? Are you going to use it? Do share!

Having a mobile plugin for your blog has become very essential these days as many visitors now a days are surfing blogs from mobile browsers.

To retain your your blog readers and to keep up to the trend of growing mobile readers it is necessary that you use mobile plugins for your blog.

Which plugin you are using for your mobile blog?

There is a plugin called Mobile Press which is a free open source WordPress plugin which makes your blog look great on iPhone or other mobile device.

Mobile Press plugin has an easy user interface where you can create your own theme for different mobile browsers.You also have the flexibility to decide when you want to show your mobile blog.Interesting isn’t it?

The plugin has a support forum where you can clarify your doubts. Mobile Press plugin also supports ads and analytics where you can show targetted ads to your mobile blog from networks such as Admob, Buzzcity and inMobi to name a few.

Download Mobile Press Plugin.