Micro-Niche Blogging
I strumbled this saturday morning on an interesting issue concerning the variety of blogs and the corresponding content specialization.
Alex Steffen of Worldchanging.com and Thomas Pany of Telepolis published an articles about the Badlani Blog and the niche of reporting on a specialized topic which is in this case the pollution of plastic bags and its effects to both our nature and society.
I expect to see more and more of this micro-niche advocacy blogging over couple years, and that’s a great thing. Good blogs on a single issue can become real resources, as well as outreach tools.
But even these micro-nice blogs are not really free as even the authors of Badlani sell cotton bags – I guess they might be slightly prejudiced while moving on with their good goals to openly advocate the banishment of plastic bags. On the other hand, why not advertising your product in the micro-niche blog? It’s not much different from using cooperational advertising such as Google’s AdSense or many others. The revenues earned by the open advertisement of these cooperational ad programs are probably much lower than the revenues created by content within these micro-niche blogs as they serve the perfect environment for content-relevant advertisement.
Thank you for noticing my blog.
Yes, I do use my weblog to remind people that reusable fabric bags are better than plastic bags, and that we, being based in India, do offer them at very economical prices.
Yet, the facts we present about plastic are meaningful, and the prices at which we offer attractive alternatives are actually so low that this information would come as news to most people (go see them yourself at and you will also be surprised.
I think it is worth it. So please forgive the fact that we are promoting our own product, as the cause is worth it. Perhaps you will agree and also spread the word.
Thanks again, Rajiv