The first step of niche site creation is to determine what your niche is going to be. This is typically something that does not come easily to most people. After all, how do you figure out a niche that isn’t overdone and is something that you and other people are interested in? You’re probably one of those people wanting to know how to find your niche, which is your reason for reading this article. If you are, then you’ve definitely come to the right place.

Being able to figure out how to find your niche after reading this should be easy. We’ll give you three tips for how to find your niche and how to impress visitors.

How to find your niche: Tip #1 – Come up with a list of 10 possible niche topics

The first tip takes sometime, but is one of the best tips anyone could give and definitely the first step of discovering how to find your niche. Sit down and start thinking about things that are interesting to you. Maybe you’ve always wanted to create a site dedicated to basketball or perhaps one about video games. As you come up with ideas that sound appealing to you, write them down on a sheet of paper. If you come up with more than 10 possible niche topics, that’s OK—the more ideas you have, the better. When you feel like you don’t have anymore ideas in your head, move on to tip #2.

How to find your niche: Tip #2 – Plug your possible niche topics into a search engine

This is an important part of figuring out how to find your niche topic for your site. You want to see what people are searching for on the internet, and how popular your niche site could potentially become. Take that list of possible niche topics and one by one, plug those into the search engine (Google is a good starting place purely because it receives the most traffic in search engine terms). At the top or bottom of the page, you’ll see how many results came up for that topic. Write the numbers down on your sheet of paper, next to the topics. Once you’ve gone through all the topics, see which one netted results that were about average. That is the one you want to use. Why? Because you don’t want to pick a topic that is over or underused, as that only hurts your chances of building a successful niche site. You should be aiming at competition levels that are in the thousands – no more. If your search terms came back in the hundreds of thousands or low millions try and find a more specific aspect of these niches.

How to find your niche: Tip #3 – Pick your topic and see if you know enough about it to create relevant content

A very important part of discovering how to find your niche is thinking hard about the possible topics. You want to pick something that isn’t going to be difficult to come up with content for. That’s because you want to create web site content relevant to your niche so that people will want to come back to your site often. If you pick a topic that you simply cannot come up with content for, the site is going to fail because people won’t want to read content that is dull, uninspired and often irrelevant to the topic at hand.

Perhaps you’ve picked a topic that you are familiar with and can easily come up with good content for. That’s the ideal situation and you have figured out how to find your niche.

But what if you’ve picked a topic that you really don’t know a whole lot about? What are your options then? Well, you could do what I do: I research the topic heavily and then try to write content from whatever I’ve read. It’s a slow process, but it does work and is a good way to know how to find your niche (this doesn’t yield the best results as book knowledge is never as good as actual experience).

Maybe you don’t have time for research, or simply aren’t a natural at writing (and most people aren’t). If that’s the case, you can simply hire someone to create content for you based on your niche keywords and topic. Using free lance writers offers an alternative; some of these can give you excellent, relevant content. Most of them are affordable and high quality, which is why it’s such a good idea for you to outsource the content writing (but remember, a lot of them can’t write or don’t have English as their mother tongue so you need to choose carefully). I will of course deal with outsourcing in a later report but for now you know how to choose a niche.

Paul Foley
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