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This article discusses a topic that is at the root of having a successful and profitable blog - choosing the proper niche.

Blogs may have originated as a means of keeping online journals and building a sense of community, however; the use of this blogging model doesn't provide much benefit for the online entrepreneur.

Unless your kids are much cuter than every other bloggers' or you are an amazingly interesting person with some tremendous writing talents, your personal blog will get lost in the chorus of voices that crowd the blogosphere. So if your plan is to make your blog produce an income, you'll need to select the proper topic to focus your blogging efforts upon.

Finding a profitable topic on which to blog is at the very root of blogging success, so the idea is to choose a niche in which you can compete with the other millions of bloggers, but be able to do so with the least amount of resistance. Your goal is to find a niche that is underserved - yet has a high level of interest. This will enable you to attract large amounts of visitors more easily, which, of course, translates into higher profit levels.

There are a few factors to consider when choosing a niche for a "money blog." First, you need to find an area in which you have a personal interest, especially if you plan on writing your own content. The reason your first choice should be a subject that you're interested in is because a successful blog requires regular updates. If you have no real interest in the topic you're blogging about, regularly producing quality information will begin to feel like a "chore."

Secondly, you should search for a niche in which the public's interest is at least relatively high. You may be able to get top rankings in the search engines for the topic of "the mating habits of a slug," but most likely there are few, if any, people with an interest in that subject. Therefore that number one ranking in Google will not produce the kind of traffic stream your blog will need to turn a profit. It may be more difficult to enter a more competitive marketplace, but the potential rewards are far greater if you can break into a niche with 'healthy competition.' The key to this element of choosing your topic is not just blogging about a hot niche, its finding a target market from which a large number of visitors can be received.

Last, but certainly not least, you want to find a market that is undeserved. Basically you are looking for a strong disparity between the number of people interested in a particular topic and the amount of available information on the topic. If you can find a niche in which many people are interested - but in which readily available information is lacking - you will be sitting upon a potential blogging gold mine. That's not to say you can't produce a profitable blog by competing in a crowded market but doing so requires alot more work. Finding an underserved market and filling the gap in that market is a much easier way to "blog your way to wealth."

Choosing a topic for your moneymaking blog can be a challenging process. However; your choice of a topic not only establishes the nature of your blog, it also determines its potential for success.

Since 1998 Sharon Bray-McPherson has been bringing quality home business opportunities, products and services to newbies and seasoned marketers through her website at http://www.go2sbm.com. Be sure to visit her Squidoo lens, The Work At Home Manifesto @ http://www.squidoo.com/work-at-home-manifesto.