Should I be Careful When Changing Niche of My Blog?
This post explains that you should not abruptly change the niche of your blog. It can create havoc on your blog ranking in Google.
You started off your blog with great enthusiasm, you figured out that you will make this blog an Automotive Blog with reviews on every four-wheeler that ever ran on Earth. One month, two months into the blog you figure that you are not able to break into the niche. You begin to get restless, find ways to pick-up the traffic and a few more months after that you decide that writing on technology would be a lot more easier to get traffic. You delete all your automotive blog posts and begin to start a new niche with a same domain. Is that a good idea?
The answer is no, not at all. If you really want to switch your niche you should preferably buy a new domain.
Reasons why switching your niche on the same domain name is dangerous:
- After you delete all your blog posts, the next time Google crawls your indexed pages all it will find will be a truck-load of 404 errors. Which can be lethal as this will reduce your website page rank in Google’s indices. Resulting in blacklisting and demotion. Basically, any benefit you had of those will be annulled.
- Google really does not take change that well where domain names are concerned. If you have blogged in your domain name about automobile since it was launched for a year or so. Then one fine day you delete all posts and begin to post about Food. Then you can be sure that you will be having a tough time trying to get your page-ranked, it may take you years to settle the dust.
The Experts Advice would be: If you really want to blog about a different niche than your blog’s current one then consider buying a new domain name for it.
Tags: Domain Name, Google, Niche
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