Blogging Without a Niche

I've seen this headline for a while and finally came and investigated- I needed to as I'd started to think Blogher was only about Mommy bloggers, and I'm not a mommyblogger or any kind of niche blogger.

At the most maybe Im a single person blogger. But I don't blog exclusively about being single, I also blog about teaching, and stupid things that happen to me in the "real" world.

Maybe I need to find these other nicheless bloggers as I just don't connect with the mommy bloggers and feel like I shouldn't be blogging on Blogher

This post just happens to be about dating. . but they're not always.

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Thanks for that post.

Stella x

I put myself in a "hiking" niche but you can only talk about hiking for so long so I often go off niche on my blog. Really its name says it all, CLOGS = Cathy's LOGs. I started it in 2002 just as a public journal.

I just invented my own niche and made it my tagline. LOL I'm glad I'm not the only one who doesn't fit a mold.

yep yep yep, i'm niche less too. when i was at blogher11 lots of people asked me what i write about, to which i replied honestly: life. each day i struggle where to put my blog post, where do i fit in? i loved this post!

Finally, I don't feel "odd" any more. I'm not quite sure whether it's because I'm new to blogging but I certainly don't think I have a niche. More ramblings from my world laced with a bit of Brit humour :)

nice post!!!

Nicheless and loving it! Having a niche is too much stress for me, which is the opposite of why I blog.

My blog is definitely nicheless. It's been around since 2000, has always been a journal/diary of sorts, and will remain that way. I just blog about what I feel led to share. :)

Thanks for this post. I would argue that niche-less blogs have created their own niche. I think a lot of new blogs are going the niche-less route because there is less pressure or feeling of obligation and maybe more fun to be had.

I have yet to find my niche, or do I even want to find one? I mostly write about my life, which is pretty eclectic. I'd rather be random and eclectic than have a blog about how many ways to bend a paper clip, though I heard that blog has a pretty good following. Thanks for posting this, makes me feel less alone in my un-pigeon holed blog.

I am a dabbler also--a bit of this, some more of that... Sometimes I have a Mommy Blog, some days Foodie, I've done book reviews, wine reviews, memes. I am a writer. That is my main goal -- to write. I am working on my novel and that is my first priority. Blogging is just for fun and to get my creative juices flowing.

I'll stay a ambivalent, niche-less girl...

boy oh boy did I need to read this today! I am an everything writer..I think if I had to do only a niche I would probably have about 6 blogs..LOL thanks so much and I will be hopping on over to SocialDirect!

Blessings

Shari

I hear all the time that I need to be more niche. Oddly enough, when I queried my regular readers, they all agreed that they like my site because they like the same things I do and know they can count on me to be entertaining and honest. If you care about you write about, others will see that.

I'm nicheless...I bounce from lifestyle to product reviews to recipes to book reviews to random thoughts. My take on it is that life doesn't follow a straight, one-subject line so why would my blog?

I'm nicheless and always have been. I also don't do ads or reviews or anything revenue-generating.

Those things have always set me apart from other blogs, but not other bloggers. I think our commonality is greater than our differences and I don't let it hold me back.

The only time I feel a little "off" is at BlogHer, because it focuses more on the niches than I'd like. I'd love it if there were a session on nicheless blogging at one of the conferences.

I'm stuck at trying to create a niche. I've probably started half a dozen blogs, only to discover that it's been covered by just about everyone else. That does not help my confidence in trying to get started.

my blog is nicheless! in fact, after 3.5 year, i think it finally found a little bit of an identity - but it's still a little bit of everything!

Who needs a niche?

I prefer to wing it...I'm thinking my niche will emerge, eventually.

Sexy Hubby is ALWAYS telling me I need a niche...however I don't want to be pigeon holed into a single genre. I wanna write about what I wanna write about - or photograph.

Does it affect my traffic/followers? Probably. But I'm not willing to change my style.

Thanks for bringing light to this dilemma!

Absolutely! I connect through the shared experience of blogging, but otherwise I just write about whatever strikes me.

That's me! I'm totally nicheless. As my tagline says, it's all about "Life as I know it." So that pretty much covers it all, eh? I just try to familiarize myself with all different genres of bloggers, reading and commenting and following, which will hopefully, in turn, lead them back to my little all-encompassing corner at some point.

I'm nicheless. Mine is just a journal-type blog of random things I come up with with, because it really started from my just wanting to write...anything. I've gained followers, mostly friends, because there is a certain randomness to it that appeals to some people. I look forward to reading SocialDialect's article.

I started out with a niche in technology and then got burnt out quickly. Now, I write about things that cross my mind, life, whatever it may be. I recently started this and don't have much of a following. If I have loyal readers, they certainly haven't made themselves known. I've been told that I should have a niche, that it seems like a personal blog. Maybe it is? However, I'm not writing every mundane detail of my life. I certainly won't be posting about every problem in every relationship, like I would do in my own journal. I want to be a writer. I'd love to be paid to write. Aside from being a mom, it is a major passion in life. Thank you for the links, I truly appreciate it.

I totally agree with your post, just because you don't have a particular neiche doesn't mean that people wont follow and read your blog, all i did was simply start up a blog for my company website and blogged in relation to stuff going on in my industry and it has gone very sucsessfully, great post, www.miltonkeynestreesurgery.co.uk