Niche blogging?

I’ve tried to tidy up my blog a little bit on the advice of an ebook that I read called Simple Blogging by Rachel Meeks. The book is interesting because a lot of it focuses on blogging your way – fitting blogging into family life.

As part of what I learnt from the book, I’ve moved many of the banners out of my sidebar, reclassified my categories and put a new drop-down menu up there at the top of the page (What I write about), where you can see the new categories. Only small changes but I’m pretty pleased with them.

One of the main things that I keep on reading about it targeting your niche. But if I really stick to just my one niche – parenting toddlers in Stockholm – I think it would make for very narrow reading. On the other hand, this isn’t really a full, all-round blog either. I quite like that I just sit here in my own little space, doing my thing.

What do you think? Do you think you need to find your one true niche, or can you be a bit more relaxed about things? I suppose this is the difference between the big bloggers and bloggers like me. And although I learnt a lot from the book, I think I’m also quite happy with how my blog is just now.

CrossFitLite

CrossFitLite: crossfit training tumblr blogSo as not to bore you with tales of my training on here, I’ve created a training tumblr site called CrossFitLite. A little bit of my CrossFit, my training and some paleo recipes that I have tried out. Why not pop over and have a look!

Dotcom

So, I’ve taken the leap and decided to sort out my domain and address and make it easier for people to find me. From now on, I am now www.englishmamma.com – no more wordpress.com, no more long address.

2011 in review – by WordPress

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog.

Here’s an excerpt:

The concert hall at the Syndey Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 9,500 times in 2011. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would take about 4 sold-out performances for that many people to see it.

Click here to see the complete report.

New design

What do you think of the new design of my site? I love its spring feeling and I also rather like its name – Pretty Young Thing – particularly as I spotted crow’s feet in the mirror in the lift this week (trying to convince myself that it was just the fluorescent strip lighting in there).

I’m going to play around a little more with the widgets and things and see what more it can do. Fun!