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How to Add a Custom Header to a Simple Blogger Template. Starting Niche Blogging: Here's Why Today Is THE Day To Get Started. We don’t hear a lot about niche blogs these days as more and more bloggers turn to the broad-topic blog or the multi-blogger model. But niche blogs are still out there and they’re still going strong. Here are five reasons to start one and three niches to consider. What Is A Niche Blog? A niche blog is simply a blog that focuses on a narrow topic. For example, instead of focusing on Parenting, which is a huge topic and covers several categories when done properly, the blogger might focus on just one sub-topic, or niche topic, under the Parenting umbrella, such as: Subscribe to my exclusive newsletter, and learn how to grow your blog like the pros▶ BullyingThe Terrible Two’sSchool SuppliesNewborn Infant CareKids in Sports As you can see, the list could go on and on.

On the other hand, someone visiting a blog about Newborn Infant Care wouldn’t expect to find information on anything else. Five Reasons To Start A Niche Blog You Can Indulge Your Passion It’s Easier To Engage Your Audience It’s Fun Pets. If your website's full of assholes, it's your fault. We're twenty years in to this world wide web thing. Today, I myself celebrate twelve years of writing this blog. And yet those of us who love this medium, who've had our lives changed by the possibility of publishing our words to the world without having to ask permission, are constantly charged with defending this wonderful, expressive medium in a way that creators in every other discipline seldom find themselves obligated to do.

Some of this is because the medium is new, of course. But in large part, it's because so many of the most visible, prominent, and popular places on the web are full of unkindness and hateful behavior. The examples are already part of pop culture mythology: We can post a harmless video of a child's birthday party and be treated to profoundly racist non-sequiturs in the comments.

But that's just the web, right? This is a solved problem As it turns out, we have a way to prevent gangs of humans from acting like savage packs of animals. Just a start. Edssential. Sue Waters Blog. Why wouldn't ye?