How To Create A Hiking Niche Blog (Tips)

If you want to get started with online blogging, then you’ll need to think about what niche you want to focus on. You might be thinking, “What’s a niche?” Well, think of it this way: If you’re cooking up a stew, the ingredients are like your niche. 

A soup has a clear focus—it’s either vegetarian or meat-based; there aren’t any veggies floating around in between them (unless they’re all mixed together). 

But if it’s just chicken noodle soup? Well… that could be anything! So when choosing your blog topic and writing content for it, make sure that each post is focused on only one subject matter. That way you’ll know exactly what your readers are looking for when they come across your page or blog post about hiking through mountains and valleys (or something similar). 

And don’t forget that every post needs an eye-catching title that makes people want to read more about what hiking is all about!

Determine What Kind Of Blog You Want To Create

Once you have a good idea of the type of hiking niche blog you want to create, it’s time to start determining what kind of content you want to publish and who your audience is. This is an important step because it will help dictate everything else that follows.

The type of information and expertise that are unique or unique enough will determine the topic(s) for your site. 

If you think back, there must have been something at some point in time that set off a spark in your mind, inspired a passion inside of you or built up an interest within yourself for something specific related to hiking (or whatever else).

Once this happens, then it’s all about tapping into those emotions and channeling them into creating content around those ideas.

Write Excellent Content That Provides Value To Your Readers

Here are some tips to keep in mind:

Write excellent content that provides value to your readers. Your blog should be informative and interesting, and it should help people. The best way to do this is by providing useful information they can’t get anywhere else on the internet. 

Think about what kinds of questions your readers might have, then research and write answers to those questions. 

In addition, make sure each post has an image (or two) so it catches the reader’s eye; try using infographics if you’re pressed for time or don’t feel very artistic! 

You can also include videos or links within your posts–just make sure they’re relevant! Remember that writing one post per day isn’t enough; remember that quality counts just as much as quantity does here!

Write content that is easy-to-understand but still interesting! As a blogger myself I know how difficult this can be sometimes…but trust me when I say it’s worth putting in all those hours into making sure each sentence sounds perfect before publishing anything online because people will read much more when they don’t have any trouble understanding what’s happening around them (even though sometimes nobody will notice anyway).

Relevant And Up-To-Date Information Is Key

When writing about hiking, it’s important to keep your content relevant. Readers want to know what is new, so make sure that you’re aware of any trends in the hiking niche and are able to write articles on those topics. 

In addition, don’t be afraid to change your content if circumstances call for it. For example, if there is a hurricane coming up and you live in Florida like I do, then it might be a good idea (or more than just a good idea) to change your blog posts from hiking trails around Florida into something else entirely: like preparing for the hurricane!

Keep The Flow Of Your Blog Posts And Pages Consistent

For example, if you’re writing about hiking in the summer, don’t switch to winter hiking unless it’s for a guest post or something like that.

It’s also important to keep up with your posts and pages so that they have a consistent flow. This will make the reader feel more comfortable and know what to expect from your blog. 

If you give them one thing and then switch to something completely different, they might not know what information is most relevant or what kind of content they should expect from you on a regular basis. 

We’ll talk more about this later when we talk about branding yourself as an expert in hiking niche blogging!

Consistently Publish New Content For Your Blog

You need to publish new content consistently. Consistently publishing new content for your blog will keep your readers engaged, and it will keep your blog fresh in their minds.

You should publish new posts regularly (ideally, once per week). You could also opt for a more frequent schedule like every other day–but make sure that you don’t overwhelm yourself or run out of ideas!

A key part of this is publishing on a consistent schedule. If you post when you feel like it, or if you have broken up sessions where you write for hours at a time and then go days without writing anything again, then readers won’t be able to rely on getting regular updates from your site.

Stay Consistent With Your Publishing Schedule

As a blogger, you want to make sure that your audience can expect new posts from you on a regular basis. 

This is why it’s so important to stay consistent with your publishing schedule. Your readers will come to expect a certain cadence of new posts, and they’ll be more likely to trust in the credibility of your brand when they know that they can count on finding new content at the same time every week or day.

You should aim for publishing at least once per week but ideally once per day. If this sounds like too much work for one person, don’t worry—we’ll talk about outsourcing later in this guide!

Optimize Your Blog Posts For SEO

Once you’ve written your blog posts, it’s time to optimize them for search engines. This means using the right keywords in your content and on your blog, so that people searching for those terms will find your site instead of others.

Here are some steps you can take:

Install the Yoast SEO plugin on WordPress. This plugin helps with keyword optimization by giving suggestions about which words or phrases to use in a given post or page (and where), as well as providing feedback on other areas that need improvement. 

Once installed, it will appear under “Settings” in the sidebar of any post or page editor window from where you can use its tooltips to see what needs changing before publishing each piece of content on your site.

Optimize all pages individually within this same area by clicking “Enter Title & Meta Tags” at the bottom of any page editor window.

Use these settings options in conjunction with those found within Yoast’s dashboard while editing each individual article – they’ll tell you which tags need adding/editing so that Search Engines know what topics they’re dealing with here!

Make sure your blog homepage (or category pages) includes at least one image related closely enough to its subject matter – this helps search engines determine what sorta thing

Research Common Keywords And Phrases Used In Your Niche

Google Keyword Planner – This is the most comprehensive keyword research tool available. You can find low-competition long tail keywords with this tool and also estimate how much traffic each keyword will get based on search volumes (the more searches, the more traffic).

Google Trends – Find out what people are searching for right now and over time, such as “hiking” or “adventure travel”. This gives you an idea of the topics that are popular in your niche right now and how those trends have changed over time.

Google Search Console – Find out where your competitors are ranking on Google, which keywords they rank for, how many times they’ve been clicked per month (CTR), what their monthly organic traffic is like and many other metrics related to SEO performance that can help inform your content strategy

Follow The Yoast Seo Plugin Recommendations To Optimize Each Blog Post On Your Site

The Yoast SEO plugin is a great tool to help you optimize each blog post on your site. It works by providing you with suggestions for improving the title and meta description of each page you publish, as well as giving you tips on how to make your content more SEO-friendly.

When optimizing your site’s home page, follow these three tips:

Fill out the meta description field

Focus on one keyword in the title tag (and make sure it’s geared toward Google)

Use a few keywords in the body of your text

Submit Your Blog Posts And Pages To Google Search Console

Google Search Console is a free tool that provides you with data about your site’s performance in Google search results.

In the past, we used to submit our site to Google through their webmaster console but now, it has been replaced by this new feature called “Search Appearance” which lets you configure the appearance of your site on Google Search.

You can see how much traffic your website is receiving from organic search, keywords that are driving traffic to your website, if there are any errors or crawl issues affecting your pages and much more information related to this topic.

Check The Yoast Seo Plugin Recommendations To Optimize Each Page On Your Site

After you’ve created your first few pages, it’s a good idea to check the Yoast SEO plugin recommendations for each page. This will tell you if there are any problems with the way your website is being indexed by search engines, and how to fix these issues.

If you’re creating an About Page for example, Yoast will tell you that there’s no meta description specified on that page. 

Meta descriptions aren’t always necessary since they don’t affect ranking much but if one is missing it can cause Google to not index the page as well as it could be.

The other thing I like about this feature is that it doesn’t just point out things that need fixing – it also gives suggestions on how to improve them! 

So in addition to checking whether or not there’s a meta description set up properly (and making sure there is), Yoast also shows me an example of what kind of content should go into the meta description field so I know what information belongs in there when writing my own copy later on down the road once we’ve made sure all these other things are taken care off first

Submit your pages to Google Search Console. Follow the same process for submitting pages as you did for posts.

Once your blog is up and running, Google Search Console will help you monitor how well it’s doing.

To submit your pages to Google Search Console:

Go to google.com/webmasters/tools and sign in with a Google account that has access to the site you want to add. If you don’t have an account, click Sign Up Now at the bottom of the page, then enter an email address and password for the new account, and click Next Step. 

Complete the remaining steps in order to verify ownership of a website before signing into Google Search Console.

Click Crawl > Fetch as Googlebot on one of your sites (e.g., www.*example.*com) or a subfolder within that site where you want all pages indexed by search engines like Bing, Yahoo!, Ask Jeeves (now Ask), and so forth; if this is not possible then start with another folder such as /blog/.

3a) If there are no errors shown on this screen then click Continue; otherwise go back through steps 1-2 until everything checks out ok before proceeding further here with Step 3b below..

Add links (internal and external) to related content in each of your blog posts and pages. 

Links To Related Content On Your Site

Have you ever read a post that inspired so many new ideas that you had to leave the page and do some research before coming back? Or did you have a question or comment after reading the post, but didn’t know where to find it in the comments section? 

Here’s where internal links come in handy.

There are many ways to link between different posts and pages on your site:

Link within your body text: Linking within your body text is an easy way of helping readers navigate around your blog. 

You can link directly from one keyword phrase or sentence to another keyword phrase or sentence by using single square brackets (e.g., [example]). 

This is often overlooked as marketers prefer external links because they seem more authoritative and trustworthy than internal ones. However, internal linking may actually help generate more traffic for you if done correctly!

Write A Compelling Meta Description For Each Page On Your Site

The Meta description is the snippet of text that appears below your website’s URL in search engine results. It can be used to persuade users to click on your result and visit your site, so it’s an important piece of copy for driving traffic from search engines.

The Meta description should be unique for each page on your site, but should also be compelling and relevant to the page content. It should also include one or two keyword phrases as these will help drive traffic from search engines like Google and Bing!

For example:

Beginner Backpacking Tips – This article gives you some great tips if you’re new to backpacking!

Conclusion

If you want to create a blog that attracts visitors and converts them into subscribers, then you will need to make sure that your content is of high quality. 

You also need to understand how Google Search works so that people can find your site organically. Finally, make sure all of your pages are optimized for SEO so they appear higher in the search results!