Thank you! Good to hear you agree 😀

Great to hear! You are very welcome 😀

So, a couple of things… First I wouldn’t worry so much about the word ‘expert’. Or rather ‘expert’ is all relative. Do you know more about a topic than other people? Then to that group of people you are an ‘expert’. Or to put it another way, do you have knowledge that other people want? To be successful in the blogging world, you need to answer other people’s questions and solve other people’s problems… that is why people read blogs. If you can do that, then you can be successful. (Though of course, you should also work on your E-E-A-T as you go!)

The other thing I wouldn’t worry about is a ‘saturated’ niche. In a sense, all niches are saturated these days. There is just so much information out there! But that doesn’t mean there isn’t space for you. No one else can write the way you do. No one else has your unique experience, opinions and perspective. Case in point, when I first started this blog, the ‘blogging about blogging’ niche was already pretty saturated, with huge players dominating the search results… but I didn’t let that stop me, as I knew I had a different perspective to share and a different style that I knew I could use to help a lot of people. And I did!

Finally, you can absolutely be successful even if you only have a small amount of time each day (though obviously the more time you have, the faster you will see success!) The key is to use that time as wisely as possible. For example, ensure you are doing good quality keyword research, writing genuinely helpful blog posts and figure out your monetization strategy before you get started… so you know where you are headed >>> https://www.productiveblogging.com/blog-monetization-strategy/

Hope that helps!

I feel blogs that are centered around encouraging other writers is a saturated niche. I’m obviously not an expert in anything. I do not have $$ to dump into a new website or photo shoots or buying ads to promote things. Lifestyle blogs are not successful. I don’t want to blog to complain about things. Feels like every “expert niche” out there has been done WAY better than I can do with my limited time and energy.

Should I just ‘waste my time’ writing ‘for me’ to pay for a website blog that not even I read a second time? I intellectually understand the importance of a blog on many levels for myself, my sanity, monetarily and creatively… but I am REALLY stuck and do not know how to ‘restart’ a blog that never did anything in the first place. It feels disingenuous to me to ‘fake it till I make it’ pretending to be an expert in something as if I’m doing weekly book reports on a topic.

You wrote that easypeasyfoodie.com was getting 100 hits a day within 6 months; that’s staggering to me! If you ‘didn’t know what you were doing’ back then, then you might just have a natural gift! For those of us with so many responsibilities that we barely have 45 minutes at 10pm at night to ourselves, should we just give up?

Hi Lil! It’s definitely possible to succeed second time around. But these days niching down is so much more important than it was ‘back in the day’. It’s extremely hard to be successful these days with a general/lifestyle blog. (The ones that are have been very successful for a long time!) It’s much easier to succeed if you niche down and focus on being an expert on one thing, rather than knowing a bit about a lot of things. Hope that helps! And good luck with your relaunch 😀

Great to hear you are thinking of starting a blog and that you’ve found this post helpful! I have lots more help, tips and advice for new bloggers here >>> https://www.productiveblogging.com/category/start-a-blog/