To Find Something to Focus on Your Blog

Current Assignment

Blog Struggles: Finding My Blog Focus

The first task is to label blog posts properly.

In my previous post I talk about my difficulty in choosing labels set for MUYMG. I solved that problem by visiting Yahoo Answer and EzineArticles.com. They have nice sets of categories that I could use along with Lorelle's cheat sheet. I'm pleased to say that I like the new labels set in MUYMG :)

Yes, I've finally done it!!! *pat myself in the back*

Okay, now onto the next steps of the assignment:

1. Count how many posts you got in each category.
2. Find out the top three categories.
3. See if there is any similarity or recurring themes in the posts even though they're in different categories.

If there is any theme, congratulation, you've probably found your blog focus!

Or, you could just skip all this steps and blog about something you're expert at.

Assignment Result

1. Animals (1), Education (2), Events (3), Fashion (2), Food (3), Health (2), Introspection (14), Music (2), Relationship (6), Tech News (14), Videos (3)
2. Introspection (14), Tech News (14), Relationship (6)
3. At first glance, Introspection and Tech News have the same number of posts. But, after looking back at my posts in each category, it seems like they are actually divided to three main categories with lots of subcategories. The main categories are Introspection (Education, Events, Fashion, Food, Health, Music, and Relationship), Tech News and Off Topics (Animals).

Conclusion

It seems that MUYMG is already heavy on Introspection. I have a tech blog where I review softwares and online services that I use and post some tutorials. I'll moved posts under Tech News into that blog and relabel the remaining posts under Tech News to Blog Updates so MUYMG will focus on Introspection only. It would be better this way, I think. I look forward to learn more about Introspection.

What's next?
I'm renovating my tech blog so I probably don't have much time to post here but I'll try to update at least once a week. So, that means no more post for this week :)