Newbies in hot, very competitive niches

If you're passionate about nutrition I would say forget google. Find a type of diet, or a type of targeted audience and create your site/marketing around them.

Social media and video would be your best bet. You obviously would need a site to hold all the informational content, but social media and video will drive people to your site.

I did this once with a certain type of diet. I put myself through the diet, and had great and successful results. As I tracked my results I picked up a huge following and did a video 1-2 times a week. I had a couple thousand (real) likes on facebook with a lot of activity from the visitors. I even had like 150-200 visitors a day in less than 2 months of just posting about my diet and how it works. All I ever used was my site and facebook.

Problem was when I did it I was unable to monetize it and eventually shut the site down being tired of fooling with it (I'm not even sure I could monetize it now). But to build a following you just have to communicate with your audience and they'll come to you. Your videos will rank and so will some pages, but don't rely on rankings. Just find a way to monetize it before you waste too much time like I did.

Good luck.

If she doesn't solely depend on Google as her main traffic source, she can definitely do it. YouTube, twitter, Facebook and other social media sites can help her get a loyal subscriber list.

I always liked the hottest niches because:

1. Competing against the best would make you think out of the box.
2. You will get more popular and be known as a big player.
3. Big niches have hungry customers who require very little presell.
4. Hot niches have potentially more outlets such as websites, magazines, blogs, videos etc. for promotion, PPC, JVs etc.
5. If you can make it in a hot competitive niche, you can make it in any niche...

Just my two cents...

You've got it just about right with your list there.

It's perfectly possible to succeed in the fitness/nutrition niche as a newbie. I know, because I started out knowing nothing and had my first sale within a couple of weeks.

My one piece of advice would be to spend as little money as possible starting up. You have to have a website, and it should be yours (not a Squidoo or similar deal, which is free but can be yanked out from under you at any time), so pay ten bucks or whatever for the URL and a little more for hosting. Possibly think about a cheap designer for the look of the site. But that's more or less it. She should just start a WP blog, get some posts going, get a list going, offer a product. Keep it simple.

This is like asking "should a singer try and get a record deal when they're unknown?"

Of course they should! And so should you. Don't be afraid to compete. It makes you better.

Well. anyone can succeed with proper guidence from a good IM...

If he is interested in that , why force him to choose a differrent niche,,,

Every niche requires a hardwork to make a conversion

There certainly are a lot of conflicting views about this.

Each to their own.

For me, I have never been put off by competition - it simply means there is more money in the niche.

The key is finding your "angle" and working out what you can offer in order to compete with the masses.

If the niche is very competitive, it means that there are lots of money in the market. If you want to totally depend on SEO to get traffic to your website, then I will say just forget it as most of the long tail keywords will already be ranked.

However if you are willing to commit your time and money into other traffic generation methods, then I will say just go ahead as the market is profitable and you can focus on getting your own profit share.