Name The Worst Profitable Niches as a Webmaster

Discussion in 'General Business' started by domainer_10, Sep 4, 2008.

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    What Niche have you found to be the hardest? I run a bunch of sites across many niches. I can tell you that anything sports related is the absolute worst. Got a couple baseball blogs and a sports collectible content site, all 3 do terrible for traffic even when they were ranking for fairly good words.



    Funny/ humour sites are also terrible too. I find them easy to get traffic, but the payout rates on adsense are terrible per click and there is no real products to sale on the site so your stuck with adsense. Not really worth the bandwith for what you make off of it.
     
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  2. raycol

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    I am doing good in weight loss and self improvement niche.
     
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  3. domainer_10

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    I want to discuss the worst niches. So we know which to avoid.
     
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    It depends. Over-saturated niches can be difficult, like acne.
     
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    Along the lines of the humor niche being bad... what about the "quotes" and "horoscopes" niches.... they have crazy traffic on google, but crazy competition too?
     
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    I'm having a lot of troubles getting anything at all out of my tutorial blog for programming and design. Even though I don't have millions of tutorials, I try write at least one a day so it's always unique and building.

    Should I try and change?
     
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    I think the sports niche isn't too bad, I got into football (soccer) and have found loads of ways to get a constant stream of traffic,

    Anyway, the worst niche i've come across so far is probably Acne related or the gaming niche.
     
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  8. domainer_10

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    Glendowney I never tried Soccer. But I have 3 sports related sites and all 3 do poorly compared to my portfolio.
     
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    That reminds me, the SEO, Webmaster, and Affiliate Program niches are crap too. I built a couple affiliate review sites and wound up turning them into crappy disguised sponsored post blogs because I wasn't getting any traffic just from content. I made more in a few weeks doing sponsored posts on them, then I would have probably made in 10 years from the measley traffic I was getting. ;) I also run a blogging for money type blog and it gets ok traffic, but nothing out of this world considering it's more than a year old and has a lot of backlinks and tons of unique content.
     
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    Selling shoes to whales
     
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    gaming is pretty saturated and not good
     
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    World of Warcraft
     
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  13. domainer_10

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    yeah, i kinda figured it would be. Only the more serious or complicated topics tend to do good.
     
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    Niches in the adult scene?
     
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    #15

    Thats gotta be saturated, but maybe certain parts arent.
     
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    the ABSOLUTE WORST would definitely be sports websites. If somebody wants to know about sports they go to espn.com, I've been there done that. But I'm making a few bucks a day on my website that is so simple!! And it doesn't run any ads.
     
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    If it helps...you've got one reader ;) I've read some of your tutorials, especially liked the php basic :) Keep it coming :D
     
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    If you are a good webmaster you can make a good amount of money from any niche...
     
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    MP3 site is the worst
     
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  20. domainer_10

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    #20
    thats not really true. there are some better than others.
     
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