Brainstorming for a niche blog

Hey all,

I want to start a niche blog and I've been trying to determine with my background and expertise what that might be. I like blogs for generating money

Here's my brainstorming for topics and here's what I've come up with:

Make money online blog

Gaming

Dating

Writing

Information technology

Wordpress tips

Web hosting

Android apps

I don't know which is the best for starting a blog and making money with it. Any thoughts?

I think that one of the most important things is to make sure that you choose a niche that you know a lot about and like. If you are blogging about something you know about it will be a lot easier. If the niche is something that you like and are interested in then it's going to be easier for you to keep interest in the blog.

What things do you know a lot about and are very interested in?

Answer that and that's probably going to be the best choice for you.

Some people say you should stay away from high competition niches, because of, well all the competition. But another train of thought is that because there is so much competition, there is alot of money to be made. (usually)

ulterios has a good idea, going with what you know, but that can be tough sometimes as what you know may not be highly profitable, or profitable enough for you.

Yes, try to get into something that at least interests you, you can also learn as you go. Actually, MANY people have become highly successful going the route of, "follow me" as I learn, case studies, ect. I think it's because they seem more like real people and probably more like the people that follow them. If that makes sense.

Another way is to look for sidedoors into bigger niches. Say low comp keywords for bigger niches. Or sub niches of a bigger niche.

Like ulterios said, depends on you. Hard to say to much.

ulterios said:

I think that one of the most important things is to make sure that you choose a niche that you know a lot about and like. If you are blogging about something you know about it will be a lot easier. If the niche is something that you like and are interested in then it's going to be easier for you to keep interest in the blog.

What things do you know a lot about and are very interested in?

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Excluding Dating niche, I am interested in all niches above and having knowledge with them.

Ron Killian said:

Some people say you should stay away from high competition niches, because of, well all the competition. But another train of thought is that because there is so much competition, there is alot of money to be made. (usually)

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Exactly I thought about that and suppose that I may choose a bigger niche that more competitor than choosing small niche, a niche with high competition can work for long term and earning better if it succeed.

CyberAlchemist said:

Hey all,

I want to start a niche blog and I've been trying to determine with my background and expertise what that might be. I like blogs for generating money

Here's my brainstorming for topics and here's what I've come up with:

Make money online blog
Gaming
Dating
Writing
Information technology
Wordpress tips
Web hosting
Android apps

I don't know which is the best for starting a blog and making money with it. Any thoughts?

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I suggest that you go deeper into any one of those categories and try to identify specific problems you can help people solve. (Real problems that you can offer real solutions for)

Then build a site that solves one of those problems for people. Then build a different site that solves another one of those problems.

Don't build the old school type of niche website where you just publish a bunch of articles all somewhat related to the same category. (And then hope you can get traffic that you can monetize.) That isn't a very good business model. You will struggle to get enough targeted traffic that you can monetize effectively. Those kinds of sites are good sources of links, but they are generally not good sites to monetize.

Instead, do some research to see what kinds of problems people are having. Find a way to solve one of the more important problems. Then build an authority site that helps people solve that problem.

If you do that, then you will have a website that attracts traffic naturally. It will be highly targeted traffic that will convert extremely well if you make the right offer to it.

Making Money Online - Is a great idea if you know some basics on how to make at least small amounts of money online. It is but a competitive niche in which you need to work really hard to gain trust for your site(just think about how many sites are scams).

Gaming- Difficult to get in and it is dangerous if you make the wrong people angry (like feminists or Social Justice Warriors, they will try to ruin your site and doxxe you if you review positively a game they deem sexists or racist). Extremely competitive niche that is constantly evolving (News>Reviews>Let's Plays> Streams and so on).

Dating- Is competitive but could work if you also add videos I think.

As PTTed said you should do more in depth research in the category you feel the most knowledgeable in. This would make your task easier and also look to write about something you like because I think the genuine feeling that your writings bring to the reader will ensure you a good following of your blog

Choose the niche or topic which you are passionate about and have some excellent knowledge. This will help you to put 100% of yourself.

CyberAlchemist said:

Make money online blog
Gaming
Dating
Writing
Information technology
Wordpress tips
Web hosting
Android apps

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The first thing you want to do is look at your list and think about where in the buying process you would be entering the niche. Using "WordPress Tips" as the example that stands out... Tips are great.. tips are used by people that are using WordPress and looking for advice to make their site better, and work better... are you seeing where in the buying cycle this is? This is in the back end or "Support" portion of the buyers cycle.

Web Hosting.. I really would not call this a niche.. this is an add on type o thing to a niche you are in. IF you were to select WordPress tips.. then a natural side affiliate program would be hosting.

Then you get into looking at potential income.. I would write writing off.. we all know what to be authors are broke! LOL

Android apps.. start looking at some of the affiliate programs out there for this one..you had better have a ton of traffic.

I am not going to say dating is saturated.. because saturated is usually a good thing.. I will say that it would be difficult to create a unique perspective to stand out from the competition.

So out of the list you are kind of left with IT. Web Hosting is IT.. so that could be one source of revenue. So the question then becomes..... <drum roll> How deep can you target with IT.. what micro niche can you pull out of your... left cerebral cortex has an amount of interest on your part... and the product or need to supply answers? I will throw out some examples I have run with in the past. Drones ( still a hot topic, plenty of product.. with all the new state laws plenty of content possibilities) would be easy to pull authority here.

3-D printers.. hot hot. The units are not that cheap, and either is the mid to top end software to run the things. If you really have an interest in this, think CONTENT. when I say content I mean already done for you plots so a person can download and print. I honestly can say i dont think I have seen much of this in the market space.

But those would be examples... I consider them micro'd down quite a bit, but there is huge audience availability in those - among others.

And saving the best for last... If you are stepping into Internet Marketing for the first time... PLEASE dont get into making money online.... How can you tell others how.. if you havent?