How to Pick a Niche
Finding your Niche starts with choosing between your passion and skills. Now comes the tricky question? What is my passion and what are my skills?
Many of us have this question in our mind. Lets get you through this to help you find the perfect niche for you.
By the end of this post you will have selected a profitable niche.
This post will give you a clear idea of what is a niche? And how to pick a profitable niche for your blog. The selection of a perfect niche will be a good foundation for your profitable blogging business.
But, what is a perfect niche? This knowledge helps you to start a successful blog and monetize it easily.
How to pick your niche in 5 steps?
1. Your Interests and Passion
Picking up a niche area which you are interested in involves some questions.
- What is my favorite hobby?
- Do you enjoy a pass time or a game or some work which you can do all day and even on any time of the day without getting bored?
- You need not be an expert in that area but you are interested to learn about it.
- You just need to know just a little better than your readers.
Now write down such topics in a paper.Â
Got it! Maybe this will be your niche which you spend most of your time reading about, or doing it.
2. Your expertise in the niche
One of the great misconceptions is that you have to be a great expert in your niche.
To be successful in writing a blog, you need to share your experiences or your mistakes with the readers. Usually, people love to read personal perspectives of different things. Hence, you should have a heart to share your knowledge with the world.
3. Low Competition Niche area
When someone asks you about what your niche is? They really mean, ” What is your website about? When you make your first affiliate website, be sure not to use some general topics such as:
- Health and Fitness
- Travel
- TechnologyÂ
- Weight loss
- EducationÂ
These are too broad topics, which already giant websites are exploring it with. Hence as a new content creator, it’s too much work for you to win. These are hard to rank and hard to generate income.Â
Let me give you certain niche examples for the Health and Fitness – broad niche
- Weight loss for women
- Vegan bodybuilding
- Weight loss for diabetics
- Protein powder reviews
- Yoga for menstruation
- Yoga for kids
- Celebrity diet reviews
- Anti-aging
- Home workouts for busy professionals
- Garden at home
No specific formula for how to select a perfect niche. That’s good news, because if you can write good content any idea can work for you.
4. Market Research
So, now that you identified a few niches , what about the future of those niches? Checking the trend, and ensuring that trend has increased over time ensure you stay relevant in the time to come.
There are exceptions when you are working on a micro-niche, and your time horizon for that blog is not more than 1-2 years. A good free tool to check the trend of a topic is by using Google trends.
Here is how you can use Google trends.
- Head over to Trends.google.com
- Enter your niche topic
- Select the target country (Ex: Worldwide, India, United States, Australia)
- Select the year range (Ex: 5 years)
- And Google would show you how the interest of users have increased or decreased around that topic.
 You can find this niche “Exercise for belly fat” is an evergreen topic.
5. Is Your Niche Monetizable?
Choosing a suitable niche for your blog is important because it can significantly affect its profitability. It is not unusual for beginner bloggers to establish blogs on subjects they are passionate about and struggle to monetize them.
The reason being, there are many high-traffic niches, which are hard to monetize. The reason being, there are not enough advertisers, who would like to advertise in such niches.
Google AdSense or Media.net is certainly the most common way of monetizing any niche, but there are higher levels of monetization that generate more revenue.
There are a few ways to gauge the monetization opportunities, and one of them is by analyzing the similar websites in that niche.
Analyze other blogs in a similar niche (broad or narrow), and see how they are monetizing their blog.
A few things to pay attention to:
- Monetization Strategy: ad networks like AdSense.
- Affiliate links on the website.
- Products they sell (Courses, eBooks, Merchandising).
- Services like consultancy.
This kind of study will give you a head start, and also ideal for your blog business plan.
Benefits of a finding a perfect niche:
- You become an Expert.
- Generate more traffic into your site.
- More Traffic, More Market and More Cheques!!!
Drawbacks of Wrong Niche Selection:
- More Generic or Micro Niche Selection
- Hard to rank
- Less Monetization options.
There are a lot of Affiliate Courses that are available. But in my honest opinion, its not worth your time. At this point you have to focus on what you enjoy doing the most, researching and writing about it.
 Any Niche can Make Real Money. Its your choice to decide how to pick your niche and I can give you some real life examples for you…
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These websites are the proof for how to pick a niche that can make money with a good content and by providing value to the readers.
Imagine Doing Research and Writing Every Day. You can make enough good money just by writing blogs every day! Will there be enough to write about? If not, broaden your topic. What about a new cake recipe every month though? Yeah, we could do that! Cake recipes will be a perfect niche idea to start with.
Other potential niche websites could be:
- keto cake recipes
- no-bake cake recipes
- cake-making for kids and parents
You can make real money as long as you commit into it. Just like any other mental activity, brainstorming ideas for your specialty may reassure you when it comes to selecting a topic and moving forward with website development.
Researching Affiliate Products Can Help You Brainstorm Ideas
Checking out some initial affiliate offers related to your niche is a good idea if you want to take the time to do the research. You’ll come up with more and more ideas for monetizing your website as you gain expertise in your industry and learn more about affiliate marketing.
One last tip for selecting a successful Niche:
The Best Name For Your Blog
After all these discussions and information you gained from this article, you would have now found your perfect niche by now. Still struggling to figure out to pick a perfect niche?Â
The best name is your name…. Because if you choose yourname.com, then sky’s the limit.Â
- You can expand on any niche. You can experiment with different ideas.
- You can have a personal brand.
- After all, it’s easy and needs no thinking at all.
- Instead of spending hours thinking of a perfect niche name, this idea will skip all of your issues by now.
Now it’s time to buy a domain name. You can get a good and cheap name from namecheap.com for about $10 a year.
This guide should be used as a guiding principle for your niche market selection, but it should not be your sole reference. Innovation often comes from unexpected sources, so keep an open mind.
However, there are several guidelines that might help you avoid making the same mistakes as many others when choosing a niche, such as using statistics to confirm your idea.
You’ve got a head full of passion, a notebook brimming with research, and a heart thumping with the thrill of online freedom. But here’s the thing: picking your niche is just the first step. Building a money-making empire requires more than a trendy topic and cute blog name.
I have intended to equip you with the knowledge professionals utilize for niche market selection. To acquire all this knowledge in the real world, you would have to pay hundreds or even thousands of dollars. Today, this knowledge is offered free of charge, but its value dissipates if you ignore a single principle, undermining the effectiveness of your niche market selection.
Now that you have a niche, the next step is to start a blog and make money. You can easily start with my 15 step quick guide.Â
This article will help you refocus your blog if you already have a blog in a specific niche. This approach not only secures your future success but also eliminates the possibility of becoming one of the many bloggers who abandon blogging due to a faulty niche selection. If you still have questions coming, reach out to me in the comments for more discussion.