Searching for a niche?

How do you choose which niche to promote? And how do you find a successful one?

The best piece of advice we have seen so far is this: write about what interests you.

Affiliates often find that the content needed for creating a successful website can be a slow slog and is often difficult to keep constant (check out our post on Overcoming Writer’s Block for ideas on how to inspire fresh content). So, if you start with a niche in which you’re already interested, one of your hobbies perhaps (?), then without realising it you already have that much needed content. If, for example, you’re a golf addict who likes nothing better than to spend a Sunday on the course, blog about your games and offer tips for better play or advice on which clubs to buy.

As for choosing a successful niche - do some research before jumping in; search Google AdWords for a keyword match estimate and see how popular a chosen niche or keyword is. This will also give you ideas for a domain name which, as we know, can be an important part of SEO.

Do some searches on Google to have a look at the types of sites that appear in the search results for any one, or a combination, of keyword (s). You’ll know what you’re up against then.

If you’ve still no idea what you want to write about, get creative and think about what people look for these days. Can you answer a question for your readers? Can you provide information on a subject for which there’s not much information available on the net? Get talking. The more you talk to others, the more likely you are to find that niche you’ve been looking for.

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