Determine How focused your website or blog will be when selecting a niche

It is amazing how many opinions there are when it comes to selecting a niche for a website or a blog.  It seems that if it is a free blog or free hosted website people go for a really tightly focused niche since it is more there to point back to another website and at least no money is spent on hosting or domain registration, but what about your main or secondary website or blog?  How focused would you have it? You'd at least have a custom domain and you'd likely be paying for hosting if it is your main website asset.  In this article, I'm sharing my ideas. Please share yours in the comments and poll.

A niche is just the topic you limit your website, blog, wiki,etc. People normally prefer websites or blogs that are about specific topics not about whatever. The more specific you are, the more likely you'll get loyal readers since they won't get turned off by other topics they don't like.

Niche marketing typically refers to marketing with a very small and very focused niche since those sites typically rank well for their specific keywords.

Can you really write many articles or posts about your niche?

Is your niche small enough to keep your website from being confusing?

Do you like all sub-topics of your nice or is there one in particular that you are passionate about?

Is this website for the short term or will it be a long term asset that you will want to leverage for related work?

Do you have enough experience and knowledge to make your niche stand out?

Personally, I don't like very small niches. I think it is very expensive to buy multiple domain names for little websites and if you have a self hosted you'll spend extra time keeping your blog or website software up-todate or worse you'll take extra time setting up html templates.

A more general website is great cost-wise since you just need one domain for various topics and you could always add subdomains to divide up special topics into their own sites as time goes on.  

It does however seem to take longer to get good keyword rankings in the search engines since there is more competition in general niche websites and blogs.  Good luck working online!