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How much search volume do you guys consider makes a profitable subject?
1,000 - 5,000 a month?
6,000 - 10,000?
The one where your audience buys in. You can have 100,000 monthly and not make a dime if your content doesn't convert.
What search volume is profitable?
How much search volume do you guys consider makes a profitable subject?
1,000 - 5,000 a month?
6,000 - 10,000?
Thu, Sep 5, 2019
Because you explain what/why you're asking and give details, I prefer the question as you first asked it: Unusual niche - enough search volume? I'm leaving this comment mainly to let other readers know they can get more information at the link above.
You have a potentially fabulous niche idea and I'm heading over to your original question to leave a longer comment. See you there!
Sharon
The one where your audience buys in. You can have 100,000 monthly and not make a dime if your content doesn't convert.
Hi guys,
I would like to make a website centering around the idea of "How NOT to spend your inheritance." I would relate my personal experience, find stories of other pe
Thu, Sep 5, 2019
I'd never recommend such a competitive niche to a newbie, but I've read your WA profile, so I realize you're far from a newbie.
"How NOT to spend your inheritance" is definitely an evergreen niche. Given your personal experience(s) and passion for the topic, you could - over time - build an impressive site around that niche.
The best question though, isn't how much traffic a niche gets: it's how much of that traffic YOU can get. In any financial niche, you'd have a LOT of competition.
Every major news agency/newspaper has a website and many (most?) of those sites have a "finance" section. Not all of them have posts about inheritance, but some do. Additionally, while I was playing around on Google, I noticed the following well-known/popular sources with information about inheritance;
Bankrate,
Business Insider,
Dave Ramsey,
Forbes,
Investopedia,
Kiplinger,
Nerd Wallet,
Quora, and
The Motley Fool.
The competition for finance-related topics is FIERCE. But, keep this in mind: EVERY post you publish has the potential to rank high in the search engines and attract traffic. If you can't produce posts as polished as the experts can, low-competition keywords help you compete with them.
If you create a list of low-competition keywords, then produce an in-depth, informative post for each one, each of those posts has the potential to be on page 1 of the search engines and bring organic traffic to your site.
You said your number 1 reason for creating a "How NOT to spend your inheritance" site would be to generate an additional income stream. It can do that, especially if you make good use of low-competition keywords.
I love doing keyword research, so I spent a few minutes Googling inheritance-related longtail keywords. I was specifically looking for "low hanging fruit" (keywords with fewer monthly searches, but also less competition). Each of these keywords has SOME monthly searches (10 - >100), but I didn't run any of them through Jaaxy. If you do, you might find some gems among them, or in related keywords.
Here are the keywords I found in Google...
receiving an inheritance
Does the IRS know when you inherit money?
inheritance tax
Do beneficiaries have to pay taxes on inheritance?
How much money can you inherit without having to pay taxes on it?
How much can you inherit without paying taxes in 2019?
inheritance tax federal
federal estate tax
What states have inheritance tax?
inheritance planning
how to manage inheritance
what to do with small inheritance
inheritance bank account
where to put money after receiving inheritance
best thing to do with inherited money
what to do with 50k inheritance
what to do with 100k inheritance
what to do with 200k inheritance
what to do with 500k inheritance
inheritance pay off debt or invest
inheritance pay off mortgage or invest
inheritance pay off house or invest
Should I pay off mortgage with inheritance?
how to invest inheritance for retirement
investing an inheritance for retirement
spend your inheritance
inheritance spending statistics
large inheritance stories
inheriting millions
my child has inherited money
child inheritance laws
lifetime asset protection trust
lifetime trust vs living trust
I hope my post hasn't insulted you by being too "simple". I don't doubt your expertise, just wanted to chime in and possibly help with some brainstorming. Good luck!
Sharon
Sharon, your answer offers tremendous clarity. For two years I've been "working" on my own e-com site, getting >100 visits per month and thinking it was because I didn't have a pre-built audience since I was making a ton of sales on eBay, Etsy, etc. Your explanation was filled with so much confidence it made me realize that I was the problem, it was not that "I don't have access to pre-made traffic."
A blog I recently read (it was either on Vitality's HowToMakeHonestMoney blog or NichePursuits) which said, if you are having trouble with traffic, you have to ask the question, "what are you doing with the site?"
I generate a decent income on major platforms because I am active on them. I constantly think of and implement new descriptions I can use that better sell the product. Where as my shopify, I would log in, upload my bulk listing files, then that's it. I'd get discouraged and log out. Which is why I was never generating any traffic to it. I was not doing ANYTHING with it except for bathing it in bad energy, lol.
I appreciate your response, and hope other people who may come across our communications may find value within it as well.
...
Fri, Sep 6, 2019
Thank you, Tsukumii. As I said previously, I hope you didn't find my comment so simple as to seem insulting.
I've never spent much time at "Niche Pursuits", but "How To Make Honest Money Online" is a wealth of helpful information. Everything Vitaliy creates is top notch. He really knows this business inside and out.
It's true, eBay and Etsy (and Amazon and many others) have wide-spread name recognition/built-in traffic. So, it's understandable you - with experience as an eBay/Etsy seller - would get discouraged by the lack of traffic to your Shopify site. (I got a big chuckle out of, "I was not doing ANYTHING with it except for bathing it in bad energy, lol.") :D
It sounds as if you've identified the problem of low traffic to your Shopify site and know exactly how to correct it.
And, if you decide to add affiliate marketing to the list of work you do online, it sounds like you understand how to get and grow traffic to that site too.
I think you're going to have tremendous success.
Thank you for following me. I'm following you too and looking forward to watching your progress. :)
Sharon
Hi Tsukumii, I would readjust this niche choice to something like:
Traveling on a budget.
How to manage finances when you're in college.
This would help you tie in with your topic, since these are bigger in number. Also for niche choices in general, I strongly recommend this tutorial: How to narrow down broad niches. Examples and tips.
Hi Tsukumii, great idea for a niche, targeted, but also the opportunity to reach out to folks thinking about the whole succession and inheritance process.
If people do not have a plan it can be so easy to fritter the money away.
Keep us up to date with your progress.
Real potential.
I think it's a great idea and you can come up with several, targeted keywords that will probably offer better results for each post you create.
See more comments
Unusual niche - enough search volume?
Hi guys,
I would like to make a website centering around the idea of "How NOT to spend your inheritance." I would relate my personal experience, find stories of other pe
Thu, Sep 5, 2019
I'd never recommend such a competitive niche to a newbie, but I've read your WA profile, so I realize you're far from a newbie.
"How NOT to spend your inheritance" is definitely an evergreen niche. Given your personal experience(s) and passion for the topic, you could - over time - build an impressive site around that niche.
The best question though, isn't how much traffic a niche gets: it's how much of that traffic YOU can get. In any financial niche, you'd have a LOT of competition.
Every major news agency/newspaper has a website and many (most?) of those sites have a "finance" section. Not all of them have posts about inheritance, but some do. Additionally, while I was playing around on Google, I noticed the following well-known/popular sources with information about inheritance;
Bankrate,
Business Insider,
Dave Ramsey,
Forbes,
Investopedia,
Kiplinger,
Nerd Wallet,
Quora, and
The Motley Fool.
The competition for finance-related topics is FIERCE. But, keep this in mind: EVERY post you publish has the potential to rank high in the search engines and attract traffic. If you can't produce posts as polished as the experts can, low-competition keywords help you compete with them.
If you create a list of low-competition keywords, then produce an in-depth, informative post for each one, each of those posts has the potential to be on page 1 of the search engines and bring organic traffic to your site.
You said your number 1 reason for creating a "How NOT to spend your inheritance" site would be to generate an additional income stream. It can do that, especially if you make good use of low-competition keywords.
I love doing keyword research, so I spent a few minutes Googling inheritance-related longtail keywords. I was specifically looking for "low hanging fruit" (keywords with fewer monthly searches, but also less competition). Each of these keywords has SOME monthly searches (10 - >100), but I didn't run any of them through Jaaxy. If you do, you might find some gems among them, or in related keywords.
Here are the keywords I found in Google...
receiving an inheritance
Does the IRS know when you inherit money?
inheritance tax
Do beneficiaries have to pay taxes on inheritance?
How much money can you inherit without having to pay taxes on it?
How much can you inherit without paying taxes in 2019?
inheritance tax federal
federal estate tax
What states have inheritance tax?
inheritance planning
how to manage inheritance
what to do with small inheritance
inheritance bank account
where to put money after receiving inheritance
best thing to do with inherited money
what to do with 50k inheritance
what to do with 100k inheritance
what to do with 200k inheritance
what to do with 500k inheritance
inheritance pay off debt or invest
inheritance pay off mortgage or invest
inheritance pay off house or invest
Should I pay off mortgage with inheritance?
how to invest inheritance for retirement
investing an inheritance for retirement
spend your inheritance
inheritance spending statistics
large inheritance stories
inheriting millions
my child has inherited money
child inheritance laws
lifetime asset protection trust
lifetime trust vs living trust
I hope my post hasn't insulted you by being too "simple". I don't doubt your expertise, just wanted to chime in and possibly help with some brainstorming. Good luck!
Sharon
Sharon, your answer offers tremendous clarity. For two years I've been "working" on my own e-com site, getting >100 visits per month and thinking it was because I didn't have a pre-built audience since I was making a ton of sales on eBay, Etsy, etc. Your explanation was filled with so much confidence it made me realize that I was the problem, it was not that "I don't have access to pre-made traffic."
A blog I recently read (it was either on Vitality's HowToMakeHonestMoney blog or NichePursuits) which said, if you are having trouble with traffic, you have to ask the question, "what are you doing with the site?"
I generate a decent income on major platforms because I am active on them. I constantly think of and implement new descriptions I can use that better sell the product. Where as my shopify, I would log in, upload my bulk listing files, then that's it. I'd get discouraged and log out. Which is why I was never generating any traffic to it. I was not doing ANYTHING with it except for bathing it in bad energy, lol.
I appreciate your response, and hope other people who may come across our communications may find value within it as well.
...
Fri, Sep 6, 2019
Thank you, Tsukumii. As I said previously, I hope you didn't find my comment so simple as to seem insulting.
I've never spent much time at "Niche Pursuits", but "How To Make Honest Money Online" is a wealth of helpful information. Everything Vitaliy creates is top notch. He really knows this business inside and out.
It's true, eBay and Etsy (and Amazon and many others) have wide-spread name recognition/built-in traffic. So, it's understandable you - with experience as an eBay/Etsy seller - would get discouraged by the lack of traffic to your Shopify site. (I got a big chuckle out of, "I was not doing ANYTHING with it except for bathing it in bad energy, lol.") :D
It sounds as if you've identified the problem of low traffic to your Shopify site and know exactly how to correct it.
And, if you decide to add affiliate marketing to the list of work you do online, it sounds like you understand how to get and grow traffic to that site too.
I think you're going to have tremendous success.
Thank you for following me. I'm following you too and looking forward to watching your progress. :)
Sharon
Hi Tsukumii, I would readjust this niche choice to something like:
Traveling on a budget.
How to manage finances when you're in college.
This would help you tie in with your topic, since these are bigger in number. Also for niche choices in general, I strongly recommend this tutorial: How to narrow down broad niches. Examples and tips.
Hi Tsukumii, great idea for a niche, targeted, but also the opportunity to reach out to folks thinking about the whole succession and inheritance process.
If people do not have a plan it can be so easy to fritter the money away.
Keep us up to date with your progress.
Real potential.
I think it's a great idea and you can come up with several, targeted keywords that will probably offer better results for each post you create.
See more comments
Thu, Sep 5, 2019
Because you explain what/why you're asking and give details, I prefer the question as you first asked it: Unusual niche - enough search volume? I'm leaving this comment mainly to let other readers know they can get more information at the link above.
You have a potentially fabulous niche idea and I'm heading over to your original question to leave a longer comment. See you there!
Sharon