Did you know that the vast majority of blogs never make any money at all, while religiously limiting themselves to just a theme or two?
Correlation is not causation. If the blog is named "musical-musings.com" and you rant about the Second Coming of Jesus Christ, yeah, sure, folks can see it as being off-topic. But hey, if "Christian music" is your thing, then your blog could cover both.
I think these details are troubling you because you do not actually have any idea why you want a blog other than to make money. You sound like a guy who just wants to have sex with a girl, and is getting caught up in all the logistical details over how to impress her.
When you play the piano, do you stumble over the keys? If you have practiced, and you love the piece, you do not hesitate over where to strike next. Indeed, you will find a great many different ways of striking the same set of keys!
Likewise your blogs. It is because you do not actually know what you would do for your visitors that you worry about what you could do for them.
Let me say that again: it is because you do not actually know how they can benefit from your blogs that you worry.
Tautologous, right? Sure, but note this: if you do not know how they would benefit, that means you are not going to be adding value to the web.
So try to establish first why it is that you want to blog.
Once that is clear -- and *right* -- everything thing else follows, suggesting themselves as a natural consequence of inherent necessity, like cells dividing upon division, specializing to fulfill particular tasks.
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