Great information! i like your writing style. One question: I decided to choose Korean Movies/dramas as my niche. I feel it is pretty broad and I don't know how to narrow it down. Other examples of my hobbies are: photography, food, read romantic novels, speed walk, and buy custom fashion jewelry. However they are all broad. Any suggestions as to which one would profit me the most? Thanks!

This might be a dumb question, but when using affiliate-based profits, you have to chose a niche that has products that you can sponsor/recommend? Otherwise it would just be a blog.
Like I was thinking about doing one on eating healthy in college, because it is something I am passionate about, but there isn't really specific products to promote, only healthy habits and such you can teach. So a better one would be camping or hiking, where you can talk about staying active but link products you recommend at the sane time?
No idea if I am making sense or not, sorry haha.

Hi Robert. I have already reached Course 2 of the training. I now have doubts on my niche choice. I chose the law of attraction niche but realize that i not an authority on that niche but rather a student of it.
I also am a health freak in that I eat healthy and do sport such cycling, running and gyming.
I am a HR Manager and love motivating people and assisting them to achieve success in their jobs and careers.
Three years ago i underwent a divorce and went through lots of pains. So dont know if divorce is a niche out there too
Given the above i am confused what niche i should enter. Your thought on the above please.

Hi Robert, I will try to make this short. I really enjoyed your post on choosing a niche. I am an artist so I figured something to do with the arts would be my niche.

I looked at other affiliates who are artists and they cover everything from art supplies, how to paint and draw, techniques, art books, to selling their own work on their websites.

Then they have a few art supply companies that they are affiliates with and receive commissions from. It even states that they receive a small commission from them.

You say to narrow it down as much as possible to be successful at the beginning and then add to the website as time goes on.

Should I start out blogging about Paints or brushes for example, or do you consider this different than other niches? I don't know how much I could write about on just Paint or Brushes etc.

I'm just not sure what to do. I have changed my website a few times now.

Your feedback would be greatly appreciated,
Gary

I wonder whether it's possible to have a website about a broader topic and still be successful. For example, my website, EarnMoneyWithMarcus.com, is quite broad, but I seem to be doing well on Google Page 1, and I've got some referrals (4 premium referrals in total, 3 remaining at the moment).

For me, I think it is good to have a broad website like this, because I can cover multiple sub-niches within it. I think this is fine if I'm planning to develop the website long-term, which I am. Eventually I can have subsections on my website about the different ways to make money. Whereas if I had a website just about blogging, for example, I might get tired of writing about blogging. I might exhaust that topic quite quickly. I think I would prefer to have a single website covering all money making topics rather than 10 or 20 different smaller websites about all the different methods.

But a few years ago I used to have a website called "Health & Happiness Tips". I have since realised that this was far too broad. But I wonder whether it is possible to get too narrow as well. For example, if I had a website just about vitamin supplements, would that look like I was too much into trying to push supplements onto people? Whereas if it was about nutrition in general, people would trust that I know a lot about nutrition and would therefore trust me if I recommend a particular supplement.

I wonder if a narrow niche can be a double edged sword. For example, if I searched for information on how to lose weight, and I came across a website all about weight loss, would I trust that information more than an article about weight loss on a broader health website? For example, millions of people in the UK trust information on the NHS website. Now that's REALLY broad.

On the one hand, a website all about weight loss could give the reassurance that it's all about weight loss so it's exactly what I'm looking for. On the other hand, another person might view it the opposite way and think "Oh, this site is only about weight loss, so they are clearly trying to sell weight loss pills to people".

It's a tricky one I think, and I think the decision is probably largely down to how much time and work you want to put into a particular site.

For example, you could say that a website about tablets is a wonderfully narrow niche. But what about a slightly broader niche website such as mobiletechreview.com, which covers phones and laptops as well? Or what about a website about technology in general? I mean, if you are a total tech geek you could just have that one website and no other websites for the rest of your internet marketing career. You could spend all your time just constantly writing about all different types of technology.

But going back to the nutrition topic, that could be narrowed down to diet types. For example vegetarian, vegan, paleo, low carb, etc. Some people might come across a specific website like this and think "Great! Exactly what I was looking for, it's totally about the topic I want to know about!" Other people might view it as biased, and therefore unreliable information. A vegan website written by someone committed to the vegan lifestyle might not actually be a reliable unbiased source of information on the latest research into the best food to eat to stay healthy. If there's a news story that vegan diets are actually dangerous, of course that won't be reported on a pro vegan website.

Shit, how many words have I written? If you received one this long through SiteComments, you'd fall off your chair wouldn't you?