Are you interested in Affiliate Website Marketing? Do you want to know what a niche website is for? Read it here. How to choose a niche. How to monetize your niche website.
Important: Chose something you’re passionate about!!!
Before even thinking about how to make a website and an online business, we have to concentrate on which “niche” we want to direct our focus and finally start providing help to an interested audience.
To create a niche website is a way to focus on a target audience for whom we have something to deliver. We want to deliver exactly what the targeted audience is looking for so we need to find the exact niche for the quality product we can deliver.
That means first we have to ask our selves “what do we have to deliver“
Content: What Is A Niche Website For.
What is a niche website?
A “niche website” is for servicing and providing useful information and quality products to a specific, “niche audience”.
Niche, what is niche in the internet jargon? Now that is a specific topic, a topic that interests a lot of people. This website, for example, has the topic of making money online and affiliate marketing.
Many of the websites you visit every day are niche websites. For example, if you want to know why your canary bird does not eat, you search on the search engine for “Why does my canary bird not eat?”
You then get many results and most of these results are niche websites. There are also forums but what we are discussing here are niche websites such as “wikihow.pet“
So the goal of a niche website is to provide as much as possible of helpful information as to which potential readers are looking for. And to add an earning potential to the niche website you can recommend a helpful, problem solving product on the way.
In the canary example, this can be a medicine. The above-mentioned website “wikihow.pet” dispenses with such recommendations, uses Google AdSense instead (not recommended), but provides a more or less detailed list of foods you could offer your canary.
The most important thing about a good niche website is, therefore, to inform as detailed as possible and possibly offer help when there is a need.
Why do I write about this topic?
Well, everywhere people are talking about online business opportunities, hundreds of products are offered to help you make money online, but the niche choice and also the idea of working with a niche website generally is often underestimated.
The most important in my opinion, to have a real chance of getting successful in online business is that you work in a niche that you enjoy and never gets boring.
It’s all about making money and business, true, but whenever you talk to successful business people, not employees, you soon realize that they really are passionate and love what they do.
You have to understand, building a real business always takes time, especially in the online industry and when you’re new to it, you don’t have any pedestrians seeing your shop.
Except if you choose to invest in advertising but this is quite expensive. You have to be prepared to work hard and for quite some time before you see any success.
What is the benefit of building your own business? Not that you can earn more, not that you can work when and where you want, but, in my opinion, the most important thing is that you can choose your niche freely and thus be able to deal with what really interests you.
Apart from that, of course, if you choose the niche website business, you’re better off when you like to write a lot 🙂
A motivational video 🙂
Sorry, I’m not good at creating videos my self so far that’s why I always use, in my opinion, useful video from others. In this case, it is an inspiring video from Jeff Rose.
I find it interesting and helpful how he explains that he too had to learn the business from scratch and only because he was persistent and working, learning hard he was able to make a lot of money online.
I didn’t get successful as fast as he claims he did and you should not think you can do exactly what he does. But to get the idea of how making money online with a niche website is possible, I think this video is great 🙂
Who can benefit form building a niche website?
Basically, there are only a few restrictions who cannot operate a niche website. As long as you are able to read and write there is no age or actually any restriction to who can start an online business with a niche website.
What you need to be aware of, this business model is “no make money quick scheme!”
For Students:
Even as a student, you can start dealing with niche websites. Computers are certainly not unknown to you and you probably spend some time online anyway.
You could use your skills and knowledge by working on your first website instead of playing or chatting. Maybe you already have a blog, one your friends visit but is not set up to earn money with.
You can use this same blog and if you offer troubleshooting or share your shopping experience you can recommend some products on which you can earn percentages as an affiliate.
Or if you have enough visitors, you can apply for Google AdSense. But more about that later.
Young Traveling or Unemployed?
You too can think about taking your future into your own hands. I was traveling for a long time, but I would not have had the time to run a website.
Not everyone is as active as me though, I was more of the “experience” guy than the documenter.
I was also at home for a long time and without work. In that time, I would have been very interested in working on the internet, but at that time, the whole thing was still pretty new 🙂
Today, I’m not young anymore, not traveling, but again I am not able to do a normal job. I live in Thailand and pay here is not what I could live from. So, I create websites 🙂
In The Best Age and Looking for a Change:
You too, yes, you who are not really happy with your situation, how the daily routine is and your time is running, even you could consider a new path as a self-employed person.
I almost believe that one who has a job but is unsatisfied has the best conditions for a better future with a niche website. The advantage is that you have an income that is enough to survive.
For the first few years, you should not expect to live fully off a website. If you have free time, you can invest it in your self-employment. The basic cost of my career is not expensive, maybe 500 Dollars per year.
Home Part-Time Engaged Mothers or Fathers:
You too may be able to earn an interesting extra income if you still start helping people through the internet sharing the things you know. Blogging It can be entertaining, you can communicate and share your little-known knowledge with the whole world.
Also you, you don’t have the pressure to cover your living expenses directly, you can take your time and developing your website is possible as fast as you can.
Retired People:
You have at least two reasons to engage in such an activity. Firstly, you can certainly help many with your experience and thus get meaning back in your life.
On the other hand, it is an adventure that throws you back into life. I know of a lot of older students at my school who jump into it and become successful with niche websites.
Another advantage is you don’t have to run around doing this work, you sit comfortable were you like it and share your experience and open the opportunity to elevate your pension money drastically.
You see, if you want to disseminate your knowledge or experience online and build a business doing so, a niche website is suitable for everyone. How you find a suitable and satisfying niche for YOU, I’ll explain in the next chapter 🙂
How do you find YOUR niche?
Before starting with an online business, there are several criteria that you should consider when choosing your niche. For me, the most important thing is that I am interested in my own niche.
- Interesting and fun.
- Search volume.
- Monetizing.
- Competition.
We can share our experiences – everyone has unique experiences.
We all have a lot of experiences, some come from hobbies, some from our jobs and others from where we live or how we live. First, I want to make a list of things that I have experience in (preferably more experience than any other x neighbor).
In the following, I have shown a way to explore a niche. This system is not the easiest but just have a look at what you could do. There are 4 steps involved:
- Make a list of your skills, experience.
- Find broad niches within this list.
- Check the monetizing potentials of these broad niches.
- Find your sub-niche within the broad niche.
We can deliver our experience – everyone has unique experiences.
We all have many experiences, some come from hobbies some from our jobs and others from where we live or how we live. First I want to make a list of things I have experience in, (preferably more experience than every other Jim and Joe).
You, if you want to find a really good and lucrative niche yourself do exactly the same. We won’t have the same list but I will discover a moneymaking niche for myself here and you have to research your own. The steps are the same but the experiences and skills are different.
Brainstorm:
- I used to ride offroad bikes when I was young.
- Playing the drums in rock bands was my hobby a long time.
- Electrician is my profession, I have diplomas and practical experience of 20 years.
- I have skills as an all-rounder in renovating building interiors.
- Traveling the world and see many countries is a favorite experience.
- Living in Thailand as an expat.
- Writing websites and learning internet skills, my current passion.
- My wife and I were taking part in several courses for permaculture practices.
I am a father of an 8-year-old daughter.
Okay, that’s my list, as I can think of at the moment. Do you have your list? Do a brainstorming, that means you write down everything that comes to your mind without valuing and judging. You will ditch most skills anyway until you have found your perfect and lucrative niche.
I think being a father of a daughter is nothing special and I want to through that one out right away. If I was educated in pedagogy it might be another story but father experiences are quite common LOL.
Next, we have to dig a bit deeper into every topic listed above. Many niches can be involved in every skill we have and we now want to extradite the belonging niches for every point in the list.
I know, it is becoming to be some work here, but believe me, the result of these researchers, is going to occupy you for many, many more hours, months and maybe years, than you spend here defining a money-making niche.
Detect possible niches’ within “your” list of skills.
1. I used to ride offroad bikes when I was young.
- Motorbikes
2. Playing the drums in rock bands was my hobby a long time.
- Music
- Drums
- Bands
3. Electrician is my profession, I have diplomas and practical experience of 20 years
- Tools
- Planning, Engineering
- Solar
- Electrical Supplies (Lamps, Switches)
4. I have skills as an all-rounder in renovating building interiors.
- DIY Renovating
- Recommending customers and services
5. Traveling the world and see many countries is a favorite experience.
- Traveling
- Countries
- Foods
6. Living in Thailand as an expat.
- Thailand
- Expats life
7. Writing websites and learning internet skills my current passion.
- Building websites
- Online Business
8. My wife and I were taking part in several courses for permaculture practices.
- Permaculture
- Gardening
Now before we go deeper into every one of these possible niches’, we are to determent whether there is a possible audience and demand for them, a clientele.
These are still very broad niches’ so far and will not be easy to compete with existing sites within a reasonable time frame. But before we research “under categories” we want to exclude uninteresting niches’, just to save time after.
Today I would recommend, you go for a stroll and check a newspaper agent. Ha, why that? In today’s world magazines and papers are very expensive, means, only topics that sell very well are interesting to produce.
For a free magazine, publishers have to spend a ton of money. A nice looking magazine is very expensive and they need to finance it with advertising.
You and I want to monetize our websites, so why not look over the shoulders of the big ones and learn something from them.
Take your “niche list” and see about which niches you can find a free magazine.
- Motorbikes Yes/Yes
- Music Yes/Yes
- Drums No/Yes
- Bands No/No
- Tools No/No
- Planning, Engineering Yes/No
- Solar Yes/Yes
- Electrical Supplies (Lamps, Switches) No/No
- DIY Renovating Yes/No
- Recommending customers and services Yes/No
- Traveling Yes/No
- Countries No/No
- Foods Yes/Yes
- Thailand No/No
- Expats life No/No
- Building websites Yes/Yes
- Online Business Yes/Yes
- Permaculture No/Yes
- Gardening Yes/Yes
Great, I have now ten possible broad niches that have the potential for traffic and business.
The second search tool I used and that is the second Yes or No in every line is, I checked “dummies.com“. They too don’t want to spend money on authors writing books about stuff no one is interested in. So do the second check on dummies.com, in their online bookstore.
That leaves me with 7 potential money making “broad niches”. Motorbikes, Music, Solar, Food, Building Websites, Online Business, and Gardening. These are all niches’, themes, I like and have more knowledge of than the average consumer and have a huge crowd of potential customers.
For me, now I can ditch some niches’ because I already use them, Building Websites and Online Business are gone. Leaves me five.
Now I want to sell expensive stuff, I want to have a few reviews on my website with good quality and high-value products. My priority is to write helpful content and secondly write reviews about quality products.
Google likes websites with quality and helpful content that many people are looking for. They have more than enough Websites only concentrated on selling stuff.
I have my Choice, Motorbikes or Solar
Both themes are familiar to me, I like to learn more about them, can stand behind them, can build a passion into the topic and don’t mind spending many hours researching helpful content and write about them. Now there is only one question left, are there any products available matching the niches’?
I am an Amazon affiliate (you will learn about that later) and now do a quick research on Amazon if they have related products for sale. You can do that too for your funneled niche results, log into Amazon. Com and find relevant products for your niche.
1. For “Motorbikes” they have:
Model Bikes, Paintings, Decor, E-Bikes for kids, Rugs, some Biker Outfits and some Bike Parts. Down from around $1300. Dollars. That is not bad but the most relevant, most sold articles are the rather cheap ones. I am not very happy with this result.
I could ask real motorbike companies for affiliate partner contracts but for now, this is too time-consuming for me and for you as you are probably new in the business not the way to start off. The “Amazon associates” program as it is called by definition is easy to get accepted and has a huge assortment of articles you can sell.
2. For “Solar” they have:
Lights, chargers, up to solar-powered refrigerators and roof panels for over $17’000.00. This is what I am looking for. Pricey products for a good deal that can earn me some good provisions. Loads of relevant articles in a price segment of $1-3’000 Dollars and interesting small stuff for less than $100.00.
Got it, I will look into the solar segment. There are far more articles available and the price level goes higher as well. It will be easier earning commissions as the solar business is a growing one and already highly rated.
Now I want to find a sub-niche, there will still be a ton of interested people.
I now need to narrow down my niche. If I google for “Solar” I have 719’000’000 competing search results and that is not easy to deal with. “Solar system” already less, 184’000’000, still too much. Solar power, 87’800’000. Solar Power For Homes, 37’100’000. Solar power for homes best price, 8’960’000, still too much but much better.
All this researching is easy done, actually, Google helps me do this. I search on Google search with the instant search bar, the one under the top search bar, with the magnifying glass. (See Pic below) I started with “solar” and enter.
Then you have the instant search bar field in view, there I put my cursor and click once at the end of the word solar and several results to choose from appear.
After I chose one, I click it and go on doing the same again and again until I am satisfied and found a good word combination.
From the result of the 9 million competing articles, I go into my keyword search tool and do some more digging. If you don’t have that one yet you can use Jaaxy* for free, for 30 searches. (use them wisely, only 30 for free).
Now I come up with a great niche, “XXXXXXXXXXXXXX”. From here I will direct my domain name and website name and build a brand. I should not make this too public, as it is a company secret, at least until I published the first posts.
* (Before you buy Jaaxy check my WA review, you can save a lot of money like that, you’ll see. It is the best keyword program but I have a cheaper way to get it).
I don’t worry much about industry espionage yet LOL, as this website is still very young and I imagine not too many of you have found it so far. Once it is more popular and you as an organic searcher will find me, the business results of this project will already be visible and proven.
Sorry? No skills, too young, – no worries….
Now, this is how I do my niche research. I am 54 years old and have done quite some stuff in my life. Actually, my best niche would be the “what not to do” niche LOL. But anyways, for you, the younger or just less experienced readers, don’t worry, there are other ways to find a niche.
Three interesting websites providing niche ideas I want to demonstrate now.
- Clickbank.com
- Stumbleupon.com
- Reddit.com
Clickbank.com
Is amazing. There are tons of broad niche ideas for you chose from. On the left, you can click a very broad topic, like maybe “green Products” or anything you like of course. With that, it opens a wide spectrum of possible smaller niches.
Take some time and check Clickbank itself too. This might be another “affiliate program” you want to work with. Them, like Amazon, have products you can promote and get commissions on your website.
Check for high commissions and products they say “convert” well. Check your chosen niche, what can they offer, how good are the chances to make a profit out of the effort of writing a “review”.
Stumbleupon.com, today Mix.
Is another interesting site for researching niches. You might have to log in for free but then you can explore what people are interested in and what you somehow relate to. You find fantastic website ideas from which you let yourself get inspired and get an idea what others present.
Reddit.com.
Is a public forum sharing articles about most popular things. Here you can get some ideas what people are talking about, things they ask questions about and even things they are looking for.
Probably now you know where I am getting at here, check every resource you can think of where you might find top interests of today. It can be FB, Google, Pinterest, or Amazon.
Even your friends and family are potential customers. Everyone has different interests but out of 7 billion people using the internet daily, there are interest groups that are bigger and smaller.
Having said that, within 7 billion+ daily users, I think there is not one single topic where you will not find a group of people interested in. Try out yourself, If you find a theme, topic and google it, I bet you won’t be able to think of one single example that does not provide a website.
Other ideas about niches I wrote down in this post: Best niches in 2018, these are of course also valid this year.
Or in my post about how to start a business with a website, a niche, and Pinterest.
Or of course my not complete but still interesting course on how to create a lucrative niche website.
Pros and Cons of a niche website.
- You can work in a niche you're passionate about.
- You don't need much money to start.
- You don't need to own products to make money.
- You can work where and when you like.
- You have no boss.
- Your earning potential is unlimited.
- You build your own business.
- You don't have to share your profits.
- Niche website marketing takes time.
- No regular income.
- You need to work hard to see results.
- As a newbie you have to learn a lot.
- There's no success guarantee.
Conclusion: What Is A Niche Website For – Monetize Your Niche
Well, the details of how that all works with the earning process, I can’t cover in this article. But, the fact is, billions are being made with niche websites.
If you like writing, researching, editing pictures, graphics or videos and sharing something valuable with your fellow human beings, you can nowadays succeed with a niche website.
The process is basically simple, you have to follow these steps:
- Choose a niche.
- Build a website.
- Publish helpful content.
- Sell products.
Everything I have done on this website and for every step you can find information if you click the “Good To Know” menu-item.
In this article, I’ve talked mainly about niche choice and its importance. For me, this is a concern, because as many have experienced with the right or wrong niche choice success with a website stands or falls.
I have made this experience too, my first niche website was way too broad, “Thailand”, exploringrealthailand.com, that’s one of my main interests and I can say a lot but to make money with that is not suitable.
My second attempt was my flip-flop page, again not optimal because the monetizing potential is unfortunately low since most of the customers looking for these sandals don’t want to spend a lot of money.
With my third project, the Super Affiliate University, there is a big market, people spend a lot of money and although this market is highly competitive, with time, the whole thing can become very lucrative.
I have I decided to stay with this project until it works, that is, until I make about $5-10’000 per month with this page. It is a steep long way but I have to say I enjoy it, especially when I realize that it is moving forward.
In the last section, I would like to briefly introduce you where I have learned all my knowledge and skills regarding niche websites and where I am a member until today because all I need for this business is offered by this one membership.
If you are really interested in starting an online business with a niche website I recommend:
You click here and see everything you get offered. You will find a platform in English where you can create your first niche website for free.
- Training.
- Webinars.
- Host.
- Domains.
- Websites Editing.
- SEO Search Machines Research Tool.
- An Open-minded Hardworking Community, 1’000’000 + members.
- Live Chat.
- Support.
- And me 🙂
All this and much more you can already check out today, try for your self and ask questions if you get lost. For me, until today, there is still no alternative that I could recommend.
If you want to know more details from me check out my Wealthy Affiliate Experience Report.
If you’re interested in success stories, check this out.
If you just want to create a free website, click here.
If you want to check out my most recommended WA training modules you can find them here.
Do not miss this chance 🙂 See you soon, I’m here for you.
So that’s it for today.
Well, hopefully, now you know what a niche website stands for. You also know how to find a niche where you can offer help. And you have understood that before you create your first website, you should have some idea of which niche you would like to invest your time in.
At this point, I would like to briefly mention that I am currently working on my SEO and even more to make my website more user-friendly. It is quite possible that many of my articles are not yet updated at the moment.
Therefore not too many new articles will appear in the near future. But if you are interested in all the news and updates you can sign up here to my list, thank you 🙂
See you Stefan 🙂 asuperaffiliate.com
PS, like always I would be very happy if you leave a comment below. Do you have a question? Did I miss something? We would also like to hear your opinion.
Hi, It is a timely article. I plan to start my online business. It is in the stage of brainstorming. Your article is informative and I have bookmarked it for future references. I am interested in the clickbank.com and I see there are health and fitness niche. Is it possible to add my own products to clickbank? Thanks for sharing.
Hi Anthony, thank’s for dropping your comment. I wish you all the success with your new online business. I think here you can easily find an appropriate and profitable niche. Yes, you are definitely able to add digital products to the Clickbank assortment. I don’t know their terms but all their products are produced by companies or persons working independently. Be aware, the Clickbank sells only digital products, like software and E-Books and such.
Have a nice day and please look back in, Stefan 🙂
This is a really detailed and practical way to choose a niche site – thank you so much for this. I know this will be useful to me in the future. I like the considered and logical approach to it but also taking into account things that you love and are passionate about too. It’s always easier to write about things we love and our hobbies than it is to try to force ourselves to write about other things. Thanks again.
Hi Gail, great to see you. I want people to find a good niche. There are plenty of free websites programs out there but none of them is teaching actually how to choose the right niche and the importance of having one. It is fun to start a website but if one wants to make a business out of it, it is essential to have a profitable niche.
Have a great time, Stefan 🙂
Thanks for the information. I think it will help picking a niche that you really are interested in or have some experience in. Where you lack experience but have an interest you will constantly seek information on that product or topic. This gives you plenty of articles to write to push a product. And soon you will deliver.
Hello, Ronnie, welcome to asuperaffiliate.com. You are totally right there, where there is an interest there will be an interesting website. It is boring to spend hours and days or years writing about things that one isn’t interested in. Even if there is no expertise around first but only interest, the expertise will follow for sure.
Thanks for the thoughtful comment, see you, Stefan 🙂
This was a wonderful article. Selecting a proper niche is critical to the success of every affiliate marketer. You have to select a niche you really care about because then you will be able to push yourself through those doubtful days that creep up on you. A good niche will give you a lot to write about.
I especially enjoyed your advice to find a free magazine for your niche. That is good advice that I never thought of. It will give you something to read for article ideas and lead to your development as an expert in the field.
I have a question about reading for your niche. How would you say someone should prioritize what they read for their niche? Read articles first and then books? How would you go about it? I look forward to hearing your answer.
Thank you for sharing and I hope you make it a great day!
Hi Alex, thank’s for dropping a comment. About reading for your niche, actually I meant not to read all the magazines and dummy books but just to find out if there are some. If there are some it proves the niche is of interest for a big group of people. Of course, while building your website you can youse these mediums to learn more and find interesting ideas for posts.
Have a great day your self, see you, Stefan 🙂
This is very detailed and helpful information on helping people find a niche. I think it is important that people pick a niche that they are interested or have experience in. I believe that would make the website building so much more fun. I am personally passionate about healthy living and that makes my website building a much enjoyable experience. Thanks for the information.
Hi Hong, you found your niche then already. Nice to see you here and thank’s for sharing your experience. I have also chosen all my niches from topics I like and can easily spend hours of working with. Also, my experience in the niches makes it easier to write a lot, without having to research all the time.
Have a great time Hong and hopefully see you back here 🙂
Hi Stefan
Thank you for this great and informative article.
I enjoyed the way you broke down how one can decide the best niche for themselves.
Congratulations.
Best wishes.
Delroy M
Hey Delroy, thank’s for the visit.
I’m glad you like my work and hope it could help you with your niche choosing process.
I hope to hear again from you.
Have a good time, Stefan 🙂
Hi Steff, this page is packed full of great information.
Getting the niche right is so important – it can make or break the success of a website.
The process that you go through to narrow down your niche and the next time I create a new site I’ll be checking back on this post.
I still think you should create a niche site of “what not to do” lol. That would be a hit!
Thanks for the great info, and I really enjoy your site and reading about your experiences.
Hi Melissa, and thanks for your comment.
You’re so right, most failed websites are not successful because of the wrong niche.
This is why I wrote this article right at the beginning of this website. The niche research is one of the most important steps in the website business.
The topic is also not too much covered on the internet that’s why I have written two more posts about choosing a good niche.
Even in the website building program, I recommend, the most often asked question is, how do I choose a niche.
There is never enough helpful content about this topic and for quite some time I made it my task to answer a lot of related questions.
I’m glad you like my work and wish you best success in your online business.
See you, Stefan 🙂
I can see you have spent a lot of time on this.
I think your ideas and breakdowns of finding your niche is spot on. Thanks for writing this.
Hi Marge and thanks for commenting.
I always try to research my posts well and deliver a well in-depth solution. Especially the niche research is an important topic which many people underestimate.
I wish you all the best, see you, Stefan 🙂
Hi Steff, a great article packed to the brim with useful information that will help anyone looking to start an online business.
I just love the way you have simplified the whole process of selecting a niche.
Most people fail in the online world as they don’t spend time researching the right niche for them and for a lot of them they have no idea where to start to select a niche.
Your article with the step by step process is perfect and even being an experienced online marketer myself I also found a ton of value in your article… keep up the good work!
Hi, Moni and thanks for looking in.
Thanks for the kind words. I myself had a hard time choosing a good niche. That is why I thought to go into this topic a bit deeper would help a lot of people.
It still is a challenge to choose the right niche but at least some guidance is provided here.
The wrong niche can make the whole project fail because of being boring, too complicated or not paying any money.
I wish you best success with your projects, see you, Stefan 🙂
Wow, this was a really thorough article.
I really like how you went about choosing your niche and narrowing it down.
I never really thought about the magazine idea, but could you please tell me more about the whole magazine idea?
I’m just confused about why you try to look for a magazine in a given niche? I know you explained it in your article, but I just need a further explanation I guess…sorry :/
Otherwise, good article. I’m glad I saw this website and will probably keep coming back for more as I go on my journey with affiliate marketing myself.
Thanks!
Hi Jake, and thanks for your comment.
The magazine idea just helps to clarify if the niche is good and fast monetizable. I know in the end every niche is monetizable but some are faster and more lucrative.
Now the magazines that exist in a particular niche prove that there is a high-value market. Actually, this should be free magazines, that live off advertising.
The idea is if they can finance a million dollar magazine with advertising you can surely make money with this niche with a website.
But as I said, today every niche is possible to make money. But maybe you don’t want to wait for several years to get an authority and get enough traffic to your site.
Top popular niches are rather competitive but also have much more searches every day. If you are serious about making money online and want to make the best website in your niche you don’t have to worry about competition.
If you don’t want to invest all possible energy and time you’ll have a hard stand in the business, no matter in what niche you write.
I hope this clears up a bit more. I wish you best success, see you, Stefan 🙂
I like this site, it gives you all the information you require, it explains everything in detail and covers everything you need to know about niches, this is one of the best sites i have visited covering this topic.
Keep the posts going, this is a winner.
Hi there, and thanks for the comment.
Nice to hear what you say. I always try my best to deliver quality content.
I hope you saw my other two posts about the niche topic. Top 10 niches and Niche and Pinterest.
I just wish this post would rank a bit higher because right now not many people can find it:)
I wish you much success in the online business, see you, Stefan 🙂
Pretty much everything is answered here in this detailed article.
I also had trouble finding a niche several weeks ago, I wish I could have had an article like this to help me.
Very thorough. Cheers!
Hi Benjamin, and thanks for your reply.
I know, it is quite hard to find good instructions or information in general about choosing a niche.
I like writing about this topic because I had my share of bad choices and loss of time.
Now to get my news spread is the only goal for me at the moment.
Best success to you, see you, Stefan 🙂
This is a wonderful article on how to choose a niche, so much detail that I wish I had known ages ago.
It takes time to do all that you advise but that is time well spent.
In researching subjects for my blogs, I have identified several different niches, closely related to my website but they could also serve as a stand-alone subject.
Would you recommend adapting my website around a new niche or build a new website for that niche?
Hi Louise, as I don’t know your parent blog website it is hard to answer your question.
If you have a personal blog you can still go and use menu, categories to feature different sub-niches on the same website.
Generally, I recommend working on one website, getting this one working and ranking with time.
Every new start with a new site takes again a lot of time.
Once you know what you do and are positive that you can achieve results within 6-9 months you can try a new project, but not before your first project works.
I did too many changes my self and too early, my Thailand website might be successful by today if I hadn’t changed after a year.
All the best, stay put, see you, Stefan 🙂
I have never seen a better understanding of niche websites than what I have found out in this post.
Everything has been well broken down and although I had a good idea what a niche is and how to pick a niche, I did not have this deep understanding of niches.
I have bookmarked this page because I intend to visit it often.
The way you explained how to find a niche and how to detect possible niches within one’s skills or expertise is really one of the best I have ever seen.
The problem with some skills is that they might not be good to market online which is why we have to check the search volume and the monetization potential of our skills because even if it is a skill, does not mean it can actually be turned into a profitable niche site in the online world.
Hi Jay, I think in the end every niche can be made profitable, it just depends on how much time you want to spend getting there.
The flip-flop site could be made profitable for sure but to tell you the truth, writing reviews about sandals day after day gets boring too.
The Thailand website could be made profitable as well but due to being such a broad niche people open the site not looking for products but because they want to learn more about Thailand.
The money they want to spend on their holidays LOL.
The niche choice is pretty tricky especially if you want to reach a goal within a reasonable time.
Now with this website I have relaxed, I don’t think about money anymore, I just want to learn how to build a good ranking authority website.
Have a good time Jay, see you, Stefan 🙂
I really like how you break the process of choosing a niche to the last little detail.
In my opinion, most of the newbie marketers are really struggling with that. Too many of them jump into niches simply because of their earning power.
Hopefully, you’ll keep spreading this great piece of content and try to reach as many beginners as possible.
So they would know – it’s not enough if your chosen niche is profitable. You’ll have to enjoy it as well in order to write about it for years!
Thanks for sharing!
Hi Boby, I think it is definitely very important that we work in a niche we really like, especially at the beginning.
Once you are in the business for some years and have the skills to make a website profitable within a reasonable time you can then try with a niche that you’re not really passionate about because once it makes good money the passion comes by its self.
Have a great weekend, see you, Stefan 🙂
Building a niche website is an amazing idea since there are so many people that will be interested in a specific topic and building a website around that one specific thing is an amazing way to capture that market and make sales.
It is a great way to make money online and it is not that hard to do if you have the proper guidance. Targeting a specific niche will be a much better way to get traffic rather than writing about a broad range of topics which will take longer to rank.
Hi, Lynne, definitely true, just writing about a broad range of topics makes it hard for search engines to rank you for as an authority in something.
Generally the smaller the niche the faster you can rank but then still is the question can you monetize this small niche.
Good luck, see you, Stefan 🙂
Great article on finding your niche. A treasure trove indeed.
Truly everyone has his own unique interest, passion, and experience he could share and monetize them.
Whatever one’s niche is there’s always a market for it, no matter how weird you may think your niche is. There are 7 billion people on the planet with probably 7 billion interest.
Hi, and thanks for commenting 🙂
I think so too, there is probably no niche we can imagine where not a number of people are interested in.
So we can concentrate on working with a niche we are knowledgable and passionate about.
Best success, Stefan 🙂
I am truly impressed with this wealth of knowledge.
Although, I have already chose a niche for two of my websites. I know in the future I am likely to expand more.
The idea about about the Dummies books was absolutely impressive. That’s one thing I have never thought about, which is why I always read and study.
You never run out of things to learn even if you think you know what you are doing. Someone always knows a little more than you do. In your case, a lot more than I do.
You did a very awesome job explaining what a Niche is and How to do it. The one thing I absolutely agree with is it needs to be something you enjoy and can talk about forever.
I also enjoyed reading about your personal passions as well. Are you planning on making a niche site with permaculture in the future? I find that is a highly interesting niche and with weather changes among other things I won’t get into, is very needed in the world today.
Thank you for your post.
Hi Sara, thanks for the comment 🙂
I would love to write about permaculture but at the moment I just don’t have enough time.
On my Thailand website I have one post going in that direction. But as for now I enjoy the naturally grown products here from my wife’s farm 🙂
The topic is getting really famous here in Thailand, my wife keeps visiting workshops and meetings all over the country, sponsored by the government.
See you, all the best, Stefan 🙂
I would love to hear more on your take about selecting a niche. Are you working on refining your niche market still or are you set on the broad match Make Money Online?
I have a home business related blog and also on early retirement and Retiring before life is out of your lifestyle.
Am I going in the right direction with the latter blog as the first one seems to be gaining traction despite not being as focused?
Hi Zeus, I would stick to the plan, at least you target a sub-niche, the retired sector of people wanting to start a business from home.
My website here, the super affiliate university is targeting a broader niche but with time I too will get authority status and readers will find my website.
The MMO niche is very kompetitive that’s true but as you know only about 10% of all websites get older than a year. If I stay in business for another two years I think my website will be known by a lot of people, I hope so 🙂
Do your best, I know you do, see you, Stefan 🙂