You’ve read couple of blog and even bought a blogging course like WordPress Adsense System. You’re all pumped up to start your first blog and guess what topic comes to mind?
“How to make money online!”
This is by far the most popular niche market most new bloggers enter, mostly without any research and with no real uniqueness or direction in mind. I’ve once wondered why most people choose this topic when there are literally thousands of easier niche markets to enter as a new blogger, either to make money from Google Adsense of from affiliate marketing.
I guess most people do it for the following reasons:
- This is a really compelling topic – When you’re spending all your time online trying to make money online, you’d naturally feel attracted to the topic of “Making money online”
- You thought it would be easy - Yes, you thought it would be easy to make a lot of money from this market, as compared to other niche markets there are certainly more products you can promote as an affiliate in this niche.
The “Make money online” market can really be profitable, provided you can do the following:
- Find a more targeted niche within the “Make money online” niche, for example video marketing, audio product creation, Adsense,
- Go one inch wide and one mile deep. Find a small but targeted market, but go really really deep into the market with your information. In short, become the best source of information for that small niche, and dominate it
- Research the growth potential of your topic, and make sure that you’re not on a sinking boat. For example, look at the graph below from Google Trends and you’ll see that this blog has the potential to grow in the future. Type in a specific keyword in Google Trends, and if your graph is on the decline it’s probably not a good idea to start a blog on the topic.
So what do you do if you’ve already started a blog on “How to make money online”?
Well for starters, you need to redefine your content and direction. The “make money online” topic is too general and while it can be profitable, as a newbie it would be better for you to find a smaller, “nichier” topic. In fact, it’s easier to make money from smaller topics within the “make money online” market itself.
Secondly, read this post by Andrew Pavelski on “How to Survive in The Make Money Online Niche”. He shares a few valuable tips on what you need to focus on to get the results you’re looking for.
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Very informative article Gobala and I appreciate the mention! Like you said, there are many less competitive niches out there that are much easier to be successful in — in a shorter period of time. Though I think anyone can succeed in any niche if they are passionate enough… There are already a huge number of ‘make money online blogs’ popping up and a large number of ‘personal development blogs’ sprouting across the web — pick a different category. Doing some initial research to find an uncompetitive niche will be of great value in the long-run.
I am constantly struggling with the issue of whether I’ve made the right decision to start a niche blog. I maintain an SEO blog and I just wonder if I could have picked something a little more targeted. Could I have picked a more competitive niche? Seriously?
As I go along though I’m hoping to come across to beginners, so over time I’m hoping to separate myself out as a blog for beginners and then they’ll hopefully stick with me as time goes by and the site grows.
Don’t underestimate your ability to compete in a competitive niche though. There may be a lot of competition but you might be able to do it better if you truly love what you do and you end up doing it better than anyone else.
You just need to stick with it and give it your all.
Blog make money definitely yes if you set up your blog very well Always, people or friend asked me how people actually make money with blog. Well, I lot of people still dont believe Blog make money….
A agree with you Gobala, there are so many niches! I write about this in my blog, Finding Your Niche, and I get sidetracked into some targeted niches that I don’t write about “finding your niche” on my blog! Guess I need to do that more…
A search on Google Trends today for ‘make money online’ showed Malaysia was on Top, followed by Singapore. This result shows that Malaysian search for this words more than anybody else in the world. No wonder everybody went for this niche.
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