Viable Niche Blog Topics for Novelists: Residual Income Online and More Readers

Earning money online doesn't seem like it is as easy for the fiction writer and the novelist. After all, your content is different from that of nonfiction writers and commercial writers. So, you probably cannot benefit in the same way as these writers with a niche blog? Wrong.

A novelist's only hope for a niche blog is to write about novel writing and writing fiction or just reviewing the kinds of books they write. Wrong.

With the right idea, a novelist can build a money-making and audience-gaining niche blog that adds to their credibility as well. Absolutely right!

After you've cleared your head of the notions that novelists can't earn from niche blogs or that they have to blog about the over-saturated topics of writing, move on to the steps below which, if you follow them, will lead you to a solid blog idea for earning money and readers.

1. What is your expertise? As a novelist, your expertise could be a theme that you cover in your novels, it could be a life experience you expand on in your novels, it could be certain types of worlds or characters...it could be a combination of the above.
2. When you have determined your expertise, analyze the type of reader that you try to reach with these novels. Identify their gender, their age, their current life issues and problems. Figure out what matters most to them in their lives and you'll find a way to make your novels relevant to those readers.
3. Brainstorm at least three topics that would be of equal interest to your novel readers.
4. Evaluate your potential ideas in the scope of your passion. Which ideas would you deliver the most valuable and passionate content about? Building your platform has to be more fun than work, at least in emotion, so you need to figure out which ideas really get you excited. Things that you can continue to write fresh, valuable content about that keeps readers reading.
5. Further scrutinize the ideas as to which will be of most interest to your readers. Which will be their biggest concerns and/or which are they most likely to read about on the Internet? These are the topics you want to gravitate towards to get the audience you need.
6. When you've selected topic based on steps 4 and 5, then you need to discover the actual potential for this topic to make money. This is simply done with keyword research. Use the Google AdWords Keyword Tool to view keywords that readers would search with and look for: at least medium advertiser competition, at least 400 global monthly searches and an average cost-per-click that is at least a dollar. These qualifications, however, are not set in stone. A few fluctuations in these, as long as not all of them, will still spell success with the right blogger. After checking these options, search your keyword in Google in quotes (" and ") see if you have less than 100,000 results which are valuable content--things your readers would look at to seek the information you'll provide.
7. If you discover that your topic on its own is not necessarily viable to make money, tweak the idea into an idea that will make money. Just be sure that your idea still will reach readers and still gets you excited to write about it.