Many blogging experts out there always tell people that “Don’t blog about blogging, don’t blog about money making and don’t blog about technology stuffs”. Why? This is because these niches are all saturated, meaning there are already too much blogs that are blogging about these topics.
I can see this and I think you can see it as well. Despite all the advice on not to tap a saturated topic, there are a significant amount of such blogs in the blogosphere. Why is it that the niche is already competitive and yet people are still jumping into the red blood ocean? I will share with you the reasons on why people tap saturated niche in this post.
Reader’s Interest
Even if there are a lot of blogs on this issue, people are always reading these stuffs. This can be easily observed. Look at all those MAKE MONEY ONLINE ads, they get clicks. Try posting a comment by the name of Make Money Online at some big blogs out there and see how much traffic you will get.
Even if you are not on top of the crop, you will still be getting traffic easily, search engine wise or marketing wise. I don’t see there will be a slowdown on the birth of blogs covering the saturated niche as long as these fields are the ones that people are interested in, especially money.
Easy Info Acquisition
Due to the fact that a saturated niche is covered by a lot of blogs, most of the information is readily available online and what you need to do is just adding your views on it, viola, and a brand new posts can be published.
Most of the people out there are blogging for money and trying to find an easy way to build up their blog for different purposes. Targeting a saturated niche is just right for them. Remember the sploggers which I previously mentioned? They too are targeting some of the most saturated niche like blogging and Internet.
Network
Remember all the marketing ways like commenting on other blogs and build up a peer relationship with peer bloggers taught to you by other bloggers? Well, when a niche is saturated, the network and peers that are in the same interest as yours will be a lot. This makes blogs that you find suitable for you to comment are a lot and marketing can become easier.
The best part of it is that because many people joined these niches everyday, you can easily find new bloggers that you can build the peer relationship with.
Advertisers
A niche like how to blog and money making is linking everything together at the end. Let me tell you how. People love money. Lots of advertisers will be publishing those money making tools using Google Adsense or through direct ad sales. These advertisers are looking for blogs that are contextual with their ads and because if this blogs in such niches are chosen.
To get all the attractive money offered by these advertisers and sellers, you will need to have a blog on these topics. Look at all the banner ads and affiliate banners out there and you will know what I mean. With this, people is jumping onto the bandwagon to get such advertisements on their blogs.
Fun
Do you know some people have that competitive attitude where they just like to compete with others? I am not labeling all of them of them are doing this for this purpose but my feeling is telling me that some people will do the following (just an example):
A posted a stats of earnings, for example WidgetBucks (which is quite hot), B will look and benchmark the stats and in a few days time, an earnings stats will pop out on B’s blog, showing that his WidgetBucks widget is performing better than A. Do you like to compete?
Are you blogging on a saturated niche? Why are you in it? I admit I do because you are reading something about blogging on this blog. A personal journal blog is not saturated. Every person’s life is different and it is worth reading as long as it is interesting, I love reading these blogs! Do you have anything to add to the above?
