Niche blogs are mini blogs/websites that are designed specifically to appeal to a very specific niche. Due to the size of the internet and the amount of content out there, niche blogs tend to be VERY specific.
My other website, JavaScript Workshop could be considered a niche blog, but I expanded it to cover other topics other than “JavaScript”, but that is the general idea. This blog you are reading now is a niche blog.
Look at the top 100 blogs as tracked by Technorati.com and you’ll find that the majority of them have a defined niche. Some niches are wider than others—but in nearly all cases they’ve carved out a niche for themselves.
There are many reasons why choosing a niche is important to building a successful blog, but here are a few (10 to be exact).
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