There comes a time when every blogger wants to share something about what is going on in their personal life. Although this can be good, it can also be bad for a blog focused on a specific niche. It is just a matter of how you go about it. Let’s go over the good and bad of blogging about your personal life.
Instead of spoiling you with the positive benefits that blogging about personal life topics on a niche based blog has, we will give you the negative effects that this can have.
If you have spent a little time looking into how SEO works, you know how Google checks your website for relevance depending on your main topic. You want to make sure that you don’t blog about your personal life on a niche based blog too much. This can hurt how relevant Google deems your blog to be. You definitely DO NOT want this to happen. After all, a good search engine ranking is the best thing any blog or website can have.
Microblogging is simply the form of posting small pieces of content on the Internet. There are websites that are dedicated to microblogging. A couple of these websites are Twitter and Jaiku. Microblogging is usually done from a mobile phone or instant messaging device. This makes it quick and easy to post a short statement or question while promoting your blog(s).
There are benefits and disadvantages that are attached to microblogging. As this concept is fairly new, it still is not perfect and this is where the disadvantages come into play. We’ll save that for last though, let’s get into the many benefits of microblogging.
Microblogging is a great addition to your current blog(s). You can encourage readers to check out one of your latest blog posts by providing a short description of it with a link. This is to be done using websites that are devoted to making it possible to use the art of microblogging. The character limit that Twitter has put into place forces bloggers or anyone posting a message to get their point across real quick. This helps to show your readers what is going on and assures you that you don’t lose their attention. You can also allow your readers to keep tabs on your current projects by posting updates that use microblogging to get the point across. You can also use microblogging to provide a link to interesting content that is available via the Internet.
Twitter can be rather useful for SEO as its Google pagerank at the time of this article is 8/10. Just to throw in some information to those that are interested, the Alexa rank for Twitter at the time of this article is 591. How can you benefit from the pagerank of Twitter? Many of the user status pages receive good pagerank as well since they are provided with a URL in the form of http://www.twitter.com/username. If you want to build your brand name, which most bloggers love the opportunity to do this, using a microblogging website like Twitter or Jaiku is a great way to do this. Not only will you have the possibility of gaining more readers from them finding you on Twitter or Jaiku, you can also encourage your current readers to read your blog posts more often.
Its important to know your friends but its crucial to know your competitors, your success depends on your comeptitor’s growth compared to your growth. constant improvements are a big factor in a blog’s success. Blogger’s learn from their past mistakes and better themselves by improving themselves on those particular mistakes and making better contnet or mantaining their business plan better.This is what I’ve learned from my analysis of all of my competitors and similar blogs in this niche.
The who, what and where
Who’s your competitor,
Whats his background in the niche
Does he have the proper experience and the skills to be better at it? t
What has he done in the niche so far,
Has he proven himself as an authority within the niche,
Where is the blogger based from,
What platform he uses,
What theme style he has taken up,
What strategies he uses,
Where he advertises,
What he uses to market his blog
Those are the things you should know and learn from and maybe even embrace them yourselves, copying content is illegal but copying tactics and strategies is not.Its okay if you use the strategies used by the successful to be successful.
Microblogging is a great addition to your current blog(s). You can encourage readers to check out one of your latest blog posts by providing a short description of it with a link. This is to be done using websites that are devoted to making it possible to use the art of microblogging. The character limit that 
