There was a time when starting a blog was enough to get the traffic flowing. All you had to do was to make it and the audience came searching on their own. Unfortunately, those days are long gone and now making a blog isn’t enough to capture the audience, one need to work hard to get the visitors rolling.
In times like this, general blogs with all sorts of content that covers pretty much anything under the sun usually has almost no chance to develop an audience. This is the reason why people are moving towards a niche that they are comfortable in maintaining a blog.
In this article, we are going to cover the Gardening niche and give you tips on how to start a gardening blog the right way.
1. Register your domain: Gardening too has many sub niches and depending on your own hobbies or expertise, you can select your sub niche. Then based on that particular topic, you can start searching a domain that best suits your blog.
Let’s say your interest is in fruit trees, then a domain that has a relevant fruit in it should be your best target. If you fail to get any good domain name then you can opt. for a domain that has got something to do with gardening so that it stays relevant somehow.
2. Setup social media accounts: Whenever a domain is registered, any relevant social media handles, including a Gmail id on the exact name as your domain gets taken by somebody. There are bots built for such purposes and as a blogger you must stay ahead of these auto bots and register your brand able accounts before someone else does.
3. Take gardening pictures where ever you go: Gardening does not happen on your own backyard alone. If you visit a park or meet a neighbor or a relative, pretty much anywhere you go and find a garden, start taking some pictures. Later on these images can be converted into a blog post with good information about the same.
Content isn’t just text or an update of your own garden, if you can acquire pictures of plants, flowers, fruits etc. then all that can be shared on your instagram accounts, YouTube shorts, Facebook and whatsapp statuses and so much more.
4. Plant enough and keep a record: Now that you have decided to start a gardening blog, it is important that you plant a lot of stuff as this is the most important content of your blog. When you grow something, you get first hand information about the plant in question, and if you are able to maintain a proper record then you will be able to write about when you had planted the seed, when it had germinated and eventually when it started flowering and fruiting.
Such detailed information is always helpful and it is easy to create as you have complete control over your garden space.
5. Connect with other gardening bloggers: One thing that is great about blogging is that bloggers are social creatures. Make a list of relevant gardening blogs and start commenting on them, share their content on the social media and send them emails sometimes letting them know that you have commented on their posts. Very soon you will see that those bloggers are visiting your blog and leaving some helpful comments too.
6. Setup Email Marketing: Now that you have an active gardening blog with first hand information from your own garden, it is time to take this forward. Make an excellent gardening newsletter and setup your auto-responders so that your email subscribers can get regular updates from your blog.
7. Help your Neighbors: When it comes to getting more content, your neighbor’s farm, their gardens and their flowers contribute quite a lot. The best way to get more content from your neighbours is to ask them for any help they might need for maintaining their gardening space. Once you are allowed to help, you can easily take pictures and videos of their garden and use them in your own blogs.
8. Do roadside plantation: Planting alongside the road, especially near your home and your neighborhood is a great way to get clean and green air and make the environment healthy. All this work will provide more content for your blog, your YouTube channel and your social media accounts.
9. Grow vegetables: For getting more content for your blog, it is important that you plant several vegetables and keep a regular updated journal about them. Take pictures from time to time so that you can show the progress of your vegetables over the weeks.
Maintaining a gardening blog is a healthy thing to do as growing veggies means that sooner or later you are going to eat it all.
10. Plant fruit trees: It takes time for a fruit tree to grow but the progress can be easily recorded from the first day. To get to your first fruit, it might take more than a year but to maintain a blog about the same fruit is far easier as all you need to do is take some pictures and write about its progress so far.
11. Review gardening tools: Another benefit of running a gardening blog is the various gardening tools that can be reviewed. As your blog grows and your YouTube and other social media profiles starts to get more followers, you will find that more and more companies start to send you their tools for free so that they can get a quick review about it.
If you have an established blog, you will not only get free gardening tools to review but you will also get paid to cover those same tools on your own blog. With gardening as your niche, you will find that your time is well spent. Gardening is excellent for mental health. Your overall health will improve because of the physical hardwork that your body will go on a consistent basis. Consider the amount of free food that you will be able to grow in your space and then eat them. On top of that, do note that most such fruits and vegetables are organic which makes them even more healthy.