The Niche

The niche is the subject area that you choose to base your Blog writing on. It should be something which you know people are searching to learn about or study or gain information on. There are limitless niches and the trick is, where possible to find something which has a lot of interest, but where you select a narrower area, with correspondingly lower competition from other Bloggers in the wider niche.

An Example

For Instance you might choose Cars as a niche but that is a huge area look at the relatively poor Jaaxy results:


Perhaps you might think about narrowing down to performance cars or vintage cars or roadsters or any other area of narrower specialisation where there is energy interest but not too much Blogging competition; let's look at vintage cars:


What if we were to go even narrower, concentrate on one marque and substitute one word (wheels for cars). Now we have Vintage Ford Wheels, look at the Jaaxy results now:


As you can see we are now meeting the guidance from CE training with reasonable traffic and good QSR with SEO under 100.

The articles that can be written under Vintage Ford Wheels (where wheels is taken to mean cars) are endless, cars, parts, wheels, restoration, special insurance, care and maintenance, clubs rally's....I think you get the picture.

But what if cars are not your thing and you are not entirely sure to begin with what your thing is?



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DixiePixie11 Premium
Thank you. I know what I want to do but my multi-faceted mind is spinning on how to narrow it down!
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Hamish58 Premium
Are you ok or want to discuss it in chat it is a discussion that plays out there regularly Tara 🧐
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DixiePixie11 Premium
I am still trying to figure out how to add the categories in the dropdown menu. My goal is to spend a couple hours or more on this project everyday! I have other projects as well but I REALLY want to get this one going so I can refer my adult children to do this. Seems like an awesome side gig, until it turns into a FT gig! Is there a chat feature on this site besides the posts on a wall?
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Hamish58 Premium
Some useful information sources: 🧐
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DixiePixie11 Premium
Why yes I am! Thanks Hamish!
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Hamish58 Premium
Lol and still on some days I am too believe me 😂 🧐
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Sandi777 Premium
Fantastic article.... really helped me a lot. Thanks Hamish. I'm now totally certain of my niche as Meditation and will do a google search on my titles to see what I can come up with...
You are a STAR!!!
So my niche would be MEDITATION
And my Webpage name and domain name would be " HOW TO BREAK AN ADDICTION" or "HOW TO FIND INNER PEACE" or something that narrows down MEDITATION. Does that make sense, obviously leaving me to write content with other titles as well..... is that correct?
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Sandi777 Premium
SUPPORT FOR ADDICTIONS would be a biggy right now.......
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Hamish58 Premium
Glad you found it useful Sandi
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Makinitwork Premium
Thanks Hamish. Great Topic. Cheers Jen
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Hamish58 Premium
Always welcome your support Jen thanks🧐
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FKelso Premium Plus
Your advice is good. I agonized over switching themes on my website for a long time; just waited until it became a necessity; then, all went smoothly. You are right that taking action will move us ahead much faster than trying to think everything through first. Action moves us forward.
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Hamish58 Premium
Wise words as always Fran 🧐
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CassiOfTroy Premium Plus
Really simple to understand, follow and implement, Hamish.

Thank you, as always.
Cassi
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Hamish58 Premium
Thanks as always Cassie you are a great supporter and I am glad that it might be useful for other people you choose to coach along here🧐
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Cheenzie Premium
Great lesson. Simple, sweet and to the point!
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Hamish58 Premium
Thanks Cynthia, how you going moving the needle? 🧐
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Cheenzie Premium
Slow but steady. 1 post a day is my goal lol so
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