Do you concentrate on one Niche or Many?

Focus on what you know and what you're interested. If you're an expert in 40 fields and are passionate about them and can dedicate that kind of time, go ahead.

Personally, I'm pretty good at 5-10 things, so I market myself in those areas.

Warren Buffet suggests that when you find what works stick with it. My opinion is, if you find a niche that you have a passion for and it is bringing in money, then stick with that and go for dominating the niche. Keeping your other ones on page one would not be a bad idea however, as long as you have them.
Joan

I tried setting up websites for every niche I was interested in pursuing but I got stretched too thin. I've geared down a bit and now focus on three of my most successful niches and go after the low hanging fruit with free methods like creating hubs or blogspot blogs.

i have about 10-20 internet projects... about 7 i focus on mostly.. about 35 subprojects... i consider them that...

about 4 i focus on The Most... which include 2 pairs of properties which i go back in forth between focusing on...

Concentrating on just one niche means limiting your opportunities to just that one niche. On the other hand, getting into too many could mean spreading yourself too thin. 5-10 niches is just about right for a one-person operation. However do not start on them all together all at one time. Start with one and when you're already going nicely on that niche, get into another, and so on.

Of course, not all of them may work out, in which case, get out of those which aren't working for you.

Another benefit to building different sites within the same niche is that you can create appropriate quality backlinks within your "network."

I believe in one niche. My thinking is that if I have one topic related website why I need to create website with same niche. Because new website need time and work for promote. If I will do all the things for my specific website, I can increase thousands of daily traffic regularly.

The biggest mistake is to focus on one tight niche...I focus on a market and build my products around that market. That gives me the flexibility to sell to the same group of people again and again.

I used to have all kinds of sites about all kinds of stuff but over the years I've let most of them go. Now I focus on 3 or 4. I really, really wish I could just pick out one and run with it full-time but it isn't in my nature.

Well I think with 2-3 websites in one niche makes the chances of your site being on page 1 multiple times much greater. It would be great to have some of the best competition be your other website.

Has anyone had experience with hosting on the same IP and still achieving good SEO rankings? I dont really understand why it would make a difference hosting on different ip's because the IP I am own is home to hundreds of websites?

I choose what works for me. I don't just limit it to one niche. If I have the knowledge, the passion and time to do it then I would get into it.

I focused on one and set it up very very well before I move on to the next while still always improving/updating the old niches. Best to pick something you passionate and know more about.

What I did was focused all of my efforts on a single niche at the start. I created a single web 2.0 property for my niche and then I started to branch out. Once my initial site went viral I gave it a new leg at a time and it started to eventually move and earn on its own. My plan is to bring this same formula to another niche and aim for a similar outcome.

I'm currently covering numerous niches within many different markets with my micro-niche AdSense and Amazon sites, but they are mostly product-centric, and as such you don't need to be able to write with great authority on the subject matter so much as you simply have to research and weigh up the features, benefits and drawbacks of various products.

Becoming a believable informational authority on a subject-matter is a little more difficult, but there are plenty of resources out there (websites, books, DVDs, magazines, other experts, and so on) from which you can glean information, and quickly become quite knowledgeable about any given niche. For that reason, in my new Clickbank affiliate marketing and list-building endeavour, I am looking to enter multiple unrelated niches, and aren't so set on just dominating multiple niches within the same market.

That's just a personal choice because of the fact that:-

(a) I have a short attention-span and would probably get bored writing about the same overall subject-matter day-in, day-out. Got to have a little diversity, to keep things interesting;

(b) I think it's easier to identify and break into profitable niches when you haven't restricted your search to one specific market. If I were in the "learn to play guitar" market, with the "become a blues guitar master" niche (if that in itself can really be described as a niche), there are only likely to be a limited number of other profitable niches within that market with competition-levels I'd be willing to go up against. There could be few other niches with low/weak enough competition, or there may be none, so the only option may be to choose ones that are far from "ideal" (from a competition and demand perspective), for the sake of staying within my overall market. On the other hand, if I were open to jumping into any other market, I'm sure I could easily identify a profitable niche, somewhere, with much greater ease.

Limiting your spectrum of choice doesn't always result in easier decisions, in my opinion; a broader spectrum can present you with more desirable options, and reduces the likelihood of compromise being necessary.

But maybe that's because I was spoiled rotten, as a child.

My suggestion is that if you're going to get involved in niches as competitive as weight-loss, muscle-building and acne, it may be a very good idea to concentrate on one. I'm involved in 8/9 different niches, but nothing as competitive as any of those.

There's no way of knowing this information: many people (including myself) use pen-names for different niches, precisely to conceal their identities.

I'd be wondering, too: this is certainly one of those hugely controversial question on both sides of which self-proclaimed experts have staunchly held and sometimes vehemently expressed opinions.

Everyone has different schools of thought on this. I tend to lean toward focusing on one niche, make it profitable by testing conversions, scaling up, and going deep; then and only then do I move onto another niche or duplicate what I just did in the same niche. But if you had asked me that a few years ago, I would have given you the opposite answer (during my days of fury when I would crank out site after site after site...).

The reality is that there are VERY successful marketers that do one or the other or both. Like Alexa said, there's no real way of knowing if a marketer ONLY does the IM niche. The majority of the marketers that I personally know who market to the IM niche also market to other niches.

One thing I've learned by being in the direct response business for nearly 2 decades is that once you've mastered the marketing fundamentals, know your break even / profit numbers, and mastered market research, then you can jump into virtually any market and succeed no matter how competitive it is.

Back in 2004-2005 I was in over 20 different niches. Today I'm in 3 of them and I've gone very, very deep. In one niche we have over 75 products that we offer to our growing list over a two year period. So I've done both.

Trying to stand back and be objective as possible I don't think one is better than the other, because both strategies work. It's a matter of where you expertise lies, you interests, and how
many martinis you can drink while working and multi-tasking. Waitaminute....did I just write that?

RoD "Where's-My-Martini"Glass?" Cortez

Is your real niche promoting offers?

If so, you will want to develop your business in that direction.

Since someone mentioned Warren Buffet, consider this. What is his niche? It isn't the product or service that a company he buys is making or selling. His niche is buying and developing businesses that have good earnings potential.

Firstly focus in one niche, if it's success go with another niche

I try different niches all the time to keep things interesting for me, but a lot of them don't stick, or I lose interest. Generally, when I find one that makes me some money, then it's worth it to me to explore it a bit deeper and broaden my efforts, figuring out which marketing approaches works best for that particular niche. For the most part though, most of my profit comes from a small handful of niches.

I am kinda workaholic so I have 10 niches in my hands right now. But I am planning on staying in just one niche once I find out which one is the most profitable.


Andrea

I have only about 5 - 7 niche I'm working on right now, and it's enough to make me work all day.

Hey Aaron,

I think that´s totally individual and you can achieve great results
by sticking to one niche or doing more niches. It´s up to you.

There are always niches that are more exciting for your, make more
fun because you have a natural interest in something.

Personally, I prefer doing multiple niches at once, because it helps me
to develop more extensive analytical and writing skills.

You´ve to do more research by tapping into brand new niches. On the other hand
just sticking to one niche can allow you to become an expert real quickly.

The idea of 1 niche has merit.

What I now do is to focus on a market.. or an audience which has related niches.

Think about it...

Build one list and then cross promote and release a regular line of products to them. So rather than sell one thing only to many lists... sell many things to one list.

A few core niches that I will never leave... and then constantly testing into others...