Do You Have to Be Willing to Write on Junky Topics to Find Many Good Keywords?

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So I decided to make 20 or 30 microniche sites. I wanted each to revolve around a keyword with some basic criteria like 1000 exact search a month and less than 100,000 competing pages and more than $1 adwords cost and low competition quality.

Well I have sat here now for two nights and found 1 keyword of the slightest interest to me that meet these basic criteria.

Now I'm sure if I started typing in just any words I could think of with no regard to my interests at all, I'd find some keywords. But this is getting me down.

Anyone else find it incredibly hard to find any keywords that you could actually see yourself being interested in writing about and building links to for months to come? Here I am thinking I'm gonna fly through building 20 or 30 sites and now I'm not sure if I can find more than 1 or 2!
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    Tell me one subject your interested in, I'll see what I can find.

    Just an example that you might possibly consider.
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    • Well I like topics that really improve people's lives. Their relationships. Their understanding of the world. But not spammy crap like bs alternative medicines that have no proof behind them and so on.
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  • What do you mean by "low competition quality"? (Just making sure it's not low comp in Adwords Keyword Tool, which you want to be high of course.)

    I have 100 niche sites right now. I don't love all the niches, far from it. Some of the keywords are exceedingly mindnumbing to write about ... but I love the money I can make with them!

    Two nights just isn't enough time to research 20 good niches unless you're extremely prolific, or not very picky. I've been researching keywords off and on for over a year now.
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    • I mean by low competition quality the typical things - top 10 with low PR, reasonably low backlinks, etc. I think pretty basic criteria I've compiled. Don't worry I'm not new to this stuff. I do know basic competition criteria that looks beatable.

      I didn't mean I expected to find 20 niches in 2 nights. But I expected to find at least a couple! And I'm confused what to even search on after doing like 50 tries now.
  • Why not focus on building the 2 you have? That will take some time. Then as you get more ideas you can research more niches. I know every day I run into a new niche or two that looks promising.

    You might learn some things along the way that lead you to new niches too. Several of my sites are due to getting keyword traffic to one site (where it didn't really fit) and deciding to build another site to target that new niche.
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    • Well the two I found now are still borderline and not really that thrilling. I could do them, but I'd really rather find something I'm more confident about.

      Just to be clear I'm not a total newbie to this. I have a couple niche sites from the past and I have studied this stuff for a while. I was mostly building an authority site so this is the first time I've started looking for multiple good keywords in different areas and I'm surprised how hard it is to find and how uninspiring the few I'm finding are. I think the word you used, mindnumbing, is accurate.
  • Yah, sadly it's not all fun and games.

    I'm still looking for that one "passion" website. Maybe I'll never find it. I have found several profitable niches though.

    I have a farm in the Philippines that's my passion. (A hammock too!) I don't think I'll ever be passionate about writing, or SEO in general, but I can put up with it to pay for getting what I am interested in up and running.
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    • So you have 100 niches and none that you're passionate about? That would be strong support for what I'm finding. The niches that still are doable are mindnumbing.
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  • This is extremely helpful thanks Yukon.
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