14 Signs of Choosing the Wrong Topic for Your Blog Post

14 Signs That You’ve Choose on the Wrong Topic for Your Blog Post

1. You are writing on a wrong topic for the wrong audiences.
2. You’re writing a blog post which you think no one else is serving that audiences.
3. Less than 1% of yours readers are commenting on your blog post.
4. Less than 1% of your visitors are sharing on social media.
5. Your blog post topic fails the “For Dummies” test.
6. There are no other blogs with over 20K subscribers.
7. There aren’t any magazines on your topics at Barnes & Nobles.
8. Google monthly searches is less than 100k.
9. There are not many advertisers on Facebook or Google.
10. The ClickBank products have very low gravity scores.
11. There are not even a single product on Amazon.
12. You’ve run out of ideas to write on your next blog post.
13. You procrastinate because writing on the topic is a chore.
14. Your topic is not within the “Big Seven” categories.

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Selecting On The Wrong Topic for Your Blog Post

Thinking of a new blog topics to write is part of the daily task for most of the bloggers. Choosing on the wrong topic to write is going to be a waste of time because it takes a lot of time to just write a good blog post.

But, don’t expect that all your blog post is going to do well, even though you thinking that you’re choosing on the right topics that people will want to read.

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Sometimes we all make mistake, misjudging on the competition, the lack of audience interest in a topic, or maybe the quality of the job of our own writing.

I’ve blog posts which I’ve put in a lot of effort into and it’s doing well, but I also have a similar blog posts that just have zero traction.

Sometimes it’s about the quality of your blog post, sometimes it’s just about luck, and sometimes it’s just about the timing you choose to write that blog post.

Here, I’m going to share with you something which I’ve learned from years of doing this. I’ll show you some of the signs that will tell you if you’re choosing on the wrong blog topics or not.

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14 Signs That You’ve Choose on the Wrong Topic for Your Blog Post

1. You are writing on a wrong topic for the wrong audiences.

Let’s say you’ve a blog about health and home gardening. Whenever you’re writing about home gardening, the health audiences will get bored, and vice versa because the 2 audiences are contradictory and both didn’t have the same interest.

2. You’re writing a blog post which you think no one else is serving that audiences

A lot of bloggers believe they’ve to be unique, therefore they hunt for a topic that nobody else is writing, thinking that the absence of competition will make them stand out of the crowd.

But truly, they’re just screwing themselves up. When there is nobody else around, who is going to link to you? Where do you think your visitors will come from?

If you’re writing on topics that no one else is writing, you’ve to think twice again. Most of the time, when there is no one writing a blog post on a certain topics, it is an alert sign that you should stop wasting time on that blog post topic.

3. Less than 1% of yours readers are commenting on your blog post.

You should at east get 1 comment out of 100 visitors to you post. If you blog post is attracting 1000 visitors per month, you’d at least get 10 comments on that month.

The more comments you get, the better it is. But if you did not achieve that 1%, either there is something wrong with your blog post topic or your content is not engaging.

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4. Less than 1% of your visitors are sharing on social media.

Exactly the same rule applies to social sharing. In every 1 out of 100 visitors of your blog post, there should be at least 1 sharing on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and etc.

The are an exceptions if your audiences are either from the group of 60 years and above or technophobic. Normally, the sharing percentage of this two group of people are very low.

5. Your blog post topic fails the “For Dummies” test.

I guess, you probably know the book series “for Dummies”, right?

Great, here’s a simple method to test the viability of you topic: visit this website and see if there is a Dummies book which have been published about it.

If there’s a book written about this topic, it’s most likely that the topic is popular and good enough to support a blog. The organization behind the books, John Wiley & Sons, have spends million of dollars in doing topic research for their books. So, they can’t be wrong.

6. There are no other blogs with over 20K subscribers.

It may be a sign that you might be choosing on the wrong blog post topics to write if there are no other blogs in your industry that have at least 20,000 subscribers. of course it’ll be better if you can find other blogs that have more than 20k of subscribers.

The reason is because when there are a lot of popular blogs in that space, there will be many chances that people might link and send visitors to you. The greater number of competition there is, the easier it is. This may be counterintuitive, but it is real.

7. There aren’t any magazines on your topics at Barnes & Nobles.

Head over to your closest Barnes & Noble store and look at magazine racks. If you’re able to find a magazine about the topic of your blog post which you’re writing, it’s very likely that the niche is popular and big enough to support a blog site. In case you cannot find any, then it’s a sign of a wrong topic for writing a blog post.

8. Google monthly searches is less than 100k.

Google is always there to tell you on the number of individuals who are looking for info on your topic.

Make sure you make good use of Google Keyword Tool to do a broad match search for keywords on your blog topic and see how many searches those keywords are receiving. You need to find out one, or maybe more, with a minimum of 100,000 searches monthly.

9. There are not many advertisers on Facebook or Google.

Have you ever notice that there’re ads on the page of Facebook and Google whenever you’re trying to search for something? Well, those ads are not there to annoy you. It’s a valuable information especially for bloggers and marketers.

If you can see many ads displaying at the side of the page, it’s a sign that there are a lot of bidders choosing on that particular terms to bid on that niche.

That’s a right sign that you may be in a profitable topic which you can write for your blog post. For added credit, watch who’s who sticking on around that ads for a few months. If you notice exactly the same ads again and again, that’s an extremely a great sign.

10. The ClickBank products have very low gravity scores.

Indeed, some of the ClickBank product are sleazy, and lots of them use such pushy advertising strategies that trying to scare you off, though it is nonetheless a great barometer for just how effectively the software or courses sell in the niche market of yours.

Look out for the gravity score of the product which is for sale in your category, and it’s going to tell you, comparatively, the number of units those products are selling.

If the gravity score is high, you will most likely find it easy is profit from selling software or courses. If the score is low – or even worse, there are not even a single products whatsoever – you might need to think and choose the other ways to monetize from your blog.

11. There are not even a single product on Amazon.

Promoting Amazon products through affiliate links is one of the most typical methods to monetize from a blog, particularly if it’s fall under popular consumer category.

Therefore you have to some research and determine what your audience might be willing to purchase from there. In case you cannot find anything, then you’ll need choose other way to make money from your blog, or else you might be in trouble.

12. You’ve run out of ideas to write on your next blog post.

This is another sign that shows you might have chosen on the wrong topics. If you have been blogging for less than a year, and currently you’ve have to rehash the same old topics again and again, then you will need to broaden the scope of your topic.

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13. You procrastinate because writing on the topic is a chore.

Have you ever sit back and staring at the incomplete blog post, procrastinating, because to finish writing on that post is going to make you feel bored or lost somewhere in your writing.

When it occurs just once in a blue moon, it’s fine, you’re normal. However, if none of your written blog post is completed, you may need to quickly find other topics.

14. Your topic is not within the “Big Seven” categories.

Lastly, we come to the easiest test to see if you are in the right topic or not. Today, you will find 7 categories with many popular blogs: personal finance, news, tech, business, social media, parenting, and self-improvement.

If your blog fits in a single (or maybe more) of the 7 categories, you’ve a great shot, because it’s proven that many bloggers is doing well in these categories and there are lots of people to link to you.

However, sometimes if you’re fighting an uphill battle, it doesn’t exactly shows that you have chosen a wrong topic, but it’s because the niche of yours hasn’t matured yet and it may take a longer time to get success.

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Avoiding from Choosing on The Wrong Topic to Write

So what can you do, if you’re worried you that you’ve chosen on the wrong topic for your blog?

My advice for you is to do some thinking. Rather than selecting a topic willy nilly and hoping that everything will turn out perfectly, do some research using the indicators above as guideposts, and always ask yourself what it all means.

Becoming a successful blogger is not all about luck any more. Those who make it think strategically, map out a strategy, and work real hard to achieve that.

So keep the chin of yours up, do a little thinking, set your goal and start working on it. Most important things here is to trust yourself. If you are determined, and persevere, you will finally get there soon.

So, did you choose on the right topic for your blog post? Did you have better tips to share about choosing on the right blog topic? Let us know in the comments below!