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This is part two in an ongoing series about how to start your own Niche Blog. To read the rest of the posts, check out the Niche Blogging 101 page.

This is the most important decision you will make as you begin the journey of developing a niche blog. How you make this decision will guide how interested and passionate about your blog and what kind of content it will have.

This should be the one thing that you think about the most before starting to niche blog.

The first question you need to ask yourself is:

What Interests You the Most?

What interests you the most? What do you spend your free time reading about? If you could do anything right at this moment, what would it be?

This is important because you have to be passionate about your topic. If you have no passion for your topic, you will not be interested in a grueling schedule of writing about it. Your passion for your interests needs to drive you to tell the whole world about it.

I’ll share my example to give you an idea.

What am I passionate about?

I’m obsessed with Great Britain. That makes me an Anglophile. I love traveling there, I love being there, I love the culture, the television, the news, everything. I love it so much I’d like to move there one day.

Not a day goes by that I don’t think about my passion for Britain. It only seemed logical to start a blog about it. I started Anglotopia about a year ago, and it’s been a huge success, quickly becoming the most popular Anglophile blog on the web.

It’s very hard work and I don’t think that I would have been able to keep the momentum going if I wasn’t so passionate about my niche. I’ve started other blogs where I only had a small interest in them and they failed.

You have to have passion in your topic for your blog to succeed

Don’t think about what niche will make you the most money at this stage. Think about your passion and do what you love, the success will come to
you.

No Hobby is Too Small

You probably didn’t know what an Anglophile was until you read this post. But that doesn’t mean there aren’t millions of us out there. Just because you like to spend your time collecting Civil War Confederate coins doesn’t mean there are thousands of people out there interested in the same thing.

There are six billion people on this planet, and chances are there are a few million people interested in the same things as you. That’s your audience.

Do you occasionally think: man I wish there was a website for this?

If you do, then Niche blogging about your passion is right for you.

What do you do once you find your passion?

It’s time to start thinking about what you’re going to write about. What kinds of posts will you be writing for the blog? What kind of content do you want to share? How often do you want to post?

Start writing all these things down. This brainstorming will become useful for the next Niche Blogging 101 Series Article: How to Research Your Niche Blog.