How do I find my niche market?

First of all, if you limit yourself to the topics you like, it would be more difficult to find a profitable niche. If you have not found any profitable keyword for those niches, try to look somewhere else.

You can start by going to clickbank, amazon or ebay and look at their best seller products. You can also look at yahoo answers and look for popular topics.

Once you have found the niche, try to dig deeper. Use keyword tools to find long-tail keywords or sub niches.

A niche (or a keyword) to be probitable should:
-Have enough searches to allow you get a decent amount of visits. How many searches is a good number depend on the niche, on the money you want to make, and on the product you are promoting. As a general rule, something between 500-1000 daily visits should be enough.
-Have low and weak competition. Low competition, again as a rule on thumb, can be something bellow 300.000. But the most important thing here is the strength of the competitors, meaning the PR and number of backlinks of the top 10 results. You need to be able to overrank them.
-Have commercial value. This means that people using that keyword should be willing to buy, not just looking for free information. Commercial value is not so important if you want to monetize your site just using adsense. An easy way to check commercial value is looking at the number of adsenses displayed for that keyword. the more, the better.

When I see new people trying to find a niche, I ask them a few simple questions. Answer these questions and you will have your answer.

In your free time, what do you enjoy doing?
Do you have any formal training or education in a certain field?
When your not at your full time job, what would you like to be doing?

Whether its stamp collecting, rock hunting, backpacking, hiking, camping, history,,,,, if you have a passion for it, that is probably the best niche you can start out in.

If you are just starting out, your niche should be one you are good at or really like doing. I am not telling you that you will succeed if you are doing something you are good at or you like, I am coming from the angle that people do not give up doing something they like easily. You are expected to be very hardworking and it is disheartening if you do not see progress, many quit. If you are really good at something, you are not short of quality content in your area of expertise. Good for you because the primary reason people surf the net is to look for information. All you need is to drive them to your site and when they like it, they will stay with you.

There is nothing wrong with all those steps you mentioned, these steps are practiced in most of the niche, if you become good in these steps, any niche is profitable. Just to highlight, I know people who earn money from extremely popular niche like sex and internet marketing niche down to less known niche like paper quilling. Forex is also getting more and more popular.

Maybe you should start with doing something you like, pickup your skill as much as possible, see some success first before you think of venturing into other niche you think is more profitable.

The best thing to do is pursue what you're passionate about and the money will come.

I suggest going for a hobby/craft kind of niche and build Amazon affiliate-review sites.
Stay away from extremely competitive oversaturated niches like weight loss/diet, fitness, get your ex back. Go for small, obscure hobby niches like locomotive replica collecting, steampunk crafts, model airplanes, telescope/skygazing hobby, amateur digital macro photography, scrapbooking etc. It helps if you pick one of your own hobbies since you will be familiar with the market, the problems of the market, what's the trends

For example bottlecap trend is dying out in the buttonmaking/jewelry/scrapbook hobby markets, Alice in Wonderland is very popular cause of the new Tim Burton movie, vampire jewelry/costume stuff is skyrocketing thanks to Twilight saga, steampunk is extremely popular, etc.


If you are familiar with the niche, you will know what content to deliver and content generation will be a no brainer. You won't have to chase PLR or article spinners. Since you know the stuff, you can create your own content (articles, videos, podcasts, blog posts) and you can launch sites on a shoestring budget without spending tons of money to outsource articles.

I have noticed that I spend too much time working out a good niche to the point where it just becomes a time waster. You should definitely do your research because of course you do want to make some money for your efforts, but don't sweat it too much. The three main niches (relationships, health and make money) have huge markets so no matter what you choose you can still carve yourself a bit of the pie. But just one other tip I might mention - I write two ebooks a while ago on ghost hunting and hauntings - it is a topic I really like and am passionate about. BUT I didn't get any sales because most of the people who search for this type of information online want free information; not to buy any.

So what I do now when I am going into a new niche is I do a search in Google for a long-tailed keyword (three words for example) and then add "buy" to the search term. If I find that there are quite a few results for that then I know that there is money in that niche. I also check out how many PPC results there are on the Google search results page and whether they are generic or keyword specific - people don't generally tend to spend money on PPC if there is no money to make in the niche.

Hope this helps
Lisa

There are many niches with good amount of search and also good affiliate products but they really need that you spend too much time on them. Weight loss,friend ship and some other words are well known but the problem is your ability to optimize them.
For finding niche, you should know your abilities to write about that niche.As one of the requirements for promoting your website, is to write about that niche and submit those articles to article directories. Also i suggest you to choose a niche with average competitor that you easily can optimize it.

Have you looked between the cushions of the couch?

That's where Edgar found his purpose.

Want a fun way to find a niche?

Go talk to a manufacturing plant, specialty food producer, or store in your own area. They are probably desperate to increase their business and have niches you could never dream.

While you may never make a commission on a sale, you may make some really good money increasing their business for them. Then again, depending on how their business works you may make some very large commissions on single items.

I have worked with factories, medical facilities, stores, billing companies, etc. Their markets are often much easier to optimize for than the "traditional markets" everyone is interested in. (I found those types of clients in communities of under 15,000 people.)

You've got a lot of good posts here, and I think if you can find a good, successful mentor to follow that certainly will help you also. Especially early in your journey. Good luck and follow your instincts.

I'm sure this has already been covered but first off, close down your keyword research tool. Why people band about this advice around starting niche finding with a keyword tool is beyond me.

First, write down what interests you. What do you ENJOY? You want to start with something you are not going to get bored with and something that you know inside out. Once you know what it is you enjoy look at your own habits and thoughts.

Do you spend money on it? Where? When? WHY?
What do you need to partake in this hobby/pass time?
WHY Do you need it?
How are people making money in this market?

I LOVE Digital Photography and taking pictures. I got a great niche idea by simply browsing around forums without the intention of making any money at all. Just to enjoy my hobby.

I noticed many people talking about the business of photography... asking questions related to setting up and promoting a photography business. Needless to say I created my own resource for this exact problem they were facing and sell it to these people.

Finding your niche is easy. Don't overcomplicate it. Follow the above and if you still can't find something you KNOW will make you money, come back here and ask for more advice.

Chances are you will have ideas flowing around already.

Jim.

P.S. Oh yeah, once you have that figured out, you need to think about monetizing your ideas. Will you sell an ebook? Promote affiliate products? Membership site?...

Once you know how to monetize your market, then you can start worrying about keyword research and reaching your target audience.