Getting steady readers and visitors to your blog is very important. Not all blogs get them. The secret of getting those steady readers is to focus strongly on one area. For instance, if you are a tech blogger, then focus on technology as much as possible. If you are a political blogger then it would be politics that you would be focusing on. If your blog is too general then it might be a little hard for you to get exposure. For instance, we know microsoft for softwares rather than an entertainment site. You need to get a focus like that. If you look at successful bloggers, then you will find the same. For instance, when you talk about the blog of “Michelle Malkin” then you know that this is a political blog. You will have to get a focus oriented blog like that.

Now, which types of blogs make the most fame and money? Well, look at the popular ranking blogs at Technorati. As you can see that a majority of the successful blogs are actually tech blogs. Whatever political or entertainment blogs that you have there are by either professional journalists or group blogs. Does that mean tech blogs are best in the business? Well, think of this in a different way. The people, who are successful at blogging are the people, who are strongly interested on technology. These people do not get the most out of their blogs because they are blogging about technologies but because they are doing something that they have a high interest on. Now, offcourse people with a high interest on technology will have a greater understanding of increasing their blogging fame and so they get this natural advantage of earning the most. It comes down to the personality of the author rather than the type of blog I believe. People, who browse many blogs, post comments, have a positive attitude, and most importantly blogging about something that they really love would get the most of their blogs. Let’s discover the prospect of non-tech blogs.

Political blogs: I was reading at a newspaper a few days back that majority of the bloggers are white conservative men. Well, this is true. The top two popular political blogs at Technorati are actually rightwing blogs. I have also seen conservative blogging communities such as bloggingtories are a way ahead of their “progressive” counterparts in both content and exposure. Therefore, there is a very strong “market” for political blogs. Your blogs do no need to be conservative blog but you can attract those people in your blog to argue with them. Sometimes, I have seen in political blogs, low ranking blogs have a huge amount of comment posted than the tech blogs.

Entertainment Blogs: Entertainment gossip and hottest news will give you many visitors. Sometimes people would just come to your blog to check out the pictures of hot actress you have. You can actually use the “sex appeal” method here without admitting it. There are not many entertainment blogs and so there is a good chance that your blog might suddenly get exposed to MTV or other entertainment tv channels.

Religious Blogs: Religion is a very heated matter now-a-days. Basically, the reason of religion, if we need this ancient element in our life or not and many more things create heat everyday in many blogs. If you can someway get the atheists and christians or muslims and jews fighting in your blog that would be really cool.

Daily Blog: Some people blog everyday just to share their everyday experience. These blogs might also do good if you can write posts with a humourous touch. People would visit you everyday to see what new and weird stuff you have faced in your life. People always love to invade others privacy and now they can do it with “permission.” Therefore, you might get quite a few daily readers for your blog using this technique.

There are many other types of blogs like photo blogs, video blogs, humourous blogs etc. Photo blogging is very interesting and I will write a post on this very soon. Therefore, it doesn’t matter what kind of blog you run just make sure you have the greatest interest on it. You will have to waste hours on this blog and you really do not want this to be something you do not enjoy doing.