Im thinking of making another website in addition to my old one. Im not sure what niche to use. What are some popular ones?
@qawsedrf - Choose one with a reasonable amount of searches but don't go *too* narrow with your niche selection. For instance, you'd never rank top 10 in a million years for "music" but you could rank for a long tail term 3-4-5 words. Then build out your site with long tail terms until you are established. As your site builds in authority you can then start thinking about targetting narrower terms with more competition. Dean
How about a site about how to create a good niche site!! Would that be a niche? It does get asked often...and you could be the niche of all niche's!! Hey just kidding I don't really know, but it was a good thought for a second. Good Luck to you!!
Choose a niche that you enjoy and know a lot about. Think of it this way, you'll probably get stuck with writing for that niche for a few months or years so find one that you'll enjoy writing on.
I agree with "mass2chaos." I have high paying keyword websites, that are hard to develop - because I don't care about the topic. Pick something you like. Something you're passionate about - or something you have experience in. I used to scoff when I read advice like that, until I had to constantly produce content. Then, I understood why this was important. You have to stay motivated.
How to Choose the Right Blog Niche: A Simple Three-Step Method In my previous article, I’ve wrote a short primer which teaches you how to create your own niche blog masterplan. Now in this post, I’ll touch on one of the most important parts of any niche blogging strategy: Choosing your blog niche. Picking a profitable blog niche that is of personal interest can be a difficult process, not to mention that you’ll have to single out a niche amongst an almost infinite number of unique topics. Not all blog niches are inherently profitable because the topic you choose, often determines the future size and profitability of your blog to some extent. It is important to pick a niche that you have genuinely interest in because the natural passion you have for the topic sustains the content creation process and will actually make the whole chore of blogging enjoyable. In this post, I’ll outline some of the methods you can use to select an appropriate blog niche that is not only potentially profitable but challenging and relevant to your interests. Characteristics of the Ideal Blog Niche Here’s a list of the factors which I personally think, constitute the ideal blog niche: Personal interest in topics within the niche. You enjoy reading, learning and writing about these blog topics. Networking foundation. You are already active in several networking groups or forums within the niche. Moderate to high search volume. The blog niche has a moderate to high search volume, meaning that people actually do search for more information on the topic. Potential for Monetization. Ideally, you’ll want a blog niche that actually serves up relevant contextual ads or has a range of affiliate programs which are at least partially relevant to your audience’s needs. My method of choosing a niche is surprisingly straightforward and the research process is very easy to perform. You should be able to pick a suitable niche in an hour or much lesser, by using the simple three step method that I’ve outlined below. Step #1: Narrow your Interests This is the logical place to start because blogging about something you have a natural interest for is personally enriching. What I usually do is to pick a few general topics I’m interested in and put them through a couple of websites and tools. Recommended Tool: Wikipedia. You can use search engines to perform niche research but I particularly like using Wikipedia to narrow down my focus in a specific field because articles in Wikipedia are very well interlinked and are generally informative. For example, see this Wikipedia page on surfing. In the first paragraph itself, there are links to several topics related to surfing, such as surf boards, wind surfing and big wave surfing. Scroll down to the end of the page and you’ll see even more subsections like surf culture, surf music and surfing competitions. Wikipedia can also be used as an informational tool which gives you more background on any topic. thereby allowing you to eventually decide if it is something you want to pursue. You should end up with a short list of niches you want to target, which leads you to the next step. Step #2: Assess the Traffic Potential for the Niche To assess the size and potential of a niche involves discovering the number of people who actually search for information on the given topic. This is important because you don’t want to be pursuing a niche that is inherently limited by its weak organic search traffic. Now is not the time to target your actual keywords so you don’t need to always go for the high volume search terms. As long as the overall search volume is moderate, that should be fine. Recommended Tool: SEO Book Keyword Suggestion Tool I like using this tool because of several reasons: It provides suggested monthly regional search volumes by market for Google, Yahoo!, and MSN and churns out direct links to Wordtracker, Keyword Discovery and Google trends, all of which are other tools you can use. After typing your keyword (e.g. surfing) into the search box, you should focus on the vertical length of the results instead of the actual search volume for the keyword. The length of the list determines how deep you can go with this specific topic and also how many keywords you can effectively target for traffic. This is an important point: Never focus exclusively on the main niche keyword but the overall search depth for the niche topic. Once you have found a suitable niche with a moderate search volume, you’ll need to run a quick check on its monetization and profit potential. Step #3: Determine the Monetization and Profit potential for your Niche This step is fairly simple. There are two ways to monetize any new blog: One is advertising networks (e.g. Google Adsense, Auction Ads) and the other method is the use of relevant affiliate programs from websites. Let’s split this section up into two. Recommended Tools for ad networks: Google Adwords Traffic Estimator and Google’s Adwords Keyword Tool.