Single Topic Blogs (2006)

About

Single-topic blogs are online publications frequently updated with theme-specific media content, in many cases through user-generated contributions. In comparison to other types of collaborative blogs, single topic blog are designed with minimal emphasis on site features and authorship of published materials. Instead, they are heavily geared towards facilitating mass replication of specific memes/media through providing custom macro generators and relying on user-generated content/submission.

Origin

While the overall concept of niche blogging may have been existence for some time, it was only until recently that single topic blogs really began to grow by large numbers. In part, this can be attributed to the advent of microblogging, availability of easy online publishing tools as well as the bandwagon effect, following the media coverage of popular single topic blogs like Look At This Fucking Hipster and FAILBlog.

Examples of Single Topic Blogs

Why Single Topic Blogs?

Blogging about one specific topic carries several advantages:

• Having a blog focused on one topic leads you an air of credibility
• It is easier to gain a reader base when you blog about one topic.
• Blogging on one subject makes contextual advertising easier.
• Having an entire blog on one subject is better for search engine optimization (SEO).

Single Topic Blog Books