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Finding Your Profitable Blog Niche - How To Do It
Written by James T Turner   
Monday, 13 October 2008 12:38
Discovering a profitable blog niche should be an action carefully researched before acting. If you're only purpose is to start a blog about your family, then obviously it doesn't matter what subject you cover. On the other hand, if you're wanting to make money from blogging, the niche you choose is very important. You'll need to know how much competition there is in a niche, how well does it pay, are there any affiliate programs for your niche and so forth.
by JamesTTurner


Discovering a profitable blog niche should be an action carefully researched before acting. If you're only purpose is to start a blog about your family, then obviously it doesn't matter what subject you cover. On the other hand, if you're wanting to make money from blogging, the niche you choose is very important. You'll need to know how much competition there is in a niche, how well does it pay, are there any affiliate programs for your niche and so forth.

What we'll be learning in this article is the process in which you'll use to find a profitable niche. There are a lot of niches out there. The problem is, most are not profitable or very difficult to monetize. Our goal here is to find the ones that are under utilized and have an income potential better than average.

Categorizing Your Interest

The advantage of starting out with something you're knowledgeable and passionate about is that you'll have plenty of ideas to blog about. One of the biggest failing points for bloggers is finding something to continually blog about. This is why it's important to choose something you know and have interest in. It doesn't matter all that much what the niche is. Perhaps you love to Cook, sew, work with wood, play Soccer or watch professional football. Any of these niches can be profitable. If you're truly passionate about a subject, you're more likely to turn out interesting and informative articles. This will keep the traffic to your blog coming in, thus making your niche a profitable one.

Do not get discouraged if your interest is not a wildly popular one. As long as you dominate your niche, you can be profitable. If the niche you choose isn't a hugely popular one, then start another blog on another interest of yours. I have a friend who blogs about working on his Muscle Cars. With the price of gas these days, you'd think there wouldn't be much interest. But on an average day his blog receiveds over 2000 unique visitors. His income from this blog is about $1300 per month and steadily climbing. Did he start the blog to make money? No. He started it because he likes working on old cars and wanted to share his knowledge with others. This is the secret of successful blogging!

Learning About Your Competition

You should now have several specific ideas for a blog. Now you need to go out and see how much competition there is for each interest you have. Start by going to Google and searching for other blogs on your interest. See how many other websites and blogs there are about your interest. This will allow you to see who your competition is and whether or not the niche is saturated (like the make money online niche).

What is the Purpose of Your Blog?

Another consideration the potential new blogger needs to consider is the purpose of the blog. Blogs are created everyday for one reason or another. Maybe someone's ticked off at a company and starts a negative blog about the company. Perhaps an activist starts a blog to recruit other like minded people to their cause. Those are all well and fine. However, if you're starting a blog to make income from, you'll want to first make sure there is enough interest in your niche to drive traffic to your blog. Without traffic, you'll just be blogging to be blogging!

In these cases the blogger should choose a subject which appeals to a large audience. Additionally, the Internet should not already be saturated with blogs on this subject because it will likely be difficult for the new blog to garner a share of blog traffic. Finally, blog owners should consider the quality of the blog they are capable of creating on a particular subject. The blogger should choose a subject where he is confident he can not only make regular posts but also ensure these posts are original, informative and interesting.

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