What's Your Niche?

You won't get many answers on this...for IM'ers, this is like asking for their SSNs.

For me, I build sites for two reasons: 1) I fully research them for AdSense and make sure they're viable or 2) It just looks like fun. If it's option #2, then I have no plan to make money it, but it's just something I'll do until I get tired of it.

For beginners, there is no point in trying. For an experienced IM'er, then these niches are fair game. If you know what you're doing, you can still find good keywords to build sniper sites out of in any niche, no matter how saturated it may be.

2 pages.

Simple answer: The dollar signs in my AdSense account going up make a niche special to me. If it is one of my "fun" sites, then I like getting feedback from the users/readers and hearing what they like about it.

You're welcome!

-- j

1. Not telling!

2. It has to be appealing and have good demand with relatively low competition.

3. No, and for the record, a big niche is not a niche. It's a market.

When you say the dating niche, you are referring to a market that's worth many billions of dollars. Hardly a niche.

A niche would exist within that market, like the senior dating niche or how to get your ex back or learning to be more attractive to women. That's a niche. Dating is not.

Same thing goes with IM. Just because you're not interested in the highly overrated and saturated make money online crap doesn't mean you can't get into web design, copy writing, SEO, membership sites, software or any of the other countless niches with IM that are small enough to dominate.

4. Pages of content? You have this all wrong. It's about links, not pages of content. Matt Cutts has openly admitted to this. I can get you the video if you like.

5. People with hair on fire and wallets filled with cash!

Just start action in your niche, don't be fear to choose your steps. No need to digg too much for others IMer's kitchen. Don't be too much overload info. Start make money!

There is no such thing as a "primary niche" in my marketing model. If it's big, competitive, and lucrative, I'm in it. A few of my favorite niches include; economics, health, medical, pharmaceuticals, diet and fitness, recipes, financial, real estate, technology, biotechnology, genetics, energy, art, fashion, jewelry, literature, architecture, engineering, history, ancient civilization, hobbies, biography, sociology, education, religion, philosophy, politics, criminology, security, sports, travel, aircraft, space exploration, agriculture, chemistry, physics, astronomy, cosmology, psychology, zoology, ecology, biology, archaeology, geology, oceanography, climatology, meteorology, mythology, occult, astrology, conspiracies, UFOs, "2012" and other end of the world prophecies, etc.

The major criteria is recurring profit potential and the number of high end affiliate products readily available .

The biggest and most competitively "saturated" niches are the future, although new technology continually drives product innovation, requiring commensurate changes in site/promotion content.

With my marketing system, it takes only about five simple pages for a website to be ready for traffic and sales.

The amount of competition is perhaps the best indicator of a successful niche, in my opinion. As far as setting my sites apart from the crowd, driving traffic directly from targeted readers through article syndication effectively beats out any other marketing method I'm aware of.

Dating is industry, not a niche
it was never saturated and not now and will never be because people do need love, romance and dating, millions of them are searching for dating every single day.

I am running a dating site and trust me with just 6-7 hours work a week, i am reaching a target where i am thinking to quit my day time job and concentrate on my site.. if i do it i am very confident that i will be making 5 figures per month but due to soem reasons i cant quit my day time job for next couple of months.
you can always go for geographic niche in dating industry such as vegetarian dating in canada or sports lovers dating in South Africa etc
good luck with it

I have 8 roughly "equal" niches. It's true that for one of them (the first of those 8 that I started) I have bigger lists and more content, but that's only because I've now been involved with it for over 3 years.

I don't say what they are.

It has to be something I can learn to write about without going to night school just to understand the vocabulary. It has to have a wide range of suitable, high quality products available (and likely to stay that way), including some higher-priced/higher-commission ones. It has to be one whose customers include some reasonably educated and literate people (that doesn't exclude much, though) who have credit-cards and are willing to use them online.

I'm an affiliate only, of both information and physical products, including ClickBank, Amazon and others.

Those aren't really "niches", to me; but no - I don't believe any of them is completely saturated at all.

Four or five simple pages is plenty for me to get started.

"Beginning to see the traffic" doesn't have much to do with keywords, for me. I'm an article marketer, so I don't need to get traffic from search engines.

(I do actually end up getting about 20% of my traffic from search engines, but not when I'm "beginning to see traffic", and I don't depend on that, and invariably it isn't nearly such good traffic for affiliate sales, anyway).

For me, as far as building my business and making money go, attracting large quantities of highly targeted, buying traffic through article syndication, without needing to rely on Google, is what always makes it successful.

It's not my "sites" as much as the "whole marketing process", which involves two main things ...

(i) Not being dependent on SEO (as so many Warriors found out, some to their great cost, during 2011, a business which depends on Google and/or "backlink benefits" for its primary traffic is only ever going to be one algorithm-change away from a potential accident/disaster);

(ii) The process of continuity, starting with potential customers reading my articles (wherever they read them - ezines/magazines/niche authority-sites etc.), through attracting them to my site, my website content, opt-in, "free report" (or whatever it's called) and email series, with each step being specifically designed to produce the security and reliability of the next.

For me, the continuity of the process matters a great deal, and my income is always proportional to its success. As long as each part leads (from the customers' perspective) smoothly and inexorably to the next, the sales will come in, and keep coming in. "Concentrating on the selling", per se, doesn't work out nearly so well for me, in income terms.

This ^^^, in short.

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My own experience lead me to realize that there's people sharing similar problems; eventually I created a video course helping foreigners with improving their spoken English.

The big niches are saturated and it's a given, I don't think it's subject to any questions. And yes, I think it's getting increasingly difficult (while not impossible) to start a successful website in those niches, but you've gotta be really good, sincere and unique.

Just look at this one - Live Off Your Passion eCourse - I was actually taken aback by the fact it's the same old how-to-sack-your-boss-start-making-money-online product only with a different spin.

I'd say about 50

Superb content (I hate to praise myself but I really try to write epic s&*t every time a create content!)

Unique product

Motivational YouTube videos

Friendly guy next door image

Fact that I've experienced the same issues as my audience.

Regards,

Robby

I currently have active projects on the paleo diet and mind hacks/mental training. I noticed you have an opt-in form on your PLR site. Can I suggest that you add a field for desired topics? You'd practically be assured sales if you mail your list as you write what they request.

Hope that helps,
Kevin

Sub-niche of personal development, here.

Passion, good products, hungry market, and the ability to market it everywhere.

No.

2, don't use keywords.

Providing value, solving a problem and being unique.

I seriously doubt ANYBODY here would give up their primary main money making niche. That would open it up to you and thousands of other new competitors that might not have known about it before.

I'll tell you one secret - the BIG niches usually are the best. The reason for this is they have many SUB-NICHES. I make most of my money in one rather LARGE niche, but I also make alot of money in a few other less targeted niches that i'd rather NOT have saturated.

Don't worry about how competitive they are, that just means there is a bigger piece of the pie for you

I just the odd and weird micro niches and then build adsense sites on them.

Dude there are soooooo many hit niches out there...when you find a money maker you'll realize why no one will give your their niches on this thread....

1. What is your primary niche? Do you even have a primary niche, or are you working on multiple smaller sites? If so, which niches do you target?

IM

2. What makes you choose a niche? What made that niche appeal to you? Do you sell your own info products, do you sell advertising, are you an affiliate marketer or does your business encompass some combination of these various models?

Money

3. Do you believe that the "big" niches like IM, weight loss, dating, etc. are completely saturated? I've noticed a lot of people focusing on product niches instead like kitchen appliances or computer hardware. Is the future in more product-oriented niches and sites?

More competition there is, the more money there is.

4. How many pages of content did you have to put up before you were keyword optimized enough to begin really seeing the traffic?

Never done it yet.

5. What makes a niche or a site successful or special,in your opinion? Everyone strives for quality content...what have you done to set your site out from the crowd?


The quality of the feeling it contents and how everything is disposed.

Any market that has rabid buyers, healthy competition, advertising dollars, and organizations that have done 99% of the market research for me. Most people who know me in this forum know that one of my niches is the dating niche. It's an evergreen niche with rabid, repeat buyers and is comprised of no less than 20 sub-niches and about 80 plus related-ancilliary niches.

I look for evergreen niches that are going to be profitable for my monetization models. I sell my own infoproducts, I also promote CPA and affiliate offers, I buy and sell traffic, and I also do strategic consulting with both big and small companies.

Saturation is a myth. Remember, you don't have to outrun the bear, you only have to outrun the other guy. Bear in mind (no pun intended) that no single organization owns all the distribution and advertising channels, not to mention the PR channels.

The question is way too general to even attempt an answer. I also buy a lot of traffic and focus on list-building.

If a niche within a market is large enough to have enough buyers where one can profit from it, than from there it's up to the entrepreneur to figure out how to monetize it. It's not so much that one is "special". I focus on the distribution channels, meaning "does this market of buyers have multiple ways of being reached effectively?" I have a lot of websites, but most of them stand apart for two very distinct reasons:

1. My USP is very clear (unique selling proposition).

2. The website sales or video copy is done in MY voice and uses the jargon of my target audience.

RoD

1.) I do marketing copy and content writing for mid sized to larger businesses. Haven't yet drilled down to a target industry.
2.) I chose this niche, because it's what I do best and I enjoy it. Plus there's a need for it.
3.) Weight loss -- it's saturated. Dating -- not sure. I've been married for 7 years.
4.) Much of my traffic has stemmed from doing guest posts on higher traffic blogs. I put a call to action at the end of my posts, and people follow the links to my site.
5.) I think the lengths to which you go to be different from others in your industry is what makes an individual's business special. I'm currently evaluating my brand amongst others to see how I can ramp up my key differences.

My niche mainly specializes in the internet marketing niche. For some odd reason, people keep saying that it is saturated and hardly anyone ever makes sales in it anymore but that is highly untrue.

I don't want to share my niche because I don't want it to get saturated. Find your own! LOL