{"id":163,"date":"2012-08-20T03:32:37","date_gmt":"2012-08-20T03:32:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jeffwoodonline.com\/?p=163"},"modified":"2023-04-09T04:49:30","modified_gmt":"2023-04-09T11:49:30","slug":"how-to-set-up-a-blog-and-forum-picking-your-topic-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeffwoodonline.com\/blog\/163\/how-to-set-up-a-blog-and-forum-picking-your-topic-2\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Set Up A Blog And Forum \u2013 Picking Your Topic"},"content":{"rendered":"

For a list of articles in this series, go here: How To Set Up A Blog and Forum Article Index<\/a><\/p>\n

Welcome to part three\u00a0of How To Set Up A WordPress Blog And Forum<\/strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

I meant to write this sooner after the last one, but I was unable to get to it before today. I intend to write this series about every week or so, but I wanted to get you going a tad sooner.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s quite a difference of opinion when picking a topic for a blog about whether you should find a viable market to blog about or whether you should blog about your hobbies or interests.<\/p>\n

I agree with one of my colleges when he said it depends. Some people can take a topic that they aren\u2019t interested in and write about it with no problem where other people will get bored and stop putting their best efforts into it.<\/p>\n

So if you can write about a topic you have no passion about, then find a market but if both things are equal to you then I\u2019d give more consideration to what interests you. If you can\u2019t see yourself blogging beyond a few months then you really are better off going for what interests you.<\/p>\n

For our blog and forum exercise we will be using the topic of fishkeeping<\/a>. I was looking into affiliate products of another nature when I ran across this one. As I mentioned in the last post it was a former hobby of mine and I miss it. I used to keep both freshwater and marine (saltwater) tanks.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s one of the few hobbies I had where I actually spent a lot of time reading about it. I used to subscribe to a magazine and I read almost every article in it each month. Yeah, I knew my way around. I can\u2019t keep a fish tank in the apartments I live in, so I will have to live vicariously.<\/p>\n

Since we have a topic, next we will do some basic marketing research. I am not an expert and I don\u2019t claim to be. Again, this is more for my passion than my wallet so I\u2019m mainly doing this exercise for any of you who know less about research than I do.<\/p>\n

I will set this up even if it\u2019s an abysmal market because it\u2019s an active hobby. And I want to walk you through something that\u2019s exciting to me.<\/p>\n

Now I don\u2019t have time in this article to do the marketing or keyword research and I don\u2019t want each post to be a mini-novel, so we will save that for next time.<\/p>\n

– Jeffery<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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