---
title: "Niche blog vs personal blog"
author: "Stan Voo"
url: https://www.99rabbits.com/blog/niche-blog-vs-personal-blog
published: 2008-11-26
summary: "Bloggers are told to pick a narrow niche. I wanted to write about everything, and suspected that a personal blog needs a good author while a niche one often needs only a good copy-paster."
---

# Niche blog vs personal blog

As far as I understand, there are two kinds of blogs: successful ones and the rest. :)

On top of that, all sorts of advisers on the web (what else would they be doing?) often advise choosing a narrow niche for your blog and writing about one topic only, one you know well, say.

I see the sense in that advice, especially for a standalone blog rather than one on [LiveJournal](http://www.livejournal.com/). On the other hand, I want to prove the opposite and make a good (interesting) personal blog, because I want to write about all sorts of things, not only about [neuromarketing](https://web.archive.org/web/20081231133211/http://stasparshin.com/category/tegi/nejromarketing), say. [Comrade Davydov](http://davydov.blogspot.com/), for one, started out writing about marketing, but gradually moved on to general business topics and more and more often writes about economics, which is very interesting too.

Maybe the point is that a successful personal blog takes a good author, while a niche one often takes just a good copy-paster?