Dude, I understand your point. It makes sense BUT you gotta admit that making a blog about Plant reproduction and fertilization in sub-tropical climates is far less likely to bring you money than a blog about DUI attorneys in your city... right?
This is what is known as Market Research. It's true that some people can manage to sell ice cubes to Eskimos, but a successful niche needs to be relevant and capable of generating extreme traffic.
No. What ever niche you decide on, you still have to do the leg work and research. Just asking "What's a good niche" won't do anything for you. You have to do your own research so that you can make up your marketing plan. If all you are going to do is plop up a blog with a few choice keywords...it doesn't matter what you chose. Even my grandmother knows the niches that everyone jumps in because they think it's easy money...just go to the reviews section... "review my tech blog" "review my insurance blog" "review my health blog" :review my weight loss blog" "review my make money online blog" ...it's all the same. If " Plant reproduction and fertilization in sub-tropical climates " is a busy niche, and you can sell materials-books, and supplies...then it can be a profitable niche for you if you know what you are doing, and can rise above most of the contenders if not all of them. I have sites in plenty of niches that are not on the top of the "noob" list. Model Trains, 50's, 60's, 70's, and 80's memorabilia, coins, ipods, and many others. Niches that noobs don't go into anymore because everyone is looking for the quick hit and the easy money...leaves tons of opportunity for a webmaster. People didn't stop buying those things just because everyone decided to start a MMO blog, but now, there is less competition. And it doesn't bother to tell any niches that I am in, because 95% of webmasters, won't put in the work and research. The most they will do is blog a few articles and when the adsense money is not flowing, they will move to something else. It's not the niche, its the webmaster. People are looking for and buying all kinds of products online. It's all about if you can sell it, or if you can even drive enough targeted traffic to pitch it. A hardworking webmaster who runs his blog like a business is going to make more with " Plant reproduction and fertilization in sub-tropical climates ", than a lazy noob on a free hosted blog targeting "Forex". I have used this analogy before, bloggers with no direction or passion are like rats on a sinking ship. They travel in packs and have no mind of thier own. Every time there is a hint that something was profitable for one.(Even if it was 4 years ago) ..all the others run to that side of the ship. This process repeats itself continuously, and the rats never realize that they are running in circles even as the ship goes under. I have a question for you...what if it's not a busy niche according to the tools, but you know that there is a market, and a profitable one...will you still go for it, or will you only blog about what Google says they will pay you for ? When I say that most bloggers don't have a mind of their own, it's because so many let one company (Google) dictate the direction of their business...to me, that is like working for someone, and not like being and entrepreneur. If Google shut down the adsense program, how many bloggers would not know which way to turn ? Like rats when you block their path.
well .in my opinion i don't think it's and any great niche as you will make you money or one more better then other niche ,the problem it's driving traffic my friend........no matter what you sale or what niche you work with ,,,,,traffic traffic traffic ......that's the hardest part for every one of us, correct me if am wrong
You said it all there man, "IF" it was a busy niche... last I checked it wasn't That is my point right there, if you target something that generates poor daily google/yahoo searches, how much money can you expect making? No matter how hardcore your research and work is, I don't think you will get thousands of visitors daily. Even if you manage to make your blog the Number 1 resource for "Plant reproduction and fertilization in sub-tropical climates ", you won't be living off your online revenues that is for sure. Now I understand your point about putting the hard work and passion into your site. I already have a bunch of websites that I launched for the "passion of it". I love working on them and adding new content, but I know that I won't be making millions out of them because they are very unpopular niches for the moment, less than 20 daily Google searches for those keywords... which is Okay, I don't mind, because I didn't launch them to make money, but as a "hobby" and also as something descent to put on my resume... But here I am talking of launching something for the unique purpose of making MONEY, big money. I know a bunch of webmasters who have done it in the porn-industry. Last I checked they didn't seem to have put that much passion in their work. It's just a profitable niche and it will be for as long as people are pervs. Even if their is zillions of websites competing, there is still zillions of pervs online to make up for it... launch an adult-rated youtube-like platform, do some basic SEO, submit it to a bunch of directories, stick some adsense code in there, wait 3 months, check your stats and let me know if that's not easy money ... the problem is I do not want to get into that industry... that is why I was wondering if there is other interesting niches out there that have a good ratio competition/popularity, to see if I can get my share of the cake... Cheers
I understand what you are saying. I have a hard time with the phrase, "Easy Money" because I have never seen easy money online...there is no "Set It and Forget It". I wonder how much time it took your friend to learn how to ser up a site for success. he certainly didn't register a domain one day and started making money 3 months later...a lot of learning went into it. Just remember, the same tools that you use, are the same tools that every other webmaster and noob uses to find the "Big money" niche...thus saturating them. If only 5k a month are looking for a product and you are the only one selling it, then I would take that any day over 300 million searches and 40k sites in the same niche. Of course you have to use common sense, I am not saying hard work pays off for everything..of course not..there are plenty people wasting their time in their chosen niches..I can see it just by looking at their website. There are equally as many people blogging about high paying keywords, but don't know how to generate traffic. Which ever direction you chose, you are going to have to learn it. There is no easy money on the web....if there were, this would be a millionaires forum and we would all be sitting here talking about how to spend money.
No one is actually going to say what the highest paying niche is but my money would be on the "Making money online niche". This never gets old.
I agree with hmansfield. You are forgetting about few things. Let's say there would be 10 pages about XY and that topic would have 100 visitors daily. 1st ranked site should get 98-100% of visitors, another will less and less. So 1st site may get 100 visits/day, 2nd 90, 3rd 80... 10th 10. If there would be more sites - for ex. 100 - than first 10 sites would get similar amout of visitors as earlier, another few sites would get just few visits and sites from 20-100 could get 0 visits. What's the difference if another n00bs and marketers will make another thousands of such blogs daily if they'll never be in first 10 results. The highest rank is reserved for quality sites, not auto-blogs. When peoples searching for something in Google they mostly stuck by first 10 results. Not many ppls searching beyond 5th Google page (50+ results). The reason is simple - quality of sites decrease with results and after 1-3 pages you can mostly find only auto-blogs fulfilled with AdSense, banners, offers and PLR articles. The same with e-whoring. People post their offers at Craigslist and I guess more than 90% of those offers are those fake with auto-responders. You said about pervs. OK. Some guy searching for some girl at CL in town XY. He find 10 ads, reply to all. From all he'll get back reply from auto responder to go and register at AdultFriendsFinder. What he'll do? If he's not FF member already he may register from 1st repy he got, but what later? He is registered already. Since this time even if he'll search everyday for girl at CL he'll delete all auto responder messages because he'll know that's scam. Even if he'll get different reply to register to FriendsFinder he'll recognize it as the same "trap". If someone is serious about finding his partner online he won't use those sites with paid membership, affiliate programs and earnings. Besides it's similar to situation as with blogs that's saturated similar way. If you would be only 1 person at CL who post those ads and there would be 10 new guys every day which would reply on them, you would have chance get more than 5 sign ups each day. But what if there's 100 ad posters and still just 10 new guys everyday? Think of it.
I understand what you're saying lafonda, and I like your nick. But like I said, you need a good balance competition/popularity. (in other words number of competitors vs number of daily searches) X-rated niche do have that good balance... Billions of competitors yet billions of pervs too... it's a nice yin-yang... Now launching a blog about Orbital velocities of hydrogen clouds might be a very tempting subject if you look at the number of competitors, but where is the traffic exactly?? You understand my point?
I totally agree with Alex. and always remember, here are a few more pointers: 1. u really dnt hv to work very hard if you know to work smart! 2. Finding several niches that you are comfortable is the key. if you dont hv a genuine interest, you eventually wudnt put much effort. 3. begin with a positive frame of mind. 4. when u make some money, reinvest in tools/services which enable you to explore new niches. e.g. I use axcessthesolution.com to get niche reports done, saves me plenty of time. you can request a sample niche report from their website. Also you can hire freelancers in sites like elance and odesk to get other things done like websites etc. All the best.
I think you are right. People always search adult contents in internet and the process of earning money.Besides this you can add nice veiwed image.
I would say internet marketing but the thing is the market is becoming saturated and there are to many "internet gurus"... however there are still possibilities
I choosed the niche by thinking of my passions/hobbies, it isn't so popular, but for me this thing doesn't matter because it's easier to get a high rank position.
Every time I see a thread asking about popular niches it just says to me, "What's everyone else doing ?" I guess I do it a little differently...I worry less about the "big" niches, because I know there is too much saturation to make a dent for a while .. Of course I have a few weight loss landing pages, and a weight loss blog (doesn't everybody), but I usually get the idea for a new site or niche to promote first along with the possible marketing avenues...and then investigate the profitability....and then look for products that coincide with it. I would never do a niche just because others say it is profitable, unless it was something that I have an interest in, and didn't know about. for instance..I never had any interest in Forex, don't like it, don't have any Forex domains, and have no interest in "Faking" a Forex blog with rehashed information or outsourced content. Everything is a niche. If you can't find one, then you don't understand this business, and are probably looking for something that is going to be easy. too many people jump ship too easily, not understanding that most times it's not the niche, it's your ability to generate traffic, or a crappy website. If you build a good website, designed well, with good content that solves the problem or sells the product...AND, know how to target you market and generate real traffic...you can sell anything, in any niche, no matter what the competition is. Use common sense, but most times it's not the niche, it's the abilities and limitations of the webmaster.
Consider a few niches you would are interested, and then research you competition. Once you choose a niche make sure you build a good website with lots of content and build backlinks to help you rank higher.
How about swine flu? I've been reading in other forums that some marketers are cashing in on this hot new trend. People are selling reports, plrs -- the informational type. Any thoughts on he swine flu niche?