When you start a blog, it is the niche which is the most important aspect of it. As you may know, it is not simply about starting a blog with any niche you feel like at the moment. A niche must be selected thinking about it in the long run. Select a niche in which you at least have an interest to learn more.

If you choose a wrong niche then it can be a matter of great regret for you in the future as you will struggle to find quality article to write and also lose interest in writing the blog after some time.

This is a post that discusses the criterias to choose a niche for a blog.

Your Interest

This is the primary and the most crucial factor for choosing a niche. You do not want a niche where you are dried out of ideas for articles after the first few days and then you want to stop writing altogether. This kind of feeling comes when you are dead bored of the topics which you are writing about. So it is suggested that before considering any of the points below first get a clear idea on what you would like to write about for may be years to come.

Revenue Aspect

It is a fact that some niches pay more than the others. If you feel that for you money does not matter a lot and you are more interested in creating a large base of readers then you can choose any niche that you really love. But if money is important to you while blogging then do careful research on which are the niches that provide a lot of earning opportunities. You can check out the Amazon, ClickBank affiliate products which may be you can promote on your niche. This way you can get an idea on the ways you can earn from your niche.

For example, if you have niche about movies then you can promote cd/dvds and other entertainment related affiliate programs that are so easily available online today. But at the same time, if your niche is related to Nuclear Physics I doubt if there is any other way of making money from it except for Google Adsense. So assess this point carefully.

Note – Many bloggers would advice you not to choose a crowded niche. It is true that you should avoid such niches that are too crowded. But dont take this very seriously. If you are really good at what you do then you wont find any niche crowded. Hope you got the point.

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DOCSTOC, the free document sharing service, has rolled out a new branded embeddable document viewer that can help to improve the usability of PDF-laden investor relations websites.

While several other document sharing services let companies convert their PDF and Office-format reports into more engaging online documents, Docstoc is the first to let all users customize the look and feel of the Flash-based embeddable viewer, according to Techcrunch.

Considering that investor relations vendors are billing companies thousands of dollars to convert PDF reports into Flash and image-based documents that have fewer features and lower usability than Docstoc’s free viewer, I think Docstoc is an obvious option for IR departments.

To show you what the branded Docstoc viewer can look like, I created one for IR Web Report in about 1 minute. I am using it below for an embeddable version of UBS AG’s 2009 Annual Review, which the company posted on its investor relations website today in PDF only.

UBS Review 2009

From a compliance perspective, Docstoc’s format can help companies meet the Securities and Exchange Commissions usability requirements for annual reports and proxy statements.

Importantly, Docstoc’s documents are searchable and analysts and investors can copy text from the documents for reuse in their own reports. Flash and image-based document conversion packages from vendors like Broadridge, Computershare, Thomson Reuters, Shareholder.com and many others, do not support easy text extraction.

And since the Docstoc viewer can be embedded on any website, financial blogger/analysts can grab complete company branded reports to use as collateral for their articles, much as I have done above with UBS’s 2009 review. The ready availability of embeds for company information may help to attract more coverage by online finance writers and bloggers.

Like other document sharing services, including Scribd, issuu, and SlideShare, converting PDFs and Office documents in Docstoc is extremely easy. At the simplest level, you open an account and upload your documents from your computer. The conversions typically are ready for embedding in a few minutes.

It is important, however, to understand how embeddable documents interact with search engines and the impact this can have on your websites traffic and visibility. Document sharing services also offer advanced features that you should consider using.

To learn more, visit Docstocs website.