Choosing A Blog Theme

Your blog theme might not sound important to you. However; your blog theme can actually be responsible for about 75% of the traffic you receive. And by theme I don’t mean the color of your background and by traffic I don’t mean cars.

Your blog theme is what your blog is about. Each of your blog posts should follow this general theme in order to fit in. Your theme is designed to appeal to both you (so you are interested and hopefully qualified in writing about it) and to your reader (so that they follow you or keep coming back for more).

What Are Your Interests?

The First thing you should ask yourself when choosing a blog theme is what are you interested in? Do you like sports? Art? Music? Dancing? Pick something that sparks your interest or that you even do yourself. For example, if you paint for a hobby, writing a blog about painting might be just the thing for you. Do you drink lots of tea? Write a blog about tea and learn about what you are drinking while you research your articles.

What People Read

This is important. What do people read? What would you read? If you wouldn’t be interested in reading your own blog post, don’t even think about posting it. No one else will be interested either which means you have just wasted your time and downgraded the quality of your blog. Think of fun and interesting posts that people will be interested in.  If you aren’t sure what other people read, try looking for ‘search popular keyword engines’ and search keywords related to your blog theme!

What Do You Know About?

Here’s another tip. Don’t write about anything that you don’t already know at least a little bit about. Even the most extensive research won’t let you know everything about something and missing one tiny crucial detail can cause you to completely misinterpret something. Write about what you know so that the quality of your blog is ensured and you don’t get comments saying you are stating false facts.

What Can You Keep Writing About?

Another good question is what are you interested in and know enough about to keep writing about it. Think about it, plan past the first one or two posts and decide if you can keep, continuously, coming up with good blog posts. If not, you might want to think about using something else for your theme. Or, you can think about just broadening the theme.  For example: Cute teapots I own is a bad theme because it is very limited. However; cute teapots is actually a good theme because as long as you can keep using the internet to find cute teapots, you can keep posting your blog.

Is It A Good Blog Theme?

Now, is it a good blog theme? Is it something you can blog about and keep blogging about. Are you interested in it, do you know about it and most importantly, will people read about it. If so, you have chosen your blog theme. Congratulations and feel free to start a blog.