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5 Ways of Finding a Niche

When looking for a new niche to enter it is wise to spend as much time as you need to ensure you’re making the right choice. Spending time now fully researching any potential new market can mean you can enter it in the confidence of knowing it will be easier for your site to rank, you will have better idea of how profitable it can be and it might just turn out to be something that you enjoy writing about. It is never easy to find the perfect niche, but they’re still out there and new ones spring up daily.

Here are 5 ways to find new and exciting niches:

Your passions

Quite often your niche has already found you; it can be your interests hobbies and passions. Quite often when you start to research a niche that you are interested in you’ll find it too tough for you to enter, but don’t give up on it just yet. Keep researching and you might just find a corner of that niche that is relatively untapped. Let’s say you’re interested in gardening but you soon realize that the gardening niche is saturated, why not look at other sub niches like hydroponic gardening, indoor gardening or even window box gardening. Once you begin to research the sub niches you may be surprised at what you find.

News, trends and hot topics

Keeping an eye on the news and the latest trends can be a good way to find a new niche. Let’s say you are interested in tech and gadgets and you hear through one of the many news sites that Apple are releasing a new product to the market. If you are ahead of the game you may be able to register an exact match domain. The combination of an exact match domain, decent content and a new niche uncompetitive niche should result in decent rankings and hopefully a steady stream of revenue.

Magazines

Take a look at magazines.com or the racks of magazines available in your local newsagents and you will soon see that there is a host of magazines dedicated to specific hobbies and interests. You may find a dozen different magazines about gardening, but are there any that cater to a specific section of gardening? Or is there a common gardening topic present in each of the magazines and could you turn any of these topics into a site?

Site Auctions

Taking the time to flick through auction sites like Flippa can uncover some great new niches, but the best thing about this site is the level of information available for each of the sites listed. Each auction will list important details about that site, the traffic and revenue it receives and some even list the keywords they target. With research Flippa can take a lot of the guess work out of the potential held in a niche.

Surfing

There are thousands of profitable niches and new ones open daily, so whenever you are just surfing remember to keep a note of what people are talking about and what seems like a hot topic and you may just find a new niche to enter.

If you want to start a site about your hobbies and interests and are not particularly bothered about how much money it makes then start writing and see where things end up. If on the other hand you are looking at the bottom line and how much you can make from a website then you will need to find a niche that is not only profitable but one that will allow you to rank without having to spend countless hours writing content and building links. So spending time now to properly research will help you find a niche where you can do that.

This is a guest from eMobileScan’s head of online marketing. Who are a leading European provider of industrial handheld computers like the Motorola MC65 and barcode scanners like the Symbol Ls2208. Their aim is provide tools that help businesses cut costs and save money