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Ok, so I promised a real example of how to check out your local niche for a blog if you are in a foreign country, or looking to visit another country. In my previous post I spoke about how to think about ideas of things to write about on your local niche blog.

Let’s take a look at an example of a country I would love to visit someday, Ireland.

Searching for Ireland will give me way to many results to think about if I was going to visit. It would provide me a great place to start, don’t get me wrong, but most people already know what towns or cities they are wanting to visit when they begin researching a trip to another country.

So, let’s narrow it down a little more to Dublin, Ireland.

Now if I was wanting to visit Dublin, Ireland, I would like to know what are some must see places. Where would I find a good pint of Guiness? How is the weather in July? What is the crime rate and where should I not go after dark?

So doing a Google search for Dublin Ireland with no quotes shows me almost 3 million results. Since the average Google user doesn’t know to put quotes around a topic to narrow it down, let’s leave them out for now.

The first three are legit sites, the official tourism site, the wikepedia site and the official portal site for the city of Dublin. Now the rest of the sites also appear to be legit sites with a wide variety of purposes, such as the Dublin airport and US Embassy in Dublin.

Let’s narrow our search down some more. Dublin Ireland best restaurant.

Going to the first result on my Google page (your’s might be different) give’s me a PR 2 site. Easily beatable! Check out what they have on the page for Dublin Ireland Best Restaurant.

Basic simple information that you could easily gather yourself from other local sources, or visiting these places yourself and writing up your own review, or letting the business owner know that they can submit a write up themselves that you would be “willing” to place on your blog or site (for a small fee of course!).

If you take a look at the first page results again for Dublin Ireland Best Restaurant, you will see that the highest PR is a 4. Of course there is a PR 7 on their also, but that is the official Dublin site.

Now, what else could you post on your local niche blog for tourists, visitors or people looking to move there? How about weather data. You can easily get this from weather.com or the weatherchannel as a plugin for your site.

What about bars and social places? What about the single scene or retirement population? What about shopping places, such as the unique stores, not the big chain stores or other large places.

There are so many ideas of topics that you can post about, plus there are so many ways to monetize your local niche blog that it would be impossible to write about them all. Just use your imagination and think if you lived outside of your area and were looking to move there or just come for a visit, what are some things that you would want to know about.

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